Today I’m featuring a cool design tutorial that I’ve found, which can be very useful in designing prints such as posters, brochures, flyers, etc. This tutorial is by the guys at Adobe Tutorialz and they show you how to create a colorful abstract photo manipulation using Photoshop CS5.

Some of the basic Photo Manipulation techniques are used like blending and layer masking. Photoshop Tools to use are as follows: Paint Bucket Tool, Filter, Noise, Add Noise, Blending mode, Layer mask, Filter, Render, Clouds, Pen Tool, Magic Wand Tool, Magnetic Lasso, Fliter>Extract, Soft Round brush, Brush Tool, Gradient Overlay, Ellipse Tool, Opacity settings, Layers panel, Curves, Create new fill or adjustment layer, clipping mask, Hard Round Brush, Free Transform, Gradient editor, Shapes Layer> drawing mode.

Check out the step-by-step tutorial by clicking on the image.

Hope this helps you get inspired for your next design project.

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