Make a Painting Come Alive with this Photoshop Tutorial

by on March 23rd, 2011 1 comment

I have been doing a few internet strolling until I came across with this screen captures magically alive paintings in Hogwarts of the Harry potter movies. So, I suddenly got an idea of how about making a painting come to life. So guys, I want to show you some of the steps I have been doing in Photoshop to make a painting of a man trying to get out into the real world.

First and foremost, we will need a photo of a man crawling out and turn it into an oil painting. Just go to your favorite search engine and look for stock images using the keywords man, crawling, crawling man, and then download it. You also need to download an image of a classic picture/painting frame, and an image of a patterned wallpaper texture. (Downloading a wallpaper is not essential therefore it is optional.)

The first thing we are going to do is to prepare the painting. Open a new document with resolution sizes not lower than 1500×900 pixels.  You can have a larger size but not more than 4000 pixels in width. Import the frame and the man images on the same document. Resize and arrange them to about the size shown below. You can reduce the opacity so you could see where to put the images.

The Painting Comes Alive

As you can see, I have positioned the image this way so that the head and arm would really go out of the frame, while the rest of the body stays inside. The red lines are the boundaries where we will cut out the unnecessary parts. (Also notice also that I have placed it that way so that you cannot see the trash bin.)

For now, let us proceed to removing some parts. Slowly remove or erase the parts that are meant to go out of the frame. Use the marquee, eraser, or the pen tool + selection techniques to remove these parts.

The Painting Comes Alive

As you can see on the image above, you need to remove the areas one by one. First carefully trace using the pen tool to remove the areas around the fingers. Be careful not to remove areas below the chin which needs to be inside the frame. Next remove the areas on the lower part. On the hair areas you will need to be patient to successfully and cleanly cut out the surrounding areas. Sometimes, you need to use channels to achieve a cleaner output. And lastly remove those areas to the right parts.

Next part is to do the oil painting effect on some parts of the man. This will give the idea that the oil painting is transforming into a man.

Duplicate the man layer THREE (3) times so that you will get a total of 4 copies of it.  Name the layers a, b, c, d respectively with layer a as the topmost layer. Hide the layers except for layer D.

The Painting Comes Alive

Go to Filters > Artistic then select CUTOUT. Use 4 levels, 0 edge simplicity, and 3 edge fidelity. Set the layer blend mode to LUMINOSITY.

The Painting Comes Alive

Unhide layer C. go to Filters > Artistic and then select DRY BRUSH. Set the parameters all to maximum. Change layer blend mode to screen.

The Painting Comes Alive

Unhide layer B. Go to Filters > Noise > Median and set the radius between 9-15 radius. Note that this depends on the document resolution.  Set the layer blend mode to Soft Light

The Painting Comes Alive

Lastly, unhide layer D. Go to , Image > Adjustments > and then play with brightness and contrast. Achieve a clear and vibrant look. Then slowly erase (eraser tool) USING 50 percent opacity on parts inside the frame so that parts inside the frame will have the oil paint/watercolor effect.

The Painting Comes Alive

And basically that is it. After applying the wallpaper as the background, shadows and lighting effects the overall effect now looks quite more convincing.

The Painting Comes Alive

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Be One with the Blur – Create a Cool Bokeh Effect in Photoshop

by on March 16th, 2011 0 comments

The Bokeh effect is a term in photography referring to the way the lens of a camera renders the blurred or out of range focus light. These blurred lights are usually seen as the distant lights found in the background of an image. A popular setting for Bokeh lights is from the distant lights from night time shots in the city streets.

Specific lens and photography skill are required to create an Bokeh photo, but not all people have that camera or lens or photography skills to create the effect. However with the power of Photoshop we can recreate the Bokeh effect in a few and super easy steps.

First part in creating the effect is creating your own brush. This technique will also be useful in the future when you need to create your own Photoshop brushes. Do these steps: create a new document in Photoshop 1000×1000 pixels with transparent background. Create a perfect circle using the ellipse shape tool with black as the base color. Then add stroke with the right amount of pixels (see thickness below), black color and is located INSIDE the circle.

Creating the Bokeh Effect

Once you have done this, go to Edit > and click on Define Brush pattern (make sure the circle is selected). Save this pattern named as “bokeh”.

Creating the Bokeh Effect

Now you have the brush ready, proceed to create a new document with a landscape size. Any size will do as long it is in landscape. Use a DARK GRAY, not pure black as the background color for the whole thing to work.
Activate the brush tool (hotkey: B), and find the ‘bokeh’ brush you have just created a while ago. Bring up the brush options by pressing F5 key. You will see several tabs or menus which will contain sub menus.

On the BRUSH TIP SHAPE, adjust the spacing to 100%. Notice how the circles appear farther from another as you set it higher. Enable the SHAPE DYNAMICS and set the Size Jitter to a max amount of 100 percent. Adjust the minimum diameter to any amount lower than 50 percent.

Now apply scattering then set the scatter level to at least 250 percent.  Setting it too much high will paint the brush on much wider range in random placements. In other words, it will be too scattered. Lastly, apply transfer (also known as other dynamics in other versions), and then set the opacity jitter to at least 50 percent.

Creating the Bokeh Effect

Before painting on the circles, fill a new layer with a gradient of your choice, and then change the blend mode to overlay. Blue and violet are good colors to try with. Also you can apply more than 2 colors and with different gradient directions even including diagonal.

Creating the Bokeh Effect

Create a new folder and set the folder’s blend mode to color dodge. Next, create a new layer between the gradient and background. Paint the bokeh brush over the area using white color and the settings above. After painting, apply this to the layer, Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur. Adjust the radius until you achieve something like this. The amount of radius applied depends on the document resolution and dimensions.

Creating the Bokeh Effect

Next, paint again another set of circles but this time, use a smaller brush size, using only filter effect Gaussian blur of 1 or 2 radius size, and lastly a lot more circles. Remember that this layer must be inside the folder.

Creating the Bokeh Effect

And basically you are done with the simulation of the bokeh effect. You can add more circles with varied amounts of Gaussian Blur to create several depths of lights. Add a catchy text phrase and overlayed glows to create a more spectacular effect.

Creating the Bokeh Effect

We hope that you enjoyed this tutorial and that you will find it useful in your future designs. Please feel free to ask any questions or share your creations with us in the comments.

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Pimp Your Ride: Creating Realistic Custom Car Vinyl in Photoshop

by on March 9th, 2011 3 comments

This tutorial will teach you how to visually pimp out any car using Photoshop. You could shop your own car and share it to friends and make them wow with the visual effects you have made.

First step is search for an image of any car to download. Make sure this car has in plain or in stock color. It means that car has only one car paint. Our example below is an orange Lamborghini Gallardo, which is a very sweet and exotic car.

Pimp Your Ride: Creating Realistic Custom Car Vinyl

After you have downloaded an appropriate image, open it up in Photoshop. You may have to create a backup copy in case you overwrite the original image and want to create another customization. The following steps are going to be very time consuming and quite delicate so expect to get frustrated, but do not give up.

Pimp Your Ride: Creating Realistic Custom Car Vinyl

–  Now select the car’s body EXCLUDING the windshield, the wheels and rims, the black areas and headlights, and spoiler. You need only to select where the paint are in. you can choose any selection tools you want, in my opinion, it is better to go with the standard marquee tool or the pen tool.

– Let us introduce to you about saving selections. This is a useful practice because it lets you RESELECT to areas which you may have deselected intentionally or unintentionally. Just load the saved selection if in case the shift+ctrl+D keys do not work. Save selection as ‘car body’ or anything close.

– After you have your selection, make sure it is remained selected. Add a new blank layer. Inside the marquee, paint a desired color (example green). This will create a shape of the car body with the chosen color. Before proceeding, hide this layer.

Pimp Your Ride: Creating Realistic Custom Car Vinyl

Load the selection if you have it deselected. Copy the selected parts onto a new layer, and name this layer as Reflection layer. You need the car layer (only the selection not the whole layer) and reflection layer DESATURATED. Do this by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+U.

On the reflection layer, go to Image > Adjustment and clock on Levels (or by simply pressing CTRL+L). Now we need this layer to be in high contrast. Adjust the parameters so the reflections are very white, and the areas with no reflections are pure black. Try to follow the knobs to achieve the same result. You can also use the curves tool to do this step. This is an important step to make the overall effect realistic.

Now on the original car layer (do not mind the other background layer, it is for back up purposes), go to Image > Adjustments > brightness/contrast and adjust to make the care like its painted in white.

Remember the green colored body layer? Let us temporarily hide all layers except for the body layer. Load again the car body selection then select the brush tool. Choose neon green color (you can choose any color after you have mastered the effect). Paint the lower part of the body using a soft brush with a decent brush size and 50 percent brush opacity. This will give a gradient paint job on the car.

Pimp Your Ride: Creating Realistic Custom Car Vinyl

Download and import this PNG to your document. Feel free to use the tribal stamp I made.

Place 2 copies of the tribal flame in the project. Modify the shapes of each flame object using CTRL+T transform tool. While on transformation mode, you can RIGHT CLICK the box to use the WARP and DISTORTION. After that, add the STROKE and COLOR OVERLAY effects to each of the objects. Just refer to the example below.

Pimp Your Ride: Creating Realistic Custom Car Vinyl

Combine the 2 objects by making it as a smart object. Select the two layers > Right Click to one of the selected layers, then click the CONVERT TO SMART OBJECT. After making it a single object, Right click the layer again, and then click on CREATE CLIPPING MASK. After that, change the blend mode to overlay.

Pimp Your Ride: Creating Realistic Custom Car Vinyl

Last part, finally, UNHIDE all layers, set the reflection layer to SCREEN MODE with 80 opacity, and you be surprised at what have you been done. Here is the final output of the project.

Pimp Your Ride: Creating Realistic Custom Car Vinyl

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Blazing Hot Tutorial – How to Melt Objects in Photoshop

by on March 2nd, 2011 0 comments

This tutorial will reveal to you the basic steps on how to make various solid objects MELT. Yep, you read it right, you could create amazing graphics and illustration when you place melted objects on you image. This tutorial covers on how the Photoshop tool called the LIQUIFY can create cool effects.

First find a simple object on the web for example a basketball. Google for images in the web and download these images with white or no background if possible. If you cannot find the right image, you can look for objects on royalty free websites. As you learn more Photoshop effects you can bookmark those stock photo websites in the event you will need more photos for future projects.

For now let us import this basket ball to your new project. You can have any size or resolution as long you will have enough space to create the melting parts. Refer to image below.

Creating Melting Objects in Photoshop

Duplicate this image or layer. Press CTRL+T and resize it to an oval shape just like you see below. If it is necessary to move or flip the image horizontally or vertically, do so.

Creating Melting Objects in Photoshop

Make sure you are selecting the oval layer. Then Press SHIFT+CTRL+X, or go to Filters > Liquify, to open up the liquify filter effects.

Creating Melting Objects in Photoshop

Now try your best to create a irregularly shaped lump by ‘warping’ in and out the ball. Make sure you have selected the FORWARD Warp tool (press W key to select this). The blue arrows on the image below will guide you how to direct your strokes. Also look out for the brush size, and brush pressure. These options, if set too high will cause your system to incredibly slow down.
Creating Melting Objects in Photoshop
Now select the eraser. Set it’s radius to reasonable small size. Set the opacity to 60 percent. Slowly and carefully erase some parts on the top part. This step will create the illusion that the two objects are now connected. Note: on the image below, the ball layer has its opacity lowered so that we can show you where the parts are erased.
Creating Melting Objects in Photoshop
Next is to create a duplicate of the ball layer, not the melted one. Then merge the duplicate and the melt layer. You can now hide the original ball layer and let it stay there for backup purposes.
Creating Melting Objects in Photoshop
Now open up the liquify panel again by going to Filter > Liquify or Pressing SHIFT+CTRL+X. this time you will be warping the merged layer of the melt and ball. You will have to size down your brush size so that you will be able to create much detailed warps across the object. The black lines of the ball will be the key areas to create to warps in which it will look like real liquid. Direct your strokes in opposing directions. Like strikes towards the left then moving a little upwards or downwards then directing to the left. In this way we can create a liquid ripple. Just follow the red guidelines below.
Creating Melting Objects in Photoshop
And that is basically finished. Of course it is also a good practice to add some more work to make the effect much realistic. Here are some optional tasks to do.
Creating Melting Objects in Photoshop
Create a mirror reflection. This is quite simple to do. Duplicate the main layer. set its opacity to 50 percent or lower, flip it vertically, resize its height, then place the layer below the main one. And viola you have your reflection.
Creating Melting Objects in Photoshop
Select the dodge tool. Set it to highlights mode. Then cover the highlighted areas shown below with dodge tool. Applying doge tool on these areas will darken the parts. This will make realistic soft shadows if the object was really melting. It would also define the overall object’s depth.
Creating Melting Objects in Photoshop
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Create a Cool Galaxy Effect in Photoshop

by on February 23rd, 2011 2 comments
This tutorial will show you how to create a Galaxy inspired Photoshop effect. You can use this effect as text effects or you can use it as a background graphic. This effect will try to imitate what we see in space such as cluster of bright stars, streaks of light, colorful galaxies and clouds. Overall, this effect is somewhat geeky but still vibrant and fantasy filled.
First, open up your browser and type the word “Smoke” in Google search. You will need this couple of free stock images as a resource in our galaxy effect project. You will also need this kind of Photoshop brushes at http://qbrushes.net/objects/star-brushe/. Be sure to save all these files in a folder where you can easily locate (example: desktop or my documents).
Galaxy Photoshop Effect
Next, create a Photoshop document with rectangular dimensions. A 1600 by 1000 pixel Photoshop document resolution will do well. But if you want a rich output, you could choose a larger resolution. Choose black as the background color and insert the smoke image into the document.
Place the smoke just like shown below. You can also duplicate the smoke layer to fill up the blank space. After placing the smoke, merge the layers (if you have more than 1 smoke layer). SET the layer BLEND MODE to SCREEN with 15 percent opacity.
Galaxy Photoshop Effect
Create a new layer (create/place it below the smoke layer), and press key “D” to revert the color swatch to default black and white. Go to Filters > Render > Clouds.
Galaxy Photoshop Effect
After that, create a new layer again and select the Gradient tool (right click brush tool to open the gradient). Choose bright colors such as cyan and magenta. You could also try more than 2 colors such as neon green, indigo, red and yellow.
Galaxy Photoshop Effect
Okay, this next step will be quite frustrating because outcomes may greatly differ. First create a BLACK filled layer. GO to Filters > Noise > Add Noise. Set the amount to about 9-11 percent as long as there will be not too many dots.
After that, press CTRL+L to adjust level and set [0 – any amount less than 1 -70]. See the image below and try to follow that pattern. The dots stars will have differ in brightness as you adjust. You know when you have done it right when the output will look like a star field with stars seems to have different distances. Lastly set the layer to screen mode.
Galaxy Photoshop Effect
Next, load your star brushes you have just downloaded. Select B or brush tool, and press f5 to find the brush tip, and then select any of the star brushes.
On the brush tip shape, choose a decent size, not too large and not too small. Adjust the spacing to about 70 percent. Next, apply the shape dynamics and MAX OUT to 100% the Size Jitter.
Apply Scattering then set the scatter to 1000%, Count to 3 and Count Jitter to 100%.  You could also apply Transfer (named differently in other PS versions) and set opacity jitter100 percent.
You also need to apply the same settings to other star brush tips.
Galaxy Photoshop Effect
Now with all the brush setting, paint creatively.
Galaxy Photoshop Effect
Make sure you made a separate layer for the stars. Create a new layer and name it “space clouds”. Using an ordinary soft brush and white color and 20 percent BRUSH OPACITY, we paint over some parts.
Galaxy Photoshop Effect
Lastly, here are the last few important steps.
Duplicate the gradient layer and set the copy to 25 percent opacity. Then create a new layer above the”space clouds” layer, press “D”, apply Filter > Render > Clouds. Then Press ALT+CTRL+G (this will apply clipping mask) on the recently rendered cloud. Also take note of the arrangements of the layers.
Galaxy Photoshop Effect
Galaxy Photoshop Effect
Create a new layer (again) and paint a large glowing orb. Press CTRL+T. Cut the half and then stretch it. Now set this object to overlay mode, rotate to the desired angle, and place all over the image.
Galaxy Photoshop Effect
And finally you are done with the galaxy effect.
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Create a cool Island in a Bottle using Photoshop

by on February 16th, 2011 2 comments

This tutorial will show you how to create a digital piece of art of a miniature, but realistic, island that floats inside a bottle. With this photo manipulation in Photoshop, you can surely amaze your friends with the amazing effects of your work!

First you are going to need these 3 primary stock photos which you easily find on royalty free stock image websites. You will need to find images for an Empty Bottle, an Island, and a rocky formation. As for my own search, I used these keywords when finding the photos: island, empty bottle, bottle, glass, beaches, mountain, rocks, and beach rocks. Please see the images below.

Island in a Bottle Photo Manipulation

Now place or import the bottle stock image to your document. You can have any Photoshop document size or resolution for this project. Select the bottle layer then set the layer blend mode to MULTIPLY on 100 percent opacity. You can also create an optional background but be sure that you blur any background image that goes through the glass to imitate how real glasses distort light. For now, use a simple monochrome background.

Island in a Bottle Photo Manipulation

Next place the island image below the bottle layer. You may have to sharpen, add more contrast and colors to the island image so it will look better. Erase all areas that go out of the bottle. On the sky areas, use a soft brush to remove the edge of the photo.

Island in a Bottle Photo Manipulation

Open the rock/mountain stock photo. Use the marquee tool (on my part, I used the MAGNETIC marquee which very easy to use) to isolate the parts that you only need. Use the image below as a guide on how to isolate the object. On the example, we are using a rocky mountain peak as the lower part of our floating miniature island. If you cannot find the image exactly below, you can use a pile of rocks or an image of another mountain peak.

Island in a Bottle Photo Manipulation

After selecting the important part, place it on the main document project, then invert vertically by making use of the Transform Tool (CTRL+T). Resize the rock image so that it will not exceed the islands width. Again, you may have to adjust the rock image’s contrast and colors so that it would match with the island.

Island in a Bottle Photo Manipulation

Next, we will add the water. Using the marquee tool again, select the appropriate areas where water should be only present. In the project, water should only be available below the island and strictly inside the bottle. Create a new layer for this water and use an aquatic color. You can also choose other colors other than blue. But for now let us just stick to blue water.

Island in a Bottle Photo Manipulation

Create a new layer. Now, by using the SAME SELECTION, fill the selected area with a slightly darker shade of the first color used. Arrange the layers where the ROCK layer should be in BETWEEN the water layers. Set the first layer to Multiply blend mode, then the second one to normal but with 40% opacity.

Island in a Bottle Photo Manipulation

Go to the rocks layer, and with the ERASER TOOL erase softly (50 percent) some areas at the edges so that it will have depth and it will really look like it is underwater. Be careful not to erase too much.

Island in a Bottle Photo Manipulation

Now we need to put on bubbles and waves. But if you can find bubble brushes on the web, which is pretty easy, you can use them in this project. Google the image UNDERWATER, and import the image in Photoshop. Transform and remove the unnecessary areas using marquee or eraser tools. Change the blend mode to SOFLIGHT with 20-30 percent opacity.

Island in a Bottle Photo Manipulation

You may search again for BUBBLES or Underwater bubbles, then import the image. You can use either overlay or Softlight for bubble. Resize and place duplicates if needed.

Island in a Bottle Photo Manipulation

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Create an Awesome Typographic Piece of Art in Photoshop

by on February 9th, 2011 2 comments
Typography is the art of designing and arranging types or fonts. In this tutorial, we are going to show you to make a typographical artwork that you can use as a wallpaper, website background or even banner using Photoshop. The overall process is quite simple but is also tedious particularly in creating and arranging the words.
First step is getting to set up you background. It will be up to you to choose your document or image size/resolution. A dark colored background is suggested since we will be using glowing colors for the texts and words.
Use the gradient tool found in the tools palette or you can access it by pressing G. Gradient tool is the alternate function of the paint bucket tool. A gray and black RADIAL gradient should do the trick.
Creating a Typographic Artwork in Photoshop
The next step is to choose what word, text, or symbol to put in the document. This text/symbol is the main subject as well as it will also serve as a guide shape to put your smaller text on. In this tutorial, you can see that we have chosen the word “LOVE” with a heart symbol as a replacement for letter O.
You will need to create separate layers for each letter and the heart symbol. After creating the text, arrange it well and set the layer opacity of each layers to about 50 percent.
Creating a Typographic Artwork in Photoshop
So next is to put up some words which is greatly smaller in size. Now add words related to your main text, although you can type in whatever you like. For example, I added words like peace, honesty sacrifice and so on because it is somehow connected to the word love.
Choose a light color or pure white for these texts. You can choose to use more than 1 font type. You can also choose to all caps some of the words or do a mix up. It is up to your creativity to arrange the texts.
Creating a Typographic Artwork in Photoshop
Before proceeding, you need to set the opacity level of the main text (e.g. “LOVE”) to about lesser than 10 percent. 5 percent will do.
Now all you have to do is arrange the smaller text on the main text. Again you can use a variety of font styles and faces as well as different font sizes. Try to fill up every gap or space with texts if you find any.
Creating a Typographic Artwork in Photoshop
To help you keep track of the layers, you can create folders or group folders for the texts. You can also use the AUTO SELECT function for layers and groups found just below the file menu tab when using the move tool. This feature will help you select text objects one by one easily especially when there are too many layers present.
With constant resizing and relocating of the text objects, I have filled the rest of the areas with smaller text. Of course, you will have lots and lots of layers.
Creating a Typographic Artwork in Photoshop
Once you have done filling up the last remaining areas, MERGE ALL TEXT (that means excluding the background).  Select multiple layers by pressing SHIFT/CTRL while clicking on the layers > then press CTRL+E. you will now have a single layer and the background.
Creating a Typographic Artwork in Photoshop
Apply a layer effect > gradient overlay. Choose a combination of 2 or 3 colors.
Creating a Typographic Artwork in Photoshop
Lastly, this next step is to add the effects.  Create a new layer > choose a foreground color (green) > GO to FILTERS > RENDER > CLOUDS. Repeat this step with another foreground color.
Creating a Typographic Artwork in PhotoshopCreating a Typographic Artwork in Photoshop
Set the first layer (green) opacity to 25 percent then the other (yellow) to 75 percent. Set both layers to overlay blend mode.
Creating a Typographic Artwork in Photoshop
And you are done. You can add some texture overlays like this to enhance the final output.
Creating a Typographic Artwork in Photoshop
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Rock Star Stamp Effect

by on February 2nd, 2011 0 comments
In today’s tutorial we will be showing you how to create a stamp effect using simple operations in Phtoshop. Once you complete this techniques you will see the result resembles that of a “bleeding ink” effect and a cutout, poster or comic appearance.
The first thing we need to do is find a decent stock photo, which can be found on your favorite royalty-free stock photos website. The photo can be anything as long as the details are clearly visible. An ideal image should have a balance of lightness and contrast, in other words, images that are not too dark or bright.
Rock Star Stamp Effect
Next you need to duplicate the background image twice so that you will have a total of 3 layers with the same image. After creating the duplicates, create a blank layer right between the background layer and the first duplicate. The new blank layer must be placed as the second to the last layer. Fill the blank layer with white using the paint bucket tool.
Rock Star Stamp Effect
Next, uncheck the topmost layer to hide it. Select the second layer. Apply the threshold effect by going to Image > Adjustments > the click on the Threshold.
Rock Star Stamp Effect
On the threshold function, adjust the parameters to emphasize the darker areas of the image.
Rock Star Stamp Effect
Right after you have finished that layer, proceed immediately to the topmost layer. Make sure you enable visibility or “unhide” the topmost layer. Go to THRESHOLD AGAIN, but this time, adjust the parameters to show the thinner details of the image.
In some images you can add a third duplicate to add depth or level to the stamp effect. With more levels, it mimics vector art styles.
Rock Star Stamp Effect
Next step is to remove the WHITES in the topmost layer. Go to Select > Color Range.  Set the fuzziness to max 200. Do not forget to click on WHITE areas not the black.
Rock Star Stamp Effect
Hit ok, after that, all the white areas should be selected now. Hit the delete to remove the white areas. Your layers should indicate that some areas have now been removed thus showing some areas of the next layer beneath it.
Rock Star Stamp Effect
Now select the second layer. Adjust the OPACITY TO about 50 percent. You can adjust it more or less than 50 percent depending on the outcome.
Rock Star Stamp Effect
Merge these 2 layers by selecting merge layers in the Layers Tab, or Right clinking and selecting Merge layers, or Pressing CTRL+E.
Rock Star Stamp Effect
The next step is optional. The main purpose of the next step is only to select and CLEANLY cutout the subject we processed earlier. If you are able to delete cleanly the background of your image using the magic wand tool, you may not follow this step.
By creating a duplicate from the background and applying a dark threshold on the image, we can now use the magic wand tool to delete the background white area without removing or touching the arms and other white areas that belong to main subject.
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At this point, you are actually done with the stamp effect. However there are lots of tricks you can do with this technique.
For example, like applying a textured background.
Apply a gradient background using the gradient tool.
Rock Star Stamp Effect
Change the Layer Blend Mode to OVERLAY.
Rock Star Stamp Effect
Find a rough texture just like the one below and import t to the project.
Rock Star Stamp Effect
Adjust the color and contrast of the imported texture image using Hue/Saturation under the Image > Adjustments.
Rock Star Stamp Effect
Change it to overlay blend layer mode. Add some blurred duplicates and glows to make it more dramatic.
Duplicate the guitarist layer, then apply a Gaussian blur Filter, the set it to overlay blend mode.
Rock Star Stamp Effect
Also you can actually play with Image > adjustments Variations to achieve effects like these.
Rock Star Stamp Effect
Rock Star Stamp Effect

This is a really cool effect you can have a lot of fun with for web, poster, or business card design. Please share your work or ask any questions in the comments.

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Create an Awesome Exploding Planet Effect in Photoshop

by on January 26th, 2011 3 comments

This tutorial will show you how to create an exploding planet effect using Photoshop. This effect is also used to recreate the dying star or super nova effects. This Photoshop technique is going to involve using stock photos of earth or mud cracks so it is suggested that you Google and download images for cracked mud before starting this project.

First, create a document with perfect square dimensions. A document with a 800×800 pixel dimensions should do good. If you have already found a decent cracked or dry mud photo just like below, drag it to the main document.

Exploding planet effect

After you have imported the crack image, adjust the size by using the transform tool by pressing the CTRL+T. while resizing the image, you will need to press SHIFT in order to MAINTAIN the image PROPORTION.
Now click the ROUND or ELLIPTICAL MARQUEE tool and select a perfect circle on the image. Press SHIFT while select with marquee tool to get a perfect circle.

Exploding Planet Effect

After that, press SHIFT+CTRL+I to invert the selection, then remove the outer areas by pressing the DELETE key.

Exploding Planet Effect

Now invert the image by pressing CTRL+I

Exploding Planet Effect
Before you continue on the next steps, it is recommended that to move the “cracked planet” to the center. This will make the next steps easier to accomplish.

If the planet now is placed well, the next you do is go to Filters> Distort > and then click on Spherize. Set the amount to max 100 percent. Apply the changes.

Exploding Planet Effect

This filter effect will make the planet more 3 dimensional looking. However, if the planet still looks flat, you could apply the same effect. In the example above, I had to apply the filter effect twice to make it more planet-like.
Next, duplicate the layer, so that when you see your layers palette, you will have two layers of the same object, just like below. (you can also apply UNSHARPEN to the original planet to improve the visibility of the details.)

Exploding Planet Effect

On the copied layer apply the THRESHOLD effect (Go to Image > Adjustments > and find and click Threshold).

Exploding Planet Effect

Now select the 2 layers and then activate the TRANSFORM tool or PRESS CTRL+T while the 2 layers are selected. This will select and resize both layers, including the one with threshold. While resizing, PRESS SHIFT to maintain proportion. Lastly, do not forget to place them at the center.

Exploding Planet Effect

APPLY a black background using the PAINT BUCKET tool. You need it to apply it in the BACKGROUND LAYER.

Exploding Planet Effect

Toggle the visibility off on the threshold layer and go to the original planet layer.

Exploding Planet Effect

(Although it is optional, Filters > Sharpen > Unsharpen Mask could improve your image quality.)
Next, go to Filters > Distort > Polar Coordinates, and apply Polar to rectangular.

Exploding Planet Effect

Rotate the image to 90 degrees Clockwise (Go to Image > Image Rotation > and select 90 CW.)

Exploding Planet Effect

Go to Filters > Stylize > and apply WIND.

Exploding Planet Effect

Now rotate the image again, but this time rotate it 90 degrees COUNTER CLOCKWISE (90 CCW).

Exploding Planet Effect

Apply polar coordinates filter again, but this time, using Rectangular to Polar.

Exploding Planet Effect

The result should look like this.

Exploding Planet Effect

If the planet seems to be too bright, you may use the BURN TOOL to darken areas around the planet.

Exploding Planet Effect

Now let’s make the threshold visible again by checking the visibility box. Then go to Filters > Blur > Radial Blur.

Exploding Planet Effect

Set the amount to about 60-80. If the results are not satisfactory, you can press CTRL+F to apply the filter again.

Exploding Planet Effect

Change the layer blend to screen.

Exploding Planet Effect

And basically we are done. You can add some more elements like longer rays or alter the main color to reddish and yellow theme to enhance the image.

Exploding Planet Effect

Exploding Planet Effect

You can do some pretty cool stuff to your creations with this effect. Please ask any questions and share your works of art in the comments.

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The Making of the Liquid Dolphin

by on January 21st, 2011 0 comments

Have you ever imagined of mystical beings with bodies of crystal water? Like water but moving and in the form of animals such as dolphins, sharks and other marine animals. In this tutorial we are going to create a liquid crystal being in the form of a dolphin using Photoshop. This tutorial is useful also when attempting to recreate ice statues. And just like in the process of making the fire horse, this is going to involve several combinations of layers. This liquid effect is also an alternative when creating transparent crystal figures using other 3D rendering programs.

First step is to create a Photoshop document in a portrait size. An image dimension of 1000 x 1400 (height and width respectively) should be good enough.

Next fill the first layer or background with a gradient like this. You do not really need to be very accurate with the gradient colors. Just pick the colors that look like the ocean water.

The Making of the Liquid Dolphin

Now find a resource or stock photo of a dolphin. Prepare the main object of the project, which is the dolphin, by removing the background leaving the dolphin only.

You can use the marquee tool, the magic wand tool, or the pen tool to erase the background. You can find and read other guides on how to the selection tools to extract or cut images from a photo. For me, the best tool to use to cut the dolphin is the pen tool or the color range function if you are familiar with it.

The Making of the Liquid Dolphin

Press SHIFT+CTRL+U to DESATURATE the dolphin picture. After that, press CTRL+I to invert the colors. The result should be a negative or inverted version of a black and white photo of a dolphin.

The Making of the Liquid Dolphin

Next, go to the Channels palette found right beside the Layers palette. PRESS and HOLD CTRL key and LEFT click on the RGB thumbnail. This will select and maintain the transparency/ opacity when you COPY it to the main document/project.

The Making of the Liquid Dolphin

Press CTRL+C to copy the selection and paste it on the main document. Place the copied item on the suggested location. You may have to resize the dolphin if needed since it is possible that you will use a different source of the dolphin having smaller or larger image resolution.

The Making of the Liquid Dolphin

Next, go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation (CTRL+U) to colorize the dolphin. Be sure to enable the COLORIZE and try to follow the parameters given. Go to Image > adjustments > Levels and adjust to get more contrast however, this step is optional.

The Making of the Liquid Dolphin

Change the dolphin layer blend mode to LUMINOSITY. Set the opacity to 60 percent. Duplicate this layer 3 times to get a total of 4 layers of the same object. Set the 2nd duplicate to luminosity and 100% opacity, 3rd to 30% or 25% opacity, and the last to HUE blend mode and 50% opacity.

The Making of the Liquid Dolphin

Apply Filter > Gaussian Blur on the first dolphin layer. This serves to be the glowing element of the subject. Be careful to apply blur just right.

The Making of the Liquid Dolphin

On the second layer (one with 100% opacity), create a mask layer (HIT layer mask button) Choose Pure black paint color, and paint on areas which you wish to hide or lessen visibility. Make sure you have your brush opacity at 50% at least using a soft brush.

The Making of the Liquid Dolphin

The Making of the Liquid Dolphin

Now before you move to the next steps search the web and download royalty free stock photos of water splashes and flowing water.

The Making of the Liquid Dolphin

Start transferring the splashes by CUT+COPY method. Make sure you place the SPLASHES layers behind the dolphin layers. Do not forget to CHANGE the blend mode to SCREEN. Every splash you place must be DESATURATED first then COLORIZED to match the dolphin’s color.

(You can also repeat the steps where you CTRL+CLICK on the RGB layer on the CHANNELS PALETTE)

The Making of the Liquid Dolphin

You will also need to use the warp tool to manipulate the shapes of the water splashes according to the dolphin’s body.

The Making of the Liquid Dolphin

Fill the dolphin figure with splash! Use your imagination and creativity in this procedure.

The Making of the Liquid Dolphin

By adding some more lights and layer overlays, along with background enhancements such as bubbles, waves, and lights, we can achieve effects just like these.

The Making of the Liquid Dolphin

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Creating a Fire Horse

by on January 19th, 2011 2 comments

This tutorial will show you how to create a horse made of fire. Lets use Photoshop to recreate Rapidash of Pokemon fame. This technique involves the use of filters, transformation tools and layer blend modes. This technique can also be used to recreate the effect in the movie Ghost Rider.


First we need a good picture of a stallion or a horse. It is also effective when you use a photo of a horse running or in motion to maximize the use of the fiery effect of the horse’s hair and flames.

Prepare the photo by opening in Photoshop, and then creating a duplicate layer for backup purposes. Once you have created a duplicate image, DESATURATE the image by pressing SHIFT+CTRL+U to make the photo in black and white.

The Making of the Fire Horse

The Making of the Fire Horse

Next, apply a filter – Find Edges. Although you can also choose glowing edges which has more control over the intensity of the lines, nevertheless, both filters have almost the same function and effect on black and white photos. For now choose find edges. But if you really want detailed results, try experimenting with glowing edges.

The Making of the Fire Horse

After applying the filter you should get a result just like below.

The Making of the Fire Horse

Duplicate this layer and set the layer blend mode of the duplicate into hard light.

The Making of the Fire Horse

Before you move on, you need to have stock pictures of flames. We got these fire images from the royalty free stock images site and downloaded the items. Do not worry. It is free to download as long as you have registered for membership. Visit here to see the images – http://www.sxc.hu/profile/huibidos.

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You see that the image has lots of white areas that are not parts of the horse. We need to remove these parts using the brush tool. Using black color, paint over the areas on the topmost layer. The red areas are the suggested parts which need to be covered with black.

The Making of the Fire Horse

After omitting those unwanted areas the result should be like this.

The Making of the Fire Horse

Now drag the flames which you have downloaded into the main image. Open each downloaded file in Photoshop so that you will be able to bring and drag it to the main project. Resize and rotate the flame and bring it on top of the horse’ head.

The Making of the Fire Horse

Now set the layer blend mode to screen.

The Making of the Fire Horse

Press CTRL+T (transform tool) and select WARP TOOL. Drag the frames to warp the image according to the shape desired.

The Making of the Fire Horse

In the following steps, you are going to create multiple duplicates of flames. Each with different sizes, warp transformations and positions to create something just like the example below. Use your creativeness to position the flames on the horse. Flames on the hoofs are quite simple however the flames on the tail will be quite complicated to warp transform. It will take a few attempts to get it right. Do not forget to SET EACH and EVERY FLAME layer to SCREEN blend mode.

The Making of the Fire Horse

Insert a LARGE flame into the image. Rotate the flame slight towards the left and change the layer blend mode to vivid light. Make sure you place this layer as the SECOND or third layer from the last.

The Making of the Fire Horse

Apply a GAUSSIAN BLUR on the layer. It is up to you to set the amount of radius.

The Making of the Fire Horse

Select ALL layers, DUPLICATE all the selected layers, and then MERGE (CTRL+E) the duplicates.

The Making of the Fire Horse

Apply a guassian blur, the set the blend mode to lighten and adjust the opacity to 75%.

The Making of the Fire Horse

Select the BRUSH TOOL, and then press F5.

The Making of the Fire Horse

  • Select a soft brush, set the SPACING to about 120 percent.
  • Enable SHAPE DYNAMICS, set the size jitter to 100% and turn the control off.
  • Enable SCATTERING and max out scatter to 1000%, set count to 1%.
  • Enable transfer/OTHER DYNAMICS, max out opacity jitter to 100%.
  • Then use the brush you just modified.

The Making of the Fire HorseCreate a new layer on the topmost. Choose a hot color such as light orange. Use a soft brush to paint some parts you like glow such as the head and the legs. After that, change the blend mode to soft light.

The Making of the Fire Horse

The Making of the Fire HorseAnd you are done with the making of the fire horse.

The Making of the Fire Horse


We hope you had fun with this one. Please feel free to ask any questions or show off your work in the comments.

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