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Creating Surreal Artwork from Your Images Using Photoshop

Posted by Dark Rising Grafx On July - 2 - 2009

This Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to use a variety of color, lighting, and cut and paste techniques to create a surreal photo manipulation. Combine your creativity with these Photoshop techniques to create your own photo manipulation artworks.

Preview of Final Results

Combine Photo Elements to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation Photoshop Tutorial

Step 1 – Place the background

The first step it’s to place the sky, our background, into the image. As you can see, we have changed the color of it. We’re going to create a half of the image with a warm tone and another with a cool tone using the color balance tool. To do this, select the sky and then choose Image > Adjustments > Color Balance. Adjust the input sliders to add red and yellow. Select “highlights” and “shadows” then try adding more of these colors until you like the tones in your image. Read the rest of this entry »

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Create planets in photoshop from your photographs.

Posted by Dark Rising Grafx On July - 2 - 2009

In this tutorial I will show you how to create little planets using a regular photograph or a panoramic one and Photoshop. It’s very a very simple technique but with a really cool end result.

Before we start let’s take a look at the final result!

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Step 1

Let’s start with a regular picture. Just open it at Photoshop.

Image selected for Reader Tutorial: Making Little Planets

Step 2

Using the Crop Tool, let’s resize the pic as bellow.

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Step 3

Go to Image>Image Size and resize the picture making the width and height even as you can see bellow. Don’t forget to unmark the “Constrain Proportions” option. Read the rest of this entry »