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How to Draw a Skull
What You’ll Learn in This Skull Drawing Tutorial 1. How to Draw the Base for a Human Skull Drawing Step 1 Let’s begin this skull drawing step-by-step tutorial by drawing a circle. It doesn’t need to be perfect, and feel free to draw it with many lines. Find its center, too. You’ll be able to refine your skull sketch later on. Step 2 Draw a line under the circle, using the length of its radius. Step 3 Divide this line into three sections. Skull drawing is easy once you mark the placement of the different features. Step 4 Create a skull outline for the jaw by drawing a square “bucket” under…
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How to Create Particle Effects in Photoshop (With Photoshop Action Examples!)
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create particle effects in Photoshop. I will explain everything in so much detail that everyone can create it, even those who have just opened Photoshop for the first time. What You’ll Need To recreate the design above, you will need the following resources: 1. How to Start Creating an Action First, open the photo that you want to work with. To open your photo, go to File > Open, choose your photo, and click Open. Now, before we get started, just check a couple of things: 2. How to Select the Subject Step 1 In this section, we are going to make…
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How to Turn a Photo Into Art by Creating a Painting Photoshop Action
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to turn a photo into art. I will explain everything in so much detail that everyone can create the effect, even those who have just opened Photoshop for the first time. What You’ll Need To recreate the design above, you will need the following resources: 1. How to Start Creating an Action Step 1 First, open the photo that you want to work with. To open your photo, go to File > Open, choose your photo, and click Open. Now, before we get started, just check a couple of things: Step 2 If you have changed the image size in the previous…
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How to Create a Haunted Portrait Effect in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating Have you ever wanted to remove a person’s face? Maybe throw some worms in it? I am going to guess yes since you found your way here! Because today, we will be creating a portrait photo effect fit for a haunted mansion or spooky abandoned house. What You’ll Need You’ll need the following resources in order to complete this project: Find more resources on Envato Elements! 1. How to Create a Dark and Grungy Color Grade First, I want to start everything off by setting up our color grade. In most cases, I save this for last, but given that it changes the image pretty significantly I am…
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An Introduction to Adobe Fresco and How It Compares to Procreate
What You’ll Be Creating Has Procreate met its match? Fresco, Adobe’s new drawing program for iPad, is here—how does it compare to Procreate or Photoshop? Is it a worthwhile competitor, or something you should pass up? Here’s an overview, first impressions, and some comparisons for your consideration. 1. A Tour of Adobe Fresco First Impressions My first impression of Adobe Fresco was generally optimistic. I really enjoy many of the “out the box” brushes. I spent some time just casually sketching, and it did feel really natural and comfortable. I wanted Fresco to be an awesome application that I fell in love with. So… how did my first date with Fresco…
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How to Create a Kaleidoscope Effect in Adobe Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating As we continue with our series on effects inspired by music videos, one of the effects I’ve always been fascinated with was the kaleidoscope mirror effect. The best examples of this effect can be seen in the visually rich Pillow Talk video by Zayn. Check it out at 1:20, 1:55, 2:26, and 3:12. 1. Create the Pattern The scripted fill is extremely useful for this type of effect, but it has to use a predefined pattern to work. Patterns that are not square tend to work best, so we will start out by extracting a musical artist from the background and creating a pattern to use. Step…
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How to Add Realistic Falling Snow to a Photo in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating Falling snowflakes are a great way to make your winter photography much more interesting. Sometimes the weather doesn’t cooperate, however, and you have to turn to Photoshop to get the job done. In this tutorial, I will explain how to create a realistic falling snow effect in Photoshop and show you how to apply it to your images. Tutorial Assets You will need the following photo to complete this tutorial. 1. Change the Sky Step 1 Open your base image in Photoshop. The first step in your editing process should be to create a backup of your base layer so you can always go back to it if something…
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How to Create a Photoshop Sepia Effect Action
What You’ll Be Creating In the old days of black-and-white photography, people used different methods to give different tones to their photos, leading to different photo effects. For example, if you used ink from the sepia cuttlefish, you were able to make the tones warmer, while making the photo more durable. How to Create a Photoshop Sepia Effect Action Step 1 Open your photo (I used this one). Make sure it’s on the Background layer. If it’s not, go to Layer > New > Background from Layer. Step 2 Open the Actions panel and create a New Action. Name it Sepia Effect. Step 3 Add a Gradient Map adjustment. Step 4 Edit the gradient, adding the following colors in the…
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Introduction to Photoshop Layer Styles
Photoshop layer styles are a popular way to add effects, such as drop shadows and strokes, to layers in a non-destructive way. With the right knowledge and experience, any effect can be achieved. Whether it’s a Photoshop metal layer style, a Photoshop glass layer style, a Photoshop cartoon layer style, or even a Photoshop gold layer style, you can quickly bring your artwork to the next level in a matter of minutes. To achieve these effects, however, you need to understand what each setting does and how they can be combined to achieve a certain look. From working with different layer styles in Photoshop to how to add a layer…
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How to Create a Light Particles Photoshop Brush
What You’ll Be Creating Welcome to How to Create Light Particles Photoshop Brush! In this tutorial, you will learn the step-by-step process of how to create a particle effect using Photoshop brushes. 1. How to Set Up a New Project File Step 1 Let’s get started by setting up a New Document in Adobe Photoshop (File > New or Control-N). For this tutorial, we will use the settings below: Step 2 Download a background image from Envato Elements or use your own image. For this tutorial, we will use a photo called ‘Path through misty haunted woods’. Step 3 Open the background image in Photoshop (File > Open and then navigate to the file location on your hard…