Shortly after I wrote my first Photoshop tutorial, Broch sent me an e-mail with one line: “Quick question, exactly HOW do you do this in Photoshop???” The answer was simple enough. All you need is a tripod and, well, a camera. Silly me. I don’t have a camera. I couldn’t very well show him how to do that, now can I? Of course I can. I have a digital crapera, which is just as good. So I asked my friend…
You’ve seen my tutorial for making fire in Photoshop, and you would see one for making water as well… if I could only remember how I created this graphic: I did this from a blank canvas in Photoshop some two years ago and unfortunately failed to take notes before flattening the file; all I remember is that I used the Chrome filter at some point and a bunch of other standard Photoshop filters, but for the most part the technique…
Osculate me. I’m a Celtic nut. I’ve mentioned before my little penchant for making Celtic knots in Adobe Illustrator, and after I developed my own little way of making them I decided to look up other ways. I found a tutorial by Marc and Shelly Wallace, one by Christian Mercat, another by Yvonne and Stephen Hughes, and even a small collection of tutorials over at Craytech. Frankly, all of the tutorials I found online make the art of Celtic knot…
I came up with this trick while playing with Photoshop filters, and since I don’t use plug-ins or have the latest version of Photoshop, this came in pretty handy for me. Who knows? It might come in handy for you, too. Create a New file. [Ctrl-N/Command-N] Render Clouds. [Filter > Render > Clouds] Distort using Ocean Ripple. [Filter > Distort > Ocean Ripple] Duplicate layer. [Layer > Duplicate Layer] Stylize the top layer with Glowing Edges. [Filter > Stylize >…
If you liked that entry, you’ll like this one even better… because in this one I give up (almost) all of my secrets on how to make repeating pixel patterns into realistic-looking images of patterned cloth. I like to play around in Photoshop and stumble onto techniques like this myself, but to give credit where it is due, I was mostly inspired by this Wacom tutorial. First, let’s select a pattern and add it to our Photoshop arsenal. I chose…