Photo to Illustration Effect
Give your photos an illustration effect in only two steps. Also, add a realistic folded paper effect to the final image.
Enrique Flouret
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The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web
Oddly enough, whenever we try a new graphics application, we're drawn to applying the cheesiest effects to beautifully designed typefaces. These so-called text or type effects are guilty pleasures that most designers secretly enjoy experimenting with, but would never dare use in professional work. If you're...
Watercolor Text Painted on a Wet Paper
In this tutorial, we'll explore how to create a watercolor text effect. This technique makes text appear as if it's been painted onto damp paper, resulting in a distinctive and artistic look. The effect is not only simple to achieve but also produces impressive results that...
A Complete Guide to Digital Makeover in Photoshop
Fake images are all around us. Almost every fashion model or artist photo is digitally beautified prior to its public release. Sometimes this goes too far, and the photos are so heavily edited that they leave almost no traces of the original natural beauty of the subject being retouched. This...
Give Your Photos a Color Ink Sketch Effect
No matter how good the photos we take are, we always feel the urgent need to turn them into a drawing effect. The standard installation of Adobe Photoshop gives you a wide range of artistic plugins that have very specific names, but fail to deliver when used with the default...
Create a colorful Print-and-Play puzzle for your kids with Photoshop
I’m quite sure that many of you had the chance to try those wonderful Triazzle™ puzzles that are being sold at toys stores all over the country. Triazzle™ puzzles were invented by Dan Gilbert, a Graphic Artist, Product Designer and founder of the Dan Gilbert Art Group, after a...
Add a third dimension to your photos: 3D Plugins for Photoshop
Rumor has it that Photoshop CS3 will offer some 3D capabilities. There is no official list of features, but it seems that you will be able to open most popular 3D objects formats (objects, not scenes though…) and presumably, have access to thier color and texture properties. But as of...
Quick and Easy way to create Glowing Lights Photoshop Brushes
This time, I'll commit myself to tech you a nice illustration technique in a few steps, rather than my usual detailed explanations. This tutorial explains how to create glowing lights brushes using the Lens Flare filter included in the default installation of Adobe Photoshop. This technique is amazingly...
Programming Photoshop Plugins
Finding resources that explain how to program a Photoshop plugin is a extremely difficult task. Why? Just because there is little information on the web. You may ask yourself "Is that possible?" Well, most people agree that creating an Adobe Photoshop plugin is a gold mine business due...
Creating Paper Folds and Creases in Photoshop
It is very common to find tutorials about making page curls. Many of those tutorials are great, but the final effect is very unrealistic, not because of the quality of the tutorial, but due to the 3d nature of the effect. Creases and folds are more subtle, instead. They can...
Creating a Wet and Muddy Rocks Texture with Filter Forge Photoshop plugin
Filter Forge is an incredibly powerful Photoshop Plugin. It’s simply amazing. It gives you the power to create your own filters (you must run them from inside Filter Forge though) without any programming knowledge at all. Some technical knowledge about procedural textures and image processing helps a lot but...
Rendering a map using relief shading technique in Photoshop
For those who never heard about it, Relief Shading is a cartography rendering technique where a three dimensional appearance is given to the topography of a map. The execution of this technique is quite complex and it is usually achieved using special map rendering software. Despite of that, many articles...
Building a Lego Bricks Photoshop Brushes set
Creating virtual Lego models on your Mac or PC is easier than ever with various software options available. These applications utilize detailed Lego part data in the form of 3D objects, allowing you to construct intricate Lego scenes or even generate instruction booklets for your creations. For added creativity, some...