Visual Effects
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!
After Effects, Photoshop | 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.
In this episode we are creating a cracked skin effect in Photoshop, making it look more three-dimensional and adding blur. Be sure to check out Part 1 where you will learn how to wrap the Texture around a subject’s Face.
Our goal is to take a flat image and make it look like it wraps around the subject’s Face and blend the images together to make the effect realistic. This part one of two episodes teaching how to make cracked Skin in Photoshop.
In today’s episode we learn how to create Light rays and dust particles using a custom Brush in Photoshop. The key to creating “dust” is to make particles that seem completely random.
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This tutorial is perfect for those images that have a strong backlight, such as when you are shooting into the sun. We show you how to enhance a lens flare and create lighting effects that will make your image more interesting.
In today’s episode we show you how to add layer FX to duplicates of a layer. The reason we use duplicates is to stack multiple effects.
Adding some Texture back to the Skin of a model can help bring Depth and life back to their Face. Perfection often looks fake, and character and Texture adds personality to images.
We pick up where we left off in Creating a Movie Poster: Riddick – Part 1. Having taken care of most of the Coloring and Shadow work in part one, now it is time to create the eyes that make this image stand out.
In this episode we show you how to go from an image straight out of camera, into the dark image you see as the final. We cover how to Color your images to strip everything down to one Hue. Then you will learn how to cover your subject in Shadow.
In this episode we show you how to create a custom Brush that creates dust anywhere you want it. All you have to do it paint over the area you would like the dust and erase the rest!
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