Tutorials added on August 27, 2008

This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to design an interesting football wallpaper. It will go over techniques such as transforming images and applying some great lighting effects.

If you’re a Photoshop expert, you should probably spend your time reading the other posts in this blog, because this entry is dedicated to our clients and basically anyone who is not a professional in photography or design but would like to give their photos a better look, whether they are intended for their website, brochure or for the family album. Having a professional photographer take the photos for your new state-of-the-art website or brochure is highly recommended, because the quality of your photos will impact greatly the quality of the final product. A picture is the first element that draws the eye into a page (virtual or not), and the text message is usually secondary.

In photography, timing is everything. Light changes often throughout the day, with the early morning or late afternoon lighting giving landscape photographs a soft appearance, without the harsh light of midday but with the edge definition that makes photos “come alive”. However, when traveling, you cannot always view landmarks when the light is best, and you often have to settle for hazy view that never appears as well in a photo as you remember it. With Photoshop, however, you can clean up your landscape images and remove the blue tint from the atmosphere seen most during over long distances at mid day. Load the photograph you’d like to correct. In this situation, I’m using a photo taken at an 1800mm 35mm equivalent. That is a long lens. For comparison purposes, this photo was taken at 20mm with a Nikon D300.

This tutorial shows a couple of simple techniques you can use to enhance your portraits. I will focus on retouching the skin, the eyes, and the teeth (whitening). To follow this tutorial, you must already know some Photoshop basics: working with layers, making simple selections, and using basic tools.

This tutorial will walk you through how to create a grungy floating island, complete with a watercolor textured background. The tutorial focuses heavily on how layer blending modes can be combined to great effect.

This tutorial will teach you how to create your own polaroids and use them to display your photos in a creative, professional manner.

Learn how to create a melting ice text effect in Adobe Photoshop.

Learn how to create a complex photo montage using layers, filters and color correction tools in Adobe Photoshop.

If you’re a designer, the quality of your work must be paired with a reasonable amount of time for its completion. Working under tight deadlines and the competition on the market are just a few factors that should convince you that speed is important. And then, if you can do the same work in less time, it means you can use the gained time more effectively: for planning, for self-promotion or even for some fun! Use Shortcuts, Reuse your settings, Use actions, Use presets, Save room for changes, Organize your Layers palette,

In this tutorial I will show you a simple way to create a toxic smoke effect on your photo in Adobe Photoshop.

Learn how to create a cool logo using Layer Styles and other tools in Adobe Photoshop.

Manage your Digital Photography workflow using the "Batch" command, letting you easily save every open image as a JPEG to the folder of your specification in Adobe Photoshop.

Custom shapes combined with layer styles are a great way to enhance your photos and graphic designs. In this tutorial we'll take a look at using Photoshop's custom shapes to create layer effects.

Learn how to create a cool 3D mp3 player from scratch using only photoshop.

Simple and easy, this tutorial will show you how create an fireball on your hand in Adobe Photoshop.

Sometimes you can paint a really nice picture from a photograph, but it still seems to be lacking something. This tutorial will help give your Photoshop paintings a more painted look by making the borders look more like they have been hand painted.

In this tutorial we are going to practice some cool shaping and almost sculpting on planar surface using Adobe Photoshop CS 2. We will try to get as close as possible to 3D image values.

A brief overview of what can be done with 3D objects in Photoshop CS3 Extended, includes information on integration and textures.

Using the hyperfocal distance is a way of get the most objects in focus as possible. Ever wondered what those vertical lines were on the rear edge your classic lens, or underneath the distance window on newer lenses? Here’s a guide to what they are, and how they can come in handy.

Learn how to cast a ray of light on a photo collage in Adobe Photoshop. I'll show you how to create a light just by changing the channel.