Written by My Photoshop Tutorial on August 20, 2008 - 09:35 pm 5 Comments

A while ago I needed a leather texture for a background I was working on. Since I never made a leather-like background before, I searched on the net for some tutorials and I was surprized to see that there isn't any. Then I remembered few things from Bert Monroy (many thanks for your Pixel Perfect show)Â tutorials and I put together few things to end up with a pretty nice leather effect. This is quite easy to do
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Tags: background, leather, text, texture
Written by My Photoshop Tutorial on July 18, 2008 - 03:15 am 8 Comments

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
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Tags: photoshop, space, star cloud, tutorial
Written by My Photoshop Tutorial on July 5, 2008 - 12:17 pm 11 Comments

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...
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Tags: photoshop, stone background, stone texture
Written by My Photoshop Tutorial on June 26, 2008 - 12:17 pm 6 Comments

This type of magic light is easy to make, once you know the steps involved in the process. You will need to know how to work the magic inside the Brush Engine of Adobe Photoshop, cause that's the place where everything happends. Also you will be required to know a little bit about Paths... not too much, just to draw a Path and Stroke it with a Brush. Once you know all this, you're ready to go. The
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Tags: magic light