Special Effects

In this Photoshop Tutorial, I'm going to show you how to make a lomography toy camera effect in Photoshop. We are going to imitate the Hola look and apply it to our digital photos for a low-fi style effect.

How to create realistic looking water reflections in Photoshop. This free Photoshop tutorial shows a quick way to add a water reflection to a photo. There are a couple of little tricks that Colin throws in to add an extra touch of realism.

This Photoshop tutorial shows you how to easily change the color of anything in a photo without the need to create selections. This tutorial is one of those things that you wonder how you ever got along without before you knew this.

In this photoshop tutorial you will learn how to turn a photo into a sketch. Its easy to get a pencil sketch effect in Photoshop. I'll also give you a few variations with color and layer blending modes for creative jump off points. Enjoy!

In this Photoshop tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create the title to Star Wars. We are going to make the perspective text and actually animate it, so that it moves just like at the beginning of all the Star Wars movies. We are going to do all of this in Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop CC. If you have an earlier version of Photoshop, you can still make the text effect, but you will need CS6 or CC to make the animation.

You will learn how to make a 3D Photo cube. Attach your photos to the faces of a cube and rotate it in 3D space. Optional: We animate the cube to spin in 3D!

In this week's tutorial, I'm going to show you how to make a James Bond gun barrel in Photoshop. You know, the opening scene of every 007 Bond film, where you look through the barrel and see James Bond. Here is how to make this effect, entirely in Adobe Photoshop.

This weeks Photoshop tutorial, I'm going to show you how to make the portrait text effect. This takes a photo and makes it look like it's entirely made from text Yeah, this is fun!

In this Photoshop tutorial, I'm going to show you how to wrap text around a photo using displacement maps and image warp. This method will make the text follow every contour and wrinkle and produce a very realistic result. You can wrap anything around any photo using this technique

The intro to the hit TV show True Detective has everyone talking about the double exposure effect. I have made this tutorial to very closely match the actual look from the show. I hope you like it. Read and watch!

Learn how I made the image and added the tilt-shift effect. For this image, I wanted to do something creative. I used a quadcopter drone to capture an aerial photograph in Balboa, California. Rather than add a giant fish and cat to the photo, I decided to shrink down the harbor and make it look like a toy, or scale model while adding a cat and a fish. This is where the idea of doing a tilt-shift effect to the photo would work well.

Here is a nice little tutorial to show you how to electrify your images with lightning in Photoshop. This spooky graveyard will have lightning added in Photoshop, we will make our own lightning, no cheating by adding a photo.

Learn How to do a splatter, shatter effect in Photoshop tutorial on the dispersion effect. This dynamic free tutorial adds visual punch to all your photographs.

How to make a grid pattern in Photoshop. Turn it into perspective and make all the lines glow in Photoshop. I call this the Photoshop Tron effect, so easy using this tutorial.

I am going to show you an alternative to lightening your photographs. This technique will add depth to your lighting and emphisis to your subject. a pro touch to your montages and collages. You asked for it, you got it