Visual Effects

Create two amazing images using some of the most fun and powerful tools and techniques in Photoshop. Make perfect cutouts with the Pen Tool, match colors, dodge and burn, and learn advanced sharpening.

Photoshop  |  Compositing  |  Easy  |  4 hours  |  9 videos

8 Sample Images

Learn how to convert any photo into a 3D Texture and apply it to Text and photos. This technique will allow you to change the lighting direction of any texture!

Add Depth and movement to photos by adding Motion Blur to Backgrounds. This Simple Technique will make Action and sports photos more dynamic.

Photoshop has an awesome tool for adding Fire to photos. We’ll show you how to work through the effect for adding realistic looking fire to your images.

The Spin Blur allows you to add radial movement to a static image. In this episode, we use the Spin Blur to rotate the wheels and tires of a car, making it look like it is moving!

A shadow helps any subject look grounded in its Background. This tutorial makes creating the perfect Shadow easy and fun!

Have you ever wanted to replace a person’s head with an animal head? Well if so, you are in luck. In this tribute to Father’s Day, we show you how to turn your dear dad into your DEER DAD.

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Learn how to create shapes with clouds in the fun and whimsical tutorial!

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Light rays are fun to create, and can make a big Difference in your photos! Learn how to identify the best place to put Light rays and how to create them using a Brush Tool and a Radial Blur Filter.

We’ll show you how to add some awesome sun rays into your image in Photoshop, but first make sure it makes sense in your image!

We start with creating a custom star brush and then play around with our brush settings to get the perfect shape and scatter for painting the stars in our sky.

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In this tutorial, we’ll show you techniques for creating a space-age composite and then we’ll apply a dynamic parallax effect to create depth and space. Custom brushes and custom Heads-Up-Display graphics are included!

Photoshop, After Effects  |  Visual Effects  |  Advanced  |  4.75 hours  |  13 videos

76 Sample Images  |  2 Photoshop Brushes

Learn How to Add and Remove Fog in Photoshop in today’s episode! This super quick and Easy Tutorial will turn you into a fog wizard. Guaranteed.

Adding Special Effects to images can actually be incredibly simple! All it takes is a little practice with blend modes, Adjustment Layers, and Layer Masks.

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Learn How to Turn on Headlights in Photoshop! Learn all the tricks to creating realistic light, including Lens Flares and light streaks made from scratch.

Add a futuristic look to your images. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to add a light up display over the eye for a cyborg look.

Watch as we show you how to make your subject appear larger than life! Go from photoshoot to Photoshop where we’ll practice the principles of compositing like color and light matching and placing your subject in a new background.

Photoshop  |  Visual Effects  |  Advanced  |  2.75 hours  |  6 videos

6 Sample Images  |  1 Sample PSD  |  3 Photoshop Brushes  |  1 Photoshop Action

Learn to create stunning effects with light and fire in this compositing tutorial. We cover how to blend and composite multiple images, add textures, create blurs, dodge and burn, shape the body, and work in LAB Color Mode to create dynamic colors.

Photoshop  |  Visual Effects  |  Medium  |  1.5 hours  |  4 videos

7 Sample Images  |  1 Photoshop Brush

Are you ready for our fourth and final Halloween episode?? Learn how to shape teeth into sharp fangs to give your images some real “bite!”

In our third Halloween Episode, we show you how to create realistic scars in Photoshop! Wow humans and zombies alike with this scary gash technique!

Making eyes all black is faster than you might think, and is definitely a terrifying effect to add to your images! Join us in the spirit of Halloween as we show you how to black out eyes in Photoshop!

Everyone wants a beautiful out of focus Background once in a while, but what if you can’t achieve the look in-camera? In today’s episode, we show you how to fake Depth of field in Photoshop!

Have you ever wondered if it is possible to create snow from scratch? In today’s episode, we show you that all you need is a custom Brush and some blurs to create your own winter wonderland!

In this episode we show you how to select the green Color Range and define a Layer Mask with the selection. This technique will allow you to cut your subject out from the Background quickly and accurately.

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How to edit a sky photo to make it look more dramatic and how to add a city, altering the Light Levels to match it with the sky.

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In this tutorial, you will learn the photography and Photoshop required to transform your images into an underwater world. Color correct highlights and shadows independently, create light rays, create flowing hair, and learn to light a subject.

Photoshop  |  Visual Effects  |  Advanced  |  2.5 hours  |  6 videos

30 Sample Images  |  3 Photoshop Brushes

Follow along and learn how to take the texture from any background and blend it directly onto a subject. Discover techniques for blending, colorizing, advanced cloning, creating highlights and shadows, making selections and more.

Photoshop  |  Visual Effects  |  Medium  |  1.5 hours  |  7 videos

1 Sample Image

Transform your next portrait image into a special effects scene worthy of a superhero. In this tutorial, you’ll learn to add realistic fire to your photos. Watch as we retouch a background, add fire, create custom brushes and much more.

Photoshop  |  Visual Effects  |  Easy  |  1 hours  |  4 videos

7 Sample Images  |  3 Photoshop Brushes

Shooting later in the day gives you the opportunity to add a warm “sunset Style” to your image in Photoshop. In today’s episode we show you how to Color your image to give it that warm “sunset” feel.

In today’s episode we show you how to add fish to an image of a girl in a bathtub. The Compositing process is simple as long as you keep in mind how Color, Light and Depth work.

A double Exposure is traditionally done using a film camera by taking two different photos on the same Exposure of film. The images will combine in unique ways, giving you the “double exposure” effect.