I am showing you the steps here, because this is a hands on style of edit, you should really watch the video above first. Begin with this photo that I grabbed from Adobe Stock. 1.…
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Turning a picture of a book into a night scene with spotlight and light shadows (Gobo in Photoshop). In this Photoshop tutorial, we are going to do a few things, but the big one is…
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You can apply this technique to any photo. You can use an overcast day, to add a sunrise or sunset, or you can use a photos where the sunrise didn’t quite hit and really make…
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In this tutorial we are going to create a beam of sunlight falling into a forest. We will even add some pollen to make it look a little more magical. The original is an…
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When I first discovered this technique over 20 years ago, I decided to see how far I could push it. That experimentation led to me creating a series of Photorealistic illustrations entirely made in Photoshop…
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This will work on any version of Photoshop, although Lighting effects looks a little different before CS6, it still works the same. Note: When I add keyboard shortcuts for both Mac and Windows I…
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In this Photoshop Tutorial we are going to use the Lighting effects filter to simulate real lighting. This filter has a lot of powerful features. I’ll show you how to use them in this tutorial.…
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This is the beginning file. It contains 3 layers. A background, a jet and the flame for the afterburner, called exhaust. We are going to animate the jet from the top of the screen…
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