In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto's ability with Peter Petrelli's power. We will use images and filters to produce this wave explosion effect. Even though it may look like a difficult tutorial, it's really not that hard.

Right time to go into Photoshop and create a "simple" moody image using loads of simple effects to create an image with depth and composition. This is simpler than you think but can demand a lot from your system. You will be switching between Illustrator, Photoshop, Painter and throwing a few hand rendered elements in just for good measure so put the kettle on, sit back and get ready to begin!

Although doing an X-Ray image is possible since Photoshop has layer blending options, the workflow shown here uses Raw files, and features available since CS2. But you can ignore them and just do the X-Ray with simple JPGs if you prefer. To get this result, we needed lots of photos; I shot them myself. I picked up an old Nikon compact camera, which I can completely destroy without fear. Be forewarned: after doing this, it's likely that your device won't function any more!

In this tutorial, you need to find a nice photo. This stock photo is found in the website Stock Exchange. For this tutorial you will learn some photoshop techniques to create a energy sphere effect.

In this tutorial, I'm going to show how to create one smokin' woman using a couple source pics, and just a few of the features associated with Phoenix. So follow along and I'll try to share a few secrets into some of the magic, without the smoke and mirrors. Well, maybe a little smoke.

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to take a photo and make it look like an oil painting, which is a popular and fun thing to do with Photoshop. Problem is, creating the effect requires the use of a few different filters and memorizing the settings for each one, which isn't fun, and it's also a little time consuming, meaning it takes more than five seconds.

Lighting effects are a versatile set of techniques that have recently come back into vogue in advertising and the fashion press. Lights and tracing motion effects can become part of the composition, adding brightness and motion to an image. In this tutorial, I’m going to look at (among other things) ways of bringing originality to digital lighting by introducing and vectoring traditional sketches, as well as examining some nifty Illustrator-based stroking techniques that achieve results with the greatest of ease.

In this tutorial, it will display the process about how to turn a beauty into a Zombie. In the final part, using overlay, soft light and color burn layers and soft red and black brushes to add more shadow and bloody parts. I've made a mini-tutorial to show you how I chopped Mandy Moore into a Zombie a while ago.

In this Photoshop photo effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to easily add a rainbow, even a double rainbow, to a photo. Of course, as with most photo effects, it helps if you start with the right type of image. In this case, a photo taken outdoors is a good place to start. If it happens to be a landscape photo taken after a rain storm, even better.

In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a Custom Brush using a folded piece of paper and then how to use that brush to create an old piece of paper. To begin with, a plain white piece of paper will be taken, folded it in fours and left it in my pocket for a few hours. Next you need to scan the paper using the Grayscale setting on my scanner.

This will show how to create the glowing lady of the lake from my image AVALON. The LADY in colour. We find our lady source and cut her out using the tools you feel comfortable with. Duplicate the lady and erase everything but her jewelry on the top layer, which we will turn invisible for now.

This tutorial will explain how I created the lighting effects I used in the making of Secret Pond.

In this tutorial, it will show you how to create an Explosion effect in a photo. It will let you know how to create a break apart, explosion effect and add some awesome lighting and glow to finish the image off.

The requests for Fantasy Art tutorials are enormous, I still get emails and Pms from people asking to do more Fantasy Art tuts, so here is one more, called "Plasma" (Star, not the TV!) which I hope you'd enjoy.

Other titles I thought of for this Photoshop fire tutorial were “Burning Down the House”, “The Roof Is On Fire”, and “Fire! Fire! Fire”, but then I realized how cliche that would be. I obtained my house photo from PhotoSpin.com.

Are you getting bored by your hair colour or do you want a dramatic makeover in your photographs in just few minutes......then this tutorial is just the thing for you.

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. Speaking of stormy weather - recently, in my hometown of Manchester, NH (Southside REPRESENT) , we experienced some major floodwaters. It was nuts - Hectic farm animals everywhere...I must have seen at least 45 cows engaged in what appeared to be a strange game of Twister in a nearby Swamp field. Anyway, being the moron that I am, I defied all weathermen state-wide (damn yooz!) and took a journey down to a nearby troubled river and snapped some crAzy pics.

Half robot, half frog. In this tutorial, I am going to show how I took a regular frog and opened him up to reveal a mechanical skeleton. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you some of the steps I took in making this image.

With some simple brushing techniques, and a bit of color tweaking, you can spice up your photos with this flaming hair tutorial. That should do it. Add an overall yellow hue to your final image and put on your shades!

A couple of subscribers left their comment on a previous post that collated a range of inspiring graphic artwork from digital artists across the world. The commentors asked how the light stream effect on some of the pieces was created. I did a little research and picked up a couple of tips from similar tutorials to present a walkthrough on how to create intense light streaks flowing around an object or person.