In this tutorial, you will work with a few images you chose and you will create a nice looking illustration. The idea behind this illustration was to create a war between reality and line art. I tried to make this one simple, but at the same time to make it look good. I hope you enjoy the tutorial and try it with your own tools and stock.
Create a Sleek Illustration that Fades from Line Art to Color
Nov 18th in Designing, Photo Effects by Constantin Potorac
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How to Illustrate a Wooden Frame on a Wall Scene
Nov 1st in Drawing, Photo Effects by Eren GökselIn this tutorial, you’ll learn how to draw a wooden frame. We’ll place a photo inside the frame, add some reflection and dirt to the glass, then place the frame on a wall. You can take your favorite picture and make it look like it’s hung in your home. Let’s get started!
Create an Explosive Cover with Precise Photo Manipulation Techniques
Oct 28th in Photo Effects by Wojciech PijeckiIn this tutorial, we’re going to make a creative illustration in a style meant for a video game cover or sci-fi book cover. We’ll create this with mostly photo manipulation techniques. With some cool Photoshop options you can turn all the photos you chose, into one stunning looking explosive cover.
It’s amazing, how easy this can be done, all you need is just a good idea and some solid basics in Photoshop. The hardest part in doing this, is finding the right images. I chose them carefully, as the better photos chosen, the less time it will take you to create this quality illustration. Let’s get started!
Design a Halloween Pumpkin Wallpaper in Photoshop
Oct 25th in Photo Effects by Alvaro GuzmanHalloween is near! So let’s take a pumpkin image, carve it up, and light it for this coming holiday. You’ll learn how to get this nice effect on any pumpkin picture, how to play with the colors, apply some layer blending modes to skip the extraction process, and more.
Design a High Impact Gig Poster Suitable for Screen-Printing
Oct 21st in Designing, Photo Effects by James DaviesScreen-prints are a great way to exhibit artworks or advertise a gig. Creating a high impact poster suitable for the screen-printing process can be achieved relatively easily. In this instance, we’re going for a stylized and coarse effect, rather than a photo-realistic halftone interpretation of a design. So let’s create a 3-color design that looks great on screen, printed from your home printer, or screen-printed using the silk-screen printing method.
How to Make a Musical Giraffe Digital Illustration
Oct 17th in Photo Effects by Tom MiatkeIn this tutorial, we will convert an ordinary picture of a giraffe into a wallpaper of a giraffe fading away into musical notes. This design was used in my entry to the AudioJungle Wallpaper Competition and managed to place in the top twenty, which made me think that some people on PSDTUTS might want to know how I made. So lets get into it!
How to Design a Dramatic Winged Dragon with Photoshop
Oct 15th in Photo Effects by Alvaro GuzmanWe’ll be creating a fantasy illustration in this tutorial, I’ll show you how to merge two images into one using layer Masks and reshape a picture using the Liquify Filter. We’ll take an image of a baby iguana and another of a bat, then combine the two to create a fantasy dragon. Let’s get started!
Getting to Grips with the Vanishing Point Filter
Sep 5th in Photo Effects, Tools & Tips by Alvaro GuzmanThese two tutorials are simple guides about using Photoshop’s Vanishing Point filter in photo editing. We’ll learn some of the basics about making selections, cloning areas, and pasting images into the vanishing point filter window. This is a beginner level tutorial that will help you master the basics on this topic.
How To Render a Dramatic 3D Wood Cup in Photoshop
Aug 29th in Drawing, Photo Effects by Alvaro GuzmanIn this basic tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a 3D cup from scratch in Illustrator, how to apply some texture to it in Photoshop, and also how to use the Vanishing Point filter to mock-up a scenario and apply realistic shadows.
Achieve HDR Style Effects Using Photoshop and the Lucis Art Filter
Aug 15th in Photo Effects by Constantin PotoracHey everybody! In this tutorial, I’ll show you some great techniques to achieve HDR effects. There are a lot of different techniques out there, but I prefer to use this specific filter called LucisArt. Soon there will be a new and better release called Lucis Pro. Till then we’ll use this one. You can buy it from their website or take the 30 days trial to test and see if you like it. Also, the filter is only available for Windows. The new Lucis Pro will also be available for MAC though.
