Shadows Photoshop Tutorials
Correcting Exposure with the Shadows & Highlights Tool
Today we’re going to take a look at an incredibly useful, amazing tool: the Shadow/Highlight adjustment. Often when taking pictures, it’s difficult, sometimes impossible, to get perfect exposure on everything within the frame. Especially shooting outdoors with a bright sun and shadows on the landscape you’re bound to over—or under-expose parts of your sho ... Read More
Create realistic shadows and light effects
I'd like to show you how to work with perspectives so I'll make an introduction to the Vanishing Point and especially how to compose stock images so that they look naturally lit, in other words how to combine stock images without them looking weird as far as lighting is concerned.
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Quick Grungy Poster
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a sort of grunge poster. We will learn how to make some elements look a bit dirty, create textures, and add some depths to the elements using shadows and blend modes. ... Read More
How To Create a Stunning Vista Inspired Menu
This tutorial will show you how to make a semi-transparent Vista-inspired menu using gradients, shadows, and blurring to produce a stunning modern effect. ... Read More
Lighting a Giant Elephant
A technique for matching the lighting between a subject and its background. Matching the Light If you're like me, every now and then you find yourself needing to insert a subject image into a background where the lighting between the two doesn't quite match. Your subject image may be flatly lit, while your background contains crisp shadows and ... Read More
How to Create a Steampunk Style Illustration in Photoshop
Go simultaneously backward and forward in time with this Steampunk tutorial. The main focus, aside from the style of course, is fusing elements from different sources together to create a cohesive whole. There are many tricks to this end and we shall be looking at light sources, shadows, and image grading. ... Read More
How to Create an Eye Catching Digital Illustration
In this tutorial, we are going to teach you how to use simple elements at your disposal and combine them to create an eye catching digital illustration. We will work through techniques like lighting placement, clipping masks, shadows and more. If you want to improve your Illustration skills and composition then this tutorial is for you. ... Read More
How to design a funny Monkey T-Shirt illustration
Today I gonna show you how to create a nice monkey illustration and how to apply it on a t-shirt of the set. We will use Photoshop tools to modify stock images and work with shadows and color contrasts. Then we will switch to Illustrator to create the vector monkey. ... Read More
Create a Dark Grunge 3D Text Scene in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, you are going to learn how to create some 3D text using only Photoshop. The mood we will strive to incorporate in our piece is dark and grungy. We are going to use consistent lighting, layer styles to create shadows for our type, Photoshop filters, and more. We will finish off our scene by adding a dark textured background that se ... Read More
How To Create The Green Business Layout
This Tutorial about Photoshop will be useful to help you to create an incredible ecological and design Template. Follow it step by step to discover unique technics you can use in Photoshop: creations of shadows, buttons, carousels and more. ... Read More
Photo Manipulation - Dont leave me
Welcome to another PSD Box tutorial. In this tutorial I will show you how to turn a free stock image into a beautiful manipulation. You will learn how to manipulate light and how to create beautiful realistic shadows. ... Read More
Sleeping Girl in Tub Photo Manipulation
In this Photoshop tutorial, we are going to learn how to seamlessly combine photos to create a realistic image of a girl sleeping in a bathtub on a beautiful field while the sun sets. We are going to learn how to use the Brush tool to create light and shadows and how to make the colors of an image more vivid. ... Read More
How to Illustrate a Realistic Guitar Using Photoshop
In this tutorial we’re going to explore how easy it is to illustrate a guitar in Photoshop using tiny shapes, gradients and subtle shadows. Using these techniques and a good reference photo you can create an amazing amount of detail and realism. ... Read More
New tricks for vector portraits
In this tutorial, Spanish artist Daniel Caballero explains how he creates his vector artworks from photo references in Photoshop. He details how he combines elements from different sources, and adds in graphic elements to create a detailed illustration, including tattoos, clothing, shadows and lighting. You'll learn to use the Photoshop's ... Read More
Fairytale Fantasy Effects
In this tutorial I'll show you how to make color changes using Selective Color, how to edit layer masks non destructively and how to use the Apply Image and mask shadows to control the amount of light that goes through a layer mask.
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How to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation with Fire
Learn, how to make this fantasy, warm photomanipulation from free stock images. You will know, how to combine background in your photomanipulation, then you will make shadows and lights, then you will create special effects like particles or glows.
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Create a Dark, Mysterious Photo Manipulation
Today's tutorial will walk you through some essential manipulation, blending and colour matching techniques. In this lesson I'll show you how you can convert a forest into a dark, foggy, ominous scene. You'll learn how to work with shadows, lighting, adjustment layers, layer masks, dodge & burning and much more.
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Laboratory Glassware Letters. Realistic glass text effect.
Learn how to create realistic glass text effect by using very simple tools and techniques such as layer style effects and blending modes. This Adobe Photoshop tutorial teaches how to apply transparent glossy texture to the letter shape, how to fill out laboratory glassware letter with the realistic liquid, water bubbles and steam. Also you may learn ... Read More
Create a Dark, Emotional Deer Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
Learn how to create a dark, emotional deer photo manipulation in Photoshop. In this tutorial you’ll learn how you can combine different stock images into a cohesive scene to create a magical and emotional forest scene for deer. You’ll also learn how you can practice adjustments layers, masking, creating light effects and shadows ... Read More