In this Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create an interesting photo effect by taking an image and turning it into a series of interweaving strips. We’ll be using a few layers and layer masks in the tutorial, as well as a couple of clipping masks and a layer style, and we’ll be turning on Photoshop’s grid to help us out.

The first time I saw this Photoshop effect, I thought “Wow, there’s some really advanced stuff going on there!”. But as with most things in life, after thinking about it for a few minutes, I realized just how simple it really is, as we’ll see!

Here’s the photo I’ll be using for this tutorial. It’s the same image I used in the Ghosting An Image tutorial but it works great with this effect as well:

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Simulating any material in Photoshop and getting it to look real is largely a matter of surface texture and lighting. This tutorial will show you a very easy method for making rock and stone that’s incredibly photorealistic.

No special artistic skills are required here. We’ll just be using Photoshop’s built-in filters and tools. Here’s a look at what we’ll be creating:

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Everybody likes cartoon characters. They make us happy and keep our mind tension-free. We present here beautiful and mind-blowing Cartoon Illustration Tutorials for you.

will guide you step by step to easily learn how to create cool and interesting cartoon characters in Illustrator.

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Hi there! This is a new nice ‘n’ simple tutorial I’m going to be showing you how to make a precious diamond text effect like the one shown in the image below:

Now, firstly, you’ll have to create a new document in which you can make this text effect. For this tutorial I’m simply going to be using a size 1000×500 px and fill it with white color:

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This Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to use a variety of color, lighting, and cut and paste techniques to create a surreal photo manipulation. Combine your creativity with these Photoshop techniques to create your own photo manipulation artworks.

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For those who love to work on Mac, Basically I only used brushes to create that in Photoshop. Now with the release of the new Pixelmator 1.4 and its brand new Brush Engine (download from Here)I decided to try it and create the same image in Pixelmator.

So, in this tutorial I will show you how to create fire and smoke using Pixelmator. We will play with the Brush Engine, colors and Blendings.

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In this tutorial, I’ll be showing you how to draw a shiny green apple. We’ll have a look at various painting techniques throughout this tutorial. It will be fun and you’ll learn something new - let’s started!

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Basically, in this tutorial I’m going to be showing you how to add texture to the skin like the one in the above image.

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This is specially for Girls……..The Photoshop retouching series is a how to on changing someones hair color, no bleach required! We will be taking a blonde model and changing her hair color to red. Continue reading »

As always we’ll begin with the final result, so you can see where we’re going. It’s on a nice big canvas so it can serve as the desktop background on my laptop.

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