Fantasy arts are always fun to work on. This article has a combination of both creative and practical resources on Photoshop brushes that can help you integrate these elements into your own work. Some of them could be difficult work for those who are just starting with Photoshop, but everybody can try it for themselves.
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1. How to Enhance Photos With a Pen Tablet
Have you ever come across a photo where all the highlights and shadows seem just too good to be true? If it’s not HDR processing, it’s pen tablet magic. Find out in this tutorial how to give a regular image a subtle, artistic feel with some clever brush work. Read more after the jump!
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2. How to Make a Creative Blog Layout
In this tutorial, we’ll make a creative blog layout using mostly simple shapes, a few brush techniques, some images, and a dose of Photoshop ingenuity. Creating web design layouts is easier than you may think. You can learn to build attractive designs rapidly. Creating this design will take less than two hours and you’ll learn some professional tips along the way. Let’s get started!
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3. How to Create a Severed Arm in Photoshop
In this tutorial we will be learning how to create a severed arm with fleshy stumps and strings of sinew. This will be created by using some basic Brushes and Layer Masks. Let’s get started!
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4. How to Create a Fantasy “Mother Nature” Scene
This tutorial is about creating a fantasy scene called “Mother Nature.” We will use well chosen images, brushes and most off all our imagination in combination with Photoshop techniques to create an outstanding image. So let’s get started!
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5. How to make a Typographic, Retro, Space Face
In this tutorial, I will show you how to make a typographic face by using simple techniques. Using the Brush Tool and experimenting with light, you will get this amazing Typographic Space Face that looks like it’s created by letters and an amazing explosion. Let’s get started!
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6. How to Mold Paint Splatter to a Face in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to take splattered paint Photoshop brushes and apply them to the contours of a model’s face. This is a relatively simple technique, which yields excellent artistic results. Let’s get to it!
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7. How to Create a Virtual Auto Using 100% Brush Techniques
First of all I would like to thank my friend Pavaloi Lucian also known as Leeloo for working with me on this tutorial. This tutorial will be all about using the Brush Tool (B) and about knowing how and where to place lights, shadows and reflections. For creating this piece you will also need a photo of a car for reference. In this tutorial, we used a friends car as reference and photographed it. Let’s get started!
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8. 50 Insanely Weird but Awesome Photoshop Brushes
Paint splatters, floral flourishes, grunge worn patches: we love ‘em, but we’ve seen them all before. Here we’ve compiled 50 free Photoshop brushes that are unique, different, and in many cases, down-right strange. In fact, these misfit brushes are united by only one thing: awesomeness.
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9. New Photoshop Line Brushes – PLUS Pack
This is a new pack of Photoshop brushes available exclusively from PSDTUTS for PLUS members. We have a new set of Line Brushes for you. They are great for adding that touch of vector stylized background to you your next design project. This set of high quality brushes is available for PLUS members to download today!
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10. New Watercolor Photoshop Brushes – PLUS Pack
This is a new pack of Photoshop brushes available exclusively from PSDTUTS for PLUS members. We have a new set of Watercolor Brushes for you. They are great for adding that touch of worn or natural media feel to your next design project. This set of high quality brushes is available for PLUS members to download today!
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11. PSDTUTS Exclusive Freebie Announcement: 15 Weathered Wood Photoshop Brushes
This is a new pack of Photoshop brushes available exclusively from PSDTUTS. We have a new set of Weathered Wood Brushes for you. They are great for adding that touch of worn or natural feel to your next design project. This set of high quality brushes is available to download today!
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12. 20+ Photoshop Painted Inspiration and Brush Resources
When working with Photoshop, paint effects can often help to create colorful and interesting results. In this post we’ll look at some inspirational resources for working with paint splatters, watercolors, and brush strokes. We’ll look at some tutorials, exemplary website designs, artwork, and Photoshop brushes that you can use for your own work.
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13. PSDTUTS First Brush Pack Is Available Exclusively to PLUS Members
This is a new addition to the PSDTUTS PLUS section. This is the first of upcoming Brush Packs available exclusively to PLUS members. The design is based on the fluid concept of natural doodles and has a unique creative feel. Learn all about the new PLUS Brush Pack at the jump.
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14. 20+ Photoshop Natural Resources and Green Inspiration
For graphic designers, nature is often an excellent source of inspiration. Sometimes those things not created by man showcase more beauty and style than we would have imagined. In modern web and graphic design, the natural elements of trees, leaves, and grass are a recurring theme.
Fortunately, designers have unlimited potential for using Photoshop to create stunning artwork depicting nature. In this post, we’ll take a look at inspirational website designs and photos, as well as some tutorials and free brushes that can help you to easily integrate these elements into your own work.
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15. Best of the Web – September
Let’s take a look at the best tutorials, resources, and articles the web has to offer from September. I found tutorials on interesting topics like movie posters and sleek gadgets. Some links to awesome freebies, such as: icons, as well as brushes, and vector starbursts. Also, included is a two part article on amazing graphic design magazines, so lets check them out!
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16. How to Create a Grunge Web Design in Photoshop
Photoshop is often the right tool for web design, especially if you’re creating a design using numerous images and brush effects. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a complete grunge home page design. We’ll design the header, sidebar, body, footer, and style everything to work together in a heavily textured and worn design.
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17. Make an Inspiring Artistic Poster with Drawn Elements
In this tutorial, we’ll create drawn elements, use design brushes, bring them into Photoshop, and merge them into a unique poster composition that feels hand-made, stylistically unified, and personalized. The techniques here are focused on creating an original artistic illustration. Let’s see how this poster design was created.
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18. How to Digitally Paint an Abstract Face Portrait
In this tutorial, we’ll be painting an abstract vision of a dreaming person. I will describe my progress of face painting a male character. Also, we will create a special custom brush for blending colors. I’ll show you how to paint advanced constructions by combining basic shapes. The final image is a bold man’s portrait of a head flying in the sky. All painting will be done by mouse. All you need is pure Photoshop!
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19. Craft a Vintage Fifties Letter
It seems everyone wants to learn how to make something look vintage or grungy. In this tutorial, I go over how to create a fifties love letter with stamps, bent corner, and a a retro border using the brush engine, rectangle tool, layer styles, blend modes, and several intermediate techniques that are sure to propel you skills to the next level.
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20. Digitally Paint a Fantasy Tree Scene
Learn how to make a fantasy scene using only standard photoshop brushes. In this tutorial, I describe the basics of color and light theory. With this tutorial, you will paint eye-catching illustration in less than two hours.
The final image is a fairly realistic looking scene, where the tree is uprooted and floating in the sky. All You need for this tutorial is Photoshop and a precise mouse. This could be a difficult work for those, who are just starting with photoshop, but everybody can try it for themselves.
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21. Design an Extreme Grunge Wallpaper
In this tutorial, we’ll design an extreme wallpaper in a grunge style. We’ll be using layer masks, custom brushes, and the cloning tool to create this particular effect. You’ll learn some interesting techniques that you can apply in your own grunge style designs.
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22. Create Cool Watercolor Effects in Photoshop
Some time ago I wrote an article on my blog listing some fashion-style illustrations from really amazing designers such as Bruno Fujii, Margot Mace, Raphaël of My Dead Pony, Stina Person, and others. The coolest thing in their design work is their use of watercolor effects. So in this tutorial I will show a quick way to simulate that effect using only Photoshop and some brushes.
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23. Use a 3D Model to Create a Dramatic Scene in Photoshop
For this tutorial you’ll need Photoshop CS3 Extended, as the tutorial utilizes that version’s unique 3D Tools. You will import a three-dimensional object of an airplane and use it to create a dramatic scene. Use the Vanishing Point filter to create realistic shadows, add texture to the model, and use brush Tools to get awesome results.
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24. Tools & Tips: Photoshop Brushes
Ever wanted to understand the details of creating and using Photoshop brushes, but didn’t know where to begin? Then look no further! This article has a combination of both creative and practical resources on Photoshop brushes. Get started with learning the ins and outs of Photoshop brushes.
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25. Creating Colorful Disco Lines Effect
This simple tutorial will show how we can create professional-looking colored lines with the usage of Photoshop Brushes and Blend Modes. It’s an interesting find for me when I was doing random experiments with Photoshop.
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26. Making of Mafia in the Jungle
This tutorial is to showcase the usage of a few incredible Photoshop brushes I found on the Internet. It does not take many complicated steps to produce an interesting result.
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27. Digital Painting a High Tech Deer Scene
This tutorial will show the basic flow of creating a digital paint work mix with some photo manipulations. It also covers the usage of free downloadable brushes to enhance the overall design.
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28. Making of a Scary Mental Hospital Scene
This tutorial will show how we can use Channels to blend several types of images and brushes together. Also we will be introducing the fantastic filter, Topaz Adjust, developed by Topaz Labs.
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29. Sewing a Fabric Badge in Photoshop
This tutorial will show how you can create a sewing on effect by using the Brush Palette Settings and Work Paths. The result can be further enhance by the additional Blending Options.
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30. 22 Fantasy Tutorials and 125 Brushes
Fantasy arts are always fun to work on. They usually involve fairies, castle, dragons, wings and etc. Here are 22 Photoshop tutorials with 125 Photoshop Brushes that you can practise along. Enjoy!
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