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.

This photoshop video tutorial shows you how to create everything you need for a web 2.0 style logo. The reflection, the gradient on the text and even the beta badge!

If you want to try and create something like this, I would recommend having the picture you are copying as the bottom layer with the transparency taken down, so that you can use that as a base guide for the initial shapes. Use vector shapes with a layer effect > stroke on it to create the ovals and merge or rasterize the layers to edit the lines. The ovals are distorted by choosing Edit > Transform Path > Warp.