Photoshop video tutorials and digital art. Tutorials featuring everything from photoshop speed paintings to photo manipulation, layer masks and brush effects.

Second part of an unzipping an apple tutorial by Gavin Hoey. To see the first part click here.

Fantastic photoshop tutorial video from Gavin Hoey. This is the first part of 2 videos. 2nd coming soon.

To create this effect in photoshop, first take the lasso tool and draw around the iris of the left eye. When it is selected, press Ctrl+C Ctrl+V to copy onto a new layer (apple+c apple+v). Select the background layer again with the picture and repeat this for the right eye. Select both the eye layers in the layers panel. Right click and choose merge layers. Open the picture you want to place inside the eye and drag on to of the other image, above the eye layer. Ctrl+T (Apple+T) on the picture layer to reduce the size to the same size as the iris. Duplicate the layer and place over the other iris. Choose overlay for the two picture layers in the layers pallette to let the highlights and shading from the eye shine through. Erase the extra part of the picture that overhangs the iris area and turn your bottom picture layer back on to see the finiahed effect.

First Duplicate the image that you are starting with by dragging it into the new layer icon in the layers palette. With the new layer selected go to filters> blur> surface blur and play with the settings until they are right for your image. Then choose filters> blur> smart blur>. To sharpen up the areas that you don’t want blurred use the eraser tool and reduce the opacity to go over the areas such as the hair, the lips and the eyes.

To see a tutorial on how to create this effect see: colouring a black and white photo.

This tutorial shows how to create a vintage photo effect by adding a layer of texture accross the whole photograph.

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.

This video covers in a lot of detail the best ways to change the colour and tone of imagery. Desaturate with different areas of colour highlighted, by going to: Image > Adjustments > Channel Mixer. To change a photograph to Sepia tones: First Desaturate the image (Image > Adjustments > Desaturate) and then use the photo filter: Image > Adjustments > Photo Filter.

A photoshop video tutorial, showing how to decolorise part of an image by desaturating and then using the history brush to create the disired effect.

Most of the images in the video above are from Worth 1000; a Photoshop Contest site. It is well worth a visit if you haven’t come across it before. There are some great challenges to get stuck into but some great competition too. You’ll need to be some sort of Photoshop Guru to enter any of the advanced competitions and be in with a chance!