In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto's ability with Peter Petrelli's power. We will use images and filters to produce this wave explosion effect. Even though it may look like a difficult tut ...

The Lucisart plugin has been quite popular and still emerges daily on photos pushing the hdr-effect look beyond its boundaries.It's a very handy plugin in order to recover detail from your images. When applying this filter to selections or sep ...

Learn how to sharpen an image on the edges only with this Photoshop tutorial. Ordinary sharpening methods sharpen the entire image including the areas that you don't want sharpened such as the skin, clouds, etc. But with this tutorial, you'll ...

In this tutorial, we're going to take this image : And make it look like the following one thanks to a texture, blending modes and layer masks : This process works best for images with a grayish neutral background, so I took one sho ...

Bram from SweetBeat shows you how he drew the arrows on this image : - Open a new document at for example 20x20 cm - Create a 'new layer' by going to LAYER ---> NEW LAYER or clicking the 'new layer' icon in the layers palette - ...

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how to take a single photograph and turn it into a collage of polaroids, with each polaroid containing a small section of the overall image. You can use this effect with lots of different ...

How to draw an 'Asian sun' with photoshop tutorial by SweetBeat : -open a new document 5cmx10cm 72dpi -select the rectangular marquee tool and draw a rectangular of 4cm width and 5cm height. -go to paint bucket tool and fill in the selected ...

Firstly, we need to adjust the levels; So Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels. Rather than manipulating the layers together as RGB, we'll do them one at a time to create the desired effect. Here are the settings I've used for each a ...

Here's a tutorial in order to be in control of a lens flare and be able to make adjustments at will after the implementation of it : Get an image you wish to add a lens flare to, click on 'new layer' or go to Layer --> New ---> Layer ...

Explosions are cool. Seriously cool. So when I received some e-mails asking about how to create a break-apart, explosion effect, I knew it'd be worth making a tutorial on. Read on to find out how to break apart a body, then add some awesome l ...

This Photoshop tutorial by SweetBeat will show you how to design and use your own background brush Making the brush -Make a new document 60x37cm and make sure that the foreground and background colours are set to black and white. ...

In this tutorial I'll retouch this girls portraits by enhancing the skin, eyes and lips. For the start i type Ctrl+j to make a copy of the layer ..to see at the end what we`ve done.. We see she has some imperfection..so we use the Healin ...

"Photoshop and Elements allow for layer blend modes that change the way layers react with each other. Some of them you will use in every day work. If you have a photo that is too dark, for example, many times a q ...

This photoshop tutorial will show you a fast technique to enhance eyes and make them stand out. Let's start with a typical flat image.This technique works best for light-colored eyes. first off go to the DODGE tool and choose MIDTON ...

This tutorial will show you how to transform a standard color photo into a mix of colors, black and white and sepia in a fast and easy process. Start with your original and add an adjustment layer of channel mixer. Layer ---> New ad ...