When stars die, they explode in a brilliant burst of light that releases more energy than our sun releases in its lifetime.

This brilliant burst of light is so bright that for a brief moment can outshine an entire galaxy. Supernovas occur in our galaxy about once every 50 years. Put another way, somewhere in the universe, a star explodes every second.

This is important because the left over debris from these explosions eventually become planets, moons, air, water, and even life itself. Today’s tutorial will demonstrate how to create a supernova that is about to devastate an entire solar system. Our scene will depict a ringed planet and a fleet of ships struggling to get out of the way in time.

Tutorial Details:

* Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
* Difficulty: Advanced
* Estimated Completion Time: 4 Hours



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In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a lonely, fallen, rain-soaked, angel composition in Photoshop using photo manipulation techniques.

Tutorial Details

* Program: Adobe Photoshop
* Difficulty: Intermediate
* Estimated Completion Time: 2 - 3 Hours

Let’s get started!

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In this Photoshop CS5 tutorial, we learn how to download photos from your digital camera to your computer using Adobe Bridge CS5.

Included and installed with every copy of Photoshop CS5, whether you purchased it on its own or as part of one of Adobe's Creative Suite 5 packages, is a separate companion program known as Bridge CS5, a "digital asset manager" that lets us easily locate, manage and organize our ever-growing collection of images.

Of course, it helps if we have some images to manage, which is also where Bridge comes in, as it lets us quickly select and download photos from our digital camera or memory card to the computer!

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In a previous tutorial, we looked at how to move photos between Photoshop documents, an absolutely essential skill for blending photos together since we need both images to be inside the same document before we can do anything interesting with them. In that tutorial, we covered three simple ways to move photos - "drag and drop", the Duplicate Layer command, and "copy and paste" - that work with all versions of Photoshop.

In Photoshop CS4, though, Adobe made some rather big changes to Photoshop's interface by introducing tabbed document windows.

The classic floating document windows that have been part of Photoshop since forever are still around, but Adobe has been making a big push lately to create a consistent looking interface across all of its products so that anyone who's comfortable with using Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign or any Creative Suite program can jump right into any of the other programs and feel at least somewhat familiar with it.

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With its amazing ability to blend photos together in so many interesting ways, Photoshop's creative potential is truly limited only by our own skills and imagination.

But if you're new to Photoshop, blending even two images together can seem like an impossible task because Photoshop opens each new image in its own separate, independent document, and the only way to blend images together is if they're all inside the same document. Fortunately, moving photos from one document into another is easy, as we're about to see!

In this tutorial, we'll look at three common ways to move photos between documents that work with any version of Photoshop, so it makes no difference which version you're using.

If you're using Photoshop CS4 or CS5, you'll want to read the next tutorial as well, as it looks at a potentially confusing change that Adobe made to the interface - tabbed documents - and how to move photos between them. For now, we'll focus only on ways that everyone can use.

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This tutorial shows you how to create the character of "Gambit" from movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" - an illustration tutorial using Photoshop and only 2 standard brushes.

When doing character illustration it's important to not only meet the characters description and have a concept how the character moves or behaves in different positions. It is also important for illustration to put this character into a teasing perspective that makes a book cover, magazine or even a comic stand out.

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In this tutorial, we will show you the steps needed to Create Awesome Black and White Abstract Text Effect in Photoshop. The main focus of this tutorial is the use of layer masking techniques, plus some interesting drawing skills.

This is an intermediate tutorial so some steps can be tricky – if you’re having difficulty with it, we suggest you look into the basics of Photoshop first.

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In this tutorial, we will show you a quick and clever way to Create Realistic Rain Drop via Brush Tool in Photoshop.

This is a basic tutorial, great for beginners who would like to have a practice on the use of brush tool and various other features.

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In this tutorial, we will show you the steps needed to create a Crystallized Water Girl Figure with Disintegration Effect in Photoshop.

We will introduce a few tricks with quickly combine texture with stock image to create great looking effect, plus a few lighting techniques to give your work a great finishing touch.

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In this tutorial, we will show you the steps we took to create this Dark, Super-Natural Magic Figure with Fire Element in Photoshop. We will be revising the techniques such as including masking, vexel hair, and basic retouch skills.

This is an intermediate skills level tutorial.

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