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Video tutorials are normally a lot easier to follow. Unlike images and text based tuts, you can fully follow your “teacher”, step by step, without skipping any step and therefore the result after video tutorial is a lot more accurate.
Recently, I came across a tremendously talented artist - Steve H., who’s Deviant Art page astonished me. First I found him while searching for high quality wallpapers but this week he released a several video tutorials, which are just impossible to pass by. The tutorials are ranging from photo correction to stylish glossy orbs, covering a wide variety of Photoshop aspects and answering to many questions that newbies, as well as advanced users may have. The tutorials are really incredible, but don’t take my word for it, go and look for yourself! DP Studios’s DeviantArt page.
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Additionally to the useful tutorials, you will also wind a lot of other, generously offered material such as wallpapers, graphics and even prints, which you can buy. Bottom line: visiting is a must!
This tutorial was made after 5am in the morning, so I apologize for the grungy voice and the maybe slightly drunk talking (and hey, I was sooo drunk) but it’s not like it’s a lot better when sober…lol
Anyway, this is a very short and basic tutorial, for which I used a photo made by cherieroberts .
Tutorial Author: Liza Kliko aka Lorelei. For more tutorials, please visit my forum - Lorelei Web.
Hope can make sense from it and find it useful.
Even though there are only a few simple steps, this tutorial is more advanced users, in my opinion. Today, you will learn how to take an ordinary photo and turn it into an artistic sketch on a rough canvas.
The purpose of this tutorial is to use all the filters that highlight the main lines of the photo and turn then into a flat line upon a one-colour canvas.
1. For the start, open your photo. It does not have to be black ond white like in our example but it must have a good contrast.
2. Go to Filter >> Artistic >> Photocopy and set these settings for photocopy effect.
3. After clicking “OK”, go again to Filter >> Artistic >> Cutout and apply these settings for a smoother cutout effect:
This should give your image, which was turned to a photocopy, more visible edges and wil outline the main curves of the photo.
4. Go to Image >> Adjustments >> Brightness / Contrast and dramatically reduce the brightness.
5. Duplicate the Layer, so that you will be able to apply layer styles.
6. Go to Layer >> Layer Styles >> Bevel and Emboss and apply these settings for emboss and then for texture. This will give our canvas a feeling of rough texture, as if it was really drawn on paper.
The Texture emboss filling is what important here: 
7. Flatten the image, and now let’s give it a warm hue. The easiest way is to go to Image >> Adjustment >> Photofilter and add a default warm filter 81. 
8. Last thing is very simple yet in my opinion shouldn’t be skipped. When an artist is making a sketch with a pen, he is often smudges the edges, trying to give the canvas some more depth… we will do the same here, only without getting the hands dirty. So, for the final touch, go to Filter >> Artistic >> Plastic wrap and set these settings, using any pleasantly light colour.
That’s it, here is your result…
This is probably the easiest tutoral ever. We are going to take a simple and well known gold effect, but because of we will use an artistic, hand-brushed font - Broken Stick (Download it free at dafont.com), this will give the letters a bit of a melting, liquid effect.
Free .PSD File of this tutorial is available for Lorelei Web Forum members.
So, we will be making this text effect in mere 4 steps.
Make a new canvas - 450*150 px. Fill it with the black colour. The background hue is optional, but this particular tutorial won’t look good on a light background, as the text’s shine will not be visible.
- Type your word inside this black box, using the “Broken Stick” font.
- Go to Layer >> Layer Styles >> Options, and apply these settings:
- Use #eab000 for the Inner Shadow settings.
- Outer Glow is what will give the gold text it’s shine. We used the #febf01 colour but you may want to choose a darker hue to give it less “pimpy” effect.
- Use the “Roling Slope - Descending” gloss contour for shading effect.
- Last but not least - Gradient Effect. This will give the text, what I call - “hot honey” (not ment erotically!
) effect. The colors are #000000 to #fcb904. 
Guess what? That’s it! The image is ready. Lorelei members can download the .PSD file for free.
Tutorial written by Liza Kliko ( Lorelei).
Note: ALL images are hosted on our server, only because this blog was put on a top level domain later, some URLs still point to the previous location. This it the first tutorial I am writing especially for TopTut.com, and just like with the forum, I decided to start from easy tutorials such as text effects.
Download the FREE .PSD file of this tutorial, for Lorelei Web Forum members only.
Today we will make this herringbone metallic effect:
- Make a new canvas, 500*200 pixels.
- Fill it with a light grey color, we used #6b6b6b.
- Type the word you want in a middle, preferably using a bold, big font. On the example above we took one of the default Windows fonts - Impact.
- Go to Layer >> Layer Styles >> Options, and apply the following settings:
For the Inner Glow settings we used a dark olive colour (#54532d) to transperant.
Bevel and Emboss is an important step that you shouldn’t miss. It gives the text it’s depth… Use the #e5d266 colour for Highlight Mode and #5a3015 for Shadow Mode.
Texture Fill is the leitmotif of this tutorial. This Texture is called ‘Herringbone’ and comes default in Photoshop CS2.
Use medium dark green colour for Satin - #254e46.
Any pattern that immitates wood, marble or any other natural texture will be good. If you can’t find anything good enough, you can download the image we used as a .pat file
For “Stroke” gradient, use #000000 … #FFFFFF … #000000 colours.
This is it, 12 Very very simple steps for making this rather stylish text effect. We also made a new layer, made a “frame” using the brush tool and applied same Layer Effects to it, to give the image a more finished touch.
Don’t forget that if you are Lorelei Web Forum member, you can download the .PSD file for free.
This tutorial will show you how to add stars to your sky, without installing some ready-to-use brushes, let alone these would look far more original.
The most difficult part for e was to give the illusion that the night sky is real, in terms of sizes and positioning of the stars.
An easy way to get some ideas, is to look at the real night sky or study some star maps that are easy to find on the Internet.
Click on the image to view the tutorial:
