Gas m Photoshop Tutorials
Turn a Flawless Blonde Beauty Into a Sword-Wielding Fantasy Action Hero
In today’s tutorial we are going to turn a flawless blonde beauty into a sword-wielding survival huntress. To do this we are going to make her skin sweaty and dirty, her dress stained and torn, we’ll add blood stains to the sword, manipulate her hair, and create a post-apocalyptic background full of smoke and fire effects. It’s gonna be a gas! ... Read More
The Cosmos: Create a Red Giant Star in Photoshop
When a star like our own reaches the end of its life, it begins to run out of hydrogen fuel in its core. Like a car running out of gas, it will begin to sputter, swelling to a size that could encompass every planet in our solar system out to Mars. When this happens, the sun will swallow the Earth and will spell certain doom for all life on our planet. Today& ... Read More
The Cosmos: Create a Spiral Galaxy
A galaxy is a massive collection of stars, stellar remains, gas, dust, and planets. Galaxies can contain as few as 10 million stars, or as many as 100 trillion. Astronomers believe that there are about 170 billion galaxies in our universe, each varying in shape from spiral, elliptical, to irregular. In today̢۪s tutorial, we will demonstrate how to cre ... Read More
Piece of the Artic, Pie Chart Photo Manipulation
I saw some beautiful 3D illustration of Madagascar that inspired me to create this illustration. In this tutorial, I'll share my experience in recreating this illustration. This tutorial will utilize Photoshop 3D features, layer masking, and a lot of selections. ... Read More
Dynamic Recessed Watercolor Typography in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to mix vector elements and watercolor effects with text to create a stunning design. It’s a quick process that depends heavily on good choices of images and colors. ... Read More
Trendy Geometric Lines Design Tutorial
Starting with the design application of Adobe Illustrator create a group of vector based geometric lines at dynamic 45 degree angles, then follow the walkthrough to rough them up with brush textures in Adobe Photoshop resulting in a cool and trendy design style. ... Read More
Awesome digital bokeh effect in Photoshop
Our last Wallpaper of the Week was an image I had created using Pixelmator, and I really liked the outcome. The best part about it was that it was pretty easy to accomplish in Pixelmator, but I decided for perspective's sake to create the same effect in Photoshop. The process is easy as well, but with a few extra steps. ... Read More
Luminescent Lines
Here we will create some thin flowing lines that look as if they emit light. This technique is fairly simple and is a great way to create an abstract wallpaper or looks good integrated into another image. This tutorial will mainly explore the brush engine and you will also learn how to create custom brushes and use them effectively, combined with some intere ... Read More
A Comprehensive Introduction to Photoshop Selection Techniques
Have you ever had difficulties making selections and thought there was a better way? Let’s review both quick solutions, and on the other side, comprehensive and details techniques for making selections. Each approach has it’s place in your workflow. The more methods you know how to use, the faster and more effectively you’ll move in Photoshop. ... Read More
Smoke Type in Photoshop in 10 Steps
Last week I decided to upgrade to the new Adobe CS4 apps, as usual I did my backups and of course I forgot very important things, such as my Photoshop Brushes and Patterns. I hate when that happens, but it does happen all the time. So I had to look for my brushes and I found some really cool new ones and decided to play a bit with them and with the new Phot ... Read More
Recreate the ‘Bee Movie’ Text Effect
In this quick Photoshop tutorial we’ll be recreating the ‘Bee movie’ text effect, you know, the one you’ve seen all over the place over the last few months? :P You can see what we’ll be designing with this tutorial in the below image. ... Read More
Reader Request: MSNBC Style Effect
In this tutorial, I will create an effect like the one in the header of the MSNBC.com website. This effect is a reader's-request tutorial. If you have an effect you want to know how to achieve, just let us know in the comments and we will try to write a tutorial about it. ... Read More
Smooth Glass Type
Here's a quick way to create some nice looking translucent glass type that'll work great on any background, made completely with layer styles. ... Read More
Create an Awesome Grass Texture in Photoshop
This is the fourth and final installment of my series on creating textures in Photoshop. If you missed the first three, they were creating: Water Texture, Wood Texture and Stone Texture. This tutorial will combine much of what we learned about in the first three installments, we will also go over some new techniques, and add some finishing touches that pull ... Read More
Create amazing photomontages
Nik Ainley shows you how to make a splash, blending two very different images to create this amazing underwater effect, complete with a dissolving figure of a man. Perhaps because of the overtones of freshness and vitality, water-based effects are always in demand. In this tutorial, Nik Ainley provides step-by-step guidance on how to make a stunning, dyna ... Read More
Eery-Eye Photo Manipulation
In this Photoshop tutorial I will be walking you through the making of an interesting art piece, “The Eye, the Key of the Soul.” ... Read More
Design Watercolor Effect Menu
This is a two-part tutorial on how to create an artistic and un-typical CSS list menu as seen on Web Designer Wall. In the first part (this article), I will show you how to design a watercolor effect menu in Photoshop. Then in next tutorial, I will show you how to slice the menu and code in CSS. If you need some inspiration on creating an artistic menu, visi ... Read More
Blue glow dreamy portrait
Make a dreamy portrait by playing with glow and colours. Made with PS CS2 and explained with detailed steps for beginners. ... Read More
Deep and Moody
Right time to go into Photoshop and create a "simple" moody image using loads of simple effects to create an image with depth and composition. This is simpler than you think but can demand a lot from your system. You will be switching between Illustrator, Photoshop, Painter and throwing a few hand rendered elements in just for good measure so put t ... Read More