My Photoshop Tutorial

This is the easiest effect to achieve with Adobe Photoshop if you know what to do. You can transform any photo you wish into a drawing in just several seconds. I guarantee it will take more to read this tutorial than to do it. The end result is quite remarcable. Of course you can take the effect a little bit further and turn the image into a painting, but I will stop at the drawing effect. Read the rest of this entry

Tags: drawing, photoshop

Of course there are thousands of tutorials on the net to show you how to create rain, but I didn't find any that fast as my technique and with my twist. The twist is that you can change the feeling of any photo at the same time. Oh... and it's fast... really fast. It's all about applying one brush, one layer style, one effect and one blending mode. As usual, since I am one of the laziest persons

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Tags: 1 minute Photoshop Tip, photoshop, rain

We've all seen beautiful space scapes made by pros and probably everyone thought as I did long time ago, "that should be so hard to create". In fact it's not hard, it's even quite easy to create such space scenery using Adobe Photoshop and the beauty of this technique is that no matter what, you will never get the same result twice because it's based on the Render Clouds filter. Of course, you can use our free

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Tags: photoshop, space, star cloud, tutorial

This one is even faster than creating a paper background with Adobe Photoshop. It's just about applying 3 filters in the right places and the right order. Simple as that! The beauty is that you can repeat the steps countless times and you will always get a new and different result each time. Let's see what and how we do it... Â Â (more...)

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Tags: photoshop, stone background, stone texture

There are dozens of Photoshop tutorials to create this effect... long boring tutorials. I've seen one that actually involves walking around with a piece of paper in your pocket for few days then scan it and work on that image. I've seen tutorials stretching on 6-7 pages to achieve this effect. I don't have time for that... nor the will to read tones of explanations. It's just too much for me. Fortunately, Adobe Photoshop will do all the

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Tags: old paper, paper background

We all use Brushes, we look for new sets of brushes all over the net, but we can make our own Brush preset in under a minute. You don't believe me? Check it out... and look at the time ;) (more...)

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Tags: brush preset

We're all familiar with the Crop tool and we know what it does. What happends if the object we want to crop is distorted, viewed from one side and we need a front view of it? That's what Perspective Crop is for. (more...)

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Tags: adobe photoshop, perspective crop, photoshop tip