Author: James Qu

James is a seasoned Photoshop expert with over 25 years of experience based in Australia. As the driving force behind PSD Vault, he authors the majority of its in-depth tutorials and insightful articles.

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.

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Welcome to the 22nd volume of “Creativity Fine-Tuning: Best of PSD Vault Flickr Group”, which is a showcase I run regularly here on psdvault.com featuring some fantastic, highly-creative design works in the PSD Vault Flickr Group.

Hope you enjoy those works as much as I did and find them inspirational! Meanwhile, if you have some cool designs and would like to be featured here on PSD Vault, you can simply join the PSD Vault Flickr group.

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In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this surreal “Departing” Jump Scene with Cloud Warping in Photoshop. This is an intermediate tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try! Along the way, you will learn how to bring out extra details from your photo via a few simple tweaks, plus how to warp the cloud generated by Photoshop filter so to best suit your image. Here is a preview of the final result I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge) PSD Vault VIP Membership You can download the PSD…

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Fantasy style digital artworks have always been one of my favourites. There is so much creativity in those works and almost every fantasy work can tell a story. Not to mention in order to create those works, you need excellent skills (not only Photoshop), plus being extremely creative with your work. In this post, I will showcase you 25 Absolutely Amazing (Fresh) Fantasy Digital Artworks, hand-picked from deviantart.com for your inspiration. Hopefully you will enjoy them as much as I did :) Here goes the list, enjoy! If you like those works, then show those awesome designers some support! Click…

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