What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to make Photoshop portrait actions to create your own Matrix effects. What You’ll Need To recreate the design above, you will need the following portrait photo: 1. How to Add a Pattern and Brush to Photoshop Step 1 Go to Edit > Presets > Preset Manager… In the Preset Manager window, select Preset Type: Patterns and click Load… Browse and select the Matrix.pat file that came with the downloadable attachment. Then, click Done. Step 2 Go to Edit > Presets > Preset Manager… In the Preset Manager window, select Preset Type: Brushes and click Load… Browse and select the Matrix.abr file that came with the downloadable attachment. Then, click Done. 2. How to Set Up Your Document Step 1 First, open…

What You’ll Be Creating The Ñ letter is representative of the Spanish language. It is estimated that more than 437 million people speak Spanish as a native language, which qualifies it as second on the list of languages by number of native speakers. Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial: Note: To install, you have to double-click the icons. It’s that simple. 1. How to Create the Background Step 1 Create a new document (File > New). Step 2 Duplicate the background (go to Layer > Duplicate Layer > OK) and rename the new layer “Background Pattern“. Step 3 Now we are going to add a texture to the background…

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a sandstorm Photoshop action to add amazing special effects to your photos. 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 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 Now go to Window…

What You’ll Be Creating Creating good, dependable, seamless selections in Adobe Photoshop can be excruciatingly slow and difficult. However, the program has entire toolsets devoted to making this task better, faster, and easier.  1. How to Create the Selections The selection techniques here will work on any image, but to follow along with the retouching steps, you will need to download this image: Step 1 The first selection is of the luminous values of the image. Creating this selection is fundamental to this technique as the other selections are all based on this one.  As important as this is, there’s no menu or tool to be found to create it. It’s almost like…

What You’ll Be Creating Mermaids come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through drawing and painting a colorful mermaid in Adobe Photoshop.  1. How to Create the Sketch Step 1 We’ll start by creating a New Document. This can be found via File and then New. There are a lot of options here (enough for an entire tutorial on its own!), but for the purpose of this tutorial, I’m going to draw at 8 inches wide by 10 inches tall. I’m also working at 300 dpi. Once you’re happy with your choices, select OK.  Step 2 Before we start drawing, let’s make sure we’ve prepared our document properly. There are two important things I like…

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an action in Photoshop. We are going to create a fog effect Photoshop action to add amazing fog photo effects to your photos. 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 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,…

What You’ll Be Creating Photoshop actions really help when we need something done quickly and accurately, turning hours of work into a simple click or two. We can create color effects for pictures just like this tutorial and apply the same effect to any other image in seconds. That is what I love about Photoshop actions, and that is why I like to teach you how to create them. Tutorial Asset The following asset was used during this tutorial: 1. How to Create the Action Step 1 Open your image in Photoshop. I will use an image of an old 20s car that I resized to 2000 x 2997 px. I recommend using an image of a similar size. Before…

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an amazing photo drawing effect in Adobe Photoshop. I will explain everything in so much detail that anyone 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. Let’s Get Started 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 Create the Background Step 1 In this section, we are going to…