Painting and Drawing Skin with Photoshop

July 26th, 2008

This tutorial will deal with the topic of painting skin.

As with any subject, it is important to gather as many references as possible before starting. Skin is yet another element that varies greatly, hence the importance of research. Read the rest of this entry »

Painting Fire and Smoke in Photoshop

June 9th, 2008

This month sees us tackling the subject of fire and smoke, another rather tricky element to deal with. The main problem with this topic is that both fire and smoke are very ethereal in essence and have no tangible form and can be neither touched nor examined. As they do not have any real volume to speak of it is hard to set any concrete rules as to how they should look. Read the rest of this entry »

Painting Rock and Stone in Photoshop

May 7th, 2008

We are going to learn how to paint your own pictures of awesome looking rock and stone scenes

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Complete Photo Manipulation

March 10th, 2008

We are going to do a Manipulation together. I did this one a few months ago and is still one of my favorites. We will work on a 600 x 800 pixels canvas. You can simply redo this photo manipulation with me, but I advice you to make another photo manipulation in the same time.

Doing this, you’ll learn more, believe me when I say this. Read the rest of this entry »

Aqua Water Effect

August 7th, 2007

Here’s a few simple steps to simulate ocean or water texture using Photoshop CS ‘Fibres’ filter combined with the ‘Liquefy Filter’ and various Blend Mode and Adjustment Layers.

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Skin Softening

August 2nd, 2007

This tutorial will teach you how to soften skin to touch up photos. It uses a subtle technique to mildly change the skin tone to make a better over all picture.

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Blend textures onto faces

July 28th, 2007

After the feedback I got from the last “skin mod” tutorial, I decided to go into more detail with this one. It took me a long time to write this so I hope you appreciate it. There is a completed PSD file to download at the end of the tutorial.

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Create God like eyes

July 26th, 2007

Create God like eyes from a simple eye photo.

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Learn how to Zombify people

July 22nd, 2007

Learn how to zombify people, to create stunning zombie like effects!

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Turn a PSD into a website

July 17th, 2007

Turning a PSD into a website using image ready and Dreamweaver

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