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50 Imaginative Fantasy Art Tutorials for Photoshop :Speckyboy Design Magazine

Natural imagination is the key to creating Fantasy art. It could be a depiction of a magical and mysterious scene, a mythical or supernatural fairy, or even a horrendous blood soaked fiend. Whatever the ingredients of the fantasy scene are, the results are always the same, beautiful, mysterious and thought provoking. Fantasy Landscape Photo Manipulation Magic and Special Light Effects Fantasy Style Castle Scene Out of Bounds Fantasy Illustration Fantasy Illustration in Photoshop Fantasy Creature in a Misty Landscape Nature-Fantasy Composition with 3d Text and Light Effects Create a Fantasy Scene with Death Fantastic Fantasy Night Sky Fantasy Digital Matte Painting Digitally Paint a Fantasy Tree Scene Creating a Fantasy Scene Beautiful Lonely Fantasy Fairy Fantasy Flower Creature Fantasy “Mother Nature” Scene Fantasy Art Work Fantasy Art Tutorial – Moon Stone Magic Fantasy Art Creating your own Fairytale Scene Stunning Dragons Attack Fantasy Photo Manipulation Mysterious Lightning Nightly Prayer Dark Scenery

28 Impressive Pop Art Inspired Photoshop Tutorials :Speckyboy Design Magazine Pop Art is a style of modern art that focuses its attention on well known images of popular culture such as from advertising, film, billboards, comic strips and even supermarket packaging. With the proper use of color and images, a sprinkle of humor and a bucket load of talent, the pop-art effect can be really impressive. Below you will find a selection of tutorials that will help you create your pop-art vision. Pop Art Inspired Fashion Illustration PS Tutorial Wicked-Worn Vintage Pop Art Design PS Tutorial Andy-Warhol-Up Your Photographs PS Tutorial Pop Art Inspired by Lichtenstein PS Tutorial Pop Art – Photo Effects PS Tutorial Pop Art Comic PS Tutorial Turning a Photo into Lichtenstein Style Pop Art PS Tutorial Pop Art Portrait PS Tutorial Retro Pop Art PS Tutorial Pop Art Style Poster with Urban City Background PS Tutorial Pop Art Part 1 PS Tutorial Creating Pop Art PS Tutorial Beckham Photo Pop Art PS Tutorial Abstract Retro-Pop Wallpaper PS Tutorial How to make a photo into Pop Art PS Tutorial

41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects [Photoshop Tutorials] Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur photographer. As long as you picked up a couple of Photoshop photo editing skills, it will still impress those who sees it. So the next time you want to publish some photos online, consider editing them so they look more impressive. Mental Wave Explosion EffectHow to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto’s ability with Peter Petrelli’s power.

40 Extravagant Surreal and Fantasy Scenes Photoshop Tutorials I always stated that Photo Effects and Text Effects were the most popular Photoshop topics around. When I decided to create this list I thought that I’d have a hard time to find tutorials with a reasonable quality. Well, that was not the case. In my way I found Mysterious woods inhabited with magical fairies, dragons and mythical creatures flying on fantasy night skies, magic crystal balls, hats and other objects hidden in strange houses. Surreal and Fantasy Scenes Photoshop Tutorials Create a Green Planet Galaxy Angel Create an Out of Bounds Fantasy Illustration Creating a Fantasy Scene Combine Photo Elements to Create a Surreal Scene Creating a Forest Magical Scene Create a Fantasy Illustration in Photoshop Dark Surreal Illustration in Photoshop Creating a Touching Story Scene in Photoshop Surreal Landscape Photo Manipulation Create a Magical Golden Winged Boot Create a Fantasy Animal Photo Montage Create an Unreal Underwater Scene in Photoshop How to Create a Sparkling Photo Manipulation

25 Cool Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials Published on Mon, Aug-10-2009 by Dainis With Photoshop Photo effects you can modify your usual image to professional and interesting photo artwork. Designers and amateurs, who wants to become designer love Photoshop tutorials that can help to learn new techniques and tricks and give them new skills to design more interesting and amazing artworks. In Web you can find hundreds of Photoshop photo effects and it is hard to find best of all. For you we collect best 25 newest Photoshop photo effects that will help you create amazing photos. You May Be Interested In The Following Posts Creating an Abstract Watercolor Wallpaper There are plenty of ways to create a Watercolor Effect in Photoshop. Creative Photoshop Animal King Photo Manipulation Tutorial In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to mash up a series of photos in a highly creative poster based on a famous painting from the 1800’s. Impressive Photo Effect How to Create a Sparkling Fantasy Photo Manipulation Glamour model

Compositing in Adobe Photoshop: Time-Saving Tips Advertisement Compositing is a skill and process that spans the entire spectrum of creative industries. At the high end, compositing boasts its own specialized profession in film and television post production and visual effects. Dedicated software such as NUKE and Shake have taken the craft to powerful levels of its own, leaving behind the relatively basic compositing toolset of Adobe Photoshop. In this article, I’ll share some of my own time-saving tips for compositing in Photoshop. Tip 1: Matching Tones, Channel by Channel One of the challenges we face when compositing is matching the colors and tones of various images to produce a realistic and convincing composite. 1These are the three images we will composite together In the following example, we will composite three people into one shot and address the differences in lighting, tone and color balance. 2Masked images placed on background In the above image, I have masked out the images and placed them together on a background. 1. 2.

30 Artistic and Creative Photoshop Poster Tutorials :Speckyboy Design Magazine Although posters as a concept have been used for many centuries, in traditional art years, poster design is a relatively new. It has only been in the last 100 years that poster design has been elevated and recognized as an art-form, and has gained the kind of popularity that no other design category can rival. Below we have rounded-up the our favorite Photoshop Poster Design Tutorials, ranging from, movie posters, adverts and events in a variety of styles. Design a Vintage Film Poster Intense Movie Poster Trendy Galactic Poster Create B-Movie Poster Art Vintage Horror Movie Poster Design a Quick Perfume Ad Kill Bill Poster Vintage Horror Movie Poster Sleek Nature Themed Phone Advert Celebrate the Passing of Spring Recreating The Dark Knight Poster Create a ‘Neo-Constructivist’ Poster Create A Ripping And Tearing Poster Effect Space Invaders Poster Retro Boxing Poster Texture Based Vintage TV Poster Illustration with Floating Floral Elements Vintage Radio Poster Abstract Watercolor Soul Rebel Poster r

40 The Best Photoshop Tutorials For Stunning Photo Effects Published on Wed, May-09-2012 by Dainis Photoshop is a digital imaging application of the most widely recommended by the graphic designers. This is because these programs have many advantages with the various tools that exist when compared with similar applications. In addition there are also some features that are fairly complete, ease of use, and also compatibility with some special digital imaging plug-in. With so many tools available in Photoshop application allows you to be creative to produce work of high art and artistic. Some applications that exist in Photoshop is capable of producing various kinds of image effects, photo manipulation, image abstract design, 3D, and several other design features with a very satisfactory quality. You May Be Interested In The Following Posts Photoshop Tutorial: How To Create A Fantasy Flower Creature In this fantasy tutorial, we are going to create a cool flower creature. Fantastic Tree Have you ever seen Tree God in some fantasy movies? Fruit Bulb

Design an Epic Fantasy Scene with Photoshop In this tutorial we are going to create a photo manipulation inspired by Valhalla, one of Mariusz Karasiewicz`s works. He is an amazing artist and his work is absolutly stunning. I want to thank him for allowing me to write this tutorial. Final Result Note from Editor: This tutorial, while well explained, is intended for more experienced Photoshop users. If you’re new to Photoshop, please consider trying out School of Photoshop and other Photoshop Tutorials first! Materials Needed: Step 1: Create a new document Go to File > New (Ctrl+N) to create a new canvas. Step 2: Large Gothic Doorway Open in Photoshop the Large Gothic Doorway image and use the Move Tool (V) to drag it into the document you are working in. Step 3: Apply the Sharpen Filter To apply the sharpen filter, go to Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen. Step 4: Select the gate Now we need to cut the floor and everything that is behind the gate. Step 5: Put the selection in a new layer Step 6: Add the clouds Step 7: Create a Clipping Mask

Designshard I’ve selected various Photoshop tutorials that I’m liking at the moment for light effects, some have quite cool techniques on how to achieve the end result that can be applied to a million different designs (try and experiment with them), check them out below. You might also enjoy: Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper Windows Vista Aurora Effect Design a Vibrant Blackberry Inspired Ad NoPattern “Jumper” Effect Mysterious Lighting Effect How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks Creating a Mac-Type Background Luminescent Lines Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect Abstract Dust And Spray Effect Make a dreamy abstract background Digital Bokeh effect Abstract Lines Background Abstract Light Rays Drawing an Abstract Lightbulb How to create 3D abstract circles Comments Do you have any favourite tutorials that you have seen for light effects?

Create a Funky Urban-Inspired Scene in Photoshop As an artist, I am always listening to, and being inspired by, music. I wanted to do a tutorial that pays tribute to this art form for what it has contributed to our culture. In this tutorial, we are going to create a colorful scene inspired by breakdancing and the urban lifestyle. Preview Click the image below to see its full size. Tutorial Resources Step 1: Preparing the Breakdancer Once we’ve opened up Photoshop, we are going to download and open our breakdancer stock image (purchased from Bigstock). After opening the image in Photoshop, we want to remove the background so that we have the dancer isolated on a transparent background. Instead, I would recommend using either the Pen Tool (P) to trace around the subject or a layer mask where you can simply brush out the areas you want to get rid of. Once you have removed the background, save the image (Cmd/Ctrl + S). Take your time when making selections and isolating your images — the details are important. Step 2: Preparing the Boom Box

The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009 :Speckyboy Design Magazine On Monday past we published the post 49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009, a collection of the best artistic tutorials for Photoshop from this year. As a follow up to that post, today we have The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009, a collection of diverse and unique effects and type treatments that will add a little extra to your next design. Add Fantastic Color to 3D Text Create Smoke Text Create a Metal Piece with a Graved Text Impressive-Looking Text Effect Water Text Effect (No longer available) Furry Text in Photoshop Sparkling Text Wallpaper Deep Grunge Text Effect Cool Wet Ink Typography Effect Create A Floral Colorful Solid Text Effect Stunning Detailed Typography Create a Bright Floral Text Effect Create a Frilly 2009 Typo Realistic Scorching Fire Effect Retro Text Effect in Photoshop Create Remarkable 3D Text Aqua Text Effect Create a Steam Powered Typographic Treatment 3D Type Explosion Create an Ice Text Effect Grungy Rusted Carbon Fiber Text Effect Create Eroded Metal Text

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