Cool Photoshop Explosion Effect

Explosions are cool. Seriously cool. So when I received some e-mails asking about how to create a break-apart, explosion effect, I knew it’d be worth making a tutorial on. Read on to find out how to break apart a body, then add some awesome lighting and glow, and nopattern style, to finish the image off.

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Smokin’ Hot Babe Tutorial (Literally)

In this tutorial I will show you how to take a regular picture of a pretty woman and turn her into smoke coming from a fire.


First save this picture on your computer or just drag it into photoshop.
Picture of the Woman
Cut the background out from around her and between her arms. I won’t go over
this step because i’m sure most of you have your own technique to cut
pictures out. I used the pen tool.

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Create a Cute Cartoon Beast In Photoshop

In this Tutorial I'll show you how to create a neat cartoon scene in Photoshop. Our scene will contain 2 characters: a cute beast and an angry toy.
You'll only need 1 start image and Photoshop software for this image. This is a more advanced tutorial, so basic knowledge of Photoshop is required.
You can download the source image in high resolution here: cool toy source image

I'll explain things like:
- How to do shadows in simple way.
- How to create a night scene with a lighting effects.
- How to paint a simple forms of trees and bushes on the background.
- Learn how to create two characters with only a single image.
- and many many more...

Let's start! Good Luck!

End result:

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Making a Color Wizard in Photoshop

This tutorial is maybe another proof that I’m a light and color effects freak, I like them very much. So, In this tutorial I’ll show you more light and layer styles effects. You don’t need any special brushes for this tutorial. Everything is done using a few stock images and a few techniques already used on my previous tutorials.

This is an advanced tutorial and you should know how to create a custom brush and how to apply layer styles. Other than that, it’s not a very complicated tutorial.

What I wanted to create was a sort of wizard that throws colored energy balls so I created some stock images and started to work.

Preview

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