Making of a Scary Mental Hospital Scene

Create a new document of 500×708 pixels. Download Abandoned Hospital 13 by Kathy Ophelia. Open up the image and drag it into your working document. Rename this layer to Hospital.

Create a Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer above the Hospital layer and key the Hue to 75, Saturation to -50 and Lightness to 0.
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Design a God of War III Inspired Cracked Text Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show the processes involved in designing a God of War III Inspired Cracked Text Effect in Photoshop. I personally have been a fan of the God of War Series for a long time and got the inspiration for this tutorial from the game title text effect, and thought I could make a tut for it
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How To Create A Ripping And Tearing Poster Effect

In this tutorial we are going to turn a flat, artificial poster into something that looks as if it’s been hanging around on the wall for a long time.The initial poster was created using techniques that we have covered in previews tutorials. As you can see, it’s a brash image that looks nothing like a real poster.
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Perspective Correction In Photoshop - Keystoning

Have you ever tried taking a photo of a building only to have the building look like it’s leaning backwards? That’s a perspective problem known as keystoning, and it’s caused by the building and the camera lens being on two different angles.

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Create a Retro Pop Art in Photoshop

Set the Brush to 1pt and draw a straight path with Pen tool. Right-click on the path and select Stroke Path. Select Brush, uncheck Simulate Pressure and you will get a line like the top example.

Select the Brush tool and open up Brushes palette located at top right of Options bar. Check on Shape Dynamics and enter the settings shown in the diagram. Close the palette once you are done.

Set Brush size to 3pt and draw a straight path with Pen tool. Right-click on the path and select Stroke Path. But check on Simulate Pressure this time. You will get a line like the bottom example.

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Design a Five-color Magazine Cover using a Spot Metallic

This is an advanced tutorial commissioned especially for Graphic Design Week. I’ll demonstrate how to integrate a spot-color metallic ink into your workflow using InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat Professional. Let’s get to it!

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Milk Typography Effect in Photoshop

Following the series of effects with text, there were the Water, Clouds, Light, and also some time ago the Frilly Bits… Now I will show you how to create a nice effect I saw a few months ago on DeviantArt that is a text mixed with some milk splashes. We will use Photoshop and Illustrator for this tutorial.
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Create an Asian Inspired Illustration with Impact

While creating things from scratch is an awesome way to showcase your style and technique, using stock photos is an easier way to add impacting detail to your work. To be able to do all that, we’ll be using various ways to separate photos from their backgrounds, manipulating them and altering the overall lighting, contrast, and color balance to finish off this complex illustration.

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How to Place a Fantasy Creature in a Misty Landscape

This time I’ve got for you a photo manipulation tutorial. We’ll grab several photos and create this fantasy mock-up of an unreal creature. We’ll learn several non-destructive techniques, apply photo filters to adjust the lighting, and of course a little bit of the creative process involved on this piece. Let’s get to it!
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