How to Change a White Background to Transparent with Photoshop
Tutorialsby Tony Thomas
This tutorial will teach you an effective method for isolating graphics such as logos and icons from white backgrounds. We essentially use the graphic to mask itself off from the background. It is always preferable to get the original graphics if possible, but for those situations where a flat image...
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Convert a Portrait to an Oil Painting in Photoshop Without the Oil Paint Filter
Tutorialsby Diego Sanchez
In Photoshop, making your image look like an Oil Painting is very easy, specially if you have the Oil Paint Filter installed. But not all Photoshop versions has this filter by default. Fortunately, there is a way around to make this effect without the Oil Paint Filter, and all you need is just your ...
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How to Use the Content Aware Scale in Photoshop
Tutorialsby Diego Sanchez
In the latest Photoshop versions the Content Aware Scale was included to simplify our work when we need to scale an objetc inside a photo or make some changes to it. It is a tool that not many users are aware of but that will speed up our work. To see how easy is to use it and how powerful and easy...
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How to Easily Make Wavy Lines in Illustrator
Tutorialsby Diego Sanchez
As you may know, Illustrator has a wide range of powerful tools and sometimes finding the best one to achieve a certain result could be a bit confusing if you do not know them all. Of course any method you choose to make your design is 100% valid, but it is good to know that there are some time-savi...
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How to Make an editable 3D Line Text Effect in Illustrator
Tutorialsby Diego Sanchez
Sometimes complex effects may take a long time to be made if you do not know which tools to use, but if you use the right ones they are very simple to achieve. Illustrator has a wide range of tools available to make the process of creating very complex effects a breeze. In this tutorial, you will le...
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How to Digitally White Wash a Wood Texture in Photoshop
Tutorialsby Tony Thomas
This tutorial will share with you a cool technique that I discovered when attempting to recreate a white washed wood effect using nothing but a regular old wood texture and Photoshop. This technique works surprisingly well with almost any wood texture providing you are comfortable with identifying a...
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How to Easily Enhance Any Image With a Single Adjustment Layer
Tutorialsby Diego Sanchez
There are many different ways to enhance an image in Photoshop, by using levels, curves, brightness, contrast, color balance, etc. But all those methods requires too many fine tuning settings and they are only made to be used on that specific image. But we can achieve a similar end result using noth...
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How to Create a VHS Distortion Image Effect with Photoshop
Tutorialsby Tony Thomas
This tutorial will teach you how to recreate the classic distortion effect that used to occur when pausing a VHS cassette (perhaps slightly exaggerated). We will use Smart Objects, Adjustment Layers, Filters and Masks within Photoshop to achieve this effect....
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How to Make a Fractal Mirror Effect in Photoshop
Tutorialsby Diego Sanchez
A popular effect recently is the slivering of a face into multiple panes, called “Fractal Mirror”. It's a cool enough look that even singers and bands use this effect for their album covers. Doing the base of this effect in Photoshop is super simple, but it can become a bit more complex if you want ...
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How to Make a Graffiti Text Effect in Photoshop
Tutorialsby Diego Sanchez
Graffiti has been around for many years as part of the urban culture in forms of simple writing to very complex drawings and designs. Although graffiti is illegal in most countries, there is a way that you can express yourself trough graffiti and it is by making it in Photoshop. Today, you will lear...
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How to Easily Make a Soundwave in Photoshop
Tutorialsby Diego Sanchez
Making a complex soundwave in Photoshop is not as complex as you may think. In fact, it is very easy if you know which tools to use. In this tutorial, and in less than 5 minutes you will be able to make your own colorful soundwave starting from a single 1 px line. There are not extra plugins involve...
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How to Create an Abstract Wire Mesh Wave Background with Illustrator and Photoshop
Tutorialsby Tony Thomas
This tutorial will teach you how to use a combination of Illustrator and Photoshop techniques to produce a stunning abstract background featuring wire mesh waves and gradients....
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