Special Effects

Tips to Create an Awesome Landscape

Aug 16, Episode 355 Enhancing, Photoshop, Post-Production, Video

Easy tips and techniques to create an awesome landscape image...

Using Filters to Add Effects

Apr 27, Episode 286 Photoshop, Post-Production, Styling, Tools

See the best ways to work with filters by building them up in layers and changing blend modes...

How to make Fake Blood In Photoshop

Oct 24, Episode 179 Photoshop, Styling

In this tutorial, Aaron Nace covers how to create blood from scratch using Photoshop. This is a special episode for Halloween week. We decided to make a place for the blood to come out of the model, so some bite holes seemed appropriate. To make the holes in h...

How to make Lady Gaga Bad Romance Eyes

Oct 11, Episode 149 Photoshop, Styling

In today's episode we cover how to create Lady Gaga's googley-eyes from her Bad Romance video using a few Photoshop tricks....

How to make Lady Gaga Born This Way Horns

Oct 10, Episode 148 Photoshop, Styling

Welcome to Lady Gaga week! Starting things out with a bang we are going to go through how to create Lady Gaga style horns she has been recently sporting since Born This Way has been released....

From Portrait to Painting

Oct 07, Episode 147 Photoshop, Styling

In today's episode we turn a portrait into a wonderful work of art using Photoshop custom brushes, various filters, and mixing blending modes. The first and most important step is to start with a photograph you love because this tutorial is a bit more in-depth...

Cracked Skin Made Easy

Sep 15, Episode 132 Photoshop, Styling

I feel a bit like Narrator talking to Tyler Durden in Fight Club in this episode when he says" I felt like destroying something beautiful." This is a special episode dedicated to John who asked if I could make someone have cracked skin....