Human Scarecrow – Photo Manipulation Tutorial

Hi welcome to yet another digital art tutorial on PSD Box. In this tutorial I will show you how I made this dark manipulation. The original idea of this artwork is by Taborda from DA. I changed it slightly so that it’s not exactly as the original artwork. For this tutorial you must know: how to use the Pen Tool to extract subjects from the background, how to use adjustment layers and how work with blend modes. It’s a medium difficulty tutorial. Enjoy.

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20 Beautiful Photoshop Montage Tutorials

Photomontage is a technique widely used by graphic designers and consists of cutting and joining multiple photographs in order to create a unique image, using graphic applications such as Photoshop.

The idea here is to create the illusion that all of the photo elements are parts of the same photo.

In this article, we’ll look at 20 beautiful Photoshop montage tutorials that teach you step by step how to create these amazing photo composites.

Follow these tutorials and mix them up. The possibilities are endless and the results can really stretch anyone’s imagination.

1. Surreal Photo Manipulation

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Design A Old Style Photo Effect using Photoshop

Today I am going to show you a useful tutorial. In this tutorial you can learn how to create old style photo effect with interesting accent. So let’s have a try…

At first you need to find some appropriate picture for our tutorial. Actually you can find pictures in Google search or use this picture. Open our original picture and apply Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation with next presets to change hue and saturation:

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Create a Fantastic Abstract Fan Poster

In this tutorial, we are going to get creative with layering, lighting, and texture to build fantastic abstract piece. More specifically, we’re going to employ some unusual techniques to make a fan poster for the band Omega Code, but you’ll quickly see many different applications for what is taught here.

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Typographic Wallpaper in photoshop

After writing my previous tutorial here about Creating a Zune in Photoshop, several viewers asked if I’d share how I created the wallpaper graphic. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make something similar, and it’s quite easy!

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Dance Photo Manipulation Part 1

I wanted to write a tutorial showing how to reproduce some of the really common elements, regularly found in graphic design these days, almost cliche elements. In doing so you’ll produce a stunning piece of art. This will be a two part tutorial and part two will be up within the next few weeks. This is a useful tutorial for users of all levels.

INTRODUCTION

This two part tutorial will be showing how to create some really cool elements for a photo-manipulation. We’ll start with an image of a person and use lots of useful techniques to transform it into a really interesting image that will stand out. Below is a preview of what we’ll create over these two parts. When you’re fineshed check out part 2 here.

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Stunning neon light 3d typography

This tutorial is inspired by one of the creations I placed in the beauty of 3d typography article. By combining the powers ofIllustrator and Photoshop, you can recreate this awesome technique.

Typography is a really hot topic at this moment in the design sphere and neon light is and has always been an effective way to attract users. Combine these two to make some beautiful artwork.

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Design Crysis Inspired Drawing Nano Suit Photoshop Tutorial

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Have you ever needed to skin an object with a metal surface? In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Ed Lopezwill use digital painting techniques to skin a person with futuristic hard and soft metals to create a Crysis inspired nano suit. While this tutorial is meant to emulate the popular video game, the same techniques could also be used on everything from autos to spaceships. This tutorial is available exclusively to Premium Members. If you would like to take your digital painting and drawing skills to the next level, Log in or Join Nowto get started!

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Draw a Sound Dock System With Photoshop

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to draw a Sound Dock System with Photoshop.
Let’s get started!

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Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

Step 1

This tutorial is made up of three parts—the background, the text itself, and some final extra effects. So first of all we’re going to make a background. To do this we create a new document in Photoshop. I made mine 1920 x 1200 because I want this image to sit on my laptop background.

We start by drawing a Radial Gradient with the Gradient Tool (G) going from a light yellow-green (#adbf41) to a mid-range green (#328a26). I wonder if I’ve ever written a tutorial that doesn’t start with a radial gradient. 

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reate a “Magic School” Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial we will be covering some very interesting topics on Matte Painting and Photo Manipulation such as planning a concept, pre-visualizing, and using images as references.  This tutorial not only shows some techniques but also helps in improving logical thinking while creating a fantasy scene.

Step 1

Create a new canvas in Photoshop with the resolution of Width=2560px and Height=1485px.

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Making a Message Strip in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’re going to make a little message strip in Photoshop that you can place in the top-right corner of a design. These little strips look very trendy and Web2.0-y, particularly in Web designs! It’s quite an easy effect to do, and in this tutorial we’ll add some shadow and light to make it pop!

Step 1:

To begin this tutorial as always, we will start with a nice radial gradient. I am addicted to radial gradients, so you should be too! I’m using a combination of nice blues. Here are the exact color codes:

Color 1 – #0e324f

Color 2 – #062033

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How to Create a Detailed Audio Player (Photoshop)

Step 1

Create a new document using the settings shown below. You can actually use whatever resolution you choose, in this tutorial I used 1024×768.

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How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In this tutorial, we’ll manipulate a picture so it looks like a woman burning in flames. The idea behind this manipulation was to create a nice looking illustration, only by using simple techniques and tools such as the Brush tool and Warp command. I hope you enjoy the tutorial and try it with your own stock imagery.

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How to Draw a Polaroid Camera Icon

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In this tutorial, we will create a Polaroid camera icon. We will use lots of layer styles and draw manually with the brush tool to achieve a realistic appearance. Let’s get started!

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Powerful Task Automation with Photoshop Scripting

Actions are very popular. They’re easy to use and can save you a lot of time, but at the end of the day, they aren’t very powerful and offer very low versatility. That’s where Photoshop’s scripting features go into action. We’re going to show you the almost endless possibilities that Photoshop scripting offers.

Actions vs Scripts

An action is simply a way of recording a series of steps so we can play them back again and again. If you want to be able to quickly draw a 50x50px red square by pressing a button, just record yourself doi

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Use Photoshop to Create a Still-Life Lamp

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Photoshop allows us to manipulate most of the photos that we take and combine them into just about anything. It also allows us to create much of what we see in real life from scratch. In this tutorial, we will create the inside of a home from scratch using only Photoshop. In the end,

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Turn a Picture of Your Face into a Digital Printing

Step 1

To start softening the hair you need to have in mind:

- How to use the smudge tool properly (this includes changing shape, hardness and strength and adequate them to the piece you're working on);
- To delimit parts of the hair that invisibly form a line shape (pieces of the hair);
- Smudging pieces at a time, not all at once;

If you're not so good with those, it's not a big deal, just keep reading. If by other side you're completely new to the matter, it may be a little difficult for you.

So to star0, download a stock with a pretty good amount of hair that hasn't been manipulated yet. I've chosen this one from TwiggXstock:

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Create Awesome Abstract Illustrations Using Stock Art

Final Product What You'll Be Creatin

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How to Create Fake Glossy 3D Typography

Step 1

Step 1- Create a document at 800 pixels wide and 1000 pixels high at 300 dpi. The reason for this very large canvas is for 3 reasons.

The first reason is cause when you create something like this in photoshop and installing it into a project, you want it to be fairly large so th

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