Creating a Smoke Fading Effect

Creating a Smoke Fading Effect Preparations We will need a close up image of a model, and also the awesome Smoke Brushes Set 1 designed by Falln-Stock. Click here to download the brushes. Click here to download the model image. All rights of these resources belong to their respective owners. Step 1 – Setting Up Environment Create a document of size 750 by 550px. Use Gradient tool with foreground color...

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Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Surreal Turtle Image

This tutorial shows the creation of one of my images. It shows how I adjust lighting and colours in my images to create this surrealistic turtle. Hopefully, you'll be able to transfer these methods to your own work. The full version of the result can be viewed here: Full size surreal turtle.I'm using Photoshop CS5 running on a Macbook Pro, so some stages may differ for some people. Before photoshop CS3, a gradient map is known as "Gradient...

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