In Part I of this series, I will showcase 10 Fantastic Free Photoshop Brushsets for Photo Manipulation Works. I have included a brief description of the brushsets and how you can use them in front of the brush image. Hope you enjoy them :)
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Photo Effect Create a Surreal Urban City Montage with Lightning Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create a Surreal Urban City Montage with Lightning Effect in Photoshop . This is an intermediate level Photoshop tutorial so some steps can be a bit tricky, but why not have a try!
0 1k 3August 13, 2012 -
Photo Effect Design a Dark Magical Scene with Nebula Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this Dark Magical Scene with Nebula Effect in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level Photoshop tutorial so some steps can be a bit tricky, but why not have a try!
0 590 0July 23, 2012 -
Inspiration Imagination Unleashed: Best of PSD Vault DeviantART Group – Vol. 33
Welcome to the 33rd volume of “Imagination Unleashed: Best of PSD Vault DeviantART Group”, which is a showcase I run regularly here on psdvault.com featuring some fantastic, highly-creative digital artworks in the PSD Vault DeviantART group.
0 251 0July 17, 2012 -
Photo Effect The Creation of “The Storm is Approaching” Artwork in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the process of The Creation of “The Storm is Approaching” Artwork in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level Photoshop tutorials so some steps can be a bit tricky, but why not have a try!
0 2k 0July 15, 2012 -
Inspiration 25 Awesome Photo Manipulative Artworks Fresh from the Design Community
In this post, I will showcase 25 Awesome Photo Manipulative Artworks Fresh from the Design Community. Hopefully you will enjoy them as much as I did and find that bit of inspiration you need. Enjoy!
0 404 20October 23, 2010 -
Basics Mini PS Tutorial Series Vol.4 – Create Widescreen Wallpaper via Image Merging in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you how you can Create Widescreen Wallpaper via Image Merging in Photoshop. Have a try!
0 549 8October 3, 2010 -
Photo Effect Create Surreal Environment Inspired by the “Inception” Movie in Photoshop
Recently I went and saw the movie “Inception” and thought it was really awesome. That’s why I thought I can probably try and create a similar effect using Photoshop and make a tutorial of it for you guys :)
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this Surreal/Sci-fi Environment Inspired by the “Inception” Movie in Photoshop. Some steps can be a little tricky, but why not have a try!
0 1k 13September 23, 2010 -
Photo Effect Create Awesome Abstract Photo Effect via Layer Masking and Custom Patterns
In this tutorial, I will show you how you can Create this Awesome Abstract Photo Effect via Layer Masking and Custom Patterns. Some steps can be a little tricky, but why not have a try!
0 610 11September 15, 2010 -
Photo Effect Quickly Create Surreal Scenary via Combining Landscape Images in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you how you can quickly and effectively Create Fantasy Scene via Combining Landscape Images in Photoshop. Some steps can be a little tricky for beginners, but why not have a try!
0 870 17September 8, 2010 -
Abstract Photo Effect Utilise Custom Shapes and Texture to add Extra Flavour to Your Design in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this Awesome Freestyle Artwork via Mixing Shapes and Dirt Texture in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial and some steps can be tricky, but why not have a go :) ?
0 921 21July 13, 2010 -
Photo Effect Create Surreal Artwork via Simple Break Apart Effect and Smoke Texture in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this Surreal Artwork via Simple Break Apart Effect in Photoshop. I will also introduce the use of dynamic brushsets to generate a “magic dust” effect. Have a try!
0 1k 25July 10, 2010 -
Photo Effect The Creation of “Lost in Memory” Epic Fantasy Artwork in Photoshop
In this tutorial, i will show you the steps I took to create this epic Fantasy Style artwork “Lost in Memory” in Photoshop. I combined the meteor effect, some matte-painting tricks plus lighting effect in this effect, hopefully you will learn lots from this tut :)
0 945 19May 14, 2010 -
Photo Effect Design a Black and White, Dreamy Style Surreal Artwork in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this black and white, dreamy style sureal artwork in Photoshop. Have a try!
If you have been following my tutorials for a while, you will notice that I very rarely publish anything that is black and white – I love colours, but I think sometimes black and white style can produce effect that colour can’t – for example, a sense of dark and gloom.
0 882 21May 5, 2010 -
Photo Effect Design an Awesome Freestyle Nature-Themed Artwork in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Design this cool looking, Awesome Nature-Themed Artwork in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial and some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try!
0 551 15April 25, 2010 -
Photo Effect Design a Surreal “Departing” Jump Scene with Cloud Warping in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I…
0 545 31April 20, 2010 -
Photo Effect Design an Awesome Fantasy Floating Mountain Scene in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the processes I used to create this really cool, fantasy style floating Mountain Scene in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial and some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try!
0 899 36March 23, 2010 -
Photo Effect Design an Epic Sci-Fi Style Urban City Scene in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this Epic, Sci-Fi Sytle Urban City Scene (Montage) in Photoshop, by utilising a few simple photo manipulation tricks. Have a try!
0 713 29March 7, 2010 -
Inspiration Resources Introducing desktopography.net – An Awesome Source for Creative Inspiration and Wallpaper Downloads
Not sure whether you’ve heard of desktopography.net? If not, head over them and take a look – In my opinion, they have some of the most creative, high-end photo manipluation works you will ever see on the net. Although their collection is reletively small, the quality is absolutely top-class. Ipersonally visit them everyday and every time I can discover something new, especially when I need motivation and inspirational.
In this post, I will show you 20 awesome photo manipulative wallpapar from desktopography.net, hopefully you will enjoy them as much as I did and find them inspirational.
0 319 11February 15, 2010 -
Inspiration Power of Nature Vol. 1 – 25 Spectacular, Visually-Stunning Ocean Photographs
A while ago I bumped into the website of Clark Little and saw a set of his stunning Ocean Wave Photographs. I was really amazed by those photos and thought I would start a series here on PSD Vault – focusing on the collection of beautiful and dramatic nature-themed photos. Although this series is not directly link to Photoshop but I do hope you will find insipartion and design ideas from them. After all, nature is something we all treasure.
In the first volume of this series, I put together a collection of 25 spectacular ocean Photographs. Hope you enjoy them and find them inspirational :)
0 311 4February 3, 2010 -
Inspiration 22 (Really) Unbelievable Human Photo Manipulation Artworks
In this post, I will showcase you 22 (Perhaps) the Most Unbelievable Human Photo Manipulation Artworks to boost your inspiration. Those works are mixed with surreal, or even bizarre concepts, and the techniques used in those artworks are simply top-class – that’s why I call them unbelievable.
I personally think you will lots of creativity in those works and hopefully they can give you tons of inspiration for your next design.
Please remember, if you like those works, click on them and drop a comment or two to support those great artist, they deserve it :)
0 514 15January 31, 2010 -
Photo Effect Create Grungy Style Artwork, Mixing with Great Lighting and Shattered Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show the steps I took to create this Grungy Style Artwork, Mixing with Great Lighting and Shattered Effect in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial and some steps can be tricky, but why not just have a try :)
0 1k 35January 5, 2010 -
Photo Effect Design an Awesome Space-themed “Unleash Your Creativity” Artwork in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this really great looking, space-themed “Unleash Your Creativity” Artwork in Photoshop. Have a try!
The point I would like to address in this tutorial is how we can achieve great lighting effect by simply mixing custom brushset and various Photoshop filters, plus we will be exploring different layer blending effects and the use of Pen Tool to create abstract lines. I will also show you how to quickly render realistic star field effect in Photoshop.
0 334 12December 29, 2009 -
Photo Effect Design a Dante’s Inferno Game Inspired Dark Flaming Hell Scene in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this really awesome looking, dark flaming hell scene in Photoshop, inspired by the Dante’s Inferno game artworks. This tutorial is designed for intermediate to advance Photoshop users so some steps can be a bit tricky, but why not have a try!
Along the way, we will be using tons of layer blending techniques, filter effects, image adjustments, and various tools from the toolbox. You will learn how to combine those techniques into one and make awesome looking artwork in Photoshop.
0 563 21December 13, 2009 -
Wallpaper 30 Amazingly Creative Photo Manipulated Wallpaper to Tune Up Your Desktop
In this post, I will show you 35 amazingly beautiful, ultra-creative Photo Manipulated wallpaper I collected and stored in my browser favourites. They’re some of the best ones I have come across and I have to say the skills used in making those wallpaper are simply first-class. Really Really good.
Hope you enjoy them and make your desktop a vibrant place :)
Please click on individual photo to download them from their original sources.
0 522 20December 8, 2009 -
Photo Effect My Guest Post on My Ink Blog – Design A Surreal, Ancient Fantasy Scene in Photoshop
Recently I was invited by Andrew from My Ink Blog to write a guest post and here is what I came up with – A surreal, ancient Fantasy Scene made in Photoshop. (I personally always love fantasy style!) My Ink Blog is a site that always enjoy hopping onto and I’m really happy that I was given an opportunity to be a small part of it :)
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this work. We will take several real world objects and seamlessly blend them together to form this artwork. We will also use a number of Photoshop brushes to spice up the effect. The techniquses involved in this tutorial include layer blending, image adjustments, filter effects, custom brush tools, adding layer mask, etc.
This is a 10 steps tutorial, very simple, yet the effect is good. Have a try!
0 316 6November 12, 2009 -
Inspiration Resources 25 Absolutely Magnificant Landscape Photo Manipulation + 5 Great PS Tutorials Showing How to Make Them
In my opinion, landscape photo manipulation is probably one of the most interesting, however difficult to master Photoshop technique – especially identifying the light source, how to best merge a few stock images together, etc.
In this post, I will showcase 25 Absolutely Magnificant Landscape Scenary Photo Manipulation + 5 Great PS Tutorials Showing How to Make Them. Those images are hand-picked by me from deviantArt.com and I personally enjoy them very much. The tutorials are also part of my browers favourites and I hope they’re useful to you when it comes to produce great scenary photo manipulations.
Here goes the list, enjoy!
0 453 4October 19, 2009 -
Abstract Basics Drawing Text Effect 5 Useful Little Photoshop Tricks to Add Extra Elegance For Your Design
In this post, I will show you 5 Useful Little Photoshop Tricks to Bring Out That bit of Extra Elegance for Your Design.
0 1k 58October 14, 2009 -
Resources 11 Fascinating and Educational Tutorials Teaching You How to Produce Better Photo Effects
Ability to produce spotless, great-looking photo effect is something that every Photoshopper strives to achieve. We all know Photoshop is designed to help us make photo/image look great, however, because Photoshop itself is such as large-scale, complicated software, sometimes it’s difficult for beginners or even intermediate users to find the function and option they need to make such effect.That’s why many tutorials have been created to help overcoming this difficulty.
In this post, I will show you my collection of 11 Fascinating and Educational Tutorials Teaching You How to Produce Better Photo Effects. Those are tutorial that I came across months or even years ago, and until now they still reside in my firefox bookmarks. It’s a small collection, however I’m sure you will find pretty much everything you need to make great looking photos, based on the techniques outlined in each tutorial.
Hope you enjoy them and learn lots :)
0 583 5September 28, 2009 -
Photo Effect Design a Surreal Ancient Ruin and Coastal Island Scenery in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the processes involved in creating this beautiful, fantasy-styled surreal ancient ruin and coastal island scenary in Photoshop. Hope you enjoy it!
Along the way, we will go through a variety of technqiues such as layer blending, image adjustments, a bit of matte painting skills and filter effects. This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be a bit tricky.
Practices always make thing easier for the future, so go ahead and have a try :) Oh by the way, the server migration is now complete, everything should be back to normal now!
0 403 20September 8, 2009 -
Inspiration 30 Stunning, Absolutely Magical Photo Manipulations Focusing on Human Eye
Always beautiful to look at, unqiuely presented on every person on this planet, Human Eye is an element being used over and over again by designers for a varieity of works. Lately, I have seen a lot of photo manipulations done fucusing on a single Human Eye, and frankly, I really enjoy those works and am amazed by the imagination and inspiration that those works provide.
Therefore I decide to collect 30 Stunning, Absolutely Magical Photo Manipulations Focusing on Human Eye from deviantArt.com and share them with you guys, hopefully you enjoy those works as much as I did!
0 2k 14August 23, 2009 -
Photo Effect Create a Distant Desert City Scene with Energy Ray Blast in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the processes I use to create this fantasy style, really cool distant desert city scene with an awesome energy ray blasting through the sky in Photoshop.
Along the way, we will be using tons of layer blending techniques, and I will show you how to merge the images together effectively and efficiently. We will also explore skills such as masking, filter effects and various custom brushsets.
This is an intermediate-level tutorial, have a try!
0 906 32August 18, 2009 -
Photo Effect Design an Awesome Watercolour Style “City on Cloud” Artwork in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show the steps I took to create this really cool, watercolour style “City on Cloud” Artwork in Photoshop. I was experimenting the new brushsets and textures I downloaded today and thought I could combine them together and see what result they can bring :)
Along the way, we will be using a lot of photo manipulation techniques such as masking, filter effects, layer blending options, and custom brushsets.
This is an intermediate tutorial and some steps can be a bit tricky, but why not have a try :)
0 902 19August 10, 2009 -
Photo Effect Make Perfect Selection for Human Object by Utilising Channel Mask Technique in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you a rather useful technique I use in Photoshop to make perfect human selection, which requires the combination of channel mask and the quick selection tool available in Photoshop CS3.
I have received a number of emails lately in regards to this topic and I have decided to post this short tutorial with a step-by-step guide for beginners. Once you master this skill, you can apply it to pretty much every human image you want to selection/extract.
Meanwhile, if you have any tips/tricks about making selections, you’re more than welcome to share your experience with us, just drop a comment below :)
0 861 42July 5, 2009 -
Photo Effect Design an Awesome Space Dancer Scene with Nebula Texture in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the processes I used to design this awesome space dancer scene with Nebula Texture in Photoshop. The inspiration of the tutorial in fact came from the latest “Prince of Persia” game cover (and yes, I do love this game very much!)
Together we will be using image adjustment options, layer blending, masking and filter effect. I will also like to emphasise that it’s very importance to choose the right stock texture for your design, as they will contribute and improve your final effect dramatically.
This is an fairly easy tutorial and I hope you enjoy it! Have a try!
0 690 34June 22, 2009