Thursday, 30 September 2010
35 Best Photoshop Photo Editing Tutorials - Photo Retouching
35 Best Photoshop Photo Editing Tutorials - Retouching is important part of Photoshop and commonly used in magazines, books, advertisements. It is not too exaggerated when saying that you see this kind of work every day even if you are not a graphic designer. Many methods can be used to achieve stunning effects, sky is the only limitation. However, it is definitely hard to master and requires you to have strong understanding about layers, color and brightness, sometimes filter effects as well.
Bringing a Stone Statue to Life
Create a Magnificent Rose Concept Design in Photoshop
Today we will create a very interesting concept using an artistic nude and a couple of pink roses. You will learn to retouch photos, manipulate a single element to obtain a more complex result, make use of various adjustment layers, increase the depth of a picture and sharpen the image for a more clean look.
Grunge Photo Edges
In this Photoshop tutorial we'll learn a quick and effective way to create a cool photo edge effect using a single Photoshop grunge brush and a series of clipping masks.
Face Makeover
The general 'makeover' process is quite simple, and can be done in a matter of minutes.
Professional Photographic Retouching Tutorial
This is a 40 minute video, I'd recommend pausing it at regular intervals before continuing so that you fully understand all the processes.
Increase Breast Size
Giving your Photograph an Antique Look
This simple tutorial is an alternative method (from many others available on the Internet) for making a photograph look aged. Suitable for Photoshop beginners.
Superb Skin Airbrush Technique
Airbrush skin like a pro. In this Photoshop retouching tutorial, you’ll learn how to retouch skin like the professionals. Find out how to make skin look healthy without looking plastic or blurred.
Eery-Eye Photo Manipulation
In this Photoshop tutorial I will be walking you through the making of an interesting art piece, “The Eye, the Key of the Soul.”
Remove Blemishes in Photoshop
In this tutorial we are going to use The Spot Healing Brush to removing blemishes. We can greatly improve a portrait by removing skin imperfections which are rarely a desirable feature in a photograph.
Really Cool Digital Make up in Photoshop in 10 min
Why use real make up if you can do a digital make up and make the skin look pretty and smooth. It's simple, fast and very effective.
Dramatic Gritty Effect
In this tutorial we’re going to learn how to add a dramatic, gritty, bronzed effect to your images.
Good and evil photo manipulation
In this tutorial, we’ll be taking a photo and splitting it in two. One side of the photo will be light and colorful while the other in contrast, will be dark, evil and brooding. This is a complete re-write of my popular tutorial. With the new design, I figured it was time to update the tutorial and improve some of the confusing steps.
Create an Illustrated Look From a Photograph
In this tutorial, We'll learn how the create a stylized illustrated look from a photograph. The best part is that it requires no artistic ability! You can do this to any photo and pretty much any subject, but I think it works best with people.
Photoshop Tutorials: Enhancing The Sky In A Photo
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to look at how to enhance the sky in a photo, bringing out details in the clouds, improving the contrast and increasing color saturation, and we can do all these things at once using a very simple technique.
WHITEN TEETH TO IMPROVE A SMILE IN PHOTOSHOP CS4
We can greatly improve every portrait in which the subject is smiling by applying a little digital tooth whitening. In this easy to follow tutorial you will be whitening teeth in minutes.
Cartoon Drawing Tutorial
In this beginners photoshop cs tutorial we will be taking a photograph of a women and with photoshop graphic effects and filter effects we will convert her picture into a cartoon drawing.
Basic Retouch and Colorization
This tutorial will show you how to do a basic retouch, change the colorcast of an image and colorize some of its elements.
How to fake reflections in Photoshop
Adding a reflection is a great way to draw attention and improve a dull photo. Another reason for adding a reflection, is that the water was dirty at the time of shooting and the shot was ruined; or you wanted to add reflections (the real way, making use of the slow shutter speed) but you didn’t have the necessary gear to take the shot (camera with manual settings, tripod, filters etc.).
Achieve HDR Style Effects Using Photoshop and the Lucis Art Filter
This tutorial has three parts. We’ll review adding HDR styling to multiple types of images using the LucisArt filter. In this first part, we’ll work on adding more interest with HDR styling to a portrait photo.
Professional Hair Processing in Photoshop
We are going to learn how to make professional processing of hair in Photoshop, add different shades and bring some shine to the hair.
How I made up Batista as Phantom
Awesome tutorial turning Batista into Phantom :)
How to add vignette to photos in Photoshop
Vignetting is the process of darkening the corners of a photo. Vignette is usually an undesired effect, caused by a number of elements. But sometimes vignetting can help direct the eye on a particular subject of the photo, minimising distractions. Vignetting can also improve photos by giving them an artistic look and making them somehow more interesting. This effect should not be overdone though. Let’s see how to create this effect in Photoshop.
Color your Black and White Photos Easily
Ever watched a Digitally Remastered Film and wondered how they colored in the black and white frames?
Tilt-Shift Photography Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial has been produced using Photoshop CS2 on a PC.
An Easy Way To Find Neutral Gray In An Image
When it comes to color correcting images in Photoshop, removing color casts from the highlight and shadow areas is usually pretty straightforward since it's quite easy to find the brightest and darkest areas in an image. But what about the midtones? How do you find that area in the image that's supposed to be neutral gray? Usually, you guess and hope for the best, since Photoshop doesn't seem to have any way of easily pointing out those midtone gray areas for us. Or does it?
Realistic View Tears on Face
In this Photoshop tutorial I would like to invite your attention to the unique technique how to make realistic view tears effect.
Virtual Makeup In a Snap
This tutorial will teach you how you can quickly and effectively modify an image where too much makeup’s were applied making the skin look fake. Makeup always not the case, the picture can be a magazine scan creating excessive noise on the picture. You can also do this to an old photographs that was scanned. Basically to any picture that has excessive amount of noise.
Create a Face Shattering Effect
Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Add vector flair to model shots
In this tutorial, Camilo Bejarano shows you how to ramp up this juxtaposition, hand-drawing elements before scanning them in and transforming them into dramatic, colourful designs that interact neatly with the photograph.
Super Fast and Easy Facial Retouching
In this tutorial, We will learn how to repair some image noise from a low-quality shot, and I will show you an extremely quick and easy way to smooth out a person’s face. The woman in this shot is not a model, and she has a lot of character so we don’t want to overdo it with the smoothing. We will make it look real and natural.
How To Create Glossie Lips And Change Hair Color
Bringing a Stone Statue to Life
Create a Magnificent Rose Concept Design in Photoshop
Today we will create a very interesting concept using an artistic nude and a couple of pink roses. You will learn to retouch photos, manipulate a single element to obtain a more complex result, make use of various adjustment layers, increase the depth of a picture and sharpen the image for a more clean look.Grunge Photo Edges
In this Photoshop tutorial we'll learn a quick and effective way to create a cool photo edge effect using a single Photoshop grunge brush and a series of clipping masks. Face Makeover
The general 'makeover' process is quite simple, and can be done in a matter of minutes.Professional Photographic Retouching Tutorial
This is a 40 minute video, I'd recommend pausing it at regular intervals before continuing so that you fully understand all the processes. Increase Breast Size
Giving your Photograph an Antique Look
This simple tutorial is an alternative method (from many others available on the Internet) for making a photograph look aged. Suitable for Photoshop beginners.Superb Skin Airbrush Technique
Airbrush skin like a pro. In this Photoshop retouching tutorial, you’ll learn how to retouch skin like the professionals. Find out how to make skin look healthy without looking plastic or blurred.Eery-Eye Photo Manipulation
In this Photoshop tutorial I will be walking you through the making of an interesting art piece, “The Eye, the Key of the Soul.”Remove Blemishes in Photoshop
In this tutorial we are going to use The Spot Healing Brush to removing blemishes. We can greatly improve a portrait by removing skin imperfections which are rarely a desirable feature in a photograph. Really Cool Digital Make up in Photoshop in 10 min
Why use real make up if you can do a digital make up and make the skin look pretty and smooth. It's simple, fast and very effective.Dramatic Gritty Effect
In this tutorial we’re going to learn how to add a dramatic, gritty, bronzed effect to your images.Good and evil photo manipulation
In this tutorial, we’ll be taking a photo and splitting it in two. One side of the photo will be light and colorful while the other in contrast, will be dark, evil and brooding. This is a complete re-write of my popular tutorial. With the new design, I figured it was time to update the tutorial and improve some of the confusing steps.Create an Illustrated Look From a Photograph
In this tutorial, We'll learn how the create a stylized illustrated look from a photograph. The best part is that it requires no artistic ability! You can do this to any photo and pretty much any subject, but I think it works best with people. Photoshop Tutorials: Enhancing The Sky In A Photo
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to look at how to enhance the sky in a photo, bringing out details in the clouds, improving the contrast and increasing color saturation, and we can do all these things at once using a very simple technique.WHITEN TEETH TO IMPROVE A SMILE IN PHOTOSHOP CS4
We can greatly improve every portrait in which the subject is smiling by applying a little digital tooth whitening. In this easy to follow tutorial you will be whitening teeth in minutes.Cartoon Drawing Tutorial
In this beginners photoshop cs tutorial we will be taking a photograph of a women and with photoshop graphic effects and filter effects we will convert her picture into a cartoon drawing.Basic Retouch and Colorization
This tutorial will show you how to do a basic retouch, change the colorcast of an image and colorize some of its elements.How to fake reflections in Photoshop
Adding a reflection is a great way to draw attention and improve a dull photo. Another reason for adding a reflection, is that the water was dirty at the time of shooting and the shot was ruined; or you wanted to add reflections (the real way, making use of the slow shutter speed) but you didn’t have the necessary gear to take the shot (camera with manual settings, tripod, filters etc.).Achieve HDR Style Effects Using Photoshop and the Lucis Art Filter
This tutorial has three parts. We’ll review adding HDR styling to multiple types of images using the LucisArt filter. In this first part, we’ll work on adding more interest with HDR styling to a portrait photo.Professional Hair Processing in Photoshop
We are going to learn how to make professional processing of hair in Photoshop, add different shades and bring some shine to the hair.How I made up Batista as Phantom
Awesome tutorial turning Batista into Phantom :)How to add vignette to photos in Photoshop
Vignetting is the process of darkening the corners of a photo. Vignette is usually an undesired effect, caused by a number of elements. But sometimes vignetting can help direct the eye on a particular subject of the photo, minimising distractions. Vignetting can also improve photos by giving them an artistic look and making them somehow more interesting. This effect should not be overdone though. Let’s see how to create this effect in Photoshop.Color your Black and White Photos Easily
Ever watched a Digitally Remastered Film and wondered how they colored in the black and white frames?Tilt-Shift Photography Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial has been produced using Photoshop CS2 on a PC.An Easy Way To Find Neutral Gray In An Image
When it comes to color correcting images in Photoshop, removing color casts from the highlight and shadow areas is usually pretty straightforward since it's quite easy to find the brightest and darkest areas in an image. But what about the midtones? How do you find that area in the image that's supposed to be neutral gray? Usually, you guess and hope for the best, since Photoshop doesn't seem to have any way of easily pointing out those midtone gray areas for us. Or does it?Realistic View Tears on Face
In this Photoshop tutorial I would like to invite your attention to the unique technique how to make realistic view tears effect.Virtual Makeup In a Snap
This tutorial will teach you how you can quickly and effectively modify an image where too much makeup’s were applied making the skin look fake. Makeup always not the case, the picture can be a magazine scan creating excessive noise on the picture. You can also do this to an old photographs that was scanned. Basically to any picture that has excessive amount of noise.Create a Face Shattering Effect
Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Add vector flair to model shots
In this tutorial, Camilo Bejarano shows you how to ramp up this juxtaposition, hand-drawing elements before scanning them in and transforming them into dramatic, colourful designs that interact neatly with the photograph.Super Fast and Easy Facial Retouching
In this tutorial, We will learn how to repair some image noise from a low-quality shot, and I will show you an extremely quick and easy way to smooth out a person’s face. The woman in this shot is not a model, and she has a lot of character so we don’t want to overdo it with the smoothing. We will make it look real and natural.How To Create Glossie Lips And Change Hair Color
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
26 Awesome CG Monster Character Designs
CG Art : 26 Awesome CG Monster Character Designs - Well, they’re not all monsters but I’m sure you’ll agree, they are some seriously awesome monster character designs!
DinoMonsters, new breed of superheroes by Damir G. Martin
Rebirth Of Thor by Thunder Studio
Garkhar- The Orc Warboss by Herbert Lowis
Hoth Encounter by Chris Wahl
HammerHead by Sven Juhlin
Roughneck Rabbit Mutated by Kai Spannuth
The Fallen by John Kearney
Yeti by Sven Juhlin
el Feto(the Fetus) by Alvaro Buendia
Nemesis by Per Haagensen
Battleogre by Ville-Valtteri Kinnunen
Mountain Patrol by Michal Suchánek
UNLEASHED FURY by robin benes
Zombie Fury by Oscar Perez Ayala
Wired prisoners by Pascal Raimbault
Stubi //~ Darkness Monster ~ LOTR Look by Steve Jubinville
Djävulen (the Devil) by Pär Tingström
Dark Templar by CuidongTian
The Twigman by Davis Lieknins
Balor by dawei lu
Inter-dimensional Predator by Greg Petchkovsky
Gladiator by Jonas Thornqvist
Forest Goblin by Caroline Delen
Gremlins by damien canderle
baron by Tsvetomir Georgiev
DinoMonsters, new breed of superheroes by Damir G. Martin
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be sure to visit home of DinoMonsters© on following link: www.DinoMonsters.com |
Rebirth Of Thor by Thunder Studio
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The fete sacrificed his soul in the old temple under the sea . Thor ,who has been locked there for million years has been waken...Modelated using 3DSMAX 6 and render with brazil.Using ps for texture ,and final composition using photoshop and dfusion |
Garkhar- The Orc Warboss by Herbert Lowis
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This is my first character for my VFS reel.I designed and sculpted the character to begin with, then fully modeled in XSI 4.0.The render itself is a test using XSI 4.2. |
Hoth Encounter by Chris Wahl
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A walkthrough of it's creation can be found via my blog. http://cwtutorials.blogspot.com/2007/02/building-wookie.html |
HammerHead by Sven Juhlin
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I decided to make somthing that is not based on a already excisting super hero, let´s make it my own superhero :) Base mesh in Maya and the fine details are made in Zbrush. Rendered in Maya-mentalray |
Roughneck Rabbit Mutated by Kai Spannuth
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This character is one of four different fighting bunnies I did for a personal concept called RRFC (Roughneck Rabbit's Fight Club - working title).It is a Photoshop CS2 painting based on a pencil drawing. |
The Fallen by John Kearney
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Hey all, I finally got around to finishing off this painting - it took far too long and I'm glad it's out of the way :D Anyhow, it was painted entirely in photoshop using fairly standard brushes and the original image is 5000 pixels high. |
Yeti by Sven Juhlin
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after doing a cartoon character i wanted to make something more scary...It was made in Maya and the fine details in Zbrush. Rendered out in Maya - Mental ray |
el Feto(the Fetus) by Alvaro Buendia
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this is another piece I made for my demoreel at vfs, is the fetus of a strange vicious creature, It's polymodeled in xsi, textured in zbrush and photoshop, and rendered with mentalray, I hope you guys like ti, Im open to any critiques, thank you |
Nemesis by Per Haagensen
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An in-between-projects painting I did earlier this year. This started out as just a concept design for the beast, but I ended up taking it abit further to a more illustrative level. |
Battleogre by Ville-Valtteri Kinnunen
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A character concept/rendering practice I did today. His very unpractical armour design is offset by the two weapons and the shield he's carrying. Or something. |
Mountain Patrol by Michal Suchánek
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The two longtime companions patrol the border of Windy Mountains. They are looking out of their enemy, but nobody has shown up for a very long time. |
UNLEASHED FURY by robin benes
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Done with 3dsmax,Zbrush,Protoshop and rendered with Vray.FInal touch and putting all together done with photoshop. |
Zombie Fury by Oscar Perez Ayala
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This is my last work,I did the model in max6,just to define the initial shapes of each model,after that I used Zbrush to polish the models and add detail.The textures were done in Photoshop and I used Vray for the final rendering. |
Wired prisoners by Pascal Raimbault
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This is a prison where creatures get their head cut off. They are then plugged into a mecha kind of parasite to keep them alive.I was thinking their body could be recycled to create a huge organic thing.I tried to create a wet atmosphere and show a spider web like prison.I used mudbox to create the creature head model. |
Stubi //~ Darkness Monster ~ LOTR Look by Steve Jubinville
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With the collaboration of my friend Yanick Gaudreau, texture / Lighting and me, Steve Jubinville modeling xsi Zbrush. The Hybride Logo is there cause we build this image inside the compagnie but is mine. 100% in 3d, no photoshop effect. |
Djävulen (the Devil) by Pär Tingström
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Djävulen (Swedish for "the Devil") here captured in ZBrush 3 and rendered in Maya/Mr. |
Vranaxxas by Gregory Strangis
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My big inspiration was from films like Predator and Aliens as well as Creature from the Black lagoon and the Predalien design done by Jordu Schell. I used Zbrush for my rough in and retopo and did the textures all in Zbrush and rendering was done with MR in Maya. My goal was to render it to look like a sculpture or maquette made out of resin. |
Dark Templar by CuidongTian
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Most of the highpoly is in maya, the body is in zbrush, render by mentalray, and composite in shake. Hope you guys like it. |
The Twigman by Davis Lieknins
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this is my newest work done in maya, zbrsuh, photoshop. rendered with mental ray. the character Twigman comes from my cildhood memories when my parents threatened me with 'Twigman' who will come and birch me because of unfinished tasks and messed up room. |
Balor by dawei lu
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This picture is a character design spend me around 20 work hours. |
Inter-dimensional Predator by Greg Petchkovsky
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I've finally gotten around to making this more polished image, but its still not everything I meant it to be (I wanted to make the body, and an environment). |
Gladiator by Jonas Thornqvist
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It's a character Im doing for a longer animation and this is a frame from the longer animation that I just turned into this image. Model done in XSI and then the some finer details and definition was added in Zbrush. Textures was made using Zbrush and Photoshop and Final shading and rendering was done in 3dsmax. |
Forest Goblin by Caroline Delen
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Inspired by Brian Froud's goblins. This creature was modelled in my spare time over the last couple of months. Shaded version of the mesh can be viewed on my site. |
Gremlins by damien canderle
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I made this charactere as a fan art of the gremlins movies. These movie were really great and i wanted to make one of these monsters in 3D. |
baron by Tsvetomir Georgiev
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i just wanted to make something like doom baron , i like the design of this creature inspiration DOOM 3 and Aaron Sims |
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