Photoshop video tutorials and digital art. Tutorials featuring everything from photoshop speed paintings to photo manipulation, layer masks and brush effects.
This photoshop video tutorial shows you how to create similar graphics to those used in the Apple ipod ads. First you have to desaturate the image you want to use and use the levels to sharpen the areas of colour. Create a new layer and fill it with you chosen background colour. Change the blend mode on this layer in the layers panel to hard light. You then need to duplicate the photograph layer and create a cut out of the person or object you want to have in the foreground and bring the cut out to the top of the layers panel. This tutorial then uses hue and saturation to colour the figure, however, you can also use a layer style with a colour overlay to create the same effect.
Use actions to watermark your photos, enabling you to batch process your photos and apply your watermark or logo to a group of photos quickly and easily. This tutorial also goes through creating a watermark as well.
Open up the photo that you want to apply the lightning to and also a new document to create your lightning effect. After creating a black and white gradient, use the render filter > difference clouds to create a lightning bolt. You will then need to inverse the canvas to have the central section white with a black surround and use the level controls to sharpen the black and white areas. At this stage you can copy and paste the image onto the top of your photograph. You will then need to get rid of the black background around the lightning by choosing ’screen’ from the blend mode drop down box on the layers panel with the lightning layer selected. To finish off the effect scale the lightning to the required size and use the eraser tool to blend it in with the clouds.
This is a fairly lengthy video but a good guide to creating firstly great button backgrounds and then almost a second guide on how to create your own icons with vector shapes. This photoshop tutorial uses a combination of layers, vector shapes and layer styles to create the shiny buttons that are a popular web effect.
Create a vector rectangle and colour it using layer styles. Please note that the select modify and feather options will only work in the same way if you are using the same settings for the size of the rectangle, canvas size and dpi settings. You can still use the same method but you will need to change the number of pixels to a higher or lower amount dependant on your settings.
A really quick and easy effect. Good for use when trying to add text to a scary photo. Could also be created with a white background with light grey and blue colours to create an icy effect.
A great easy to follow tutorial. First use the liquify filter ( filter > liquify) to stretch areas on the face, particularly arching the eye brows. A good tip is to try to make the face unsymetrical. After adding a layer of texture and aligning it with the photograph below, choose hard light from the layers panel drop down menu with the texture layer selected. Erase the unwanted areas and use the dodge and burn tools to highlight specific areas. A good tutorial for changing the eye colour can be found here: Zombie eye.
