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.

All Photo Effects content:

  1. How to Create a Flying Land Illustration On Fire

    How to Create a Flying Land Illustration On Fire

    Tutorial Intermediate

    This tutorial is a collaboration with a good friend of mine with Ciursa Ionut. This tutorial is about creating a fantasy illustration using some dragon...

  2. How to Mold Paint Splatter to a Face in Photoshop - Screencast

    How to Mold Paint Splatter to a Face in Photoshop - Screencast

    Tutorial Intermediate

    "In this tutorial, we'll learn how to take splattered paint Photoshop brushes and apply them to the contours of a model's face. This is a relatively simple...

  3. How to Create a Fantasy Atmosphere Style Car Ad

    How to Create a Fantasy Atmosphere Style Car Ad

    Tutorial Intermediate

    The initial concept was the creation of an 'atmosphere' - a background for the car. Using images and some painting techniques over that images I made a...

  4. How To Create a Post Apocalyptic Photo Manipulation

    How To Create a Post Apocalyptic Photo Manipulation

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a post apocalyptic manipulation using adjustment layers, vector masks, and some special effects. Let's get...

  5. Making Sense of the Warp Tool - It's All About the Lines

    Making Sense of the Warp Tool - It's All About the Lines

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Every now and then a project comes along that challenges me to use one of Photoshop's tools more than ever. This particular image was part of a series of ads...

  6. It’s Time to Create a “Neo-Constructivist” Poster with Photoshop

    It’s Time to Create a “Neo-Constructivist” Poster with Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Constructivist graphic design is often associated with communist politics and propaganda, but it's more than that, Constructivism is about using bright...

  7. How to Mold Paint Splatter to a Face in Photoshop

    How to Mold Paint Splatter to a Face in Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial, we'll learn how to take splattered paint Photoshop brushes and apply them to the contours of a model's face. This is a relatively simple...

  8. Using Your Camera's Histogram to Take Better Digital Photographs

    Using Your Camera's Histogram to Take Better Digital Photographs

    Tutorial Intermediate

    The histogram is one of the best ways to check for accurate exposure in the camera, and yet it's underused by many photographers. Use this tutorial to learn...

  9. Creating a Spy Fly Photo Manipulation

    Creating a Spy Fly Photo Manipulation

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Welcome to a new Photoshop based tutorial. This time I'll try to describe the main steps in creating a dead robot fly. Before we get started, I would like to...

  10. How to Create a Slice of Nature Photo Manipulation - Screencast

    How to Create a Slice of Nature Photo Manipulation - Screencast

    Tutorial Intermediate

    "Today I'm going to show you how to put together a complex tree illustration. The idea for this tutorial is to show a workflow from concept to finish, not...

  11. How to Create an Imaginative, Magical Painted Scene

    How to Create an Imaginative, Magical Painted Scene

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial, we will be using several basic tools and stock images to create a fantasy artwork where everything seems to come alive from what is being...

  12. How to Create a Steampunk Style Illustration in Photoshop

    How to Create a Steampunk Style Illustration in Photoshop

    Tutorial Advanced

    Go simultaneously backward and forward in time with this Steampunk tutorial. The main focus, aside from the style of course, is fusing elements from...