Photoshop tutorials by tutsplus

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	How to Place a Fantasy Creature in a Misty Landscape This time I've got for you a photo manipulation tutorial. We'll grab several photos and create this fantasy mock-up of an unreal creature. We'll learn several non-destructive techniques, apply photo filters to adjust the lighting, and of course a little bit of the creative process involved on this piece. Let's get to it! Visits: 371
	How to Simulate Fractals in Photoshop Have you ever seen those outstanding fractal images with a lot of swirls and colors? Some of those were build simulating fractals or repeating shapes, where each shape is a reduced part of the whole, others were build mathematically. In this tutorial, we'll create a stylized fractal design using only Photoshop. Visits: 6269
	How to Turn Humdrum Photos Into Cinematic Portraits There are a plethora of ways to treat a portrait for a myriad of uses, but that is for another feature. Let's tackle adding drama or a cinematic quality to a regular, humdrum portrait. Let's even throw in a little bit of faking HDR. That way if you work on a project that requires a stunning shot without the stunning photography, you'll be able to cobble something together using your mad skillz! Visits: 719
	How to Use Content Aware Scaling in Photoshop CS4 The latest version of Photoshop CS4 offers a variety of new features that save time and work. One of them is the newly added Content-Aware-Scaling feature, which automatically preserves important areas like people, buildings, objects, as you resize your images. It saves you a lot of time, since there's no time-consuming cropping and retouching required anymore. How and why you should use this? That's what we'll cover in this tutorial! Visits: 226
	How to Use Texture and Lighting to Create Rounded Artwork Using stock photography is not always necessary or desired, but we can reference images of real objects to learn techniques for perspective and lighting. In this tutorial, we will be creating an abstract orb. In order to get the highlights, shadows, and perspective as accurate as possible we will study real images to create our own interpretation. Visits: 1055
	Illustration with floating foral elements In this tutorial, we will be working to create an interesting Poster-size illustration with floral elements. This tutorial is inspired by a suggestion from Zach on our Tutorials Suggestions/Request page. He wanted to know how one would create a design like the floral element in the Version App header. I've taken a look at that, added a few of my own ideas, and run with it to create a cool poster design. Visits: 783
	Integrate a 3D render into a Photoshop composition After looking through different pictures of old Roman culture, I was inspired to create this design I call "Hail Caesar." I will instruct you on how to create this whole design including creating your own C4D render in Maxon C4D. Very simple techniques that all newcomers to Photoshop can understand will translate into an amazing design. So get inspired, open Photoshop and lets get started! Visits: 351
	It's Time to Create a Neo-Constructivist Poster with Photoshop Constructivist graphic design is often associated with communist politics and propaganda, but it's more than that, Constructivism is about using bright colors, playing with lightness, perspective, geometrical forms, besides photomontage techniques and digital collage. This time I'll dare to name this tutorial a 'Neo-Constructivist' design. It's time to get started! Visits: 855
	Make a Cut and Paste Rock Club Flyer There are many ways to montage stuff together and many applications for the style. Whether editorial art, artwork for bands or, as we'll be looking at, a promotional flyer. We'll look at creative use of scanning and montage techniques to create an atmospheric flyer design based on one I did for a Rock night at a club. As with any design it's best to sketch out a rough layout so you know where the text is going. Please note this tutorial covers the creation of the graphics and not the text as well. Visits: 2086
	Make a Floating in Air USB Key Illustration In Drawing by Eren G�ksel In this tutorial, I'll show you how to illustrate a USB key floating in the air and reflecting on a surface. We'll be adding numerous details that will make this illustration shine. Notice how the PSDTUTS name reflects off the floor in the illustration. These are the little details that add a degree of realism to your work. Visits: 586