Tutorials added on October 23, 2008

This tutorial will show u how easily to apply the dreamy effect to a photo, even if your picture is pixelated and of a low quality,

In this Photoshop tutorial, we're going to look at how to recreate the same color and motion blur effect used in the movie poster for the biggest action movie of the 2007 summer, the Bourne Ultimatum. We'll be using Photoshop's Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to colorize the image using a color I've sampled directly from the poster itself. To create the motion blur, we'll be using Photoshop's classic Motion Blur filter, and we'll be finishing off the effect with a couple of layer masks to bring back just a hint of the flesh tones from the original image, as well as to remove the blur effect from the main subject. To complete this Photoshop tutorial, you'll need a photo of Matt Damon walking towards you looking a little upset about something and carrying a gun. If you don't happen to have a photo like that (and hopefully you don't), any photo of someone walking towards you on the street will do.

In this tutorial, we will create Dreamy Mystical Photo Effect.

Grunge, dirty, gritty, slimy, rusty, shattered, dripping, torn, worn, and whatever you think that you may frown upon in real life, is an awesome resource for creativity. An incredible amount of photo effects, text effects, brushes and textures are available for free access on the web. This list is a compilation of sixty grunge and distressed effects resources for Adobe Photoshop. Go and get your hands dirty with them!

No matter how good the photos we take are, we always feel the urgent need to turn them into a drawing effect. The standard installation of Adobe Photoshop gives you a wide range of artistic plugins that have very specific names, but fail to deliver when used with the default settings. That’s the case of the Graphic Pen plugin. The resulting image is far from acceptable. Perhaps it looked good, many years ago, when it was part of the revolutionary Artistic Effects collection published by the now defunct, Aldus Software. But now, with the vast amount of artistic effects plugins and applications (such as Gertrudis Pro, the best one in my opinion), you should have to find a way to make the most of those plugins. In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Photocopy and Sharpen More filters, and the Overlay blending mode to archieve colored ink drawings.

Combine lineart with a photo adobe photoshop tutorial. For this tutorial you need Photoshop and my DitherFREE plugin. If you use Mac OS X see the notes at the end.

In this tutorial, we will create Dreamy Sparkling Photo Effect.

This tutorial is to help you learn how to create the illusion of motion blur as easily as possible using masks and filters. This technique works great with pretty much any kind of sports photo.

This tutorial's purpose is to make an imitation of real painting, made using semi dry brushes.

About nine years ago, when I started The Photoshop Roadmap, tutorials were all about special effects. In fact, no matter how ugly, any kind of effect was well received, because designers and artists were starting to discover the Web as an invaluable source of inspiration. As time went by, the need for more complex, better looking and usable effects began to prevail. Tutorials writers replied with a new wave of awesome, eye catching well designed tutorials with loads of cool ideas inside them. For this article, I collected perhaps the newest trend in tutorials: Dreamy, magical and lighting photo effects.

In this tutorial, I use this stock and my photoshop cs2.

In this tutorial, we will create Light In The Forest Photo Effect.

Is your desktop boring ? So, you want to make it look better ? I have the same thought, so I am going to help you how to make it more attractive. There are several ways to do, but I choose the dreamy style for the first one. I also uploaded the brush and materials for you guys.

In this tutorial, we will create Dancing In The Dark Photo Effect.

This quick tutorial will show how to add a really cool dreamy or misty effect to your photos. This tutorial works best with nature related images. The best thing about canon digital cameras that gives them a class above all other digital cameras is the quality of the image and the satisfaction factor. Yes, accessories like camera case giving the status of security cameras too swings an opinion.

The night shooting usually takes place on a long exposure that is why all the moving luminous objects leave very evident lines and flames. Let’s try making some experiments with a luminous Ferris wheel. We’ll need in this case the Radial Blur filter and some of experience working with layer masks.

This lesson we’ll try to get an unusual visual effect by creating selections with Color Range.

In this tutorial we propose a technique to transform a photo into a high detail colored pencils drawing. It is particularly useful for architectural illustrations or for still life images.

Here's simple 'Texture/Pattern' affect to make your photos look like a puzzle using the below image.

Considered difficult to master, actions are often overlooked by most Photoshop users. It’s true that actions are not as simple to use as layer styles or even as Photoshop plugins, and that the concept of automation has always be beyond the scope of most users. But if you take a closer look at Photoshop actions, you will find that they are easy to understand and can help you automate your hard work, such as applying a series of repetitive changes to a group of images, for example. An action no more than a recording of a series of tasks performed in Photoshop. Once created, you can apply that action on an image or a series of images. You can even make an action to create an image from scratch. The following list is a gallery of free special, color, photo and text effects actions ready to download an use in Photoshop. Although these Photoshop Actions are free, please read the terms of use in each download page.