Archive for the “Photoshop Roadmap” Category

This tutorial will show you how to create a beautiful and simple fractal image based on a flower. This is actually impossible with Photoshop’s standard plugins, so we are going to use the stunning Fractal Explorer free filter that is run using the Pixel Bender plugin.
Pixel bender is a free plugin released by Adobe [...]

This article is a showcase of 27 beautiful photo effects covering subjects such as technicolor processing, frozen liquid effects, artistic and digital painting, lighting effects and many other photo manipulation examples that can be applied to your photos or designs. Although most of these tutorials require an intermediate knowledge of Photoshop, beginners will find [...]

Here’s a collection of 20 Photoshop tutorials about modern and retro gadgets illustration. These gadgets are simply an excuse to learn how to represent shiny metal surfaces, glossy plastics, colorful reflections, textured parts and many other industrial design rendering techniques. Don’t skip a tutorial just because it isn’t about your favorite gadget. Take a look [...]

Here’s a collection of 10 Photoshop tutorials, 3 Photoshop brushes and 7 stock images about those splashes effects that look so cool and are so popular today. These are not easy to manage. A bit of creative manipulation is required, but the res…

It’s time for a new roundup of cool text effects. It is amazing how authors and designers are coming up with so many new and interesting effects without using third party filters.

Last month I featured the incredible Photoshop and design work of Marco Peis here at Photoshop Roadmap. Let me say that I was literally flooded with emails and comments asking for more from Marco. Well, here’s an interview and a and incredible tutorial from him. Enjoy!
Hi Marco, thanks for taking the time for an [...]

It’s Christmas time and here’s a new roundup of snowy, bright, cheerful and beautiful Christmas related tutorials filled with white trees, ornaments and all kind of colorful effects. Each year, this kind of tutorials get more and more cre…

Whenever I have to research for new Photoshop tutorials for my compilations, I always focus on stunning, complex and difficult tutorials mainly targeted for pros. But most of the time you need to perform basic tasks such as red eye removal, or changing a color in a photo.
This list is about basic photo manipulation [...]

Marco Peis – Junior Art Director & Specialist for Graphic Arts from Austria is using Photoshop, zBrush and C4D to create such amazing and breathtaking works. His portfolio is an eternal source of inspiration and ideas. His experiments have a strong and deep impression with remarkable effect combinations besides his sense of balance.
Born [...]

Since version CS3, Photoshop has the ability of import and render 3d objects created by third party 3d modeling software. This addition is a godsend specially for those who love creating complex action and sci-fi scenes and had to rely on external 3d software to render the basic layout of the scene and then [...]