Backgrounds Photoshop Tutorials

How to Clean up Your Photo Backgrounds in Photoshop

In retouching you see this quite frequently, whether you're using seamless paper, vinyl, a fabric hanging or a purpose built infinity cove, it's going to get dirty. You have a couple of options, one is to check out some reviews on Amazon for handheld vacuum cleaners and have your assistant scoot around with it between shots. The other more ... Read More

Creating Your Own Organic Textured Backgrounds

So two of the questions that I received most are, how I created the background texture on alifelski.com and also if people could outright take elements from my site and simply place them on theirs. With that, I would like to show everyone how I created my background in hopes that people will get inspired and create textured backgrounds of their own. ... Read More

How to turn wooden textures in awesome grunge backgrounds

After worked in the market of stock resources for a while, I’ve noticed that people love grunge textures. So In this brief tutorial I’ll show you some tricks that will allow you to transform a wooden texture in a unique grunge background. ... Read More

Sky And Clouds Tutorial

Tutorial How to Make Variety Sky and Cloud Tutorial Including Morning , Sunset and Night. Click DOWNLOAD for better resolution.

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Credit to the Owner. I am using CS5 Version of Phot ... Read More

Photoshop Paper Texture from Scratch then Create a Grungy Web Design with it!

This year has seen a big increase in grungey / textured / hand-drawn styled website designs. By nature I tend to design a cleaner look myself, but I thought I'd try my hand at grunge today and write up a tutorial on creating a simple paper texture from scratch in Photoshop then marrying it with a web layout to create a neat design. Then later this we ... Read More

Create an awesome background using patterns

This tutorial will show you how to create some flawless patterns, which we will use to create some amazing backgrounds that you can use for your desktop, websites, posters…whatever you want. The great thing about patterns is that once you get comfortable with them, they can be an important part of your Photoshop arsenal. Enjoy! ... Read More

Handy Techniques for Cutting Out Hair in Photoshop

When trimming out images in Photoshop, human hair or animal fur always proves troublesome and can be tricky to achieve a realistic look. Here are two techniques I use on images with both plain backgrounds, and those with a varied background tones, each achieving pretty decent end results. The best photos are those professional studio type shots that are t ... Read More

Stylish Light Effect in Photoshop

One of the most popular tutorials I have writen is the Sparkling Hot Girl in Photoshop. It was a very straightforward technique on how to create some nice light effects mixed with a hot girl. Everything over a dark background. Since then I have received emails asking me how to create light effects over white or light backgrounds. So I decided to try some ide ... Read More

Creating Seamless Textures from Photos in Photoshop

In this quick, but very useful tutorial I will teach you how to create a seamless texture from any stock photo or image. This can be very useful when creating repeatable backgrounds for your websites background, or for your 3D modeling projects. ... Read More

Design a Textured Coming Soon Web Page in Photoshop

This web design tutorial will show you how to make a simple coming soon web page that has a nice background texture and a slick web form that you can easily adapt into contact forms, newsletter signup pages, and more. You will witness several web design techniques such as creating textured backgrounds, creating light rays, making illustrative clouds, and mor ... Read More

How to Create Bamboo in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to draw semi-realistic bamboo in Adobe Photoshop perfect for textures and backgrounds. ... Read More

Create A Wallpaper With Beauty Models And Abstract Elements

In this article I will show you how to create simple and nice looking abstract artworks using a model, some abstract elements and your own created objects. You will learn how to use blend modes to create nice light effects and how to create abstract shapes and backgrounds.

Create a Custom iOS 7 Style Blur Background in Photoshop

Learn how to create a iOS 7 Style Blur Background from a photo or image using a few basic steps to upgrade and add a nice blurry feel on all your devices backgrounds.