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How to Create a Glowing Winter Night Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Adobe Photoshop to create a fantasy photo manipulation featuring a winter night with glowing lanterns. 1. How to Build the Base Scene Step 1 Create a new 3000 x 1900 px document in Photoshop with the given settings: Step 2 Open the winter landscape image and drag it into the white canvas using the Move Tool (V). Use the Free Transform Tool (Control-T) to scale the image down to fit the size of the canvas. Convert this layer to a Smart Object. Step 3 Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set the Radius to 6 px. On the Filter Mask, activate the Brush Tool (B) and select a soft…
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How to Make a Photoshop Action to Create a Photo Art Effect
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to make Photoshop actions to create your own photo effects. I will show you how to transform any photo into art with Photoshop effects and how to keep these photo art effects editable using smart filters, which has the property of adding image effects to layers in a non-destructive way. So now it’s time to learn, and you’ll soon be able to create your first photo effect Photoshop actions. Tutorial Assets The following asset was used during this tutorial: 1. Choosing and Preparing a Good Photo Step 1 First, you need to find the right photo for the effect you want. Not every photo…
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How to Create a Wintry Deer Portrait Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating With every changing season, beautiful, fantastical creatures come alive. So in today’s tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a wintry, deer-inspired photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop. 1. How to Build the Deer Portrait First things first, we need to build this deer character from scratch. Step 1 Set up a New Document in Photoshop at 2034 x 2708 pixels. Then Copy and Paste the Woman Portrait onto a New Layer. Step 2 Now let’s remove the tan background so we can add a wintry scene behind her. Some areas around the hair will still need some fine tuning. So use a Hard Round Brush (100% Opacity, 80-100% Hardness) to mask away the remaining parts of the background that are…
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How to Make a Photoshop Action to Add a Dramatic Effect to Photos
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a Photoshop action to add a dramatic effect to a photo 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. 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…
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How to Create a Vintage Photo Effect in a Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Style
What You’ll Be Creating This week is dedicated to Russian culture, so I would like to introduce you to the artworks of the famous Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. He made a large number of color photographs of the early 20th century using his three-image method of photography. Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial: 1. How to Prepare the Document Step 1 Use Control-N to create a new document and use the following settings: 3000 x 2000 px; 300 dpi. Step 2 Go to File > Place and put your image inside the document. Step 3 Resize your image to the borders of the document and hit Enter. Step 4 Click M to activate the Rectangular Marquee Tool and select…
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How to Create a Fun Filter Photo Effect Action in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create cool Photoshop actions by making a filter photo effect in Adobe Photoshop. I will explain everything in so much detail that anyone can create this 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 Now we…
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How to Make a Stellar Photo Effect With a Star Brush in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating Do you wish you could make fun photo filters just like Snapchat’s? Well, today, we’ll learn how to make a star-inspired photo effect from scratch, using simple tools in Adobe Photoshop. Tutorial Assets The following assets were used in the production of this tutorial. 1. How to Create a Star Brush in Adobe Photoshop Step 1 First, create the star brush. Open a New Document in Photoshop. Then select the Custom Shape Tool (U). Select the Star option from the drop down menu and create a large, black star. Step 2 To turn this new shape into a Photoshop brush, select the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) and create a selection around the star. Then go to Edit…
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How to Create a Cool 3D Comic Text Effect in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn a quick way to make a 3D text effect in Adobe Photoshop. We will use layer styles and a filter to add a comic book look to it. Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during this tutorial: 1. How to Create and Customize the Text Layer Step 1 For this text effect, we will use a cartoon style background. Start your Adobe Photoshop and instead of creating a new document, open background.jpg from the tutorial assets. Step 2 Use your Type Tool (T) and write the word “COOL” on your artboard using the Montserrat Medium font, with a size of 212 pt. Then, on a new layer,…
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How to Use Layer Masks in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating Photoshop masks are one of the most basic and important tools to learn. Photoshop masks add tons of advantages to your workflow that will help you achieve some of the best photo effects. What You Will Need You’ll need access to Adobe Photoshop; if you don’t have the software, you can download a trial from the Adobe website. You’ll also need: Download the assets, and when you are ready, we can dive in! 1. How to Add a Layer Mask to Images Step 1 Open the Happy smiling sporty young woman image in Photoshop. Step 2 On the Layers panel, you have the Background layer locked. Head to the bottom of the panel and click…
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How to Create an Editable Animated RGB Glitch Effect in Adobe Photoshop
Tutorial Assets To follow this tutorial, we are going to use the following resources: 1. How to Add Images as a Smart Layer Step 1 Make a New Document with the size 450 px x 700 px. Click the OK button. It is essential to set its Color Mode to RGB Color. Step 2 In this tutorial we are going to add a glitch to a free photo from Pixabay. Copy and then Paste the photo onto the blank canvas. Depending on the image dimensions, you may need to resize it. Step 3 Name the layer image. Right-click the layer and then select Convert to Smart Object. It is important to convert the base image into a smart object to retain the image quality and to help us easily…