A large collection of only the best top quality 100 design tutorials which will teach you how to use Photoshop in order to manipulate photography, this large reference point showcases every aspect which is essential for creating good photo manipulation with each tutorial having an awesome outcome.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to use shapes and other objects to create a unique fashion poster scene. Utilizing Adobe Photoshop shapes is an awesome means for improving your designs and they can easily be used without spending too much time on them. The results of using shapes can be completely different every time depending on various factors such as what shapes you use, how many you use, and how you apply them to your work.
In this tutorial, youll manipulate a photo with abstract elements to make it more interesting and active.
You will use some of grunge textures to realize the background scene, several Photoshop filters to create light effects and we will turn the picture of an innocent child into a diabolic character. It will show you how the liquify filter can be used to modify face lineaments. Inspiration derives from horror movie posters design. Are you ready to enter in the dark horror world?
In this graphic design tutorial, youll create a poster with light grunge features centred around a Nike shoe. Graphics designers are often asked to work on advertisement campaigns. Great projects are realized in collaboration with several creative minds specialized in different matters, all under the direction of an art director.
For whatever reason it is always fun to create composite images that use star fields as a backdrop. Star fields have a unique ability to make a composition look mysterious and even magical. In todays tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a 4-piece stardust composition using textures and masks. Lets get started!
In this tutorial It will show you how to use different blending modes to blend flying hairs easily and to make semi-transparent planet. Ill also show you different techniques of adjustment to get the most realistic results in your photo manipulations!
In this tutorial youll learn how to incorporate glass into your work. youll learn a good technique for incorporating glass transparency into photo manipulations, while placing a cute, pirate hamster on the high seas. Lets start!
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a surreal time-themed photomanipulation using Photoshop. The name of this photomanipulation is Time Guardian and it was originally created by Mariusz Karasiewicz (aka FISHBOT1337). I want to take this opportunity to thank him for collaborating with me on this tutorial.
Hi and welcome to PSDBURN! In this tutorial you will create flames on a bike racer. The idea for this tutorial came into my mind after I saw the Ghost Rider movie. Because the name of my new blog is PSDBURN, I thought that the first tutorial should be about creating fire. I hope you like it. I`ve got plenty more tutorials to publish here, so stay tuned.
If youre looking to create a really nice photo manipulation, often you will have to combine several photos and apply a few effects to get your desired look. In todays tutorial combine a few photos that I took while I was traveling to create a devastating tornado consuming everything in its path. Okay, lets get started!
In this tutorial It will show you how to create your own magic ball using Photoshop. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Becca for giving me permission to use one of her stock images to write this Photoshop tutorial.
Drawn elements are certainly something that can enhance an illustration. Even if youre not very good at drawing, you can still create a quality piece. All you need is a good idea and some Photoshop skills. And if you dont believe me, you will definitely change your mind after reading this tutorial. So lets take a look inside!
Vector graphics design is one of the leading styles for print magazines and in titling of movies right now. In this tutorial, we are going to cover the entire body of a woman with stock vector art by employing some of the basic tools and blending options in Adobe Photoshop.
In this tutorial, Ill show you several super easy techniques for incorporating remarkable light effects to your work using Photoshop. Youll need only 10 minutes to make your own set of abstract brushes (Ill show you how) for use in enhancing your design projects. We will work with textures tooIll demonstrate how to give an interesting look to a human body using a grunge texture.
n college, my instructors often give me projects where I reproduce the works of classic artists like Da Vinci and Goya. Trying to recreate classic works of art is a fantastic way to improve your skills, discover new ways of applying effects, and expand your artistic knowledge. However, when deriving influence from contemporary illustrators for professional work, its something to be careful about. Ultimately, working toward developing your own style should be your goal.
This is a Photoshop tutorial showing you all the steps you need to take in order to photo-manipulate yourself into a Navi (based on the characters in James Camerons 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.
Learn how to create a futuristic athlete graphic using a combination of layer masks, brushes, the pen tool and various blending options.
In this tutorial It will show you how to create the disintegration effect using brushes and the blur filter. Its really simple and you will be able to create nice designs using this sort of trendy style of effect.
Sergio Vichique shows how you can bring the coolest of effects to your illustrations
This is a tutorial with a simple idea: to create an emotional photo manipulation. Following this tutorial, you will learn how to blend different images to make a dark atmospheric background, modify the dress of the model, apply makeup, paint hair, blend different objects in the background, and more all to create a moody illustration. So, lets start!
In this tutorial, Ill show you how to create a futuristic looking photo manipulation using some special tools, such as the Background Eraser Tool and how to blend pictures properly using Match Color Adjustments and Lighting Effects. So lets start!
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a fantasy landscape using some simple and easy techniques. Everyone with basic Photoshop skills can succeed to recreate this simple image using the most important thing in this kind of photo manipulation the right stock. So lets go!
In this photoshop tutorial, youll learn how to mash up a series of photos in a highly creative poster based on a famous painting from the 1800s. Lets get started!
In this tutorial, youll make a scene with flaming bombs pouring from the sky. This tut is made to show some down and dirty Photoshop tricks that beginners can quickly pick up. It also includes some relatively advanced techniques to help budding designers enhance their workflow. Lets get started!
There are plenty of ways to create a Watercolor Effect in Photoshop. Some are very cheesy and you can easily tell that a simple filter has been used. In this tutorial, we will be using Layer Masking. It is one of the most fascinating and powerful Photoshop method, to use layer masks in your designs.
The initial concept was the creation of an atmosphere a background for the car. Using images and some painting techniques over that images I made a fantasy scene. This tutorial will explain some of those techniques and how various Photoshop tools work. Lets get started!
Learn how to combine several photos to create a dramatic fallen angel scene.
In this tutorial It will show how to create an awesome illustration that can be printed as a poster to hang it on your wall. I broke down step by step from the beginning to the end so you can follow and understand exactly what I went through while making this piece, and you get to download the .psd at the end.
Creating an magical forest scene using stock photos in Photoshop.
Often times the wisest thing to do is to keep hunting for source images where the lighting does match. But sometimes you can effectively fix lighting problems and an example of how do to this can be seen in the giant elephant image named One Way Street.
Here is another illustration I have worked on with Toma Alin Gabriel. 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. The main idea behind this surreal illustration is that we are actually in a painting and the painting on the wall is the real world, the world where our vulture tries to escape.
This tutorial shows the creation of one of my images. It shows how I adjust lighting and colours in my images to create this surrealistic turtle. Hopefully, youll be able to transfer these methods to your own work.
In this tutorial we will be learning how to create a severed arm with fleshy stumps and strings of sinew. This will be created by using some basic Brushes and Layer Masks. Lets get started!
In this tutorial we will be learning some indispensable techniques to use for any type of photo-manipulation. We will be doing this by taking a photograph of a model plane and editing it to to look like a photograph of a WW2 spitfire which has just been shot down and is on fire. The techniques used here are the same for any type of destruction photo-manipulation. Below is the image you will learn how to create. In the second part of this tutorial we will go on to use this image in a movie poster/DVD cover design.
In this tutorial, were going to make a creative illustration in a style meant for a video game cover or sci-fi book cover. Well 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.
This Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to use a variety of color, lighting, and cut and paste techniques to create a surreal photo manipulation. Combine your creativity with these Photoshop techniques to create your own photo manipulation artworks.
How to create a scary photo manipulation of a tree, which will show useful techniques such as blending different stock photos together.
A good friend and amazing artist Bram Vanhaeren and I decided to collaborate on an illustration to then create a tutorial for all the readers at Psdtuts+. We came up with a cool illustration that incorporates patterns, coloring, as well as 3D shapes. The most important thing about this is that it is all extremely simple to create so it shouldnt be that difficult for anybody. There are a lot of new techniques here that I guarantee youll be using, so check this one out!
Have you ever come across a photo where all the highlights and shadows seem just too good to be true? If its not HDR processing, its pen tablet magic. Find out in this tutorial how to give a regular image a subtle, artistic feel with some clever brush work. Read more after the jump!
Photoshop CS5 includes several new features to help improve your workflow. In todays tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a cosmic love goddess using some of Photoshop CS5s new tools including the Refine Edge Feature which really helps to streamline the process of masking and removing objects from their background.
In todays tutorial you will learn how to create an abstract light streaks poster from scratch using Lighting effects, Noise, and Wave Photoshop CS5 filters. Layered PSD file included. Lets get started!
This tutorial is a collaboration with a good friend of mine with Ciursa Ionut. This tutorial is about creating a fantasy illustration using some dragon images and a few cliffs for creating the land. We also add lava and fiery effects. So, lets get fired-up for this one!
Compositing with Photoshop is one part technique and two parts imagination. In the example below, Ive created a dark and mysterious scene with a young girl paused in an eerily calm storm.
A great design tutorial showing you how to use Photoshop to manipulate the design of a car made of oranges.
Detailed step-by-step; blending the images without cutting them out; using the magic wand to extract the tree.
This is part 1 of a set of tutorials here on PSD learning which will take you through the process of changing a head into a garden. This part will show you some great photo manipulation techniques which will create a waterfall coming out of the mans head. This will explore important manipulation techniques like masking, composition and color adjustments.
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. Lets get started!
Today we will learn a technique that can be used to create nice portraits with your grunge textures. We will use many selection tools and masks to isolate objects. This is a tutorial for beginners who are approaching to an intermediate level.
There are a plethora of ways to treat a portrait for a myriad of uses, but that is for another feature. Lets tackle adding drama or a cinematic quality to a regular, humdrum portrait. Lets 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, youll be able to cobble something together using your mad skillz!
In this tutorial you will learn a few techniques that might be very useful for you and give you some great ideas when you start creating an advertisement. Before you go on and start the tutorial I would like to thank the photographers for their amazing stock images and for giving permission to use the images.
So in this tutorial I will show you how you can mix stock photos with blend modes, basic filters and tools to create a really cool design. The whole process is very simple and wont take you more than 1 hour to finish the tutorial.
On todays quick tips I will be showing you how to create an alien eye, a simple and easy effect that can give an extra coolness to you next manipulation or just freak out one of your friends by getting them and alien eye.
An mysterious lighting tutorial which will show you useful techniques to create dark castle effect.
So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a really cool and super easy typographic portrait in Photoshop. We will use the Displace filter and some Blend Modes to achieve the effect. The whole process is quite simple but it might take you some time to add the texts and elements, but once you do that the rest is very straight forward.
Im a great fan of sci-fi art. Have you ever seen a Metallica cd cover? Simply amazing. This kind of design inspired me to create a cosmic sci-fi scene. Today I want to show you how to create this image in Photoshop. This tutorial is for intermediate users who know how mask and selection tools work. We will use also a bit of Illustrator and Cinema4D. Have a try!
In this tutorial, Ill show you how to create a post apocalyptic manipulation using adjustment layers, vector masks, and some special effects.
One of the most popular tutorials I have writen is the Sparkling Hot Girl in Photoshop. It was a very straightforward technique on how to create some nice light effects mixed with a hot girl. Everything over a dark background. Since then I have received emails asking me how to create light effects over white or light backgrounds. So I decided to try some ideas and create an image mixing a photo of a girl with some light effects.
In this tutorial, youll learn how to transform fashion photography into abstract illustration by mixed some custom shapes and applying different Blending modes using Adobe Photoshop CS5. Layered PSD file included.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to manipulate a simple photo into a flooding torrent of a scene. Well use some relatively simple techniques to give this image a semi-realistic, stylized feel.
This is a tutorial illustrating perspective techniques and how you can achieve the feeling of depth and motion. We will be doing this in a few steps, such as placing the main character, creating the volume fading away and adding foreground and background images.
In this tutorial well show you how to create an ultra-realistic crack effect with extremely simple techniques like brushes, blending mode and masking.
Designers love to be critical about movie posters, and while you may think you have better ideas about how to sell a movie to an audience, how many times have you actually tried doing it? In this tutorial, were going to create a poster for a fictional movie called Fugitive. The movie is meant to be a suspenseful thriller that features ones escape under the cover of darkness, despite mans attempt to capture the lone hero. Thin and cheesy plot? Check.
This tutorial will show how to create a fantasy book scene. We will be using various advanced Photoshop techniques to make the composition as realistic as possible.
In this tutorial I will show you how to create an abstract space poster using geometrical shapes, masks and apply some filters in Photoshop. Layered PSD file included. Lets get started!
In this tutorial I will show you how to create an abstract space poster using geometrical shapes, masks and apply some filters in Photoshop. Layered PSD file included.
Learn how to use complex layer masks, adjustment layers and photo manipulation techniques to blend two separate photos in a highly creative way!
Learn how to combine and blend multiple landscape photos to create a beautiful sunrise landscape. You will also learn about masking and other selection methods.
Every now and then a project comes along that challenges me to use one of Photoshops tools more than ever. This particular image was part of a series of ads I was working on with photographer Richard Radstone for a clothing line based in Colombia, South America.
In this tutorial, well learn how to take splattered paint Photoshop brushes and apply them to the contours of a models face. This is a relatively simple technique, which yields excellent artistic results.
In this tutorial, well manipulate a picture so it looks like a woman burning in flames. The idea behind this manipulation was to create a nice looking illustration, only by using simple techniques and tools such as the Brush tool and Warp command. I hope you enjoy the tutorial and try it with your own stock imagery.
For this tutorial, youll need a photo of a persons head, octopus, and any grunge texture. If you like to use the same portrait of the face used in this tutorial, you may click on the image below to purchase it. Note that we only have the download link for the image of the woman.
Applying texture to a flat surface, or flatly applying a texture across a whole image (as a means to age it or degrade it) is simple stuff. Realistically applying a texture to an uneven surface is much more hands-on (more so than simply overlaying a texture and changing the Blending mode).
In this Photoshop tutorial well be walking through the making of a digital photo manipulation called Color Combustion. Youll use a few simple techniques, and combine a whole heap of images together to make a wonderful creative collage.
Here youll learn how to create an abstract photo manipulation that looks like youve just painted the subject, Ive included lots of useful techniques for creating impressive abstract pieces. Ive tried to keep this simple but if you dont understand any steps then just skip it as not all of them are compulsory.
You will need close-up image of a nice face, prefably facing front. Im using one of Jessica Alba wallpapers in this tutorial. You will also need the Reborn Brush created by Rubina119.
Well be creating a fantasy illustration in this tutorial, Ill show you how to merge two images into one using layer Masks and reshape a picture using the Liquify Filter. Well take an image of a baby iguana and another of a bat, then combine the two to create a fantasy dragon. Lets get started!
In this tutorial,you`ll show you how to create your unique wallpapers using photo manipulation.
Using some images youll learn how to blend in different landscapes creating a surreal effect.
We all know the typical flying snowboarder through the air photo. Add a lens flare, and youve got it made! In this tutorial were giving the ol concept a spin by using wavy lines that suggest motion and paint splatters for snow. Lets get to it!
This tutorial will be a little different than all the other tutorials I wrote. Here I will teach you some basic things about Photomanipulation.
This tutorial will describe how to make a colorful photo manipulation using only four stock photos and a texture background. Well look at using the Pen Tool, making colorful rainbow designs, and showing the correct way to pick out stocks to use in our photo manipulation.
Create a breath taking scenery by combining two photos and applying several photo effects. When you follow this Photoshop tutorial, youll learn masking techniques and several photo effects.
Create a breath taking scenery by combining two photos and applying several photo effects. When you follow this Photoshop tutorial, youll learn masking techniques and several photo effects.
In this tutorial Nik Ainley walks us through the process of making a spectacular image. This tutorial focuses on the big picture steps taken to create this image. Youll learn some incredible techniques in this tutorial, and get a view into how Nik creates beautiful photo-manipulation based images. Lets check it out.
Time again to talk about aliens! No, not the illegal kind. The green kind
! What better way to kickoff the summer spirit than with explosions, death rays, and a little stormy weather thanks to our friend, Photoshop.
Today were going to make an original photo-manipulation by using objects of only one image. Well learn to use guides to make it ourselves more easy. I will teach you all how to create realistic lighting and the use of the right perspective. Well also be changing the purpose of an object and using Adjustment Layers to finish it all up. What you do need is a basic knowledge of Photoshop and entire knowledge of the Pen Tool for this tutorial.
Found an excellent Photoshop Action, created by Night Fate. I will make a simple photo-manipulated mythical scene here, and apply the action at the end to enhance the entire feel.
See the image below? Transform this cloudy country side picture into a stormy and dramatic evening by adding simple lightning effects!
The idea behind this work was to create a fantasy world. You will learn how to work with a few images and create a really interesting photo manipulation. I would also like to thank Loredana for working with me on this one.
You will need a close up image of a model, and also the awesome Smoke Brushes Set 1 designed by Falln-Stock.
A simply tutorial which consist of blending stock photos together,
In this tutorial you will use the burn tool, dodge tool, brushes, layer modes and more to add an interesting effect to an otherwise regular stock photo.
In this tutorial is written how to create a very cool looking alien using Adobe Photoshop. Grab a picture of someone and get ready to alienize it!
In this tutorial, youre going to create a fantasy photo manipulation mixing different images and learning to use and modify the stock images in a creative way. The idea is to get a compact image that looks absolutely real, and at the same time, absolutely impossible!
In this tutorial, youre going to create a fantasy photo manipulation mixing different images and learning to use and modify the stock images in a creative way. The idea is to get a compact image that looks absolutely real, and at the same time, absolutely impossible!
Seeing as I havent really had the chance to go anywhere of particular interest as of late I started to get stuck into some digital art again. It has been a while since I have done much due to my photography addiction. I almost forgot just how much I actually enjoy doing it, so Im glad I did.
In this tutorial, well be creating a photo montage of a demon destroying a city using only stock photos and of course Photoshop.
Constructivist graphic design is often associated with communist politics and propaganda, but its more than that, Constructivism is about using bright colors, playing with lightness, perspective, geometrical forms, besides photomontage techniques and digital collage. This time Ill dare to name this tutorial a Neo-Constructivist design. Its time to get started!
I came across the amazing set of Paint Tossing freebies from Media Militia the other day and thought that I must create some artwork with them. So I visited my favorite Mjranums stock gallery again and done up this tutorial. Hope you will like it.
Find out how this amazing image was created with Photoshop. This Photoshop tutorial will teach you many techniques that you can use to enhance your photos.
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