With these shooting tips and Photoshop techniques, the skies in your photos will look their best without detracting from the rest of the image.

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We all love gadgets, either collecting them or designing them. Gadgets are the favorite subjects for many designers. Designing them is an incredible way to improve your general skills in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator (or any other design-related tool). You will learn a lot of new stuff everytime you create such designs, even if you are an expert in it. Once you know the basics, you can pretty much experiment a lot and create cool concept designs.

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Professional digital matte painter Sarel Theron shows you how to create an epic, Hollywood-style scene that recreates the fabled Lost City of the Incas in incredible detail with the liberal use of the Clone Stamp tool.
Since the birth of cinema, movie- makers have created stunning special effects by combining still matte paintings with live-action film. Matte painting techniques were once closely guarded secrets that never left the big studios.

Today however, with the aid of modern personal computers, creating epic Hollywood-style matte paintings is finally within everyone’s reach.

For this masterclass, professional matte painter Sarel Theron reveals the process and insider secrets of matte creation.

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In this tutorial you will learn how to create an eerie photo-manipulation using some great blending options, lighting techniques and drawing techniques.

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For this tutorial we will be showing you how to combine various photos all inspired by nature into a collective and unified illustration.

The design will use coloring and lighting effects along with advanced masking techniques. If you are ready to go then fire up Photoshop and let’s get rocking!

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In this tutorial you will learn how to combine various elements to design a creative retro-styled collage poster.

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Today we will be showing you how to take an image of a model and turn it into a futuristic composition that uses various Photoshop techniques.

We will be doing some work with masks and implementing color and light effects to achieve the end result. If you are ready then start up Photoshop and let’s get started.

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This tutorial shows how to convert a paper drawing to a digital artwork in Photoshop using a scanned version of the paper art.

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to design a creative and unusual Valentine's heart with the shiny effects and splatter texture.

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Today we will create a conceptual monotone composition based on the idea of breaking our own boundaries. We will use stock photos, a bit of imagination and of course, Photoshop. The tutorial is well explained, with high quality step pictures.

Along with creating this, you will learn how to:
- use channels to create advanced selections
- make use of adjustment tools
- combine various tools
- create shading and lighting
- use blending modes
- use adjustment layers
- adjust tones in a picture
- create a more clean look for your image
- use shortcuts for a smoother work flow
- tips and tricks for cool compositions

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