What do you do when a drop shadow isn't realistic enough? Create a cast shadow. When you see an object in a spotlight or a setting sun, you will notice the long shadows that are created behind them, this technique will teach you how to add realism to your images and anchor them to their backgrounds.

Time-lapse photography is enjoying a spike in popularity. In this tutorial, you will learn what time-lapse is, how to shoot it and how to build a time-lapse video in Photoshop. In this video, Colin Smith shows you how to create a time lapse sequence in Photoshop. How to shoot, arrange and export time-lapse video from […]

In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to show you how to turn on the lights in a photo. I made this car composite where I shot both the car and the background during the day, cut out the car and dropped it into this scene.  I changed the mood to nighttime as well as a raining evening. […]

Here is a photoshop tutorial that will show you how to roll your own dynamic photo edges in Photoshop

In this Photoshop Tutorial, Colin Smith uses aerial photos from his DJI Phantom quadcopter to create a small planet effect. In this tutorial, learn how to stitch panorama photographs from multiple photos and then turn them into the small planet effect. This tutorial is all about having fun and making something that is unusual. People love unusual things.

Photoshop has never been known for its 3D abilities. It is really better known as Adobe’s primary-pixel-pusher. The inclusion of 3D objects and Repousse in previous versions marked interesting forays into the realm of raytraced three dimensions. But the cumbersome workflow

This tutorial teaches you how to take a photograph and make it look like a miniature model in photoshop instead of reality.

Learn how this mermaid composite was made. By combining photographs, 3D and Photoshop, you can create CG composites that defy reality. Also find out how the photograph was lit and shot. I love making fantasy scenes and combining photographs of models with digital elements. Step-by-step breakdown.

In this tutorial we are rounding the rorners of a shape the princliple of this tutorial is to show you how to round any corner,this is great for interfaces, I also use this technique a lot on my photo realistic art.

This is a look that I have been using in one way or another for a number of years. I have noticed that it's becoming more popular lately on webpages and movie posters. I decided to write it up into a tutorial for your enjoyment!

You can pull the viewers eye into a portion of a photograph by simulating an in-camera zoom effect. This zoom effect is almost hypnotizing in its power of attraction. It's easy to make this photo zoom blur effect in Photoshop.

This tutorial is a 2 in one. Learn how to make a custom brush from a photo. Also learn how to fix perspecive distortions on photographs in photoshop.

This free tutorial on game art is broken into two parts. The first part shows how to create the individual buildings from photographs. The second part shows how to construct an entire city for the parts. (Editors note: The upright feature was added into Photoshop CC and is worth looking into for straightening the buildings)

Here is my Version of the ever popular Segmented Pipes photoshop tutorial. A staple for interfaces.Enjoy

This is the original Tutorial on this rap diamond effect, there have been many rips of it in other places. (imitation is flattery they say) You could create those Rap type diamond effects using the noise filter, however this technique creates a more interesting result.