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Photoshop Star has teamed up with UPrinting to give away 3 sets of 250pcs. Flyers for each winner. Read more to see how you can win!

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In Part 2 (of two) of this tutorial learn how you can create the effect of object rapid movement using as an example a fast moving car.

Final Image Preview

Step 1

Open PSD file that was created on Part 1 of this tutorial. Duplicate car layer by selecting car layer and using Ctrl+J. On new layer (Car Copy) go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur:

Step 2

Apply Edit > Transform > Skew to this layer:

Step 3

Change blending layer mode to Dissolve.

Step 4

Finally set Opacity for this layer to 10%.

Step 5

Select Eraser Tool with soft-edged brush and erase dust in the hood area and side of the car.

Step 6

Duplicate layer with the car once more (Car Copy 2) and merge this layer with layer we’ve just been working on (Car Copy) . As a result we get three layers: background layer, layer with the car and the layer with processed car (it’s situated above others).

Step 7

Select top layer and go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur.

Step 8

Change blending layer mode to Lighten.

Step 9

Select Eraser Tool with soft-edged brush again and erase the exposed part in hood area.

Step 10

Merge all layers with the car and we will have again only two layers: background layer and car layer. Duplicate car layer using Ctrl+J and go to Filter > Liquify for copied layer.

On the end you should have something similar to what i have:

Step 11

Change blending layer mode to Linear Dodge (Add).

Step 12

Select Eraser Tool with soft-edged brush one more time and erase everything from the front side of the car.

Step 13

Create a new layer on top. Go to Gradient Tool, select Transparent Rainbow (standard Photoshop gradient) and make sure option Linear Gradient is selected. Fill new layer with this gradient.

Step 14

Go to Edit > Transformer > Warp with layer selected.

Step 15

Select Eraser Tool with soft-edged brush one more time and erase gradient from the front side of the car.

Step 16

Change blending layer mode to Overlay.

Final Image

Create a new layer, assign Soft Light blending mode for it. Pick up soft-edged brush and using the Brush Tool lighten the nearest headlight and the hood around the headlight and darken the edges of the image. To lighten we use white color (#ffffff), to darken – the black one (#000000). In the end set the layer opacity down to about 30%.

And our tutorial is finished.

Part 1

Part 1 of this tutorial has been published here.

In Part 1 (of two) of this tutorial learn how you can create the effect of object rapid movement using as an example a fast moving car.

Final Image Preview

Resources

• Sportscar in Dublin

Step 1

Start by opening photo on Photoshop. Duplicate layer with Ctrl+J. With Polygonal Lasso Tool selected cut out the car from the copied layer.

Step 2

When you have car selected go to Select > Inverse and press Del. If you turn off the visibility of the layer with photo you should have something like this:

Step 3

Turn back on visibility of background layer. We’ll work with the background layer. Go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur:

Step 4

Select car layer and duplicate it with Ctrl+J. Go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur for the copied layer:

Select the Eraser Tool with soft-edged brush and erase the blurred layer in the hood area.

Merge layers with car by selecting both layers and pressing Ctrl+E.

Step 5

Now select the wheel rim area with the Polygonal Lasso Tool.

Copy selection to a new layer by pressing Ctrl+J.

Go to Edit > Transformer > Scale to scale the wheel rim to get something similar to my screenshot below.

Go to Edit > Transformer > Warp.

Still with wheel rim selected go to Select > Load Selection. After that apply Filter > Blur > Radial Blur with following settings:

Move wheel rim back to his place and apply Edit Warp again.

Step 6

Repeat step 5 all over for the other wheel rim in the back. In the end merge all layers except background layer and we will have only two layers.

Part 2

Part 2 of this tutorial coming soon.

This tutorial explains how to use Photoshop layer styles, filters, and brushes to create an awesome sparkly text effect.

Author: Rose

Final Image Preview

Step 1

Create a new document that is 1350 x 1000 px. Set the Foreground color to #525252, and the Background color to #0d0d0d. Create a Radial Gradient from the center of the document to one of it corners making sure that you selected Foreground to Background gradient preset.

Go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise. Set the Amount to 5, the Distribution to Uniform, and check the Monochromatic box.

Step 2

Create the text using the color #ffeb0f. The font used is Titania and the size is 377px. Duplicate the text layer so you have two copies.

Double click on the copy text layer (the one on the top) to apply the following styles:

– Drop Shadow: Change the color to #383838, and the Size to 10.

– Inner Shadow: Change the color to #625841, the Size to 13, and the Contour to Half Round.

– Bevel and Emboss: Change the Depth to 450, the Size to 10, the Gloss Contour to Log, and check the Anti-aliased box. Also, change the Highlight Mode color to #fff119, and the Shadow Mode color to #8a7b3e.

– Contour: Just check the Anti-aliased box

This is what the text should look like:

Step 3

Press the Ctrl/Command key, and while still pressing, click on the text layer thumbnail (icon) to create a selection.

Set the Foreground color to #7d6905 and the Background color to #d3c614. Create a new layer on top of all layers and call it “texture”. Fill the selection with the Foreground color, and press Ctrl/Command + D to get rid of the selection.

Step 4

Now, we are going to use a couple of filters to create the sparkly texture. Start by going to Filter > Sketch > Notepaper. Change the Image Balance to 25, the Graininess to 10, and the Relief to 11.

Go to Filter > Texture > Stained Glass. Change the Cell Size to 2, the Border Thickness to 4, and the Light Intensity to 1. The Light Intensity property adds brightness to the center of the texture, so you can increase the value if you want more brightness in the center.

Finally, go to Filter > Stylize > Glowing Edges. Change the Egde Width to 2, the Edge Brightness to 10, and the Smoothness to 5.

Change the “texture” layer’s Blend Mode to Overlay.

That’s it for the text effect. Next, we’re going to add some sparkles using the Brush tool.

Step 5

Open the Brush panel (Window > Brush), and choose a hard round brush. Change the size to 10px, and set the Spacing to something around 322%.

Under Shape Dynamics, change the Size Jitter to 100%, the Roundness Jitter to 62%, and the Minimum Roundness to 25%.

Under Scattering, Change the Scatter value to 431%.

Finally, under Color Dynamics, change the Foreground/Background Jitter to 100%, and the Brightness Jitter to 50%. This will give the sparkles different brightness and color values.

Step 6

Right click on the text layer, and choose Create Work Path.

Make the color #d3c614 the Foreground color, and change the Background color to #ffff08. Create a new layer on top of all layers and call it “sparkles”, and grab the Direct Selection Tool.

Right click on the path, and choose Stroke Path.

Choose Brush from the Tool drop down menu, and make sure the Simulate Pressure box is un-checked.

This will stroke the path with the brush you’ve just created.

Change the “sparkles” layer’s Blend Mode to Linear Light.

Step 7

The last thing we’re going to do is add more shadow to the text, so that it blends more with the background, and has more depth. To do that, Double click on the original (bottom) text layer, un-check the Use Global Light box (as we want to change the direction of the shadow), and change the Angle to -20. Also, change the Distance to 8, and the Size to 10.

Change the Fill value of the original text layer to 0, so that only the shadow is visible.

Final Image

Today I prepared for you one interesting tutorial about old style photo retouching. This effect will be interesting for experts in photo retouching and photo effects.

Final Image Preview

Resources

• Alexandra Portrait

Step 1

Open photo and resize it by using Image > Image Size to 667 px width and 1000px height.

Step 2

Before we start face retouching, I would like to increase brightness and contrast of the photo by using Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast with similar settings to these:

Step 3

Then we have to remove all the skin defects from the face. We have to process every small area with different color. In the beginning select the Eyedropper Tool to take color sample of some certain area on the face and then use the Brush Tool (Opacity: 10%) to paint this area with sample color.

Repeat same action a few more times to remove all visible defects on the skin.

Step 4

Now we have to change color of photo color by going to Image > Adjustments > Color Balance:

Step 5

We need to add some noise to the photo to remove this blur effect. For now set foreground and background colors as #ffffff and #e5f0ff and then apply Filter > Distort > Diffuse Glow.

Step 5

On this step we are going to reduce brightness. Go to use Image > Adjustments > Levels and after photo will become a little darker.

Step 6

Now we are going to apply filters for stylizing photo. Duplicate layer with photo by using Ctrl+J. On new layer apply Filter > Artistic > Poster Edges with these settings:

Step 7

Now apply Filter > Blur > Smart Blur.

Step 8

Update layer mode to Hard Light and layer opacity to 60%.

Step 9

Use Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels to create adjustment layer with next presets above all the layers.

Step 10

Create another adjustment layer with different presets by using Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast.

Final Image

We got very interesting photo retouching effect. Also you can use different colors and experiment with other techniques. Hope you will get the same good results or even better!

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Today i decided to create one new tutorial where you can learn how to create comic strip effect from any photo you want.

Final Image Preview

Resources

• Teen Free Photo

Step 1

Start by opening photo in Photoshop. Resize image to 669px width and 1000px height by going to Image > Image Size.

Step 2

The picture should be black & white. Go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate to convert color picture to monochrome.

Step 3

Duplicate layer (Ctrl+J) and apply Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast with following settings to duplicated layer:

Step 4

Apply Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen More.

Step 5

Apply Image > Adjustments > Levels with following settings:

Step 6

Right now we have 2 layers: black and white photo and upper layer where we apllied all those effects. Choose the Eraser Tool and soft-edged brush with 200 px in diameter and remove carefully the white color around the girl on the upper layer. In the end you will have something similar to my image below.

Step 7

Now we need to add contrast. Copy the upper layer with effects (Ctrl+J) and blur copied layer by using Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with next settings:

Step 8

Assign Darker Color blending mode to this layer.

Step 9

The image of the girl should look more bright, so let’s darken the area around her. For this purpose we’ll create a new layer, choose the Brush Tool and soft-edged brush with 400 px in diameter with foregound color #000000 and begin to darken the area around the girl.

Step 10

Change layer opacity to 76%.

Step 11

Create a new layer on top. Apply Filter > Render > Clouds to it.

Then apply Filter > Render > Fibers with the settings, that are shown in the screenshot below:

We get this result:

Step 12

We apply now Filter > Blur > Motion Blur with the following settings:

To increase the effect, keep applying filter hitting Ctrl+F until you get the result as in the image below:

Step 13

Apply Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast:

Step 14

After that apply Image > Adjustments > Levels to lighten the image.

Step 15

Finally, assign Overlay blending mode to this layer.

Step 16

Duplicate layer (Ctrl+J) and go to Edit > Transform > Distort and do like i have on screenshot below.

Step 17

Duplicate layer (Ctrl+J) with the inclined strokes and move to the right to fill empty space.

Step 18

Select Custom Shape Tool and one of the standard shapes (Talk1 from Talk Bubbles) and draw a shape with white color (#ffffff).

Step 19

Go to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal to correctly position talk bubble. After that, apply Stroke layer style to this layer.

Final Image

Try with different photos to gain the best possible effect. Good luck!

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This tutorial will show you how to create a futuristic space-style text effect, using Photoshop layer styles and a couple of filters.

Author: Rose

Final Image Preview

Resources

• Mail Ray Stuff font

Step 1

Create a new document that is 1350 x 1000 px. Set the Foreground color to #4ea6d0, and the Background color to #195081. Create a Radial Gradient from the center of the document to one of it corners.

Step 2

Set the Foreground color to #b2ebfc. Go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise. Change the Amount to 5, the Distribution to Gaussian, and check the Monochromatic box.

Step 3

Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, and change the Radius to 0.3.

Step 4

Create the text using the color #3684a1, the font used is Mail Ray Stuff, and the size is 450 px.

Step 5

Double Click on the text layer to apply the following styles:

– Inner Shadow: Change the color to #023e63, the Distance to 0, and the Size to 8.

– Outer Glow: Change the Blend Mode to Vivid Light, the color to #72feff, the Size to 10, and the Range to 100%.

– Inner Glow: Change the Blend Mode to Overlay, the color to #cffcff, the Choke to 10, and the Size to 30.

– Bevel and Emboss: Change the Technique to Chisel Hard, the Depth to 250, and the Size to 50. Remove the check next to Use Global Light. Change the Altitude to 15, the Gloss Contour to Valley – Low, and check the Anti-aliased box. Finally, change the Shadow Mode color to #3c596b.

If you don’t have Valley – Low Contour then you need to:
1 – Go to Edit > Preset Manager. Choose Contours from the drop down menu.
2 – Click on the pop-up menu arrow, and choose Contours.
3 – Click Append to add the new contours to the original ones.
4 – The contours are now loaded.

– Contour: Choose Notched Slope, and check the Anti-aliased box as well.

The text should look like this:

Step 6

Press the Ctrl/Command key, and while it’s still pressed, click on the text layer’s thumbnail to create a selection. Create a new layer on top of the text layer and call it “texture”.

Step 7

Set the Foreground color to #7fb9ce and the Background color to #4e6e86, then go to Filter > Render > Clouds. Press Ctrl + D to get rid of the selection afterwards.

Step 8

Go to Filter > Artistic > Rough Pastels. Change the Stroke Length to 30, the Stroke Detail to 17, the Texture to Canvas, the Scaling to 115, the Relief to 50, and the Light to Bottom Left.

This is what you should get.

Change the “texture” layer’s Blend Mode to Overlay. That’s it for the texture.

Step 9

– Open the Brush panel (Window -> Brush), and choose the Star 26 pixels brush. Change the Spacing to 50%.

– Under Shape Dynamics, change both the Size Jitter and the Angle Jitter to 100%.

– Under Scattering, change the Scatter value to 1000%, and check Both Axes box. Change the Count to 2, or whatever value you like (A higher value gives more sparkles).

Step 10

– Create a new layer on top of the Background layer and under the text layer, call it “sparkles”. Right click on the text layer and choose Create Work Path.

– Select the “sparkles” layer so that it is the active layer. Set the Foreground color #72feff, and grab the Direct Selection Tool. Right click on the path and choose Stroke Path.

– Choose Brush from the Tool drop down menu, and make sure that the Simulate Pressure box is un-checked.

– The Path will be stroked with the sparkles brush. Hit Enter/Return to get rid of the path.

Step 11

Choose a soft round brush, the size should be something around 50px, and set the Foreground color to #ffffff (White). Create a new layer on top of all layers and call it “soft brush”, then, change its Blend Mode to Overlay.

With the soft brush, start clicking where there are bright areas on the text, this will make those highlights look even brighter. You can change the size of the brush as you like.

Final Image

And this is the final effect.

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Today i decided to create one new tutorial where you can learn how to do professional facial retouching that professionals use for photo processing in fashion magazines.

Final Image Preview

Resources

• Portrait of a girl

Step 1

Open photo and resize it by using Image > Image Size to 1500 px width and 1000px height.

Step 2

Let’s start by correcting color on photo. Copy layer by using Ctrl+J. Blur photo a bit using Fliter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with following parameters:

Step 3

Change layer blending mode to Color for this layer.

Step 4

Go to Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options and on Advanced Blending remove check marks from R and G channels.

Now adjust color slightly to your taste on this layer using Image > Adjustments > Curves.

Step 5

Now we are going to remove skin defects. Create a new layer. Choose the Healing Brush Tool, then select Sampled in Source parameter and select All Layers for Sample parameter. Choose the part of the face, that we’ll be using as a sample.

Step 6

Using the Healing Brush Tool (choose soft edges of the brush) and holding the Alt button we choose the most clear skin area, then overlay the sample image on the problem skin area to remove the defect.

Step 7

Then go to forehead area and remove defects by using the same method.

Step 8

We also remove small wrinkles that possibly annoys the eye (still working with the Healing Brush Tool).

Step 9

In the end we should have the following result:

You can see on photo below where i applied Healing Brush Tool:

Step 10

Up to this moment we should have three layers – bottom layer (original photo), layer with color correction and the upper layer, on which we have carried out skin cleaning. Copy all the three layers twice by using Ctrl+J for each layer, then move the copies of the three layers grouping them like on image below. Finally merge both new layer groups together, using Ctrl+E and you will have five layers. Temporarily turn off visibility of the upper layer and work on the other layer (Layer 1 copy).

Step 11

We are going to work on creating the perfect skin texture. Choose the Polygonal Lasso Tool and select the face (it’s not necessary to select regularly).

Step 12

Invert the selection using Select > Inverse and delete everything that is situated in the selected area by pressing Delete button. On the layer you should only have the face now. Select eyebrow area using the Polygonal Lasso Tool and delete it using Delete button.

Step 13

Press Ctrl+D to deselect selected area. Remove the second eyebrow and start deleting eyes on the same way.

Step 14

Now do the same thing to the lips area.

If you turn off visibility on all other layers you can see we should have something like a mask on layer. Turn back on visibility on all layers except upper layer.

Step 15

Apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur to this layer with following settings:

Step 16

Change layer opacity to 65%.

Step 17

Turn on visibility of the upper layer.

Create Clipping Mask for this layer using Layer > Create Clipping Mask. Apply Filter > Other > High Pass with following settings:

Step 18

Change blending mode on this layer to Linear Light.

Step 19

Change layer opacity to 50% for this layer.

Step 20

You can stop here if you’re satisfied with the result. But there are too many red and yellow color tones on the portrait, sometimes it can be noticeable on the last steps, as in this case. It can be easily corrected, for this purpose merge all the layers into one using Ctrl+Shift+E and apply Image > Adjustments > Color Balance with the following parameters to newly created layer:

Final Image

Now this tutorial is complete. You can make extra color correction as well or convert photos to grayscale or sepia mode. Hope this tutorial was useful to you.

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On this Photoshop tutorial i am going to show u how to make cardiac rate effect which I got by experimenting with Photoshop filters.

Final Image Preview

Note: This is one old tutorial updated.

Step 1

Create a new document with size of 700×700 pixels for this tutorial. Select the Paint Bucket Tool and fill canvas with black color (#000000).

Step 2

Apply Gradient Overlay to this layer by going to Layer > Layer Style > Gradient Overlay.

Step 3

Create a new layer. Merge both layers (Shift+Ctrl+E) to get all effects on one layer and apply Filter > Brush Strokes > Sprayed Strokes with following settings:

Step 4

Select Horizontal Type Tool and write something like BEAT. Text color should be white, font selected was Swis721 BdOul BT Bold (free font), 120px and smooth.

Step 5

Select the Line Tool (Weight: 3 px) and draw the lines like on my image below:

Step 6

Merge all line layers with text layer into one layer. Select Eraser Tool and hard round brush (12px, opacity 100%) and delete lines like i show on my image below.

Step 7

Rotate layer by going to Edit > Transform > Rotate 90 CCW.

Step 8

Apply Filter > Stylize > Wind with following settings:

Step 9

Press Ctrl+F one more time to repeat filter.

Step 10

Apply Filter > Stylize > Wind again but update direction to Right:

Step 11

Press Ctrl+F one more time to repeat filter.

Step 12

Rotate text by going to Edit > Transform > Rotate 90 CW.

Step 13

Go to Layer > Layer Style and apply Outer Glow and Color Overlay to this layer.

Final Image

We have completed this tutorial with this final step.

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In this Photoshop tutorial I will show you how to create one crazy effect: explosion of abstraction. Looks very cool and mysteriously and it’s simple to follow.

Final Image Preview

Step 1

Create a new document with size of 1000 x 1000 pixels for this tutorial. Select the Paint Bucket Tool and fill canvas with black color.

Step 2

Go to Layer > New Layer and create a new layer. Use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to create selection similar to mine on the picture below and fill it with white color.

Step 3

Remove selection with Ctrl+D and apply Filter > Stylize > Wind.

Step 4

Now press Ctrl+F two more times to increase filter effect.

Step 5

Apply again Filter > Stylize > Wind, but change direction to From the Left. Press Ctrl+F two more times to increase filter effect.

Step 6

Rotate this line to horizontal position by using Edit > Transform > Rotate 90 CW.

Step 7

Apply Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates with these values:

Step 8

To create a full circle we need to copy current layer with Ctrl+J. After duplicating, rotate copied layer by going to Edit > Transform > Rotate 90 CW.

Step 9

Now, select the Eraser Tool and a soft round brush about 300 px to remove all the content on the current layer except the hole part.

Step 10

Merge copied layer with original layer together selecting both and pressing Ctrl+E. Then apply Filter > Distort > Spherize.

Step 11

After that apply Filter > Blur > Radial Blur:

Step 12

Now we are going to create background for explosion effect. Create a new layer and apply Filter > Render > Clouds:

Step 13

Then apply Filter > Distort > Pinch with next parameters:

Step 14

Apply this filter two more times (press Ctrl+F two times more).

Step 15

Change color of this layer with Images > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation.

Step 16

Increase contrast for current layer by using Images > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast.

Step 17

Change layer mode to Color Dodge.

Step 18

Go to layer with circle and reduce layer opacity to 50%.

Final Image

Finally create new layer above the circle layer and fill it with white color. Then set opacity up to 10% for current layer.

Final Image

We have completed this tutorial with this final step. Now you know how to create abstract explosions that you can use on your designs.

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In this quick tutorial, i will teach you how to make art fragmentation of the photo.

Final Image Preview

Resources

• Jolly Girls

Step 1

Start by opening photo on Photoshop.

Step 2

From this photo choose one of the girls. I choose the one in the middle and use the Crop Tool to select area. After selection, go to Image > Crop.

After selection, go to Image > Crop. You should have something like photo below.

Step 3

Now we are going to increase contrast of the photo. To do that, duplicate layer (Ctrl+J) and change layer mode to Overlay on new layer.

Step 4

Duplicate again new layer (Ctrl+J) and change layer mode for it to Screen instead of Overlay.

Step 5

Merge all the layers together with Layer > Merge Visible. Now we have only one layer. Apply Image > Adjustments > Levels with next presets for this layer.

Step 6

Apply again Image > Adjustments > Levels, but this time you have to change options only in Red channel.

Step 7

Go one more time to Image > Adjustments > Levels to make some changes in Blue channel.

Step 8

Duplicate current layer with Ctrl+J again, then apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with similar settings to these:

Step 9

Change layer mode to Multiply for this layer.

Step 10

Duplicate current layer with Ctrl+J and change layer mode to Soft Light on new layer created.

Step 11

Copy current layer one more time with Ctrl+J and change layer mode to Normal for copy.

Step 12

Select Rectangular Marquee Tool and create selection similar to mine on newly created layer.

Press Delete button to clear selected area and remove selection with Ctrl+D.

Step 13

Apply Strole layer effect by going to Layer > Layer Style > Stroke for newly created frame.

Final Image

You might want to experiment with different filters, layer styles and layer modes and all that to get some unique outcomes, you just have to get creative!

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