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Photo Manipulate a Surreal Underground Scene with a Sleeping, Frozen Beauty

Photo Manipulate a Surreal Underground Scene with a Sleeping, Frozen Beauty

By Jenny Le, 21st January, 2014, 4 Comments

(Photo Effects - Tutorials)

I know that the PSDFAN community loves photo manipulation. However, I recognise that it can be a tricky skill to learn. Today’s tutorial breaks down some key photo manipulation techniques, such as blending, colouring, texture/brush application and many more! You’ll learn how to create a lovely surreal image that’s sure to impressive your friends. It’s time to get icy and take your photo manip skills up a notch!

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Photo Manipulate a Fiery Fantasy Warrior

Photo Manipulate a Fiery Fantasy Warrior

By Antaka Nguyen, 12th December, 2013, 10 Comments

(Photo Effects - Tutorials)

Photo manipulation is at the very core of digital art. It teaches us about composition, blending, complex workflows and many other aspects of being a top designer. Today’s design lesson will teach you how to photo manipulate a fantasy flaming warrior using a range of professional techniques. You’ll learn how to composite several images into a single cohesive scene. You’ll learn how to blend effectively, apply surface textures and lighting and much more.

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Create a Surreal, Floating Landscape With a Fantasy Twist

Create a Surreal, Floating Landscape With a Fantasy Twist

By Santhosh Rao, 28th November, 2013, 5 Comments

(Photo Effects - Tutorials)

Floating landscapes always make for fun Photoshop work. However, often with floating landscape compositions, the floating landscape is the extent of the image, and it lacks any real story. Over at our members community, members are buzzing with ideas and inspiration. We teach people that it’s more important to develop creative direction than it is to master every complex tool in Photoshop. The crucial thing is for your images to tell a story, and to mean something to the viewer.

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Create a Devil Woman Scene Using Digital Painting Techniques

Create a Devil Woman Scene Using Digital Painting Techniques

By Jenny Le, 13th November, 2013, 1 Comment

(Photo Effects - Tutorials)

In today’s tutorial you’ll learn how to create a dark, ominous scene featuring a fantasy devil woman. This is a fairly advanced tutorial with lots of details, but I’ve broken down the entire process for you so that you can follow along.

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Convert a Portrait Into a Creepy Human Puppet for Halloween

Convert a Portrait Into a Creepy Human Puppet for Halloween

By Santhosh Rao, 15th October, 2013, 10 Comments

(Photo Effects - Tutorials)

With Halloween fast approaching it’s time take our design work to a dark, spooky place. That’s the whole beauty of design isn’t it? The ability to adapt our style of design based on the creative brief, the context or the client. Today we’re going to create a seriously creepy human puppet hybrid using a regular portrait photo of a beautiful model.

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