Best Photoshop Tutorials

Create a Mystical Text Effect with Smoke and Ocean Texture

Pete — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:41:18 +0000

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create text thrashing about in the midst of an ocean storm! Why? Because it’s cool lookin’! And you can think of creative ways to use it – advertising, photo manipulating, whatever your imagination conjures up. This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be a little tricky, but why not have a try!

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Luxury Retro Car Poster with Paint Splashing Effect

Pete — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:07:38 +0000

Author: Alexandra Fomicheva

In today’s tutorial, we move from Ink-Splattering to Paint-Splashing! Alexandra uses the very cool classic Talbot-Lago T150 C SS as an attractive subject to which you’ll merge the car body with various splashes. You’ll be using Warp transformations, Liquify filter, Splatter brush, and playing with color balance, splashes and levels. Go rogue making your own color balance cooler using selective color settings!

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Ink Splattering Knight Composition

Pete — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:08:36 +0000

Author: Johnson Koh

Johnson is back to experimenting with another cool and creative idea! In this tutorial, we will see how to use Photoshop filters and brushes to create an ink splattering knight composition. Again he shows us a relatively simple technique which yields excellent artistic results!

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Product Layout in Photoshop

miche — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:54:36 +0000

Author: HV-Designs

Make good use of this Product Layout tutorial from HV-Designs for your e-commerce needs. Simple and crisp, this design can be used for a multitude of various products.

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Create a Vintage Party Poster

Pete — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:31:06 +0000

Author: Designioustimes

“In this tutorial we will create a poster using stock vectors, basic shapes and stock photos. Along with this, you will learn to use basic Blending properties and shading. Every step is well explained and you will learn a lot of things if you follow them accordingly.”

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Making of Hydra

Pete — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:01:00 +0000

Author: Andrei Oprinca

Learn how Andrei creates an ‘android’ in this tutorial for the experienced Photoshop user. You’ll need to have a medium-advanced skill as he walks you through the making of your own bionic ‘person’. Who says droids aren’t colorful and good-lookin’?! Have fun!

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Dimensions of Time

Pete — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:56:58 +0000

Author: Corey Barker

Corey’s back to teach us yet more about the possibilities and cool tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended. He demonstrates how you can create multidimensional text from a single text layer – 3D text in 3D space! Here you’ll learn about the Depth of Field features and Mesh rotate tools – You gotta see this one!

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Roy Lichtenstein Style

Pete — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:43:30 +0000

Author: Fabio Sasso

Here’s another cool tut by Fabio! He’s been playing with the Halftone filter in Photoshop and the Width Tool in Illustrator CS5. See how he combines these two things to create this image inspired in Roy Lichtenstein.

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The Jellyfish Invasion

Pete — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:02:41 +0000

Author: david123rf

Photo manipulation is widely accepted as an art form. It includes combining images, creating collages, adding artistic and painterly effects to photos and pictures, removing an object from its background, cloning, reproducing photographic effects, colorizing, and more. David loves photo manipulation because he can transform ordinary photos into something alluring, unexpected and totally out of the box, which is what he does in this fun and creative tut!

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Inception Poster with Repousse in Photoshop CS5

Pete — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:28:46 +0000

Author: Fabio Sasso

After seeing the movie Inception, Fabio left the theater not only “completely blown away,” but inspired with a really cool idea for a Photoshop tutorial! He will show you how to create the effect of one of the Inception posters, the one with the word ‘Inception’ made of buildings on an aerial photo of a city. To create this effect he uses the new 3D tool in Photoshop CS5 called Repousse. Check it out!

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Gold Ornamental Text

Pete — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:16:03 +0000

Author: Kovachov

“Ornamental text can be created in several ways. Today we will demonstrate how to combine several stock images to create some nice gold ornamental typography. Let’s get started!”

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Artist Interview – drfranken

miche — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:50:39 +0000

Technology and art come together to create striking pieces of art in these works by drfranken…
Artist, Fran Rodrìguez Learte, “drfranken” was born in La Coruna, Spain in 1979. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Salamanca in 1998. drfranken lives and works in Madrid, Spain. For many years he experimented with different techniques and mediums. Now he concentrates on digital art and his work as a computer programmer in engineering.

drfranken at the computer

drfranken’s work can be seen on his website
nastplas.com

And also on these sites:

About the Artist

My artistic side came since childhood especially on the part Paterna. My father was a great artist. He painted using all sorts of techniques such as oil, charcoal, pencil, watercolor. My mother also paints very well and loves the arts. But my interest in digital art arises when I start my studies as a computer programmer and start to discover a world of new possibilities and tools to express my art.

Discovering a Talent

I’ve always liked the design and illustration. Every day, I try to push it a bit more to learn and put more dedication to the job. I really think you have to do what one likes, but it is sometimes difficult, most important is to believe in yourself and work hard. With effort and dedication, everything comes.

I try to combine my work as a computer programmer in engineering with my passion, by the design and illustration.

Favourite Software

Photoshop, Painter, Cinema 4D, Intuos4, Elements, 3DStudio.

Gallery of Art

Salvation

Tron

Necrom

Black Horses

Deméter

The Runner

Mental

Abstract Smoke Brushes

miche — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:34:16 +0000

Author: StarBrushes
25 High Resolution brushes (3.50 MB)
Photoshop version: CS4
License: For Personal, Non-Commercial Use
Brushes under this license can be used only for personal works while the commercial use is forbidden without the permission of the owner.

Abstract Smoke Brushes (518)

Description:

25 high quality brushes. Beautiful sinuous smoke-like brushes. Perfect for wallpapers or abstract designs.

Use Illustrator and Photoshop to Create a 3D String of Pills – Screencast

Pete — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:57:22 +0000

Author: Tomasz Biskup

Designers often use both Illustrator and Photoshop to create a scene or graphic. In this 4-part, 4-video tutorial, Tomasz will combine both of these powerful applications to create a 3-dimensional pill and then create a composite image using these elements. Let’s get started!

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Smoke Portrait

Pete — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:31:57 +0000

Author: Jayan Saputra

“I was so impressed the day I saw a ’smoke art’ photo effect. I decided to recreate it using Photoshop and ended up with the result shown below. Seems complicated? Keep on reading and you’ll be surprised how easy it is to do thanks to the Smoke Brushes from Photoshop Tutorials.”

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Polar Panorama Effect

Pete — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:07:08 +0000

Author: Johnson Koh

In this simple tutorial Johnson will show you how to use the polar coordinates filter to create a polar panorama effect and also other “cool” tricks to enhance the beauty further!

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