Professional Image Enhancing Photoshop Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop is the premier tool for digital artists when it comes to professionally enhancing images. Whether you’re a beginner just learning the ropes or an advanced user looking for unique techniques to add to your Photoshop arsenal, you’ll find some tutorials here that you’ll surely want to bookmark.

50+ Amazing Realisitic Photo manipulations

Creative Photo manipulations is the key to a successful advertisement campaign. For those of us who have tried mixing two or more photographs together to get the perfect blend in the environment, know that this ain’t a simple job, not as simple as it looks. Blending different elements and matching the contrast and vibrancy between several images to form a single convincing image requires a very diverse skill set and a true understanding of creativity.

Simulate original pictures as model photography

Using the power of Adobe Photoshop, you can take existing photographs of everyday scenes, like aerial views of cities and make it look as if they’re actually miniature models. It doesn’t take much time and effort to fool the mind of the viewer, but there are a few basic rules you can follow to help convince your audience that they’re looking at a model set rather than the actual world. Lets get to business!

Inspiration #4 : Abstraction to Reality

After 10 years working as a graffti artist, Doucin Pierre’s interest in digital techniques was sparked when he tried his and at producing fyers and began winning poster competitions. Pierre’s prior experience in painting and photography has enabled him to develop his digital design style very quickly, and his work focuses on both the movement and fragmentation of subjects. He now works as a freelance graphic designer and is the artistic director of Factory 311 (London).

Create the Mac OS X leopard wallpaper

Whenever Apple comes up with a new product, they also make sure that new dimensions of creativity is also enlightened upon us. It is such a pleasure to design wallpapers relating to Apple products. In this tutorial, we will be doing the Mac OS X (Leopard) campaign wallpaper which was introduced at the WWDC 2007.

Create a Shiny Earth with Photoshop 3D layers

Photoshop CS4 Extended has been here for quite some time and we have obviously not noticed the 3D rendering tool it boasts,….. UNTIL NOW!

For some reason, the 3D applications of Photoshop aren’t often explored(this is because the “3D” part in Photoshop is intended to be used by movie and animation artists, but it’s amazing what you can do with them once you know how to dig in. Eren Goksel, (a premier graphic artist and a lecturer in Anadolu University) is going to show us how to exploit the 3D tool in Photoshop CS4.

Create a slow motion bullet shot effect

This may be one of the best and the biggest ever tutorial I have ever come across on the web. It is simply brilliant. The attention given to details in the image are impeccable. When I first saw the image, i simply thought it was a work on art in 3DS max or the likes, but was quite frankly, staggered to notice that this was entirely done in Photoshop. This tutorial definitely is a must for everyone, regardless of whether you are a designer or not.

Create a Flaming Nike Logo

We have seen several text effects and image manipulations over time. In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to create a promotional Ad for one of the biggest sports giant there is… NIKE. There are quite a good collection of artists aroud the globe who design exemplary posters and ads for these brands (Nike, Adidas, Puma etc.). The least we can do is seek inspiration from their work. Nike has always been a trend setter in the Sports world, manufacturing eye catching sports wear, not to mention the ads they use to promote their brand, has always been a motivational factor for us to buy their merchandise.

How to create a potrait typography in easy steps

Typography is not just about choosing a nice font face and how to manipulate it to get, “out of the world” effects, it’s also about how we arrange the types in the layout choosing the right size, weight and type of font to transmit the message in the easiest and more understandable way and as always, in a unique manner. Now, imagine some designers take that to a next step, mixing typography with portraits. There are several such portrait typography images that we can see in advertisements and posters. Now I am going to teach you how to start off doing a typo-portrait in simple steps. Finishing to job requires much more than photoshop skills and techniques. You need to have patience and a quirky imagination. So lets start off.

Famous Logo tutorials in Photoshop

We have seen several amazing looking logos in the web and around us. Have you ever wondered about creating such famous logos with the same quality and distinction as they possess. Well, in this post, I have searched the web and congregated the best logo tutorials. With the help of these amazing photoshop tutorials you will get an insight into how professional logos are designed as well as improving your photoshop skills.