In this short tutorial I will show you how to create a mosaic type effect using random photographs and a bold font. All you need are some pretty photos you can get from anywhere and creativity. This is really easy to do but you can get some very impressive results if your put your creative mind to work. ...

In this manipulation tutorial I will show you how to create a cool looking black and white artwork and several other thinks like how to create rainy scene in Photoshop and how to effectively use the Dodge/Burn and lighting effects. And of course will also show you how to create a stunning Black&White image. For this tutorial I used only free stock images and I did this in about 3 hours with all the fine ...

With this tutorial we will see how to create a smartphone HTC starting from the beginning. At first sight it seems a long job but, I can assure, it is not difficult at all. We are going to use several simple shapes,  such as rectangles and circles and each one will be formatted in  different styles. ...

In this digital art tutorial I will show you how to create a nice abstract artwork using a few stock images and how to create your own custom elements using the Lasso Tool. I will also show you the "post editing" process where you enhance your final artwork and give it the final punch. Hope you enjoy this. ...

In this tutorial I will show you a technique that will make digital makeup a lot easier for you. I will show you how to organize your layers so that you can experiment with different makeup colors and change them quickly. Working on a frontal portrait will make things easier for you but in many cases that's not possible. The most important thing is to get the technique, than you will be able to apply digita ...

Teeth whitening is something that many people just do wrong. I've seen so many tutorials that show unnecessary steps to achieve a whitening that hardly looks natural. Remember that portrait retouching is all about balance and making your models look good but as natural as possible. In this tutorial I will show you a quick way of whitening teeth an keep them natural. ...

In this chapter of the Manipulation Secrets series I will discuss Dodge&Burning and how drastically it can improve your artworks. The dodge and burn technique is also used in portrait retouching to fix local illumination "problems" or to get rid of little blemishes on the skin. In this article I will only discuss about how to use this technique on manipulations because is where the effect is more pronou ...

Welcome to a new PSD Box tutorial. After a series of manipulation tutorials It's time for something abstract. For this tutorial we will use brushes quite a lot. It's not going to be a difficult tutorial so I hope you will enjoy it. I written this tutorial to show you the technique more than anything, so the result is nothing really awesome but still looks quite nice. I made this in about a couple of hours. ...