This tutorial will teach you to create nice glow effect that adds ‘dreamy’ look to your images. You may use this technique both for color and B/W images.

There are dozens of useful Photoshop shortcuts, and here is my favorites list. All shortcuts are for Adobe Photoshop CS2, but they should work in other Photoshop versions as well.

All keyboard shortcuts are for PC. I don’t have a Mac, but as far as I know the main difference is use of the COMMAND key and OPTION key on a Mac instead of the CTRL key and the ALT key on a PC. If I’m wrong – correct me.

This lesson is a part of tutorial series about making rather ordinary things look unusual. This time I decided to stylize the grapes photo and give it lots of color to achieve very unusual look, but keep the details so the image remains “realistic”.

You will learn to use Pen tool, Hue/Saturation command and Adjustment layers together to get interesting and easily adaptable result.

Photos from first Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park, Fort Minor) public art show «Diamonds, Spades, Hearts, Clubs».It took place on 19 November, 2006. All raised money were transferred to finance scholarship at Art Center College of Design

Propaganda is very important activity for any government. Especially, in Soviet Union. Very especially at Stalin times. At that time they should also counteract nazi propaganda posters distributed over occupated territories… Some of them look vintage, some really funny. Today we are going to show you some of the examples of socialist posters covering period from 1920s to the beginning of Cold War – 22 pictures in total.

Modernism, blasted as a lightning on the edge of XIX and ХХ centuries, was able to charm not only contemporaries, but future generations as well. Non-traditional style of Modernism was an escape from centuries-old rules and impressed people with its freedom, dreaminess and independence. There are no fixed forms, even stone is fluid. Nature is everywhere – reach ornaments, elegant curves, “fluidity”. Modernism tries to fly from rationalism to pure feelings, make forms alive. However, it is not something rough and abstract. Modernism art is very attentive to details.

Jason Felix – is a well-known photo humiliator. For his humiliation he receives awards and is exhibited on many artistic fairs. Earlier Jason was responsible for creation of heroes of StarCraft, Prince of Persia and Hellgate: London. He is living in San Francisco and you can easily find him either on a party with other artists or fighting against his two crazy cats or working on next art-project…

Cup of coffee, drop of milk and a camera – basic ingridients to amaze you.

We continue to convert your photo into very unusual, infrared-like image with extreme colors with second part of our infrared photography tutorial.

You will learn very effective sky extraction technique, use channels and curves to produce infrared-like grayscale image, use mask to isolate part of the image and create several layers with blending mode set to ‘color’ to control parts of the image independently.

‘Setting up’ the image takes several minutes. Once you created all necessary layers it becomes very easy to alter the colors to achieve quite unusual or even ‘crazy’ color effects. 

Convert your photo into very unusual, infrared-like image with extreme colors.

You will learn very effective sky extraction technique, use channels and curves to produce grayscale image which will look like infrared photography, use mask to isolate part of the image and create several layers with blending mode set to ‘color’ to control parts of the image independently.

‘Setting up’ the image takes several minutes. Once you created all necessary layers it becomes very easy to alter the colors to achieve quite unusual or even ‘crazy’ color effects.