Animated Movie-Clip Avatars Adobe Photoshop / Animation
The simplest way to create animated avatars from movie clips. We can't help you pick the best subject for your creations, unfortunately, but we can definitely give a few handy hints to keep the file sizes down and the quality as high as possible.
Cleaning Scanned Lineart Adobe Photoshop / Getting Started
Cleaning up scanned artwok is fraught with problems, extending from finding the perfect color mix to working out ideal levels of sharpness. The technique detailed in this tutorial will not act as a cure-all but it does detail a method of cleaning up.
Understanding Levels Adobe Photoshop / Getting Started
Far from being voodoo, however, manipulating levels is a very powerful way to quickly improve an image's tonal range and color balance without losing fine detail control. In this theory-based tutorial you will learn how to interpret levels, understanding the way they work, and come to an understanding of how mastery of Levels functionality will make you a superior-level Photoshop user.
Extracting Hair Adobe Photoshop / Getting Started
Removing characters from their backgrounds is rarely as easy as using the 'extract' tool, especially when hair or fur is involved. This tutorial details an simple yet devious workaround for times when you need to mask out hair/fur.
Digital Censorship Adobe Photoshop / Photo Retouch
Done something a little bit disgraceful and want to blur out your face from the offending images without destroying the pictures themselves, you'll want to learn this simple censorship effect. The results are quick, easy, and resemble something from a reality cop show.
Grunge Rubber Stamp Adobe Photoshop / Text Effects
The aim of this tutorial is to describe a simple method to create grunge brushes, and to detail how these brushes can be used to reproduce realism in our rubber-stamped logos.
Sky Writing Adobe Photoshop / Text Effects
This tutorial details a simple techniqe to create text with a shadow that conforms to the structure of undulating clouds behind it.
Dreamy Vibrancy Adobe Photoshop / Photo Effects
If movies and TV shows are to be believed, dreams often incorporate a certain degree of glowy vibrant colour, clearly differentiating the dream/vision from real life happenings. We can easily reproduce this effect in Photoshop using a couple of filters and a careful eye for color.
Soft-Edged Cel-Shading Adobe Photoshop / Photo Effects
If you want to bypass all the hard work, and make a basic cel-shaded image for a quick illustration at a pre-defined resolution, then this simple photo-based technique may be far more useful to you then a fully-fledged vector graphic.
Hard-Edged Cel-Shading Adobe Photoshop / Photo Effects
A very simple technique for creating images with cartoon-style effects using nothing more than a photograph and the basic Photoshop tools. The end result is as impressive as it is simple.
Sudden Seasonal Change Adobe Photoshop / Photo Effects
If you love pictures of icy winter landscapes, but really can't stand sitting out in the cold for hours on end watching your hand freeze to your camera, you might want to learn these little-known techniques for plunging any summer scene into deep winter. All you need are a high-resolution photograph, Photoshop, and nice warm fingers.
Steam & Vapor Adobe Photoshop / Photo Effects
Unlike their hard-edged counterparts, steam has an almost ethereal quality which can be hard to replicate, and even more difficult to blend seamlessly into your images. With the following technique, however, you will learn a simple method for creating realistic steam using nothing except Photoshop's in-built filters and your own internal attention to detail.