Photoshop: Page 37

There is no sound, but this tutorial shows you very clearly how easy it is to turn a photo into a sketch using Photoshop.

This tutorial shows you how to create a simple tentacle effect in Photoshop. If you're good, you'll try animating it next!

In this tutorial you will learn how to take a high resolution background image and increase the color intensity and give it a surreal effect using Photoshop CS2.

For all kinds of 3D material channels, it sometimes benefits the project to have a small, tileable image that will fill the surface of the object without an obvious seam. Of course, a tileable image will show the duplication if the instance shows up enough times. The trick is to avoid any hard lines where the image might change dramatically as it tiles across the face of the 3D object. Here's one method to avoid those nasty straight seams. (In two parts).

This short beginner's video series shows you how to make a GIF animation in Photoshop. Learn about setting up your work space, doing simple transformations and doing effects animations.

In this tutorial, Bert will show you quickly how to use a bunch of different layers to create a ray gun shooting and exploding it's target. It will help if you already have some Photoshop knowledge for this one.

In this tutorial you will learn how to make realistic looking neon tubes. The most popular use is of course, for neon signs, but feel free to branch out and get creative. It will be helpful if you have some previous Photoshop experience to follow this video.

In this tutorial, Bert will create diamonds using the filters in Photoshop. The key to this project, is learning how small changes in positioning and filter values, will create completely different looks.

It's been called the "Sin City" effect, and a myriad of other names, but really all you're doing is adding selected color to black and white photos or comic-type images. See how Bert suggests achieving this effect in his tutorial.

Bert demonstrates how to pull things and objects out of an image using Photoshop's Extract Tool.

The universal solvent takes center stage as Bert demonstrates how to create realistic looking water droplets and explains how in imaging it is important to study reality in order to re-create it.

Bert uses examples to explain the difference between layer masks and alpha channels. Both work the same way, but for a totally different purpose.

Photoshop's Warp command transforms layers into a predefined shape. Bert Monroy used it on the glasses in Lunch in Tiberon, here he types the word "Digg" and demonstrates many of the effects you can create with it.

Outer glow? It's all about manipulating Photoshop layers independently from the layer they are attached to. Bert revisits the creation of "Lunch in Tiburon" and shows you how to use an often ignored feature in layer styles.

One of the great things about Photoshop is the ability to fake perspective and make things look 3-dimensional. In this tutorial Bert goes over using perspective and vanishing points.

You don't always need a fancy program like Shake or After Effects to do basic compositing. In this tutorial Bert shows you how to composite using Photoshop.

This tutorial shows you how to use the vanishing point filter to easily move images around and automatically have them adjust to the proper size and angle.

In this Photoshop tutorial you'll learn how to make interlocking patterns with perfect symmetry, for example holes cut into metal or reptile skin. Of course, the key to this is the interaction with light.

In this tutorial you are going to learn how to create the illusion of depth that is necessary for 3D text. This would be useful for creating a 3D sign like something you'd see above a building.

This "glow swirl" effect is doable via drawing a flashlight really fast at night and then taking snapshots of its path (we used to draw fun doodles and write our names in "glow" lighting with our roommates in college). However, since such night snapshots are hard to capture on camera, Photoshop can do you for you instead in far less time.

Pimp my text!! We've all seen those car and videogame ads with the pimped out chromed text effect. Guess what? You don't need to go out and pay professional designers thousands of dollars for it. All you need to invest is about 10 minutes and watch this episode of Pixel Perfect and see how easy it is to get that nice shiney sparkly chrome effect.

The brush engine was developed back in Photoshop 7 (before CS) and is what makes Photoshop a true painting program and revolutionized the way Photoshop works. In the longest episode of PixelPerfect yet, Bert explains and demonstrates the inner workings of the brush engine. This is a great tutorial for those that are new to Photoshop.

HOT!! HOT!! HOT!! This episode is smoking hot. By popular demand, Bert works his magic and shows us how to create fire. It is not quite as simple as lighting a match, but as Bert demonstrates, it is not too much more complicated than that.

Your name may not be forever minted in stone or gold for all of posterity to gaze at, but you can certainly bling up your family name by making your own name plaque using Photoshop. This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to put your name - or whatever word you want - in a shiny golden/wooden plaque with a brass plate. You'll be using filters as well as several other tools.

Banners are beautiful advertising and decor pieces that you can use on your website, blog, or even on printed materials (because those still do exist). Check out this Photoshop tutorial to learn how to create a lovely golden banner that flows back on itself and has believable lighting. Ripples add to the realistic nature of this banner.

It might take Einstein to help explain the complex physics of bending light, but when it comes to bending pixels, it is an art commonly referred to in Photoshop as displacement. Displacement can let you use the lumonosity values of one image to bend the pixels of another; a "relativity" of sorts. Bert explains how this all works in this episode.

The vanishing plug-in is one of the best new features in Adobe CS3. This videos shows the power you can unleash by using this photoshop plug-in.

Translate the color you see in a real life object to a piece of digital art. Explore methods for picking out highlights, midtones, and shadows, and replicating them in Photoshop.

Learn to change the color of someone's eyes to almost anything in a still image in this Photoshop CS2 tutorial.

Learn to smooth someone's face out in Photoshop. Remove blemishes, freckles and more from a still image! This is a very common use for Photoshop but it's usually important in film and photography to make your subject look their best.

Creating a soft fade around your favorite photo adds a lovely touch. Learn how to make a vignette effect in Photoshop Elements.

Want to put a heart frame on your pictures but don't know how? This wonderful video teaches you how to do it using Photoshop. Watch now to learn its easy and simple steps.

Sometimes you need to add things to your photographs and scanned documents. Usually we add text and that's cool. However, in this tutorial we'll go beyond text and learn the differences between shape layers, paths and pixel filled shapes.

The Clone Stamp Tool has been a long time favorite for most Photoshop users. However, trying to remove something that is on an angle or a different perspective is often challenging. In this video, Terry White will show you that by using the Vanishing Point feature you can remove images and add images with ease.

Need to spice up your images? Use Image Warp to wrap logos and other objects around your artwork/photos. In this video you'll see how to do it quickly and easily.

We all know how great Photoshop CS2's Photomerge feature can be for creating large panoramic scenes. However, in this video you'll learn how you can take advantage of this feature to scan photos larger than what your scanner can handle. In this tutorial Terry White will put together an old 16"x20" high school class composite with my 8.5"x11" scanner!

Terry White found an old faded, torn, scratched dusty photo in my grandmother's house and while most would have just pitched it, he decided to see if he could resurrect it in Adobe Photoshop CS2. While the end result was not perfect (still a work in progress), it's a million times better than it was and is now in a presentable condition.

This is a tutorial on how to make a crosshair in Adobe Photoshop CS3. It's a great video that explains every step and even shows you how to get make sure you have them saved in the right space to access for your next computer game session. It will help if you have some basic knowledge of Photoshop.

This video shows you how to use the 3D Object tool in Photoshop CS3 Extended. You'll learn how to import a 3D model, use the 3D tool to transform it, manage appearance settings such as render mode, and manage cross-section settings. Check out this video created by Photoshop expert, Ashley Manning Still now!

This video shows you how to edit textures of 3D objects and how to apply layer style effects to them using Photoshop CS3. This is a great video for anyone that has to work with alot of 3D models in their compositions.