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Create a Surreal Ramen Bowl Illustration in Adobe Photoshop. Do you want to play with me. Hello Readers, this artwork created in Photoshop CS2 and with a Wacom Intuos 3. And now I will explain in detail about the making of this image. Hope many of you will enjoy. Sketch and Color Scheme The first thing here, is to choose the right colour scheme, it depends on a lot of things like mood, the story you want to tell... I want to do something really colourful and warm, so for the character I choose some very saturated orange mixed with yellow and pink, the background will be colder, a green will suit very well with the whole piece and the light will be a pale blue.

At this stage it’s only a quick sketch, just to test the colours and the first composition. TIP: Lay down you colours on another layer, so you’ll keep them along the way. Composition and First Details Now that I have my colours, I could go on with the character and fix the whole anatomy, I don’t go too much into details; I only start the first design of her costume and try to find out how I want her to look like. 35 Incredible Digital Painting Tutorials. Advertisement Many companies try to create a great experience for customers. But few are willing to make the changes required to deliver on that promise. In fact most don’t even realize just how bad their experience can be. This is why we made a new book called “User Experience Revolution,” a practical battle plan for placing the user at the heart of your company. Get the book now! Art is not restricted to any medium, nor is digital painting. Yes, you read that right: “digital painting.” Further Reading on SmashingMag: Link Digital Painting Tutorials Link Making of Spanish Girl5 This tutorial shows you how to make this portrait of a Spanish girl.

Making of “My Prince” “The girl in the picture is a young witch with mysterious magic. Umbrella Sky Marta Dahlig’s gorgeous “Umbrella Sky” image was unanimously chosen for the cover of Ballistic Publishing’s EXOTIQUE 3. How to Create a Fantasy Mother Nature Scene7 “This tutorial is about creating a fantasy scene called ‘Mother Nature.’ (al) 4 Ways to Draw a Dragon. Steps A Water Dragon <img alt="Image titled Draw a Dragon Step 17" src=" width="728" height="546" class="whcdn" onload="WH.performance.clearMarks('image1_rendered'); WH.performance.mark('image1_rendered');">1Draw an oval for the head.

<img alt="Image titled Draw a Dragon Step 18" src=" width="728" height="546" class="whcdn">2Draw a sharp curve connected to the oval drawn previously to complete the main head outline. <img alt="Image titled Draw a Dragon Step 19" src=" width="728" height="546" class="whcdn">3Draw a jagged line for the mouth.

A Realistic Dragon (Fantasy) Realistic Dragon, Festive. Time, Patience, & Practice are keys. Time, Patience, & Practice are keys. TUTORIAL BY PSCS5; How to use actions on gifs +... TUTORIAL BY PSCS5; How to use actions on gifs + how to use the actions on all frames instead of playing it on each frame. This has been wildly requested by so many people. This is very simple and easy tutorial so you should not have any problems. Using actions on gifs will be way much easier if you have the timeline option. This option is ONLY available in Photshop cs4, cs5, and cs6 Extended.

Note that I said extended. If you do not have the extended version of Photoshop, the Timeline is not available for your use. Is the Timeline available in Photoshop Portable? How I make my gifs and settings: tutorial hereHow I make my gifs run smoothly: tutorial here What’s the psd you used for your examples? What font did you use in the examples? Tutorial: 1. 2. 3. Your layers should now look like this: 4. Then click where it says “Load Action” look for the action in the folder where you download it into. 5.

And that’s it. So how do I use the actions without the Timeline? This one's yours, boss!, Neon Sign Tutorial. Tutorials page « itsps. 1. Using screencaptures previously made Menu: File › Scripts › Load Files into Stack How to make screencaps? Best software for Windows is KMPlayer. As for Mac, there isn't a KMPlayer version so instead you can use UMPlayer or MPEG Streamclip (which opens .MP4 videos, not .MKV) or VLC Player (which is better for taking single screencaps). 2. Menu: File › Import › Video frames to layers You can convert videos to .MP4 by using the converters listed in this post. 3. 4. Photoshop Tutorials and Resources. 85+ Top Useful Photo Manipulation Tutorials in Photoshop | Tinydesignr. In the art of designing, knowledge on photo manipulation and its corresponding technique is a major edge among other designers… Why?

Because it gives you the advantage of creating world-class designs from a simple photo or image. Photo manipulation is the art of photo editing. It is another name of passion and creativity. One should have lots of patience and creativity to turn a simple photo into an amazing visual art. There are many tutorials that help beginners to complete their passion. Here we have collected a bunch full of tutorials that will help you in learning the art of photo manipulation. If you think editing your photos to make them look stunning is difficult thing, then you must check out this post of 85+ Photo Manipulation Tutorials. 33 Fresh Creative Photo Manipulation Tutorials in Photoshop88 The Best Photo Manipulation Tutorials in Photoshop 1- How To Devastate London – Photo Manipulation.

Photo Manipulate a Magical Shoe House Scene. Photo Manipulate a Magical Shoe House Scene Final Image Here is a preview of the image that we are going to be creating: Step 1 Create a new document (900X900px). Open the ‘cloudy sky’ photo in the resources section for this tutorial. Paste the sky into the top part of your canvas. Apply a color balance adjustment layer, being sure to give you adjustment layer a clipping mask. Color Balance Adjustment Layer Settings: Highlights: -21 / +4 / -6 Midtones: -39 / +16 / -18 Shadows: -21 / +15 / +5 Step 2 Open the ‘grassy field’ image from the resources section for this tutorial.

Paste the image into your original document and position it at the bottom part of your canvas: Apply a layer mask and use a soft, black paintbrush to mask off the top of your grassy field image. Be sure to keep the sign post area in tact and don’t mask this off: Apply a levels and color balance adjustment layer to your green field layer: Levels Adjustment Layer Settings: Step 3 Use the clone stamp tool to clone over these areas. 75 Excellent Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials. The first thing that clicks our mind when we talk about image editing and photo manipulation is Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop is such a great tool for image editing but on the other hand it is quite hard to master.

Photo manipulation is the art of photo editing. It is another name of passion and creativity. Photo manipulation is not a cup of tea for the beginners. But it’s a passion for many designers out here including me. One should have lots of patience and creativity to turn a simple photo into an amazing visual art. Sky is the limit when you open image in a photo editing too. There are many tutorials that help beginners to complete their passion. For those, who don’t know what is Adobe Photoshop? The next generation, representing two decades of excellence. Excellent Photo Manipulation Tutorials The demand for Photoshop tutorials are too much in these days and finding the best tutorials from the pool with tens of thousands of tutorials is not a easy job to perform. 01. 02. 03. 04. 05.

Water Drops tutorial. With the selection still active, select the Gradient Tool and select a linear gradient (B) in the options bar at the top. If everything is ok, then we should see a preview of the gradient in the options bar (A). Make sure that it goes from black (left) to white (right). If that's not the case then make sure that the option reverse is not selected (C). If you don't see a black & white gradient, then double click on the gradient in the options bar (A) and select the gradient from the list and click OK. We are now going to draw a gradient from left to right. After you're done, deselect the selection by pressing Ctrl + D (command + D on the Mac) on your keyboard or by selecting in the menu Select / Deselect. Set the blending mode of the layer in the layers palette to Overlay.

Add a Layer Style by clicking on the layer style icon in the layers palette First select Drop Shadow and use the following settings: Now select Inner Shadow and use the following settings; That's it. . Have fun! Section. 25 Best Artistic Watercolour Painting Effect Photoshop TutorialsPhotoshop Website. Create an Underwater Scene of a Giant Goldfish in Photoshop. In this tutorial we will create a cool underwater scene with a big fish. We will use some basic selection tools and adjustments to achieve a great result. Preview of Final Results Download the PSD Big Fish.zip | 99.21 MB Download from Website Giant Fish Photoshop Tutorial Tutorial Resources Step 1 Create a new document 2150x4187px. Step 2 Open file “Sky” and select all (Ctrl + A). Step 3 Open file “Sky” and using the Elliptical Marquee Tool make a selection of the moon. Step 4 Copy and paste it into our document. Step 5 Double-click the moon layer to enter Advanced Blending options and add the following styles to make the moon look more realistic.

Step 6 Duplicate the moon layer by pressing Ctrl + J and Ctrl-click on the layer to make a selection of the moon. Step 7 Add a Curves Adjustment layer and change the Blue and Red channel as shown below. Step 8 In this step we will create the rainbow. Step 9 Select the Gradient Tool (G) and in the upper toolbar double-click to open the gradient editor. Step 10. Angel Photoshop Tutorials. Photoshop Tutorials - Photoshop is life. Professional Widow - ManipulationTutorial - 300+ free Photoshop Tutorials.

Time for your photo manipulation dose. This is a bit more concentrated so it’s for more experienced consumers. Ok, enough joking. In this manipulation I will show you how to play with fire, how to smoothen skin using the Mixer Brush Tool and how to create realistic light effects. This is for the slightly more advanced manipulator. Enjoy. Final Result Stock used You need a premium PLUS membership in order to see the downloads links Video walkthrough Step 1 First we are going to smoothen the woman’s skin so open the stock image of the woman. In order to smoothen the woman’s skin I used the Mixer Brush Tool (B) (the first time I used this tool since I use Photoshop) Use the brush settings shown in the image below.

Now, this is how you use the Mixer Brush Tool to soften the skin. You must use a soft brush and adjust the size of it depending on the area you’re working on. You must be careful with highlights and shadows though. Step 2 Step 3 Let’s start making the first adjustments. Step 4 Step 5 Step 6. Mapping A Texture To A Face With Photoshop. Step 1: Select The Channel With The Best Image Contrast Let's begin with the photo we'll be applying the texture to. Switch over to your Channels panel for a moment. You'll find the Channels panel grouped in with the Layers and Paths panels ("panels" are called "palettes" in earlier versions of Photoshop). Click on the Channels name tab at the top of the group to select it. You'll see three color channels listed - Red, Green, and Blue - along with a composite RGB channel at the top: The Channels panel (palette) in Photoshop.

To learn more about color channels and the RGB color mode in Photoshop, be sure to check out our full RGB and Color Channels In Photoshop Explained tutorial. We need to select the channel that will give us the highest amount of image contrast, since the more contrast we have, the better the results we'll achieve with our displacement map.

Select individual channels by clicking on them in the Channels panel. Step 2: Duplicate The Channel Go to Filter > Noise > Median. Digital painting,painting in photoshop, airbrushing, brushing techniques. 2) These pictures aren't numbered, so I'll refer to them according to the set of three above the tips I give. I personally always start off with a sketch. Helps you to put all your ideas down, and get a better idea of what you want to end up with at the end of the picture. It can be as simple as you like, or as complex. I tend to do things on the simpler side as I tend to get lazy when looking at super detail and difficult pieces and end unever finished them. The second thing I ALWAYS do, is fill in the background with a color I'll never use, but will contrast the picture.

Then, as you can see in the second picture, I fill in the part I want to work on first with a solid main color.