Create a deep sea scene in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how create a sea scene from scratch, create lights and shadows using clouds and blending modes. This tutorial is good for beginners yet it’s worth to learn this effect. › Continue reading

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Create a Pixel Effect using layer mask

In this tutorial we will recreate a classic effect using layer mask. We’ll create a mask from an image previously painted with brushes so it fit’s our subject and then apply the mosaic effect.

Finally we will use blending mode to enhance the colors. › Continue reading

Tags: photoshop tutorial, Pixel Art

Stylish High Contrast Portrait

This was a common style in the latest 80´s and it seems to be returning in different promotional and posters.

It really is a simple technique but the result is very stylish. › Continue reading

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Create Text Art with Wordle and Photoshop

If you love text art and enjoy playing with text there is an extremely simple way to create text clouds. In Wordle you can paste any paragraph you like and create a text cloud, later we can export this like a PDF so we can work with it in Photoshop. › Continue reading

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Case Study No.1: Kids with bubbles advertisement

This is the first post of a new series where we will study specific cases of some clients Works.

For this first study I selected a house advertisement where the kids should be making soap bubbles, playing in front of their new house. › Continue reading

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How to remove objects from an image

This is a common task using Photoshop in works for clients. They give you their source image and you must “clean it”. This require of patience and analyzing the image you will work with. In this tutorial I will show you a very simple technique to do it. › Continue reading

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Colorful light burst text effect

In this Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to see how to create a light burst text effect with very simple techniques.

We are going learn how to use the blend if section of the layer style options. › Continue reading

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Create a Ki energy ball

In this tutorial we are going to work a lot with blending modes, Motion and radial blurs, some brushes and liquify to create a very cool effect.

Watching Dragon Ball Z (not the %^$ movie) I wanted to recreate the energy or KI Balls and the glowing in the characters.

This technique uses the liquify filter to create the ball, the result is great, so let’s get started! › Continue reading

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How to use Smart Objects

Smart objects gives you the power to scale and distort images without the loss of quality associated with repeated transformations. Also the content of a smart object can be replaced with a different artwork at any stage applying all the transformations you have done previously to this new artwork. › Continue reading

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How to Create Intense Lighting Effects in Photoshop

Add a touch of magic with lighting effects. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how introduce light streaks around your artwork’s subject using brushes, layer styles and line blends created in illustrator. › Continue reading

Tags: Light Tutorial, photoshop tutorial