Achieve Brilliant Lighting Effects in Photoshop Lighting effects can make or break any digital artwork. When done properly, lighting can add visual impact, draw the viewer’s eye, convey depth and emotion, and tie together all the elements of the piece for a quality finished result. However, achieving brilliant lighting is not always an easy task, particularly for newer digital artists. Perfecting contrast, color variation, sharpness and depth will help make your digital art more enticing. In this tutorial, you’ll learn the essential process of achieving brilliant lighting effects in Photoshop. Using default brushes, blending options and a few stock images, you’ll learn step by step a variety of techniques that you can use in your own digital artworks to achieve professional results.
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Photo Manipulate a Falling Angel Final Image As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating: Step 1 HDR and Photoshop CS3 Training video High Dynamic Range Imaging Colin Smith 2.5 Hours $49.99 22 Best Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials, Part I Typography means a lot in any medium kind of presentation. Whether it’s a logo, banner or just a title; being able to inject creativity into it not only help in delivering the message across, it also leaves solid impression on the viewer. Good typography design is not easy, or should I say getting the type match and speaks for the product is often a very challenging job.
Amazing Photoshop tutorials and Resources Collection I usually don’t make this kind of collections because I don’t like to post collections of tutorials that you can easily find on all design dedicated websites. What I do instead, is try to find new tutorials and resources that are harder to find and not seen on other sites. Spent 2 months making this compilation hope you like what’s inside. I also want to point out that in this article I included tutorials that personally impressed me so you might have seen them before on other websites. How to create a cool artistic ad in Photoshop and Illustrator
Comic Book Photo Effect Introduction This is a little technique I picked up at Photoshop World and have tweaked to my own preferences. Because each photo is different you’ll want to experiment a little with the settings to get your best result. I’ve found that although this technique can be used for most photos, there are certain ones that have a much more pleasing final result.
Ultimate Photoshop Design Resources There's no doubt that I like to design. Next to coding, I also love to edit photos, designing websites etc. My personal favorite tool to achieve this, has to be Adobe Photoshop. Next to a good tool, you'll need some good resources. Fonts, Plug-ins such as Brushes and Textures, Stock photos can help you tremendously when designing. Here's a list of my personal favorite photoshop design resources. How To Create a Post Apocalyptic Photo Manipulation In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a post apocalyptic manipulation using adjustment layers, vector masks, and some special effects. Let's get started! Take a look at the image we'll be creating. You can view the final image preview below or a larger version here. In this tutorial, we'll create the final image using mostly pictures I took. Many of which are shown below.
Gunshot Through a Glass Gunshot Through a GlassReviewed by Denny Tang on Mar 9Rating: Preview of final results Rollover the image below to see the before and after effect. It may take a few seconds for the image to load when you first rollover the image. How to Make a Dark, Post-Apocalyptic City Illustration In this tutorial, we'll change a full of sunshine, ordinary photograph into a gloomy image of the world after destruction of mankind. Using simple tools, we'll turn lively streets into abandoned ruins overgrown with weeds. A number of stock images and a few little tricks will let us optimize our work and make this job more interesting and spectacular. So let's go! Photoshop resources : Brushes Create Pearl necklace or any other pearl jewelry with these brushes. The collection contains both free and premium pearl Photoshop brushes that you can use to stroke paths or to draw any shape. You can use the color white for the brush or any other light color tone. You might have to also add some extra layer styles to make the pearls more realistic. In one of my next tutorials I will show you how to use my pearls brushes pack to obtain the best results. The pearls can be combine with other jewelry materials like gold, silver, precious stones and gems.