Final Image: This is what the final image looks like. You can download the full-sized wallpaper for free here. Step 1: Open a new document, I chose the dimensions 1280X800px. Paste in your photo of musical notation onto a new layer to use as the basis for your background. Use the transform tool to resize [...]

Final Image: Here is the final image that we’ll be creating: Step 1: Open up your background image. For this particular example I’ve chosen this lovely example of a mouldy wall. Step 2: Go to image > adjustments > desaturate to grayscale your image. Then go to adjustments > brightness/contrast and reduce the brightness to [...]

Intro: The outcome of this tutorial is pretty cool, but along the way a few things didn’t turn out quite how I expected. One of the things to learn from this tutorial is that with some creativity and a few cool Photoshop techniques it doesn’t matter if things don’t go your way, it’s important to [...]

Final Image Here is the final image that we’ll be creating: Step 1: Open up a new document 600X600px in size and using the magnify tool select ‘fit to screen’. Then when the entire document is showing paste your image of a bottle and it will automatically be pasted on to a new layer and [...]

Intro: For this tutorial we’ll be trying to replicate an awesome piece of photo manipulation suggested by one of our users. If you would like to see your suggestions made into a tutorial please drop me a comment here. I’ll be the first to admit that this kind of thing is far from my area [...]

Final Image: Here is the final image that we will be creating: Step 1: Open up a new document 1000px wide and 600px high. Then paste an image of a laptop into your document. Create a new layer set called ‘laptop’ and put the layer containing your laptop image into this layer set. Step 2: [...]

Intro: Today’s tutorial will be slightly shorter than most that I write, but I feel that it shows some really useful techniques that are worth learning. Final Image This is the final image that we are going to be created: Step 1: Create a new document and paste in a photo of a woman’s face. [...]

Final Image: This is the final image that we’ll be creating: Step 1: Open up a new document, 600X600px. Create a new layer called ‘background’ and select filter>render>clouds. Step 2: Go to image>adjustments>brightness/contrast and lower the brightness to -100 and the contrast to -75. Then go to the layer’s blending options and apply a gradient [...]

Final Image: This is the final image that we’ll be creating: Step 1: Open up a new document, 80X600px and paste in an image of a swan. Step 2: Cut the swan out from it’s background using the lasso tool, or whichever tool you might prefer. Position the cutout so that the bottom part of [...]

Final Image: This is the final image that we’ll be creating: Step 1: Open up a new 600X600px document and paste in an image of a girl. I used the great photo taken by ‘binababy12′, you can see the original here: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/931368. Make sure that her face is fully showing and that her fringe is [...]