Recently Popular Special-effects Tagged Tutorials
Apr 17
Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto's ability with Peter Petrelli's power. We will use images and filters to produce this wave explosion effect. Even though it may look like a difficult tutorial, it's really not that hard.
Nov 8
Easy Watercolor-Style Painting Effect In Photoshop
Learn how to easily turn a photo into a watercolor-style painting in just a few simple steps! Any recent version of Photoshop will work.
Oct 30
Create A Light Source Cast From A Window
Give an ordinary photo a more focused and dramatic look to it by creating a light source that appears to be shining through a window onto your main subject.
Oct 28
Telling Stories With Shadows In Photoshop
Learn how to truly make a picture worth a thousand words by adding a different shadow behind someone in a photo, as if the person will one day become the image in the shadow! A fun, easy and popular Photoshop effect that's limited only by your imagination!
Oct 17
Create A Fun Collage Of Warped Photos
Learn how to create a fun photo collage in Photoshop by bending, twisting, curling, and reshaping photos using the Warp Tool! We'll even see how to create more interesting drop shadows with the Warp Tool, as well as how to add subtle shadows and highlights to enhance the 3D look of our warping effect!
Oct 14
Awesome Glossy 2.0 Style Web Badges and Buttons
The 3D badges are everywhere! Yes, it is the latest trend on those Web 2.0 designs. These are the star-shaped labels that you see stuck on web pages, alerting you to something important.
Oct 12
Sunlight Shining Through The Trees
Learn how easy it is to create realistic beams of sunlight shining through the trees in a photo, then finish off the effect with patches of sunlight hitting the ground below.
Oct 9
Add A Magical Sparkle Trail To A Photo
Create a custom sparkle brush in Photoshop, then use it to easily add a magical sparkle trail to a photo!
Oct 3
Creating Reflections In Sunglasses
Creating reflections in sunglasses is a very popular Photoshop effect and opens up endless creative and artistic possibilities depending on who is wearing them and who or what you have them looking at. In this tutorial, we see how easy it is to do!
Sep 30
Create A Simple Portrait Studio Background
Learn how to quickly and easily create a simple background in Photoshop that can then be used to make any portrait-style photo look as if it was taken in an actual photo studio!
Sep 20
Add Creative Focus To An Image
When it comes to blurring an image, most people think "Gaussian Blur". But spend a little time with Photoshop's much more powerful Lens Blur filter and there's no limit to how many creative uses you'll come up with for it!
Sep 11
Add Transparent Type To An Image
Learn a few different ways to add transparent type to an image in Photoshop, from the quickest and easiest way to more interesting ways using layer styles and blend modes. We'll also look at the important and often confusing difference between a layer's Opacity and Fill options.
Sep 9
Photoshop Classic Effect: Wedding Couple In A Wine Glass
Learn how easy it is to create a classic Photoshop effect, placing a wedding couple inside a wine glass. Or use this same technique to place any image inside any glass object, or even inside a bubble!
Sep 4
Create An Optical Illusion-Turn A Photo Into Interweaving...
Learn how to use layers, layer masks and clipping masks in Photoshop to create the illusion that your photo is made up of vertical and horizontal strips that weave under and over each other.
Aug 24
Photoshop Weather Effects - Adding Rain To A Photo
How do you take photos of rainy days without getting your camera all wet? Easy! Add the rain later in Photoshop! This tutorial shows you how it's done.
