Tutorials added on October 23, 2008

In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily 'fake' depth of field in Photoshop, rather than with your camera itself. While there are other methods which may be used to create this effect, mine will only work in Photoshop CS and higher.

Computer Arts regular Christian Darkin reveals an easy way to create an impressive, complex-looking illustration from a grid of hundreds of smaller images, without giving Photoshop a seizure In this tutorial we’ll be dealing with images in which a sequence of tiny thumbnails appear to form a larger image. They’ve been around for a while now and have perhaps become a little hackneyed, but it’s still possible to use the technique as part of a more developed picture. The difficulty with this type of image is that the creation of the thumbnails requires either specialised software or a lot of tedious messing about in Photoshop. This means that experimenting to get just the right effect can be tricky and takes time. Here, I’ve almost automated the process by using a video-editing package (in this case Premiere Elements) to quickly produce 400 thumbnails, and then used Photoshop’s Contact Sheet tool to arrange them into a single image. The advantage of this method is that whereas most similar images are created from a small number of original thumbnails, which get repeated, every still frame in our shot will be different. In addition, because the thumbnails are created from a series of video frames, it’s also possible to add a narrative theme to the image, with the shots telling a coherent story. So let’s get started.

Create your own ancient greek painting. Make a border like you see on Greek vases and match your portrait with the border.

If you like Hockney, you'll love this. Do you ever look up at the sky, a towering office building, or an expansive landscape and wish your photos could capture everything you can see with your eyes? We do. Our pal Mareen does this neat thing she calls panography. Taking dozens of photos of a scene, she assembles a patchwork of images that more accurately represents what your eyes see when you're not looking through a viewfinder. Call it super wide-angle panorama or call it panography, we think it's awesome. Panographies are wide-angle pictures composed of several individual photos manually stitched together. When these component photos are assembled, they give the impression one would get standing in one place, looking around and unconsciously putting the pictures together in one's head.

This tutorial will show you how to turn a Photo into a painting that resembles something you would see on on of those old English Tea cans or on china Dinner sets.

Learn how to use Photoshop to create selectively add a dramatic sepia effect a photo. This Photoshop effect works best when used with Photoshop CS3 but will also work with Photoshop CS2 or older using an alternative method.

The character Nino in Jean Pierre Jeunet's film Le Fabuleux destin d'Am?lie Poulain collects torn and discarded pictures from the photo booths at Paris train stations. He carefully pieces these pictures together in a bizarre "family album." It is this style of fragmented imagery that will be the inspiration for this week's graphics tip. To get ready, scan in a portrait shot and fire up Photoshop. Here we go, but be warned — this is going to be a long process.

You ever get really close to your TV? Like, REALLY close? So close you could see the red, blue, and green squares that made up the image on your screen? So close that if your Grandma saw you, you get yelled at for hours about being too close to the TV? I know I have a few times. So let’s recreate that effect.

For this photo-art tutorial, we have chosen a rather difficult subject, the portrait of a beautiful woman, to put to the test the combinations of Photoshop tools and filters in creating a digital painting in the classical style of Madame X by John Singer Sergent. The file size is 3.9 megapixels.

Make a portrait in Van Gogh style, with a modern touch.

Vector art is REALLY popular at the moment. Everyone is making vector art. It's not hard to do and you don't need to be able to draw to create it. Be warned though, vector art does take a lot of time and patience. Especially if you want to create OUTSTANDING art. In this tutorial I hope to shed some light on how to make vector art and more importantly how to make really great vector art with Adobe Photoshop.

Modern cinematography is usually all about crisp images with high resolutions in millions of colors, but it wasn't always that way. In the early days of film, black and white was the best that you could get, and fuzzy hair-corruptable media was all that most impoverished film-makers could afford. In many ways we are much better off nowadays, but if you still hark back for times gone by, there is a very easy way to convert virtually any photograph into an image that looks like a frame from an old movie. Here's how...

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how to simulate the look of infrared photography in Photoshop. We'll be taking a look at Photoshop's Channels palette and seeing how to isolate a color channel as well as how to apply filters to color channels, we'll be using adjustment layers, specifically the Channel Mixer adjustment layer to adjust how much impact each individual channel has on the image, we'll be using a few different layer blend modes, adding some noise, and at the end, seeing how to bring some of the color from the original image back into the effect.

Create a cracked wall photo effect in a few minutes. This effect has an old wall feel to it with a beautiful weathered face painting.

This will be a short and simple tutorial for photo edit. I try this during my lunch time yesterday and find it is quite interesting. So, I wish to share with you guys too. This is best for those who like photo with glow effect or a little fantasy effects. Well, check this out.

Create a superb multi-colored photo effect using a stock DJ photo. Below is a before and after picture of what we're going to accomplish with this Photoshop tutorial, note that this is not the original width of the picture.

Follow this Photoshop tutorial to add a contemporary frosted pixel overlay to your photos.

There are several different techniques for creating stencils with Adobe Photoshop. In this tutorial we will look at using Threshold to make stencils. Part B of this tutorial explains how you can then print your own original t-shirts with your stencil art. I couldn't even begin to explain how addictive printing t-shirts becomes!

am going to show you an alternative to lightening your photographs. This technique will add depth to your lighting and emphisis to your subject. a pro touch to your montages and collages.

Another demonstration of some nice retouching work, weirdly set to the same music as the last video, that's obviously *the* choice for Photoshop Retouching Video Makers.