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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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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How to turn Photos into Cinematic Portraits

There are a plethora of ways to treat a portrait for a myriad of uses, but that is for another feature. Let’s tackle adding drama or a cinematic quality to a regular, humdrum portrait. Let’s even throw in a little bit of faking HDR. That way if you work on a project that requires a stunning shot without the stunning photography, you’ll be able to cobble something together using your mad skillz!
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How to Create a Hellacious Flaming Skull in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’ll go through all the steps of creating a flaming skull in Photoshop. We’ll be using some images we shot ourself of flames, and a stock Designious vector skull to get us started. This tutorial covers some relatively simple steps and some clever photo manipulation techniques. Let’s get to it!

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Create a Retro Photo and Background

In this tutorial we are going to take a regular, boring photo and liven it up using with some effects to give it more of a retro feel to it. We are then going to take the photo and create a background for it to lie on.

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Create an Out of Bounds Fantasy Illustration

Worked on this piece with a lot of images and I would also like to thank the photographers for giving us permission to use their stuff. In this tutorial, we will take you through the process of creating a fantasy scene, make water pour out of a painting, make some sort of a absorption effect and end up with a really nice looking color.

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Making of a Forest Magical Scene

Make a composite collage forest scene in photoshop

Create a new document of 500×700 pixels. Download Forest 5 from Stock City here. Place the forest image into your document as shown in the diagram.

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Create Water Droplets for your products with photoshop

How to create water drops with photoshop

Creating Dynamic Dispersions

In this tutorial, we will travel back to the basic technique of Stamp Tool (S) and Brush Tool (B) to create dynamic and effective particles on the red cloth as shown below. This technique can be used on any objects that you wish to add more effects on.
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Create a Fiery Sun

Create a sun on fire with photoshop.

Create a new 500X500 pixels document with a white background and a black foreground. Create a new layer.

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