How to Create a Water Effect on Text and Graphics

One of the many great things about Photoshop is that you can start with a basic idea and then just start experimenting (a.k.a. playing) to see what you get. Although the following technique was originally designed to make water droplets (and discovered through playing—I mean experimenting), it’s easy to apply the same idea to type and graphics of any kind.
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How To Work With Displacement Maps for Graphics in Photoshop CS4

One of the most creative ways to use the Displace filter in Photoshop is to “map” an imported graphic so it follows the contours of an object in a photo; for example, adding an Illustrator logo to a photo of a T-shirt in a realistic way. Add the editability of vector smart objects and you have a match made in heaven.

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Avanced Skin Softening Retouching with Photoshop

In this article, Jean-Sébastien offers advice on how to achieve skin softening using low and high pass filtering. The article is enhanced with illustrative figures and screen shots, and includes example images from Jean’s portfolio. Read more

Using Smart Objects for Multimask Effects in Photoshop

Let’s start things off with a photograph that requires sharpening. I captured this image with a Leica D-Lux 3 out the window of my car. In the course of touring the back roads of South Dakota’s Black Forest, we were suddenly surrounded by a few hundred mostly peaceful bison, and this guy in particular was close enough to touch (were I endowed with really stretchy Mr. Fantastic arms).

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Coloring a black and white image with Photoshop

Heres a quick and easy way to color black and white images in Photoshop.

1. Open your black and white image in Photoshop

2. Copy the image onto a new layer

3.Select the paint brush tool and set the mode to “color”. I set it at 80 percent opacity. You can use whatever opacity setting you like however.
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Impressive Photo Effect with PhotoShop

There’re so many methods to change your photo’s color, but I will show you some best ways to do that, easy to edit.
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Working with Levels in photoshop

When considering adjusting the black and white point levels of your histogram, ask yourself: is there any region in the image which should be completely black or white, and does the image histogram show this?

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Turn a daylight photo into a night shot

This tutorial will show you how to take a low quality, lifeless and dull shot and turn it into a vivid night shot, with street lamp lightening.
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Create a Planet with One Texture

Ok, so over the ages, i noticed that if there is one thing that space artists (especially newcomers) struggle with, then it has to be planet textures. Lots of them just cant get their planets to look good, cant find good textures, or simply dont have 3d studio max Read more

Create a Water Color Effect in 10 steps with Photoshop

This time I will create another effect but it will be using Masks and Watercolor brushesl; it’s inspired by another great digital artist, the master Scott Hansen the mind behind ISO 50 and also some images from the Daily Inspiration.

So in this tutorial we will use Photoshop, some brushes from Brusheezy and some stock photos.

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Fallen Angel Photoshop Manipulation

Learn how to combine several photos to create a dramatic ‘fallen angel’ scene.

Paste in a rough looking texture. I chose one of the ‘color fog’ textures

Stretch your texture to fit your canvas perfectly, and then call this layer ‘background texture’.

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Create a Gorgeous Glassy Text Effect

First of all open up a new document and fill it in with black. Then add your text using a font you like and the color #00e5ff.

Next duplicate the layer by pressing (Command + J), set the layer Opacity to 65% and move it down and left 1 px each.
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