Category: Design

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Awesome Grunge Text Effect

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 [...]

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Stunning Watercolor Effect

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 [...]

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Create a Vibrant Drinks Ad

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 [...]

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Create a Magical Image using Photo Manipulation

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 [...]

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Creating a ‘Swan Bride’ – Fun With Paths!

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 [...]

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Give Your Photos Awesome Lighting in Just 10 Steps!

Damn Internet My internet’s unfortunately been down for a few days, hence the lack of updates here. Apologies for the break in posting and replying to comments, but luckily I’ve managed to locate a handy coffee shop to work from while things get fixed. Enjoy the tutorial . Final Image This is the final image [...]

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Create ‘Bionic Diver’ Using Photo Manipulation

Final Image This is the final image that we’ll be creating: Step 1 Open up your photo. I chose a nice image of a father and son diving into the sea. Step 2 Now it’s time to experiment with the clone stamp tool. You can find this tool in your tools palette, and it unsurprisingly [...]

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Creating ‘Smokey Dancer’ (Using Lighting/Texturing Effects)

Final Image This is the final image that we’ll be creating. Step 1 Open up your image of a dancer. The original image can be found here: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/679992. Step 2 Now select around your dancer very carefully using the lasso selection tool. This may take a while, but it pays to take the time to [...]

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Create a Realistic Wine Bottle Illustration From Scratch

Delay This tutorial took me a day longer than I anticipated to write (you’ll see why from the number of steps), but I hope you enjoy it! Final Image As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating: Step 1 Open up a new document and go to view>show>grid. Then use your path [...]

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Creating Medusa With Photo Manipulation

Final Image Here is the final image that we’ll be creating: Images Used Here is a list of the various images used to create this piece: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/797762 http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1063321 http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1068537 http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1056935 http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1061420 http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1060564 http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1053704 http://www.sxc.hu/photo/999039 http://www.sxc.hu/photo/995347 http://www.sxc.hu/photo/792891 http://www.sxc.hu/photo/704414 http://www.sxc.hu/photo/586141 http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1066166 Step 1 Open up a new document and paste in an image of a woman’s face. [...]

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