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Infrared Colours (IR) Effect using Photoshop Actions

Infrared Colours (IR) Effect using Photoshop Actions

The following tutorial will teach you how to create a infra red colour action effect on using your photoshop.
For the purposes of this tutorial we will use a colour rich picture, a flower in this example. Load your image on photoshop and on the layers dialogue box got to the filter adjustment icon and select the invert adjustment option. This will …


Creating a Fire text

Creating a Fire text

In this tutorial we will look closer on how to create fire letters using Photoshop.
First, open up a new document and fill it with black as the background. This is important so make sure that the background color is black. Now, type in the text you wish to apply the tutorial to, we’ll use the text “Photoshop” as you can see below.

Now, …


Create a glossy magazine cover

Create a glossy magazine cover

On today’s tutorial we are going to show how to create professional looking magazine covers, there are several professional plugins that can help you like Pagework produced by Boxwork Corp. The principles shown here can also be applied using the Boxwork plugin tools!
Starting off our tutorial we will need a close up picture like the one in our example. And by …


Turn your friend into a statue!

Turn your friend into a statue!

First thing we need to do is extract the photo we want to work with into photoshop.
A good way to extract the photo is by using the pen tool and zoom in by 400% and by fine tuning you can draw up the exact picture you want to extract.
A quicker way of doing this but also more sloppy is by going to …


Create a Smoke effect

Create a Smoke effect

In this tutorial we are going to see how we can add smoke to a picture.
We are gonna start off by adding a new layer to our picture and on this layer we are gonna render some clouds, white and black. Once you have chose these two colours we are going to Filter->Render->Clouds after you make sure that the new layer …