Learn about Photo Effects

Enhance your images with these photo effects. Whether you want to download ready-made photo effects or create your own in Photoshop, we've got you covered.
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  1. How to Create a Photo Manipulation of a Flooded City Scene

    How to Create a Photo Manipulation of a Flooded City Scene

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    In this tutorial, we will learn how to manipulate a simple photo into a flooding torrent of a scene. We'll use some relatively simple techniques to give this...

  2. Quick Tip: How To Fake a Tilt-Shift Photo

    Quick Tip: How To Fake a Tilt-Shift Photo

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Tilt-shift pictures are, I believe, one of the neatest things you can do with a photograph. I know a lot of people that feel that way, but tilt-shift lenses...

  3. Matte Painting 101: Basic Extraction and Composition Techniques

    Matte Painting 101: Basic Extraction and Composition Techniques

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Matte painting is a technique that filmmakers use to create backgrounds for scenes that can't or don't exist in real life. In the early days, matte paintings...

  4. What Do I Need to Retouch Portraits?

    What Do I Need to Retouch Portraits?

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Are you new to Photoshop? Have you been trying to teach yourself the basics of Photoshop but have found the amount of educational material available on the...

  5. How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation

    How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation

    Tutorial • Advanced

    In this tutorial, we'll manipulate a picture so it looks like a woman burning in flames. The idea behind this manipulation was to create a nice looking...

  6. How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces

    How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Applying texture to a flat surface, or flatly applying a texture across a whole image (as a means to age it or degrade it) is simple stuff. Realistically...

  7. Create a Realistic Blueprint Image From a 3D Object

    Create a Realistic Blueprint Image From a 3D Object

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    In this tutorial, we'll create a a quick mock-up of a 3D car blueprint. Then we'll place it on an image of a drafting table. This time we'll use a particular...

  8. Create a Fallen, Rain-Soaked, Angel Composition in Photoshop

    Create a Fallen, Rain-Soaked, Angel Composition in Photoshop

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    In today's tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a lonely, fallen, rain-soaked, angel composition in Photoshop using photo manipulation techniques....

  9. Create a Fictional Arctic Snow Frog in Photoshop

    Create a Fictional Arctic Snow Frog in Photoshop

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Photoshop is a great tool to create scenarios that can't or don't exist in real life. In today's tutorial, we will combine several stock images and effects...

  10. The Cosmos: Create a Red Giant Star in Photoshop

    The Cosmos: Create a Red Giant Star in Photoshop

    Tutorial • Beginner

    When a star like our own reaches the end of its life, it begins to run out of hydrogen fuel in its core. Like a car running out of gas, it will begin to...

  11. Create a Scenic Castle Hallway in Photoshop

    Create a Scenic Castle Hallway in Photoshop

    Tutorial • Beginner

    In today's tutorial, we will combine stock photography and some basic digital painting techniques to create a scenic castle hallway in Photoshop. Let's get...

  12. Undress a Giraffe in Photoshop

    Undress a Giraffe in Photoshop

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Have you ever wanted to know what a Giraffe looks like without its spots? If so, this tutorial is for you, you pervert! Today, we will demonstrate how to...

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