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This tutorial content is available for download It is often the case that as a digital graphic artist, you sometimes have to work with a number of image components and bring them together to make one final image. This means working with your multiple images over many layers with adjustments and masks, and it is a good exercise in being able to manage a larger than usual document. Our example uses a collection of foreground and background images, as well as some assets to be used to create certain effects. This tutorial will help you understand a little more about working with many layers and how the order of the various components work as well as masking and adjusting colour, exposure, saturation and layer styles. At the end, you will…

This tutorial content is available for download There are a few ways that you can add or create fire to enhance your images. If you have an image or perhaps a photograph that couldn’t deliver convincing flame at the time of shooting, be it because of safety reasons or the effect was impossible to apply at the time, then adding fire post process is the logical way forward. Whether you are augmenting a real life photo or a CG image, here is a safe, realistic way to do it. You can create flames in Photoshop by using more traditional painting skills or using Photoshop CC, which has a flame generator. One approach is to use actual references to real flames. You won’t get more realistic than that. 01 Start off…

This tutorial content is available for download In the world of photography, the long exposure shot is a much prized and popular image type. You cannot go long without seeing a cool shot of flowing water, that has been shot over many seconds to reduce it to a soft and amorphous fog. Typical amongst these kinds of images are coastal photographs where the wave motion has been softened to a huge degree or tumbling waterfalls where the splashing motion of the turbulent water has been captured over a long period of time to create the familiar misty water effect. To do this ‘in camera’ requires very dark filters to reduce the amount of light entering the lens and driving up the exposure time. Not everyone has these filters and in…

This tutorial content is available for download It is quite popular to convert your images to black and white, but then to return part of the image to its original colour. This is done to create a small splash of colour that is instantly picked out of its surroundings to draw the eye to that point. It is a simple and fun way to enhance your black and white images. We show you how it’s done in this simple tutorial. 01 First of all, you will need a colour original. We have used a shot of some coloured pencils on a neutral background. We have a great range of colours that should convert to black and white with no issue. 02 Create a duplicate image by pressing Cmd + J…

This tutorial content is available for download If you are new to photography or just working on a budget and you want to do a portrait session, one consideration apart from which model you use and what clothing will be needed is that of makeup. Makeup is a fine skill and if you want a full-on high fashion look for your models, then a hair and makeup artist is essential. The downside is that a good makeup artist won’t be cheap. Well, if you should ever need it, there is an option provided by Photoshop that can allow you, in a more modest way admittedly, to apply makeup of your own choosing after the fact. Your shots will be better served if your model has no makeup applied save the…

This tutorial content is available for download It’s a safe bet that most people have had an encounter with Lego or by a few degrees of separation, knows someone who has. Lego is the popular construction toy, consisting of coloured interlocking plastic bricks for building just about anything you care to mention. With that as our inspiration, we are going to create a portrait that looks like it was made out of Lego bricks. 01 First, we are going to make a basic Lego-shaped pattern. Go to your File menu and select New (Cmd + N) and make a new document that is 50 pixels wide x 50 pixels high. Click OK when you are ready and the document will be created. 02 The document is very small but if…

This tutorial content is available for download You’ve completed part one of this multiple image blending tutorial. It’s all looking good but now it’s time to take all those carefully assembled, masked and layered images and add a little extra drama in the form of some colour adjustments. The will give it a more cinematic quality and help our subject achieve a more surreal and robotic appearance. You can also add some lighting effects to really make the image stand out along with a couple of Photoshop brushes to add the finishing touches to the scene. Let’s continue with the tutorial. 01 With the ‘base image’ group active, press Shift + Alt + Cmd + E to make a new layer that is a merged version of everything in the…

This tutorial content is available for download Blue skies are wonderful. They mean we are having a lovely sunny day. This is particularly meaningful if you live in the UK, which is often the butt of jokes about it’s horrible weather. No better time then to get out and take some photographs. The only problem you may find if you’re anything like us, is that landscapes shot on days like this can look a little dull. The light is great, but the sky is lacking in any drama. It’s just a big, blue, empty canvas. More damningly, sometimes the sky is lovely but it’s in the wrong part of the sky in relation to the landscape you were trying to shoot. Well, once again, Photoshop has the answer to your…

This tutorial content is available for download Whether you’re making your own Christmas cards using family photos, or you just want to immortalise a beloved pet, adding a fun decorative border to an image lets it stand out from the crowd. This simple tutorial shows you how to create a custom brush that you can use to adorn your favourite photos and create an arty border that sets off your photo beautifully. We will use this image of a young Sheltie called Willow, and take that idea and add a border that suits the shot. 01 We need to start by defining a custom brush rest that we can use on the photograph. Go to File > New (Cmd + N) to create a new document. 02 Make the new…

This tutorial content is available for download Transforming a portrait into an abstract image is a fairly easy task but it gives fantastic results that can elevate a simple headshot into a piece of surreal art. The process requires the use of multiple images and layers of Photoshop brush effects. We will show you how to create your own simple brushes to use but if you wish, you can download great examples from places like www.deviantart.com and www.brushlovers.com. Just one word of caution: you will be producing a document with many layers, which means large file sizes. If needs be, you can always reduce the size of your initial image to try and keep the file size down a bit. 01 You need to get your base images prepared first.…

This tutorial content is available for download HDR or High Dynamic Range, is a photographic process that allows you to combine multiple images of varying exposure to create a final photo with a much greater tonal range than could be captured in a single shot. It requires a series of bracketed shots that vary in brightness. Typically, the series runs from one image that is underexposed to reveal detail in the brightest areas of the shot. Then there is one that is an average of the scene, then another that is overexposed to reveal detail in the darker areas of the shot. HDR does have a bit of a bad reputation as some tend to wildly over process their shots and the results can be awful. We want to redress…

This tutorial content is available for download Light painting is a photographic technique in which a camera captures a scene lit by light sources such as a torch. We are going to be looking at a particular aspect called off camera light painting in this project. It is not necessary to have huge, complicated, flash setups to produce some amazingly lit images. Our subject matter is an old Bentley, which was shot over a number of different exposures, lit only by a torch and a couple of coloured gels from various angles. We have chosen six favourite captures and now we can use Photoshop to combine them and create an image that looks as if it was taken with numerous lights in a single shot. 01 Using Adobe Bridge, we…

This tutorial content is available for download There may have been occasions when you have looked at one of your favourite photographs and wondered, ‘what would it look like if it were drawn in pencil instead of being a photo?’ Photoshop and all its photo editing counterparts offer various artistic filters that can turn your image into a watercolour or an oil painting. Some of them can be quite effective. However, the pencil sketch filter offered by Photoshop does not really capture the essence of a hand-drawn image. However, there is an approach in Photoshop that may take you a step closer to being able to create a more realistic pencil sketch effect. It requires your favourite image, a few Photoshop layers and a little patience. You don’t need to…

This tutorial content is available for download The Dragan effect is named after Andrzej Dragan. He is actually a Polish physics teacher in Warsaw, but he does also have a widely praised reputation for producing surreal and compelling portraits. He employs high contrast and saturation in his images, along with rich detail that gives his subjects a highly emphasised look; some would say, an almost pseudo HDR appearance. It is a technique that is used to great effect on male portraits in particular, where the extra detail is not considered detrimental to the subject. Our tutorial will take you through some easy steps that can give your images a dramatic twist. 01 We have an image of a model called Jamie. For your reference, the image size we are working…

This tutorial content is available for download There may be times when you have a photo that you may think is incomplete somehow. There are techniques that allow you to cut out objects from other photos and paste them into your photo. That’s all well and good but you have to hope that the object you paste in matches your actual photo in terms of lighting and perspective, otherwise it will stick out like a sore thumb. There is an alternative to the cut out option. Depending on the object, you could use a 3D model instead. Photoshop has the ability to import 3D geometry and let you manipulate it in order to make it look like it is part of your original photo. There are various 3D formats we…

This tutorial content is available for download Rain is great, as long as you’re not caught out in it without your umbrella. It is certainly a staple of cinema to add a more brooding feel to a shot. If you’ve ever seen films like Seven and the Ridley Scott sci-fi classic Bladerunner, you can see that rain is treated almost like a character in its own right. In this tutorial we are going to show you how you can make your own rain and take your images to a different level. As an homage to the graphic style of Bladerunner, we have an image in a similar vein. All we need to do is add some weather to really give it a brooding and dramatic feel that adds to the…

This tutorial content is available for download There are probably many times when you have been out and about, looking for a great landscape to photograph, and you have happened upon a scene begging to be immortalised by you and your camera. You set yourself up, put the camera on a tripod, make sure you are shooting in Raw mode and snap away. Have there been times that the shots, when reviewed on your camera’s LCD, don’t quite seem to match up to expectations? Maybe you just hit the “Delete All” option on your camera. With a bit of know-how even some of the most lacklustre images can shine. When it comes to landscapes, there is no other way of saying it: shoot in Raw mode! Raw files have much…