Give Your Photo a Shining and Metallic Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you how you can apply dynamic colour and lighting effect to highlight your images and give them a shining and metallic effect in Photoshop.
By following this tutorial, you will gain further understanding into image adjustment tools, layer blending modes and various filters. Have a go, it's simple :)
Transform a Cloud Photo into an Flaming Scene in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to transform a cloud image into an explosion scene in Photoshop. I was having a play with some cloud photos I took the other day and discovered this effect by accident :)
This effect is easily achieve through some simple layer blendings and image adjustments. Other techniques include selection tool, various filters and free transformation tools.
Translucent Text Effect with Sky and Cloud
In this tutorial, I will show the processes involved in making this shining and refreshing transparent text effect with sky and cloud textures. We had some really interesting clouds on the sky yesterday and that's where I've got the inspiration from :)
The techniques included in this tutorial are layer styles, gradient fills, clone stamp tools, blur filters and various image adjustment and transformation tools. It's a simple tutorial so have a go!
Make a Grassy and Flowery Soft Drink Can in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to make a grassy and flowery soft drink can in Photoshop. I know it sounds weird but I actually found the inspiration from seeing a soft drink can lying on the lawn in my backyard!
Together we will be exploring various layer blending methods, image adjustment tools and methods of adding colour depth. Have a go!
Design a Dark and Crimson Forest Scene in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the processes I used to transform an average forest Photo into a Dark and Crimson Forest Scene, inspired by the Japanese Survival Horror Playstation game "Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly".
We will explore various layer blending options, an interesting way of rendering light and various image adjustment options.
Simple Glossy Navigation Bar Design in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you how to design a Modern Glossy Navigation Bar in Photoshop. This is a beginner tutorial with a just few simple steps, aiming to help beginner web designer for making their first-ever web page.
Skills involved in this tutorials are selection tools, layer blending options, and some simple gradiant filling techniques. Have a go!
Design an Awesome Star Text Effect In Photoshop
In this tutorial, I am going to show you the steps I took to create this awesome starry text effect in Photoshop. The inspiration of this text effect comes from the EA game "Dead Space".
Together we will practice some brush techniques, layer blending options, selection techniques and applying filter effects.
Seeking Inspiration – Part III: The Meaningless Abstracts
Welcome to Part III of the "Seeking Inspiration" series on PSD Vault! In this part, we focus on looking at some fantastic Abstract Designs.
In my opinion, abstract design is a wonderful way of expressing your creativity and maximise it to the extreme. They are meaningless, yet can be so meaningful if you could somehow inject your own thoughts and imagination into them.
Make a Devil May Cry Insipred Dark Portal Scene in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the processses involved in transforming an average photo into a mysterious dark portal to the underworld scene, inspired by the famous Playstation hack-and-slash game Devil May Cry.
The techniques used in this tutorial include layer blending styles, various image adjustment tools, filters and some basic selection techniques. The steps are very simple and straight-forward. Give it a go!
Design a Shining Crystal Text Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you a very simple way to achieve this cool crystal text effect in Photoshop. I accidentally discover this method when I was playing with the layer blending options and I decide to share this with you guys..
This is a short and simple tutorial and you should have no trouble doing it :). Have a try!
Seeking Inspiration – Part II: The Mystic Darkness
Welcome to the second part of "Seeking Inspiration" on PSD Vault. This time we take a look at those design works containing a reletively dark theme. Although the dark colour/theme can be a little depressive sometimes, they can always offer a mysterious and gloomy atmosphere.
I Hope you enjoy this post and let me know what you think of them :)
Easily Transform Your Photo into a Watercolour Painting in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the processes I used to transform a daily average photo into a Painting-like Image in Photoshop. The steps are really simple and you can apply them in pretty much any photo you like.
We will be using techniques such as layer blending options, image adjustment tools and filters.
Create a Scratched Metal Text Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will demostrate the steps I took to create a scratched Metal Text Effect using Photoshop.
Together we can practice different use of filter effects for create textures, adjusting layer blending styles, selection techniques, brush tool and dodge/burn tools.
Easy Lightness Adjustment in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show how easy it is to adjust lightness for your photos by using the LAB Mode in Photoshop. You can apply this tutorial to any photo you like.
We will also explore the use of layer blending options, hue/saturation tool and various filters in Photoshop.
Create a Crispy-Crust Text Effect with Flower Texture in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will demonstrate the processes I used to create this Crispy-Crust text effect with flower texture in Photoshop, inspired by Pizzahut's thin'n crispy pizza base!
From this tutorial, together we can explore the power of blending style options, brush tools, image adjustment tools such as curve and hue tools, and some selection techniques in Photoshop.
Seeking Inspiration – Part I: The Power of Colours
Welcome to the first volume of the "Seeking Inspiration" series! This series is aimed to provide inspirational contents in terms of graphic and web design, and to give you a boost for your creativity. This series will be divided into parts and each part will focus on a specific topic from the graphic/web design field.
Create an Realistic Dark Ocean Text Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the procedures I took to create an Ocean-feeling text effect in Photoshop, which is inspired by one of the ocean photos my aunt showed me from Mykonos, Greece.
We will be exploring some layer blending options, various tools and filters. I will also show you the way I use to add extra lighting contrast to the image.
Transform a Daylight Photo into a Sin-City Inspired Night-Scene Image
In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how you can easily turn a normal photo taken in daylight, into a realistic Night-Scened Image, inspired by the moive Sin City.
We will be using tools such as the curve tool, brush tool, level adjustment and various layer blending options.