Step 15 Now that the background is finished, we can focus our attention on the young man and the light effects. The first thing to do is to extract the boy from the background and paste it into the main canvas. Next lets apply the technique...

Step 8 Now we have to add the scratched metallic effect of the background to the text too. So download the WeGraphics Scratched metallic textures (the free sample will work fine). Place the texture into the canvas, resize it (Cmd/Ctrl + T)...

Final Product What Youll Be Creating Creating light effects is often a pretty easy process. Giving those light effects life and making them resemble real-life objects can require a bit more skill, time, and patience. Today, we will demonstr...

Final Product What Youll Be Creating Download Source Files Getting perfectly straight or level photos can be hard in some circumstances. Uneven ground or an off-centred camera can result in a crooked photo, and lower its quality. Using Phot...

Step 10 Select the brush tool (B). Set the hardness to about 50% and outline the owl. Once outlined, use either the Fill tool to fill in the inside. Or just use a bigger brush and paint it in. Use the magic wand tool and select the inside r...

Final Product What Youll Be Creating Today, we will demonstrate how to combine several images to create a nature inspired photo manipulation. Lets get started! Tutorial Assets Owl Tree Hand Grunge Texture Clouds Step 1 To start, lets set up...

Step 15 Duplicate FAKE_RAIN, call it FAKE_RAIN_BGROUND and move it below the VIGNETTE layer on the layers palette. Rotate it 10 degrees or so and change the Layer Opacity to 75%. Step 16 Create a new Gradient Map Adjustment Layer directly a...

Step 8 Add a new layer directly above CLOUD and fill it with 60% black. Set the Blending Mode to Overlay (it should disappear). Select the Burn Tool and set to a big brush (917 diameter, 0% hardness), set the Range to Midtones and the Expos...

Final Product What Youll Be Creating There are a plethora of ways to treat a portrait, for a myriad of uses, but that is for another feature. Lets tackle adding drama or a cinematic quality to a regular, humdrum portrait. Lets even throw in...

Step 17 Now this is a long step because well add some adjustment layers so the snowman wont look like a desktop icon . Add some curves. Go to Filter Filter Gallery Watercolor and make the settings like in the image. Set the opacity to about...