Fantastic Photoshop Tutorials
Create Fantastic Stone Textures in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you a quick and easy way to make a realistic stone texture with the help of the Liquify Filter. This tutorial is written for users who have a basic understanding of the tools and techniques commonly used in Photoshop. Enjoy! ... Read More
Create a Fantastic Abstract Fan Poster
In this tutorial, we are going to get creative with layering, lighting, and texture to build fantastic abstract piece. More specifically, we’re going to employ some unusual techniques to make a fan poster for the band Omega Code, but you’ll quickly see many different applications for what is taught here. ... Read More
Create a Fantastic Environmental Awareness Composition
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a fantastic environmental awareness composition that fits a specific theme, namely the BP oil spill. ... Read More
Apply a Fantastic Lighting and Coloring Effect on Images with Photoshop CS5
Today I will be showing you how to take a stock image and turn it into a futuristic composition that uses various Photoshop techniques. We will be doing some work with Ellipse tool and implementing color and light effects to achieve the end result. If you are ready then start up Photoshop and let's get started. ... Read More
Create a Fantastic Landing Page for Your Next Product Using Photoshop
Let us start the week with another PSD tutorial here at 1stwebdesigner! We will create a Selling Product layout using Photoshop in a step-by-step manner. ... Read More
Fantastic Disintegration Effect inspired by Watchmen in Photoshop
Last week I went to the movies to see Watchmen, an amazing movie with beautiful special effects. However, one in special caught my attention. It was the Dr. Manhattan transformation, so I decided to create something inspired by that scene using Photoshop. In this tutorial I will show you how to create the disintegration effect using brushes and the blur f ... Read More
How to Create Super-Malleable Effects with Colorful Lines
These days colorful lines are one of the most malleable effects you can easily create in Photoshop. They simply fit everywhere and can look really awesome. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create these fantastic colorful effects using only Photoshop. I'll show you how to compose illustration with these effects. Let's get to it! ... Read More
Create fab 1980s type effects in Photoshop
The 1980s are back – their influence is currently everywhere, from fashion to music, and nowhere are they more visible than in digital art. Creatives are combining the trashy glamour of the decade with the fantastic toolsets of Photoshop and other creative tools, to come up with kitschy effects that raise a smile – at the same time as showing off technical s ... Read More
Develop a Dynamic Illustration for a Dance Motion in Photoshop
This tutorial shows how to create fantastic image poster in Photoshop. We will concentrate on masking and adjusting color parameters mainly. We will put parts of stocks to use in order to improvement defects and elaborate details. We will learn how to use blending mode of layers and how to use pen tool. We'll start with an image of some skyscrapers and ... Read More
Create a Dramatic Abstract Poster in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we will try to excite your creativity with simple layering, masking and texture to create, very easy, a fantastic abstract poster. The PSD file is available for download. ... Read More
Create a Thrilling Scene Using Cosmic Elements in Photoshop
For this post I prepared a very SF, apocalyptic but still pretty nice tutorial. Using the combination of retro colors, some realistic elements ( Pyramids, Planets, Aurora Borealis ) plus a feeling of emptiness and solitude, I tried to present a futuristic and fantastic image of cosmic proportion. I did my best to get you through all the steps of this tutoria ... Read More
Create a Fantasy Space-Age Light Angel Scene
In this tutorial you will create a beautiful fantasy landscape of an angel playing in the cosmos. You will learn how to manipulate simple stock images into a fantasy scene. You will learn skin retouching techniques, how to paint custom hair, blending, filtering and much more. You'll also apply a variety of custom lighting effects to create a bo ... Read More
Fantasy light effects in Photoshop
Fantasy art scenes are usually handled with a liberal sprinkling of Photoshop plug-in fairy dust but you don't have to slavishly follow that route. By creating your own brushes in Adobe Illustrator, and using scanned elements with Photoshop, it's a simple process to create otherworldly scenes that are alive with glow effects and shafts of ... Read More
Create a Sci-Fi Racing Driver Scene (Using Innovative Photoshop Techniques)
I love tutorials that go beyond the basics and teach some really innovative techniques. This tutorial is a perfect example of that. I've been using Photoshop for over a decade, and our resident author Dek Wid taught me a couple of really handy tricks in this lesson. Not only will you learn some fantastic ways to blend your images effectively, b ... Read More