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This three part tutorial shows you how to create artistic images that look like watercolor and ink drawings. Part 1 covers overlaying scanned texture and edges to give a photo an artistic flair in Photoshop. Part 2 covers adding the ink to this digital watercolor. Part 3 cover ...more

In this how-to video, photoshop wizard, Brandon Jackson, explains how to create an animated gif from your images and from video. More specifically, he explains how to limit the number of times/cycles your gif animates, how to specify the duration of each specific frame in your ...more

This tutorial will show you how to use the new Black & White adjustment layer found in Adobe Photoshop CS 3. You'll also get some cool tips on keeping or adding color to get a real pop to your pictures! If you watch the full video, the end has a section on creating a distresse ...more

Ash Davies believes that it is important to understand how to properly use Photoshop, especially with the Obama "Hope" posters that have become increasingly popular. The first step is to cut out the image that you want to use for the poster. To do this, you have to use the pol ...more

In this Photoshop tutorial the instructor shows how to create a Polaroid photo. First open the regular photo and make it into square shape as Polaroid images are in square shape. So use the selection tool and crop it into square shape. Now unlock the layer from background mode ...more

If you have a photograph with an extreme red eye problem, then you will have to take steps above and beyond using the built-in red eye reduction tool in Adobe Photoshop. In extreme cases, red eye will actually contain colors outside of the red spectrum of light. Since the red ...more

Learn how to create a warm, grungy background in Photoshop. - Open up a brand new document at 1280 x 720. - Fill the document with a muddy brown color. - Using the elliptical tool, creates a shape in the center. - Go to Layer -> Adjustment layers -> Levels and click okay. - G ...more

Pixel Perfect is the "perfect" show to help you with your Photoshop skills. Be amazed and learn as master digital artist Bert Monroy takes a stylus and a digital pad and treats it as Monet and Picasso do with oil and canvas. Learn the tips and tricks you need to whip those dig ...more

This Photoshop video series is going to explain how to create a chiaroscuro lighting effect on an image. This art form was made famous by the Italian artist Rembrandt. Part one covers the origin of terms and how to create chiaroscuro dramatic lighting. Part two has instruction ...more

It's not brain surgery, but teeth whitening systems still hits the pocket books hard. However, there is a cheaper alternative to have the whitest teeth in the neighborhood, and it's called Photoshop. With Adobe Photoshop, you can have whiter teeth in seconds! Really. It's defi ...more

It's very easy to get a slightly blurry photograph due to a moving subject, camera shake, or just an incorrect auto-focus, but you don’t have to let that ruin an otherwise terrific picture. All it takes is a little finesse in Photoshop or another photo editing software. This g ...more

Open the picture you wish to place a rainbow within. A good scene has clouds that are receding into the distance and the light angle coming in from the front of the scene. A rainbow effect appears when by the sun is shining from behind you into the mist-filled air where it is ...more

In this how to video, you will learn how to create a rock texture in Photoshop. First, open the program. Select your foreground as a gray color and the background as a darker gray. Go to filter and render clouds. Go to filter and noise to add noise. Add about 3 percent and cli ...more

This video shows you how to form an eye-catching border around any photograph by placing a photo within (or on top of) itself using Photoshop. The process includes duplicating the image, adding a layer mask, adding an inside layer stroke and drop shadow, changing hue or satura ...more

Ash Davies teaches us how to Photoshop digital bokeh with this tutorial. First, open up Photoshop and create a new canvas with your width at 1920 and your height at 1200. Now, create a new layer and set your background layer as invisible. Now create a medium size circle and re ...more

In order to make a brushed metal effects in Photoshop you should first go to your gradient tool and select a dark grey or a black and click okay. Shift and drag your mouse to create the gradient. Next, go to filter, Noise, and then add noise and change the percent to 40% and c ...more

Cross processing is a Photoshop version of slide processing. The result would be you get all these weird color shifts. For reasons best known to people who run the fashion magazines, this look became very popular in the 1990s. Start by adding in a curves layer. Add a new adjus ...more

This video will show you have to make a glass bar in Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop is a great program for manipulating photo and adding interesting effects to your pictures. The glass bar is distinctive because of it’s colored shading. Step 1 Select the round rectangle tool from ...more

Want to draw a quick scene in Photoshop that contains mountains, clouds and water. Just watch this video. You start with a rough sketch of the mountains and other elements of the scene using a round brushes of varying sizes. The presenter stresses on keeping in mind, the ligh ...more

In this tutorial, we learn how to create a muscle man in Photoshop. Start off by opening up a picture with a man who has his back to the camera and is flexing his muscles. Now, use your tool to make his back look more broad and add more skin to the body. Copy the muscles that ...more

In this video, we learn how to created a chilled look on a photo using PhotoShop. First open up PhotoShop and open up the picture you want to change. First, duplicate the layer on the photo. Then press "control" then "u" and make the picture blue. Now, click "filter" then "blu ...more

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to draw a female eye using Photoshop. Begin by creating a rectangular box. This will contain the eye. Now draw the shape of the eye in the box. Now add in the details. Draw in the shape, eyelashes, eye brows, eye lids and eye ball. Whe ...more

The tutorial shows you how to make a professionally looking Google Chrome logo in Photoshop CS4. To start, download the Google Chrome logo, as well as an Earth picture, in a Zip file from Inteltuts. Next, open the logo file in Photoshop CS4, turn the white background layer int ...more

In this video you will learn how to design how to create a license plate in Adobe Photoshop. To do that that just follow these instructions: Create a new file with 1000x1000 px. Then create a new layer, pick a white color and make a rectangle with the rounded rectangle tool. U ...more

The video opens up with an introduction from the video sponsor, "Godly Tutorials. It then goes to a screen displaying the basic Photoshop screen. Once there, he opens up an image that is completely black. After that he opens up an image editing window that displays the color s ...more

In this video you will learn how to create a chocolate effect using Adobe Photoshop. In order to do that, just follow these steps: Create a new file with 1000x1000 px. Then create a new layer, select the Shape Tool and create a heart with a brown color for the chocolate. Then ...more

Thinkingserious teaches us how to use Adobe Photoshop to transform a normal bmp or jpeg logo into a vector logo that can be MADE as small or large as desired without losing quality. He creates the text, leaves it white and then adds a stroke. He picks the exact color from the ...more

Photoshop can be a daunting program with so many tools to use and details to adjust. This simple guide shows you how to create realistic textures and details on anything or everything you could ever think of by teaching you a few easy steps. He shows you how to take an existin ...more

At first glance there doesn’t look like a way to save your slideshows into a format that you can send to some one. If you look a little further you’ll see you can indeed export them though. It exports the whole slideshow into a PDF Presentation (much like Photoshop’s PDF prese ...more

In this tutorial, we learn how to create Apple's aqua wallpaper in Photoshop. First, create a new canvas in the dimensions you choose. Now, go to the paint pallet and choose a color. Click on ok, then start to paint your background. Select the pen tool, then draw a line from l ...more

Kingsley Singleton teaches us about cropping images in Adobe Photoshop. He discusses the importance of properly cropping pictures, and the basic ways to do so. He first shows us how to properly crop images to ensure that printed pictures are the proper size for the paper. Clic ...more

In this video, we learn how to add texture to a model house in 3D Studio Max. After you have created the model, press 7 on your keyboard. This will activate a new menu telling you how many polygons are in your model. Then, edit the edges and remove them so you have less polygo ...more

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to draw the black Spider-man in Adobe Photo-shop. Begin by drawing the shape of Spider-man and then scan it. Now extract the ink from the white page. Then change the ink from black to white. Make the background black. Then fill the ent ...more

Are you interested painting in 3D mode? Let's try the human mouth first. First, get the basic shade of the lips with a single color. Then, fade out the top side of the upper lip part and give it a less sharp edge. Then paint the depth area above the lips. Edge out the top lip ...more

Bring your Adobe Photoshop images to life with this wonderful effect, the page curl. Create a sense of movement and tell a story by adding the page curl, also known as page peel, effect. This is a simple procedure that you can master once you've watched this video.

Make the texture of a flower petal, porcelain vase or blade of grass really pop in your image! This tutorial goes over the various texture effects you can apply to your Photoshop projects, and a few tips on the best instances to employ them.

Favicons are cute little icons which appear in the browser bar when your website is open. Having this icon adds a little extra branding to your website. You can create your own favicon in Photoshop using the right plugin, and then save it into the root of your site.

Using a primary light source is easy enough, but adding a secondary light source can sometimes be a tricky technique in Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial goes over several lighting principles to create a second, dimmer light source for your artwork.

In this clip, learn how to take two totally unrelated images and manipulate them so that you get one crazy new picture. This is a relatively advanced Photoshop tutorial, so make sure you know what you're doing or you might find it a bit tricky. In this particular video you wil ...more

Can't get enough of the colorized version of It's a Wonderful Life? Bring the same technology to bear on your own digital images. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from th ...more

Photoshop is the perfect program to use when you want to make adjustments to photos you have taken. You can really make a sky pop in any of your pictures by using Photoshop to manipulate the color by following this tutorial. Step 1 Open both the image which needs a new sky a ...more

Need to lighten or darken up a digital picture? You can make most of your lightening and darkening adjustments, even before you learn more complex Photoshop features like curves and levels; It's easy. Here's how. Step 1: Open the photo Open your photo in Photoshop. Click File ...more

Retouching images is one of the main reasons the world loves Photoshop, and version CS4 has added some new twists and tools to your retouching options. Rediscover the Adjustment layers through the powerful Adjustments panel in Photoshop CS4. Colin Smith shows you all the main ...more

With Adobe Acrobat 9, creative professionals can take InDesign, Illustrator, Flash, Photoshop iles and more and convert them to PDF or a unified PDF portfolio making it easier to share files with clients and others. This tutorial shows you how you can use Acrobat 9 Pro easily ...more

This photo retouching Photoshop tutorial is not cleaning up blemishes, but modifying the overall look of a photo. Bert's example in this episode takes a snow covered window eave and adds some children and their reflections to the inside along with falling snow on the outside. ...more

Learn how to create fantasy poster effects on a regular photo by adding atmosphere and artificial lights in Photoshop. Part 1 of 2 - How to Create fantasy poster effects in Photoshop. Create fantasy poster effects in Photoshop - Part 2 of 2. Click through to watch this video o ...more

Learn how to do a cool trick and 'hand color' images in Photoshop. He mostly talks about desaturating images, adding color or playing with blacks and whites.

In this lesson, learn how to selectively maintain the original color aspects in a portion of an image while making the remainder of the image grayscale for an added aesthetic effect.

In this video tutorial you will learn to create the Sin City effect where one portion of the image is in color while the rest is in black and white. Learn how to use layer masks to do the job. You could have as many layer masks as you want as you add in more colors to your ima ...more

Want to create a scary stormy night image using Photoshop? How about adding some lightning! In this video tutorial you will learn a few techniques on creating lightning effects using Adobe Photoshop.

It's been called the "Sin City" effect, and a myriad of other names, but really all you're doing is adding selected color to black and white photos or comic-type images. See how Bert suggests achieving this effect in his tutorial.

Creating a soft fade around your favorite photo adds a lovely touch. Learn how to make a vignette effect in Photoshop Elements.

The Clone Stamp Tool has been a long time favorite for most Photoshop users. However, trying to remove something that is on an angle or a different perspective is often challenging. In this video, Terry White will show you that by using the Vanishing Point feature you can remo ...more

In order to make Custom titles in IMovie '09, you will need the following: Seashore or any other compatible program. First, you'll need to figure out the size of the movie. Click on File and "project properties". It will show you the size. When you go into "Export Movie", you ...more