Digital Illustration With Photoshop Tutorial

Learn how to:
- Create and colorize a textured background
- Create a custom brush-style in Adobe Photoshop
- Employ the Smudge-Tool and Displace-Filter
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Create a Planet Eclipse in PhotoShop

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to make a planet eclipse in Photoshop. It’s easy to make and fast even though your making it from scratch. There are endless possibilities for this technique.

Create dynamic backdrop lighting

The principle of this tutorial is to create a complex background with a focal point that hints at a story behind a character. Once you’ve mastered it, it’s a highly versatile technique.

Light effects are very trendy these days but you can avoid clichés by mixing them with something different and interesting; the result will always be an amazing image that gets everybody’s attention.

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Create An Avatar Movie Transformation With Photoshop

This is a Photoshop tutorial showing you all the steps you need to take in order to photo-manipulate yourself into a Na’vi (based on the characters in James Cameron’s movie “Avatar”). I used Photoshop CS2 in order to create this, but newer and older versions should do the same, as I used basic Photoshop tools only. I hope you will find this helpful.

Step 1

Import a photograph of your choice, but make sure its size is relatively large, as it gives more room to play with. Also, make sure that the person on the photograph is well lit – but not overlit – perhaps taken with a flash, so that enough sharp details are visible.

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How To Create a Futuristic Sci-Fi Scene

In this tutorial, I will guide you through the steps to create a futuristic sci-fi scene.
We will transform original pictures using Photoshop tools that will help to give the image a more spectacular look.
Things we’ll be working with:
* Image – Adjustments – Curves.
* Image – Adjustments – Hue/Saturation.
* Dodge and Burn Tools.
* Gradient tool.

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Worn, Torn Photo Edges Effect

In this Photoshop photo effects tutorial, we’ll learn how to give a photo a worn, torn edges effect. Creating the effect is easy, requiring nothing more than a few layers, the Eraser Tool, one of Photoshop’s built-in brushes, and some layer styles to help finish things off.

With our image newly opened in Photoshop, let’s begin by duplicating the Background layer. Go up to the Layer menu in the Menu Bar at the top of the screen, choose New, and then choose Layer via Copy. Or, for a faster way to duplicate a layer, press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+J (Win) / Command+J (Mac):
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How to Create a Surreal Mist Effect in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to create a realistic “surreal” mist for your photos.

Dazzling Dance Photo Manipulation

Choose File > Place, browse for the image of the clouds, then click OK. The image of the clouds will appear in your document window with the transform tool activated. Resize and position the clouds where you like it to appear then press enter on your keyboard to apply the changes. The reason why we use the place command rather than other methods is because the place command will place the image as a smart object (if you are using Photoshop CS2 or newer) to help keep the file size small if you save the document without the maximize compatibility option.
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Colorful Sparkling Effect in Photoshop

This is an advanced piece, I mean there are no hard to do techniques, but this kind of work requires a lot of good taste, some color experience and casting shadows knowledge. So I do not recommend this tutorial for beginners. I’ll skip basic pointers and go straight to the main point. Basically, I want you to get the idea of how to create an illustration like this and follow your own way with these effects.
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Create frozen liquid effects with PhotoShop

In this tutorial I will show you some techniques to give almost anything a liquid or frozen fluid effect. I’ll also reveal the easiest way to extract liquid images and keep them transparent.

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Creating a Chilling Frozen Subject Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

In this tutorial I will show you how I created a fantasy photo manipulation called “You Can Not Frost The Time” with using several Photoshop tools such as Color Range, different blending modes, and more. Let’s get started!

Open the pictures of the sky and the pier and drag them into the new document. Name the layer with the pier “PIER” and place it above the sky.
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Making Of The Haunted House

In this tutorial we are going to create a haunted house from the ordinary one and study some matte painting techniques.

Step 1

I use 4 images from SXC: mansion,sky
and two photos with dead trees – first and second.

I’ve found the photos of mountain and birds in my personal photo archive. You can get them here: mountain, first rook, second rook.

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