Realistic Photo Composite From a Sketch in Photoshop

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When mixing photos, it's often helpful to use digital painting techniques to help improve your scene. In this tutorial, we will show you how to combine several photos to create a realistic scene of a locomotive passing through a desert landscape. This tutorial will begin as a sketch, we will then show you how to combine photo manipulation and digital painting techniques to create finished artwork that looks amazingly close to the original sketch. Let's get started!

Potrait into a Zombie

In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to turn a portrait into a zombie. You ‘ll learn how to use adjustment layers, combine stock images and work with textures.

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Create a Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

Follow this tutorial and have fun creating a vector tomato text effect in Adobe Illustrator.

We will start with the letters and prepare them for the realistic tomato look that includes: the outer pulp, the seed pockets, the inner pulp and the seeds. We'll create all of these starting from simple shapes and using a few manipulation techniques along with the Pathfinder panel and the Appearance panel

How to Create a Pale Golden Switch Button in Photoshop

In the following tutorial your will learn how to create a simple switch button in Adobe Photoshop.

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Final Image

As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:

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Step 1

Open Photoshop and hit Control + N to create a new document. Enter all the data shown in the following image and click OK.

Enable the Grid (View > Show > Grid) and the Snap to Grid (View > Snap To > Grid). For starters you will need a grid every 5px. Go to Edit > Preferences > Guides, Grid & Slices and focus on the Grid section. Enter 5 in the Gridline Every box and 1 in the Subdivision box. Also, set the color of the grid at #a7a7a7. Once you set all these properties click OK. Don’t get discouraged by all that grid. It will ease your work later.

Create Realistic Water Reflection Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will create a realistic water reflection effect. You should be able to replicate this effect on other pictures using the techniques presented here.

This Photoshop tutorial uses some fairly advanced techniques but the detailed explanations at each step should make it easy for beginners to catch on.

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Final Image

As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:

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