Monthly Archives: November 2016

Create an atmospheric mountainous landscape with this Photoshop tutorial! You’ll learn how to create any own mountain scenes by combining several photos together, add a bridge with lanterns, color balance images, dodge & burn, and many other techniques. A free PSD download is included with this tutorial. Preview of Final Results Tutorial Resources Waterfall 1...

With Christmas just a few weeks away, chances are good that most designers will need to use some sort of Christmas-based graphics for their work or play this season. It's also likely that your time will be short due to multiple festive commitments. To help save some design time, consider these Photoshop add-ons and Christmas...

In this week's free Deke's Techniques episode, our own strange magician, known as Deke, recreates an effect from the visually stunning Doctor Strange movie. You can imagine what it's like going to the movies with Deke and having him mentally note all the things he wants to try when he gets back to Photoshop. In...

What You'll Be CreatingInspiration. It's a curious thing that certain collections of words used on a particular type of image can motivate us. While it is debatable as to whether or not the inspiration actually causes life changes, crafting a motivational poster is a unique and fun way to work with type. Visually, blocks of...

Let’s Create a Text Portrait Poster! In today’s tutorial, we are going to be creating a text photo poster created by combining the image of our choice with related text. I’ll create mine based on my favorite book of all time, The Catcher in the Rye. Which book will you choose? You will need: An image of...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial will show you how to use Adobe Photoshop's transform modes, shape tools, brushes, layer styles, and filters, along with some textures, to create a muddy boot print text effect. Let's get started! This text effect was inspired by the many Layer Styles available on GraphicRiver. Tutorial Assets The following assets...

Comic books and graphic novels combine two things every designer aspires to meld: real meaning and pure, unadulterated eye candy. Here we introduce 30 of the best ever tuts on using Photoshop to create stunning comic-book style art, along with 20 insane comic-book style effects.Although, if you’re looking for premium quality Photoshop Photo Effects, then...

In this 2 part series, you’ll learn brand new techniques that you can use to replicate color gradings. I came up with some new techniques that will make replicating looks so much easier and faster with less guesswork involved. These techniques will work with a majority of the color grading effects out there. And it’s...

The LG V20 is an amazing phone with some great features like an ultra wide angle lens. Tehnically, the specs of the camera are amazing but the image quality has been hindered by LG’s aggressive post processing. For example, colors are the most oversaturated compared to other phones like the iPhone 7 and Samsung Galaxy...

Black Friday is here and for one day only you can get my Fearless Flash Photography video series for a whooping 50% off. Be quick, this offer really will disappear at the end of Black Friday. Grab your copy now. Watch online or download for just $20.00 (roughly £16.00 or €19.00) More info here… The course...