Basically, in this tutorial I’m going to be showing you how to create a photo effect like the one in the below image, it’s pretty much all accomplished by using color curves and color levels, as are most photo effects, right?

Start by finding some appropriate picture to use it in this tutorial. I used a cool hooligan photo. If you want you can download from it here and get to work. Open up the photo and increase contrast with Image > Adjustments > Levels:

Now we have a contrast like this:

Ok, move to the next step. Begin to make color correction on photography. Press on the layers thumbnail ‘Create new fill or new adjustment layer’ button and chose Curves.

After that set up following settings for each color channel:

See the difference now?

After that slightly reduce the contrast. Move to the original layer with photo and apply Image > Adjustments > Levels with such settings as on the picture below.

See the result now:

Next, create a new layer above the curves layer and fill it with green color (#007016). Change layer mode to Overlay.

And the last one thing that we need to do is to bring a little bit of noise to the photo. Create a new one layer and fill it with black color after that apply Filter > Noise > Add Noise:

Now, change layer mode to Color Dodge and you will see the final result.

That’s all for this tutorial! Sorry, but I hope you enjoyed it! This color manipulation effect looks cool, isn’t it?

I’m just going to be making a nice, hot tanned skin photo effect in this tutorial! If you are interesting, join me!

So, let’s start! If you don’t have appropriate photo you can use mine or find another one thru Google Images. Also you can use your own photos if you think that you are not tanned on the photo or do not have time to go to the sea or ocean or just want to be swarthy. Open up the photo at first.

The girl on the picture above looks untanned. I know how to help her to make ‘quick tan.’ Select the Polygonal Lasso Tool and start with skin selection.

Pay your attention that we selected just some part of the skin. We need to cut away part of swimsuits from selected area. Hold the Alt button (the minus sign should be appear near lasso tool pictogram) and start to cat away swimsuit from the selected area.

Ok, after that we need to add selection the other parts of girl’s body. In this way hold the Shift button (the plus sign should be appear near lasso tool pictogram) and select as more areas as you need.

Press Ctrl+J to duplicate selected part of image to the new layer. And now begin to change color for this layer, turning a girl in a light tan. For this effect apply Image > Adjustments > Layers and set up following presets for each channel:

Now, we have something like this:

Ok, I think, It will be better to remove contrast a little bit and change brightness with Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast.

Here is result:

Ok, we are done! The girl looks better as before. You can see the difference on the picture below. Of course we can make this effect in other ways in Photoshop, but this one is simple and useful as for me.

I tried to experiment with photo and mix it with black lines to simulate drawing. Would you know how to make it? Ok, then read this tutorial.

Let’s start by finding the picture of beautiful girl with hairdressing. I went to Google Images and looked up the picture, you can feel free to download my picture from here. Open up the picture and desaturate it in the beginning with Image > Adjustments > Desaturate or press Ctrl+Shift+U.

After that increase the contrast with Image > Adjustments > Levels:

See the difference now?

Move to the next step. Create a new layer and fill it with white color. After that change layer opacity for this layer to 30%. Then select the Eraser Tool and a soft round brush to make a little clear work on the face area.

Merge two of these layers in one and start to make drawing effect. Get out the Pen Tool (you need to make sure that you’re working with Paths instead of Shape Layers). Draw out your line using paths:

After that select the Brush Tool and set up with the following settings and set foreground color as black:

Create new layer and then right-click and select Stroke Path.

A little dialog box will appear as in the screenshot. Choose Brush and make sure there is a tick next to Simulate Pressure. This is important as it will give your curve tapered ends which will make it rock!

The picture use to look as mine:

Now the line is hardly noticeable, but don’t worry about. Next right click again and select Delete Path. Try to make more lines in the same way to outline the body and hair contours.

Now, move to the background layer with woman’s photo and select the Brush Tool (use soft brush about 100 px and set brush opacity to 30% up). Sketched the silhouette with white color a little bit.

After that use the Sharpen Tool to make the contours more distinct.

I finished off with this tutorial by merging all of my layers together. Please feel free to experiment, get creative, use your own settings. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Here is one interesting tutorial where I will show u how to create small photo collage and apply color and black and white effects together. If are you interesting, let’s read and make!

Firstly, start by finding a stock photos that you can add the effect to. A couple of good resources to find free stock photos are: stock.xchange and DeviantART. First of all find the photo of interior with sofa and another one will be the photo of the dog. If you want to use your own pictures, feel free to use it and experiment with composition. Open the photo of the dog and try to separate the silhouette from the background with Polygonal Lasso Tool.

Now, copy selected part of image with Ctrl+C, then open the picture with sofa and paste (press Ctrl+V) copied fragment from the first photo to the second.

After that reduce copied fragment about 30% horizontally and vertically

Bulldog does not look realistic in the background. We should fix this problem. Right click on the current layer in palette thumbnails and apply such Blending Options:
• Drop Shadow:

This layer style should be saved on the new layer as separate effect to have an opportunity to work with in future. Apply Layer > Layer Style > Create Layer to divide this layer style from the main layer. Go to the new separated layer with drop shadow (under the current layer) and use the Smudge Tool to transform it a little bit as on my picture below.

After that apply the Eraser Tool and a soft round brush to clear shadow, which is located behind the dog outside floor.

Go to the layer with dog again and apply following Blending Options to it:
• Inner Glow

See the result on the picture below:

After that get out the Burn Tool (Brush: 50 px, Range: Midtones, Exposure: 30%) and obscure the back of the dog, which is in the shade.

I think, It will be better to add the text, get out the Horizontal Type Tool and write out the text using green (#dcea78) color.

Ok, merge all layers in one and duplicate with Ctrl+J. Then we need to desaturate copied layer. We can do this by using Image > Adjustments > Desaturate.

Now we have black and white photo and one color photo under. I’m going to mix two of these photos in the next way: select the Eraser Tool and use some soft round points to clear black and white image partly.

Then use the Custom Shape Tool to add different sizes white animal prints.

Now, merge all of prints in one layer and change layer mode to Overlay. Also set up opacity to 20%.

I’m sorry, but tutorial is over. Hope, you had fun with it and learned something new. Good luck!

Here is one more tutorial about creating space landscape. It is not so difficult but very useful. I’ll teach you how to recreate solar eclipse in space.

So, let’s begin to recreate it! Set foreground color as #500000 and background color as black. After that apply Filter > Render > Clouds to our canvas.

To change the background color at the bottom of the picture apply Quick Mask Mode with gradient as below:

Then go back to Standard Mode. Now we have some selected area.

Change color of selected area with Image > Adjustment > Hue/Saturation with similar settings to these:

See the difference now?

Ok, move further. Remove the selection with Select > Deselect, after that create a new layer and fill it with black color. Apply Filter > Noise > Add Noise to this layer.

Change layer style to screen and use Image > Adjustment > Levels with next presets:

Now we have picture as below:

Ok, now select the Eraser Tool and a soft round brush and make a little clear work to get the result as on my picture below.

Time to recreate the solar eclipse. In the beginning try to find some appropriate texture of magma what we will use for the sun recreating. Feel free to use your own textures also. Open up this picture and copy to our main canvas.

Then get out the Elliptical Marquee Tool to create round selection as shown on the picture below. Invert selection with Ctrl+Shift+I and use Delete to clear selected area.

Remove selection with Ctrl+D and duplicate current layer using Ctrl+J. Ok, move to original lower layer and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with similar settings to these:

Your result should be next:

Ok, apply Color Overlay layer style to this layer.

Use the Smudge Tool to create sunlight beams.

Ok, now move to copied upper layer again and start to process it. In the beginning select it with Select > Load Selection and after that apply Filter > Distort > Spherize. Use next parameters for this filter.

Remove the selection. See the result below.

Then apply Inner Shadow, Outer Glow, Inner Glow, Color Overlay layer styles to this layer.

Looks better than before, don’t you think? Move to the next step. Create a new layer and use the Elliptical Marquee Tool to create round selection, fill it with black color.

Deselect this layer with Ctrl+D and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with next presets:

Your image should look as mine:

Ok, and the last one step that you need to do is to make optical lens flare. For this effect create a new one layer and will it with black color. Change layer mode for this layer to Screen and apply Filter > Render > Lens Flare:

Looks cool as for me!

We are done for now! Hope you have the same good result! Don’t be afraid to experiment and you will get the best results!

This useful Photoshop Tutorial about how to make stylish icons what you can apply in your website design or use in multimedia presentation.

So, let’s start! In the beginning create a new file about 500×300 pixels and fill it with white color. Now, proceed directly to creating the icon. Create a new layer, then select the Ellipse Tool to make the round shape as you can see on my picture below.

After that apply following Blending Options: Gradient Overlay and Stroke.

Now we have something like this:

Not really looks like icon is not it? Don’t worry, we process the tutorial. Now, use the Elliptical Marquee Tool to make the selection what you can see on my screenshot below, then create a new layer and fill the selection with dark blue (#1c2133) to transparent gradient.

Ok, now select our round shape icon (Ctrl+Left click on the layer thumbnail in layers palette) and invert the selection with Ctrl+Shift+I. clear selected area by pressing Delete button.

Deselect chosen area with Ctrl+D and move to the next step of the tutorial. Use the Ellipse Tool again to make a new one round shape with color of #5ebf1a. Be attentively that second one round shape should be a little bit less then the main shape.

Then apply such layer styles as Inner Glow and Stroke to this shape layer.

But we are not finished the icon yet! Go on! Rasterize this shape with Layer > Rasterize > Shape. Then get out the Elliptical Marquee Tool to make the similar selection as was before in the beginning of this tutorial, then use the Dodge Tool (Brush: 100 px, Range: Midtones, Exposure: 20%) to make the bottom part of green shape a little lighter.

After that invert the selection with Ctrl+Shift+I and change Dodge Tool Range from Midtones to Highlights and continue to work.

Ok, after that revert the selection back and now use the Burn Tool (Brush: 100px, Range : Midtones, Exposure: 30%) to add the contrast to the button.

Ok, we are almost done! Remove the selection with Ctrl+D and move to the next step. I would like to bring some ornament to the green shape. Select the Custom Shape Tool and use one of the standard Photoshop shapes from the gallery. I tried to use this one:

It will look better if we apply some Blending Option such as Drop Shadow

The result should be the same as mine:

Ok, now merge all of layers of the icon in one and apply Edit > Transform > Distort:

After that duplicate this layer using Ctrl+J and move the lower original layer as in my picture below:

Use the Color Overlay layer style for this layer.

See the difference now?

It remains to add a shadow at the bottom and our icon will be ready. Ok, move to the background layer and create a new layer above. Select the Elliptical Marquee Tool to create the selection as on my picture below and fill it with black color.

Deselect this layer with Select > Deselect and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with similar settings to these:

Then apply another one Filter > Blur > Motion Blur.

The result should be the next:

Ok, we are done for now! Also I made a couple of icons more. Try to experiment and the result will be better that ever!

Do you want to know how to create realistic view metal brand vehicle. Ok, I will try to explain to how you can do this.

I’ll be using a document size of 500×500 pixels for this tutorial. Fill the background with color of #242426 by using the Paint Bucket Tool.

Now we will set your logo, which we will create. Let it be the logo of Renault Megane car. Try to draw it by yourself. In the beginning create a new layer, then use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to make selection as shown below and fill it with any color, the color really doesn’t matter not.

After that create a new one selection and clear it with pressing Delete button.

Then deselect chosen area with Ctrl+D and apply Drop Shadow, Bevel and Emboss and Gradient Overlay layer styles to this layer.

Ok, continue to stylize the logo. Create a new one layer above and merge it with previous to get all layer effects in one. Then get out the Rectangular Marquee Tool to create the selection as on the picture below. After that select the Dodge Tool (Brush: 70 px, Range: Highlights, Exposure: 20%) and try to make a little dodge work.

Invert the selection with Select > Inverse and lighten slightly the lower part of the logo.

Then select the Burn Tool (Brush: 150 px, Range: Highlights, Exposure: 20%) and make a little bit darker selected area of the logo.

Remove the selection with Ctrl+D, then create a new layer and use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create a new selection as on my screenshot, what you can see below. Fill selection with color of #8c95a2:

Remove selection again and use the Burn Tool to get the same effect as on my picture below.

Ok, now create a new selection and fill it with color of #dae3f1.

Remove selection with Ctrl+D again and apply the Dodge Tool with similar presets as before.

Now, merge all layer of logo in one and start to create metal effect. This can be done as follows: create a new layer and fill it with black color and apply Filter > Noise > Add Noise with current settings:

Then change layer mode to Screen and reduce this layer as shown on the picture below:

Then select the logo (Ctrl+Left click on the layer thumbnail in layers palette), now press Ctrl+Shift+I to invert the selection and clear selected area.

Remove the selection with Select > Deselect. After that use the Sharpen Tool to improve the sharpness of the texture.

Looks good! Isn’t it? Move to the next step. I would like to add some text. Use following presets for your text:

Write out the text.

I used Times New Roman, and for the “A” I used the “V” letter and flipped it vertically.

After that apply Drop Shadow, Bevel and Emboss, Gradient Overlay and Stroke layer styles to this text.

You should get the same result as mine:

That is it! We get a very good result, isn’t it? Get creative and you’ll come up with something amazing!

Nice short tutorial how to create simple but spectacular fabric text effect.

Let’s go! First of all, make a new document in Photoshop. I created a new document sized 1000×500 pixels with all the default settings, RGB, 72 dpi, transparent background etc. Then find some appropriate fabric texture. Actually, you can use Google Images to find the texture or feel free to use mine. Open up the texture and copy it to the canvas.

Now, duplicate this texture three of times and combine as below. Be attentive that texture edges are different (you can see arrows on the borders).

Use the Eraser Tool and a soft round brush about 50 ps to make the edge of textures softer and invisible.

Ok, merge all of texture layers in one and apply Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation.

You should have the result similar to this:

Make texture clearer with Sharpen Tool:

Ok, we are done with background. Let’s start to create text effect. Get out the Horizontal Type Tool and write out your text, for example ‘ClotH’ in whatever color you want. I’ve used a font called Arial Black (300 pt, Crisp). This is standard Windows font.

After that change fill opacity to 85% for this layer and begin to create text effect. First of all we need to add some pattern to Photoshop patterns palette to use it for creating text effect later. Open this texture or find another one using Google Images and use Edit > Define Pattern to save this picture as pattern. Go back to our created file and apply the following layer styles to the text layer:
• Drop Shadow
• Inner Shadow
• Outer Glow
• Inner Glow
• Bevel and Emboss
• Contour
• Satin
• Color Overlay
• Pattern Overlay
• Stroke

Now your image should now look like the image shown below:

Well, we’re done for this tutorial! Enjoy your own cool fabric text effect.

This application will feature an opportunity to edit the pictures made by the smart phone and the ones, downloaded to Photoshop.com web photo hosting and sharing resource. Moreover, this application will allow users to easily download the pictures made with iPhone to this media library.

Free Photoshop version, created specially for Apple iPhones, unlike a full PC version, has only basic options and functionality, allowing users to rotate and crop the image, change the colors or apply several simple filters to the pictures. All the changes can be undone.
A good thing about this new Photoshop version is that it’s free of charge. The online photo hosting service at Photoshop.com is also free, as long as the users need no more than 2 GB for storing their images. In order to place more information they will have to pay the annual membership fee.

Free Photoshop Downloads (Free Photoshop version for Apple iPhones) here.

In this simple tutorial I’ll show you how to make some cool Japanese style background what will looks as volume.

First, start by creating a new document, I’ve used a document size of 500×500 pixels and fill it with color of #04223f:

After that get out the Horizontal Type Tool and write out the text with black color in the top of canvas. Use hieroglyphs font such as Japanese for this tutorial. Feel free to download it from here.

Duplicate text layer with Ctrl+J and move lower layer 15 pixels down and 15 pixels left.

Go back to upper layer and apply following layer styles for this text layer:
• Drop Shadow
• Outer Glow
• Inner Glow
• Gradient Overlay

You can see the effect below.

After that add a couple of more text lines in the same way with the same effects.

Then merge all of layers in one and use the Dodge Tool (Brush: 100px, Range: Highlights, Exposure: 100%) to bring some bright spots to the background.

After that use the Burn Tool (Brush: 100px, Range: Highlights, Exposure: 50%) to add more dark areas.

Looks volume and contrast, don’t you think? Well, we’re done for the tutorial! Try to experiment to get some different cool effects!