High-quality vector world maps are rare to find and creating one is difficult because of the details. So here’s something that I found that can be helpful in case you need to include a map in your design. Vector World Map Background (1280 x 1024, 933KB zip file), a creation by PSDBlast, is a light [...]
Photographers have always been charmed by the imagery depicted in Red Riding Hood’s tale. In this tutorial, you will learn how to recreate Red Riding Hood’s fantasy world through photo manipulation, which features working with non-destructive techniques such as using adjustment layers and blending options to create an illusion of depth. Using selection tools is [...]
I found another beautiful brush pack that would definitely add a burst of color and dimension to your graphic and web design projects. These brushes are also great for designing cards, flyers, and other printed material. Webdesignerlab’s Kaleidoscope Brushes was the result of experiments based on the flare tool in Illustrator. The brush pack features [...]
In this Photoshop tutorial by Roofi Sardar, you will learn how to convert a photo into a color pencil sketch using different tools in Adobe Photoshop. Your initial image will appear in black and white. But at the end of the tutorial, you’ll return the original colors to your photo, only with the new effect. You [...]
Clipping masks, as you can see, cloaks the image to the opaque pixels of the bottommost layers. Mr. Jaspal Dhilon shares a video tutorial where you can create interesting effects on your images using the clipping mask. You will also use some tools such as Custom Shapes Tool, Text Tool and a Stroke Tool which [...]
Black-and-white prints are often used by photographers as an effective way of creating drama with varying grayscale tones to emphasize contrasting features such as dark eyes and light skin, or different textures and tones to create prints with impact. With the welcome addition of Adjustment Layers in Photoshop CS6, which is also available in Photoshop CS3-CS5, [...]
In photography, working with a fog machine can add an interesting element to your photos but it is not always an easy task to do. If it’s warm outside, the smoke will rise and dissipate quickly. Instead, you can build something called a chill box that will give you more control on releasing the smoke. Jay P. Morgan [...]
Italian digital artist Alberto Seveso’s TUTORIAL will show you how to achieve a similar effect to the above image using Adobe Photoshop CS6 with mask and Layer Effects. In this tutorial, you will be creating different brushes of different sizes to make your image more dynamic. Apply the Layer Mask to edit the areas of [...]
Photographers record a greater range of tonal detail than a camera could capture in a single photo through HDR (high dynamic range) images because sometimes cameras, by their basic-machine-nature, are very good at capturing images, lines, shadows, shapes but they are not good at capturing a scene the way the mind remembers and maps it. [...]
A cinematic-style shot is fundamentally one that looks as a frame that was taken from a movie — a shot that simulates the feeling of a bigger story behind it. Some people place black bars above and below their pictures to give effect to feel more cinematic. But the cinematic style is not just about [...]
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