Want to create a beautiful, dreamlike painting full of subtle details but with a bold 80s colour scheme? Today we show you how in this tutorial on creating an airbrushed portrait tapping the glory days of Athena posters

You’ll learn how to improve your brush skills, working with a variety of different brush heads for varying effects and you’ll learn how to get the most out of colouring, masking and layer blending modes.

You’ll also learn the benefit of working with lots of layers in a digital painting, as this allows you to work on elements separately and quickly adjust detail and colouring.



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Learn how to create a cool retro vintage WWII style poster: Photoshop Tutorial.

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To create a realistic matte painting, or any artwork for that matter, it is important to understand the properties of light, atmospherics, color and perspective. Proper perspective and use of light can bring out the true scale and depth to any image, while using the wrong lighting or perspective can make the artwork feel pasted together, or make it seem as though it is a miniature model instead of a realistically scaled image.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to take a concept, develop it using linear perspective, then add in value and color perspectives, and then apply photographic references to achieve a realistic matte painting. You’ll then learn how to apply adjustments to achieve realistic scale, and understand the properties of light and atmospherics for realism. Lastly, you’ll learn some great compositional techniques.

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Learn how to make a set of 5 stylish blog icons for your personal blogs or e-magazine in quick and easy steps.

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Hello and welcome to another PS tutorial! For today we will create a travel/booking website template in Photoshop. If you are a travel agent and you are looking to change the design of your agency, this tutorial it will be really useful for you. In the same time, if you are an freelancer and you have to create a booking/travel website for your client, this tutorial it will definitely help you.

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In this tutorial we will use a broken egg as the base of the bird. The creation of the egg will be very simple but lengthy. So let's get started!

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In this tutorial we will show you how to manipulate a photo of a car to blend in with its surroundings similar to how a chameleon lizard blends in with its surroundings in nature.

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In this tutorial, we will be learning how to create a shiny, glowing realistic pearl. We will be learning a lot of interesting stuff in layer styles. Layer Styles is definitely one of my favorite features in Photoshop. We can achieve a lot of effects using this.

We’ll combine layer styles and generous amounts of shininess to create the perfect shiny pearl. We shall give more emphasis on ‘realism’ which is very important to give out the elegant appearance of a real pearl.

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In this tutorial we will be discussing the first 4 sharpening techniques (sharpen, sharpen edges, sharpen more and unsharp mask) in Photoshop. We will show you the advantages and disadvantages of each technique. Each technique will be explained in detail on what it does and its limitations. Along the way, we will give you tips and tricks such as how to partially sharpen an image. Don’t worry if these 4 different techniques do not sharpen your image perfectly because we will be having more sharpening tutorials in the next few courses.

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James Cameron’s movie Avatar needs no introduction. The movie focuses on Navi, which is an indigenous humanoids race who stays on a planet named Pandora. While the TV channels and news portals are all full of praises for the technology used in the production of this film and its virtues, many designers found themselves instilled with great inspiration from the Navi characters after watching the film. So, for all you designers who wish to create such Navi images, the given Photoshop tutorial is sure to be of great help. This tutorial elaborates how you can create a Navi image of any usual photo as you add impressive text and backgrounds to make an Avatar movie poster. Let us begin to see how you can get this amazing Navi photo effect in just 8 easy steps.

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