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Photoshop Ghost Tutorial in Gothic Setup

Learn how to create a Ghost Photoshop Manipulation from this easy to follow Photoshop tutorial. In just a few simple steps we'll transform this Old Castle into a creepy Monastery. By adding the two Monk characters and the Girl Ghost will complete this Gothic background transformation. You'll need two hours and intermediate Photoshop skills (like cropping, a little bit of painting, some brushes) to make this photo manipulation. I really hope you will enjoy this new tutorial and, as usual, I am really curious to see your results!

Interview with Digital Artist Monika Schoffmann

I came across Monika Schoffmann art works while I was browsing deviantArt and got impressed with her beautiful style. Monika is actually a young and very talented digital artist from Munich. Even if, as she confesses, illustration is just a small part of what she does, in today's article we will focus only on her amazing illustrations. I really hope you will enjoy reading this interview and discover some little secrets about her techniques, her sources of inspiration and why not some details about her life in general. Below you will find some of Monika Schoffmann art works that I've picked up with great difficulty because I love all of them.

Photoshop Love Text Effect for Valentine Day

The Valentine Day is just around the corner and I have lots of resources that are not published yet for this special occasion. So here is a new tutorial with a beautiful love text message made in Photoshop. Nothing to complicated and I hope you'll have the time to make it for this Valentine. We will only need some simple heart brushes with layer style added, to create this Photoshop love text effect. Very easy to customize, so feel free to try other colors, textures and so on. I hope you like it, and decide to share it with all your friends!

Create a Valentine Night Wallpaper in Photoshop

The Valentine Night Wallpaper is my new Photoshop wallpaper tutorial created especially for the upcoming Valentine's Day. This cartoon illustration is made from scratch using vector drawing, Photoshop doodle brushes and grungy textures. I hope you'll enjoy this Valentine tutorial and decide to share it with all your friends. And don't forget to download the ZIP file with the brushes used in this tutorial.

Heart Doodle Brushes

This set of Photoshop heart brushes can be downloaded for free by all our registered members. These heart brushes are made in a doodle style, so they are perfect for Valentine Day cards, scrapbooks and so on. This time of year love is definitely floating in the air, so I confess I got really inspired. That is the main reason why I have released so many resources for Valentine's day. This new set of free brushes contains 29 doodle heart shapes that look great as they are, but also with layer styles added.

The Stone Heart Photo Manipulation Tutorial

Learn how to create this surreal Photo Manipulation for Valentine Day from this easy to follow tutorial. We will create a surreal house shaped as a big stone heart. This tutorial can be made even by Photoshop newbies because you only need some cropping, color adjustments and blending, so it's really a good practice. I hope you like my new photo manipulation tutorial and decide to give it a try for the upcoming Valentine Day. I would love to see how you've personalized this Photoshop surreal image, so don't hesitate to upload your work on our comments section.

Valentine Photoshop Wallpaper with Jeans Heart

Learn how to create a Valentine Day Wallpaper in Photoshop from this easy to follow tutorial. We'll create a beautiful heart made from jeans pattern and leather with stitching effect. Hopefully you will learn new things from this Valentine Photoshop tutorial and decide to download the free wallpaper. And I also hope you will share it with all your friends.

Roof Texture Pattern

While I was working on one of my tutorials I realized that I need a Roof Texture for a house roof. Because my image was made in a cartoon style and because I needed a Roof Pattern (meaning a seamless roof pattern) I decided to make it from scratch. This roof texture was made using vector roof tiles put together to form a pattern. To make it look more realistic I added a grunge texture. Hope you find it useful, it will sure ease your work!

30 Circle Brushes

Download our new set of circle brushes which contains 30 circles drawn in Photoshop. Making a circle in Photoshop is easy, anyone can do it using the Ellipse Tool for example. But if you need a more elaborated shape, if you need concentric circles, dotted circles, dashed circles and so on, the faster way to obtain it is to use a premade brush. Most of my circle Photoshop brushes are made in a doodle style using decorative motifs like dots, lines, smaller circles, etc. The good news is that these circle brushes can be easily combined to make other shapes. They can be also put together to create circle patterns, your imagination is the only boundary.

Valentine Heart Vector with Free PSD File

The Valentine's Day is coming in just a few weeks so I am planning to release lots of free resources with love as central theme. When we think of love the first thing that comes into our mind is a big red heart. The heart still remains the main visualization of love. So in this new and free Photoshop resource you will find a vector heart made in 4 different ways with a golden ribbon attached. The good news is that you can download the PSD heart file with all the layer styles intact. You can customize the shape, color and text message to better fit your needs. Hope you like it!