Step 1:-

First we will create a new file with 900px width and 700px height.

Step 2:-

We’ll open the model image and paste it on the main file.

Step 3:-

Dark the colors down a bit. So for this click on Images> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast.

Step 4:-

Now open the Canyon image and place it on our main file.

Step 5:-

Now select Canyon layer and change the blending mode to “Overlay”.

Step 6:-

Select the rectangle tool and create a rectangle on the left side.

Step 7:-

Now click on Layer> Layer style> Stoke.

Step 8:-

Now change the blending mode of our rectangle to “Color”.

Step 9:-

Repeat the same process and create more rectangles with different colors. And we are done.

Step 1: Basic Image

First of all, you would need a photograph of the beach.

Once downloaded, bring the image on the canvas. Go to Image, Adjustments and choose the photo filter option. Use the following details.

Step 2: Text Tool

Pick up the text tool and go crazy. Run your ideas on the canvas and play around with the fonts. Use different fonts for your wordings and add a little funk to your image.

Step 3:  Shape Layer

Use the Rectangle Tool and make two shape layers around your text like shown below.

Step 4: Newspaper Layer

Again pick up your text tool and start using different fonts for your text. Keep your text within the shape created in the previous step. You can even use different font sizes to highlight the main points in your text.

Step 5: Wrinkled Paper Texture

Now you would need a wrinkled paper texture.

Step 6: Blending Options

Bring the image on the canvas and resize the image by pressing CTRL T. Reduce the opacity of the layer to 80% and change the blending options of the layer to Hard Light.

Step 7: Soft Light

Duplicate the texture layer. Set the opacity to 100% and change the blending options to Soft Light.

Step 8: Apply Hue

Duplicate the texture layer once more and change the blending options to Hue. Keep the opacity of the layer to 100%

Step 9: Final Touches

Duplicate the layer once more. Now pick up the soft brush tool with 0% hardness. Apply the brushes around the edges. Press CTRL U and increase the saturation of the image to 80. You can use various other filters and effects to increase the sharpness of the image. Once you are done, change the blending options of the layer to Overlay. That’s it.

Step 1:-

Open a new file with the following dimensions, 630px width and 900px height.

Step 2:-

After that, open a girl image and paste it on the main file.

Step 3:-

Now click on “Edit in quick Mode”. Then select the soft brown brush and use it on the hair.

Step 4:-

Now once again click on the same button before.

Step 5:-

Now click on the option of ‘Select’ and then click on “Inverse”.

Step 6:-

Once hair are selected, press down CMD/CTRL + U or you can click on Images> Adjustments> Hue/saturation.

Step 7:-

Now drag the arrows left and right to change the color.

Step 8:-

To create some highlights, etc., you have to repeat the same steps.

Step 1: Pen Tool

Select the pen tool and make several rays for your background pattern.

Step 2: Pattern

Fill out the canvas with a particular pattern.

Step 3:  Clouds

Add a new layer and color the entire layer yellow. Add a mask to the layer. Click on the layer mask and go to Filter, Render and click on the Clouds option.

Step 4: Brush Tool

For this next step, you would need to download grunge brushes.

Once installed, you can start applying these brushes in a particular pattern on each separate layer.

Step 5: Brushes Continued

Keep using different brushes and make a composition you like.

Step 6:  Guitar

Now we would need a guitar image for our composition. You can download the vector image and bring it on the canvas. Position it right at the center of your canvas.

Step 7: Grunge Background

Download any grunge background and position it on the canvas. Keep the layer right at the top.

Step 8: Darker Color

Duplicate the grunge background twice. That would leave you with 3 layers of the same grunge background. Select the first layer and change the blending options of the layer to Darker Color.

Step 9: Overlay

Select the rest of the grunge background layers and change the blending options for both of them to Overlay.

Step 10: Selection

Select the rectangular marquee tool and make a selection in the middle of the canvas like displayed below.

Step 11: Hue

Select the grunge background layer while the selection is still on. Copy and paste the selection on to a new layer and position that layer right at the top. Change the blending options of the layer to Hue. Go to Layer Style and choose the stroke option. Choose the size 2px and set the color for your stroke to black.

Step 12: Type Tool

Pick up the text tool and use the font Pacfont Good. You can type in your text within the newly created bar. That’s it.

Step 1: Basic Image

You need a basic image to start with, first of all.

Step 2: Noise, Saturation and Levels

Now go to Image, Adjustments and choose the Levels option. Use the input levels 60, 1.00 and 220 for this particular filter. After that, press CTRL U and increase the saturation of the image. Decrease the brightness by just a few percentages to give more focus to the face. After that, go to Filters, Artistic and choose the Film Grain filter. Set the grain level to 10px (depending on the size of your canvas) and leave the other options default.

Step 3:  Halftone

Duplicate the layer and go to Filter, Pixelate and choose the Color Halftone filter. Keep the radius to 4px (depending upon the size of your canvas). Go to the blending options of that layer and change the Normal value to Darken.

Step 4: Borders

Select the Rectangle shape tool and make a basic shape that covers the whole canvas. Go to the layer style of that shape layer and choose the stroke option. Set the stroke to 10px. After that, reduce the fill of that particular layer to 0%. You would have this nice white border. Now you can make two additional rectangular shapes as shown below.

Step 5: Ripple Effect

Duplicate all the shape layers and merge them into a single layer. After that, go to Filter, Distort and apply the Ripple Effect. Keep the amount to 50% (differs according to your canvas size).

Step 6:  Text

For this step, you would have to download the following font:

Once the font has been installed, you can use it to write your text as shown below.

Step 7: Final Touch

Duplicate the basic image and apply a soft brush around the face, preferably the edges. Keep the opacity of the brush to 30%. Change the blending options of the layer to Luminosity.

Step 1:-

First of all, create a new file with the following dimensions, 900px width and 630px height.

Step 2:-

Now create a new layer, so click on Layer> New> Layer.

Step 3:-

After that, use any island image, which you want to manipulate and paste it on our file.

Step 4:-

Open the city image and select the buildings.

Step 5:-

Now paste the buildings image selection on our island.

Step 6:-

After that, select the Ellipse Tool and create a big circle with color #ffffff. Now select the eraser tool and remove the lower half. Then change the blending mode to “Soft light”.

Step 7:-

Now create another layer and fill it with #000000. Then change the blending mode to “overlay” and we are done.

Have a look at the finished picture before continuing with the tutorial.

Step1:-
Let’s begin with opening the man’s picture in Photoshop. Double click on the layer to make it working.

Step2:-
Open up the belly dancer image and select only the dancer out of its background using Quick Selection Tool.

Step3:-
Copy the selection and paste it on our working layer. Adjust the size by pressing Ctrl+t.

Step4:-
Now we are going to change the color of the dancer so go to Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation as shown below.

Step5:-
Adjust the Hue, saturation and brightness according to the picture given below.

Step6:-
Now to enhance the edges go to Filter>Stylize>Glowing Edges as shown below.

Step7:-
Set the edges as shown in the picture given below.

Step8:-
Now you should have something similar to the image shown below.

Step9:-
Now Set the Blend Mode of the dancer layer to Linear Dodge (Add), reduce the Opacity to 62% and fill will be 71%.

Step10:-
Now Select the Smudge Tool and smudge the edges of the dancer to make them look like smoke (not too much, just a touch here and there).

Step11:-
Open the fractal image copy it and paste upon the dancer.

Step12:-
Set the Blend Mode to screen and reduce the Opacity to 75% and make the fill 58%.

There you have it; your smoke girl is complete. Hope you will try it. Share your side of story with me. I’ll be back with some more great effects in Photoshop. Thanks for reading.

Do take a look at the finished picture before going ahead.

Step1:-
Let’s begin by opening the colorful image in Photoshop.

Step2:-
Now go to Filter, then go to Pixelate > Mosaic. Adjust the cell size “8” square as shown below.

Step3:-
Now again go to Filter> Stylize> Find Edges.

Step4:-
Go to Filter again then to Noise > Median. Adjust the radius 2 pixels. As shown below.

Step5:-
To reduce the size of the spots go to Filter> Other> Maximum and adjust the radius 1pixels.

Step6:-
Now go to Image> Adjustments> Invert.

Step7:-
Set the Blend Mode o Screen and leave the Opacity to 100%.

Step8:-
Now again we’ll go to “Filter” then to “Stylize” and select “Find Edges”.

Step9:-
Now go to Image> Adjustments> Invert.

Step10:-
Duplicate the layer 2 times. Now select the first copy and go to Filter> Blur> Motion Blur and set the angle to 45 degree and distance 100 pixels.

Step11:-
Select the 2nd copy and again go to Filter > Blur> Motion Blur. Set the angle to “-45 degree” and distance will be 100 pixels.

Step12:-
Now go to Layer> New Adjustment Layer> Brightness/Contrast and set both at 25 as shown below.

Step13:-
Now our digital star image is complete.

Hope you had a good time going through this tutorial with me and learned something new also. Do share your thoughts and suggestions. I’ll be back with some new images for you soon, till then take care and have fun.

Take a look at the final image before continuing the tutorial.

Step1:-
So Let us begin with opening the eyes image in Photoshop.

Step2:-
For smoothing out the lines and discoloration go to Filter> Blur> Surface Blur.

Step3:-
Create another layer and select a soft round brush of size 19px with color #d4c7c6 and paint in the eyes as shown below. Erase a bit from the middle according to picture given below.

Step4:-
Set the Blend Mode of this layer to Difference and Opacity 100%.

Step5:-
Now create another layer name it “right eye blood” select a hard round brush of size 25px with color #9e0b0f and paint like a tear coming from right eye as shown below.

Step6:-

Now we are going to give an effect of thickness to the blood and to do that right click on the layer and check on satin. Make the settings according to the picture shown below.

Step7:-
Make another layer select soft round brush of size 2px with white color #ffffff and make spots on the drop end and in the way to give the effect of reflection. Reduce the Opacity to 29%.

Step8:-
Now go to the blood layer and grab the smudge tool and spread a bit of blood in the eye along the lower lash.

Step9:-
Now create another layer draw a drop of blood on the left eye with color #9e0b0f and give some shading with dark maroon color #790000 as shown below.

Step10:-
In this step we are going to darken the eye make-up. Select a soft round brush of size 25px with color #000000 and paint around the eyes as shown below.

Step11:-
Set the Blend Mode of this layer to Overlay and leave the Opacity 100%.

Step12:-
Now we’re going to make some cuts on the face. Select a soft round brush of size 3px with color #9e0b0f and draw some lines as shown below.

Step13:-
Using the same brush as in step 12 with color black#000000 draw on the red lines to give them depth.

Step14:-
Select a brush as shown below like a small twig and give it spacing using brush panel according to picture given below.

Step15:-
Now when you’ll draw over the red cuts it’ll give the effect of stitches.

Step16:-
Select soft round brush of size 2px with color#7d4801 and make some spots on the ends of stitches and then reduce the Opacity to 42%.

There you go. Your spine chilling scary eyes are complete. Hope you learned something new. Do share your views. I’ll be back with some new ideas, till then take care.

Have a look at the finished image before going ahead with the tutorial.

Step1:-
Let us start this retro look by creating a new document in Photoshop of size 784×389 pixels and fill it with the color #630460.

Step2:-
Now we are going to make a pattern on this purple background of ours like old wallpapers, to do that select a floral brush of size 45 with color#400151.

Step3:-
Make the pattern similar to the picture shown below.

Step4:-
Now create another layer and select a Rectangular Marquee Tool and make a rectangle as shown in the picture below and fill it with the color# fbaf5d.

Step5:-
Make another layer, select Pen Tool and make a shape similar to the picture shown below.

Step6:-
Now Right click on the shape and choose Make Selection.

Step7:-
Fill the selected area with color #ffffff then press Ctrl+D to de-select.

Step8:-
Make three more shapes like the white strip using Pen Tool and fill them with colors (pink) # f16eaa, (Blue) # 00bff3, (Green) # 3cb878. Place these strips according to the picture given below.

Step9:-
Make another shape similar to the picture shown below using Pen Tool and then Right click on it and select Make Selection.

Step10:-
Fill it with a darker shade of green color # 1f9257.

Step11:-
Use Pen Tool to make another shape as shown below and after the right click on it choose Make Selection.

Step12:-
Fill it with the color #3cb878.

Step13:-
Now we are going to use Pen Tool again to make two small triangles and fill them with color #ffffff. Place them according to the picture shown below.

Step14:-

Now we are going to add shadow under our beams, for that select a soft round brush of size 25px with color #000000 and draw according to the picture shown below. Set the Opacity to 25%.

Step15:-
Now select the type tool and type 3D with color #ca7010. Right click on the type layer and go to Blending Options then select Inner Shadow. Make the settings according to the picture given below.

Step16:-
Add another type layer and type the words in retro with the color #a47341 and create Inner shadow by right clicking on the layer and selecting Blending Options.

There you go. Your 3D effect in a retro styled background is complete. Hope you had fun. Do experiment with these techniques and create your own unique effects. Share your thoughts. I’ll be back with something interesting for you to create, till then take care.