Tutorials

Create a Carnival Party Flyer in Photoshop

In Rio de Janeiro, from February 13th through the 17th, will take place the famous Rio Carnival. This year over 1 million visitors will attend the celebration that will culminate with the extravagant parade of the top Samba schools in Rio.

I really like to party and since I will not go to Brazil for the carnival, I decided to make a nice Rio Carnival party flyer in Photoshop. Nothing complicated, just a few stock images to depict the atmosphere like samba dancer, drums, lights and sparkle effects. Enjoy!

Secret Place Fantasy Photoshop Manipulation Tutorial

In this new Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create a beautiful fantasy photo montage depicting the childhood secret place. What I love about this tutorial is the way in which the mood, atmosphere and drama were created in Photoshop using adjustment layers, filters, etc. So you will also learn how to add mood to your photos, how to work with the Oil Paint Filter and many more.

Sparkler Light Text Effect Photoshop Tutorial

Let's start the new year with this cool looking sparklers light text effect Photoshop tutorial. You will learn how to create a sparkler typography using any font type and text that you want. It is a little later for creating new year party flyers using this sparkle light text effect but it will probably be useful for next year.

Christmas and New Year Greeting Card Photoshop Tutorial

For this time of year I propose to you this beautiful Christmas and New Year greeting card that you can share with all your loved ones. You can create unique looking Christmas cards, backgrounds, header images, wallpapers in just a few simple steps. To help you with the process I created a Photoshop action set that transforms any shape, text or raster layer adding a festive style. You can choose from 10 Christmas styles and effects that you can customize to your liking.

Christmas Fantasy Tale Photoshop Manipulation Tutorial

The winter holidays are just around the corner, so for today I propose you a new Christmas Photoshop tutorial. You will learn how to create a Christmas Fantasy Tale Photoshop manipulation. We will turn a girl into a surreal winter queen character. This beautiful spirit of Christmas goes beyond the earth boundaries into the entire galaxy. Hope you all enjoy this new Christmas tutorial.

Magic Christmas Tree Photoshop Manipulation Tutorial

This month is dedicated almost entirely to winter holidays like Christmas and the New Year. So today I bring you a new Photoshop tutorial; we'll create a magical forest scene with a beautiful lighted Christmas tree as focus point. I also added some reindeer as they are symbols of both Christmas and Lapland. I hope you will enjoy the X-mas tutorial and, as always, I am keen to see your version.

Create a Meat Sausage Photoshop Text Effect

Learn how to create a meat sausage text effect in Photoshop using just a few layer styles combined with food textures in this case meat texture. The meat text works well in combination with mustard, so you can add details using the mustard layer style as you can see in the preview.

Apocalyptic City Explosion Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a city explosion in Photoshop using just a few simple blending techniques. You will also learn how to add cinematic movie effects to your photos with gradient maps and other color adjustments. This apocalyptic building explosion was made with explosion brushes, fire and smoke effects. Hope you will enjoy reading this new tutorial written by Dwight Daley from psdtuts4u

Make a Spooky Halloween Pumpkin Text Effect in Photoshop

Learn how to make a spooky pumpkin 3D typography in Photoshop for the upcoming Halloween celebration. We'll use a 3D text mockup just to make things easier. You can use the same 3D text mockup to create other creepy text effects like zombie, blood, ghost and so on. All you have to do is to change the colors and adjust the layer styles. Add some Halloween symbols around the pumpkin text and you have a cool Photoshop text effect.

Halloween Night Witch Photoshop Manipulation Tutorial

The Halloween is coming again and so I decided to create a nigh witch Photoshop manipulation. This photo manipulation has all the main ingredients of Halloween; it has an evil witch, an enchanted pumpkin, dark night bats and a magical forest where all the spells and other creepy things happen. Hope you all decide to try this new Halloween manipulation tutorial; if you do I will be happy if you share your results with us.