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Final Image This is the final image that we’ll be creating. Step 1 Download this image http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1104824 Don’t think you’ve already made it as we will be tracing over the image! Open the image in Photoshop and re-size it to what you want. I re-sized mine to 1800 px by 2546 px. I lowered the [...]

I’ve recently been admiring the book covers of those military action thrillers, you know – Andy McNab and the like? So I decided to have a go at designing my own dramatic war torn scene in a similar style. Follow this step by step photo manipulation tutorial where we’ll be using stock photos, textures and [...]

In this tutorial, we’ll be creating a highly dramatic scene with a disintegrating statue of an Angel. The end result would be an intense composition of the Angel seemingly coming to life as Gradients, blends, and a set of unique brushes are used to enhance the image of the Angel statue. Step 1 We start [...]

In this tutorial, we’ll be creating a dark composition that would be chiefly enhanced by Adjustment Layers and for other effects in the image, the use of Smart Object/Filters we also be highlighted. Step 1 We’ll start by creating a new document with the size of 800 px x 800 px and a resolution of [...]

When it comes to design, copyright is often a very muddled gray area. Just as the lines between plagiarism and homage are often confusing, so too is the line between infringing and non-infringing use of copyrighted material. Since it is natural and even expected of Web designers to incorporate elements from other sites and other [...]


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