This collection focuses on color related techniques, including making watercolor designs, creating fractal images, making semicolor transparent chameleon effect, mixing cool retro geometric shapes into photos, making colorful photo manipulation, etc,. Some tutorials in this collection could be difficult for those who are just starting with Photoshop, but everybody can try it for themselves. It’s always good if you play around and test different settings to see how it works. That for me is the best way to learn.
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2. 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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3. Create a Sleek Illustration that Fades from Line Art to Color
In this tutorial, you will work with a few images you chose and you will create a nice looking illustration. The idea behind this illustration was to create a war between reality and line art. I tried to make this one simple, but at the same time to make it look good. I hope you enjoy the tutorial and try it with your own tools and stock.
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4. New PLUS TUT – How to Create a Digital Collage with 3D Shapes, Patterns, & Colors
This is a new addition to the PSDTUTS PLUS section. This is a colorful collage tutorial that will show you step by step how to create 3D shapes and numerous patterns. Also, how to crop and position images, build up the illustration, and apply color effectively. Learn more at the jump!
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5. Design a Halloween Pumpkin Wallpaper in Photoshop
Halloween is near! So let’s take a pumpkin image, carve it up, and light it for this coming holiday. You’ll learn how to get this nice effect on any pumpkin picture, how to play with the colors, apply some layer blending modes to skip the extraction process, and more.
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6. Design a High Impact Gig Poster Suitable for Screen-Printing
Screen-prints are a great way to exhibit artworks or advertise a gig. Creating a high impact poster suitable for the screen-printing process can be achieved relatively easily. In this instance, we’re going for a stylized and coarse effect, rather than a photo-realistic halftone interpretation of a design. So let’s create a 3-color design that looks great on screen, printed from your home printer, or screen-printed using the silk-screen printing method.
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7. How to Simulate Fractals in Photoshop
Have you ever seen those outstanding fractal images with a lot of swirls and colors? Some of those were build simulating fractals or repeating shapes, where each shape is a reduced part of the whole, others were build mathematically. In this tutorial, we’ll create a stylized fractal design using only Photoshop.
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8. 45 Explosively Colorful Photoshop Effects
Imagine a world without color. Then, imagine a world without Photoshop. Depressed yet? Don’t be. Let us cheer you up with 50 Photoshop effects that will have you manipulating vibrant colors like a pro. Our palette crosses the full range from subtle and elegant to vivid and high-impact. Enjoy!
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9. 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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10. Dynamic Recessed Watercolor Typography in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to mix vector elements and watercolor effects with text to create a stunning design. It’s a quick process that depends heavily on good choices of images and colors.
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11. 3D Transform a Colorful Cube Design
A while ago Sean posted a very interesting article called 6 Techniques to Compose Your Work Using Repeating Shapes and Flexible Patterns. I carefully examined the articled and got inspired by a great artist named Guilherme Marconi. In this tutorial, you’ll learn one way to create a design using repeating elements in a style inspired by him.
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12. Design a Photo Manipulation from Sketch to Color
This tutorial will describe how to make a colorful photo manipulation using only four stock photos and a texture background. We’ll look at using the Pen Tool, making colorful rainbow designs, and showing the correct way to pick out stocks to use in our photo manipulation.
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13. Design a Sin City Style Poster
Sin City was a really cool movie, at least visually. I really liked the stylish scenes and colors. A few months ago I saw a poster of another Frank Miller movie called "The Spirit." The poster is titled "My City Screams." It really caught my attention because of the way the design played with typography to recreate buildings. Also, the perspective was really well done.
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create that effect in Photoshop, but this time we’ll use Illustrator to create the perspectives and text. I’ll walk through the process of creating the effect; However, it’s always good if you play around and test different settings to see how it works. That for me is the best way to learn.
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14. Create an Energy Drink Ad Design
Featuring a product in an ad is a common task for any designer. In this tutorial, we’ll look at a flexible design solution that you can use to create one for an energy drink. It relies on a combination of the Difference Blending Mode and the Radial Blur Filter to achieve unique colors, contrast, and lighting.
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15. 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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16. 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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17. Create a Dark Themed Web Design from Scratch
This tutorial covers the key areas to focus on when creating a Web site design. This is a blog-style design, but the techniques and strategies used in this design could be applied elsewhere across the Web as well. Learn how to create a colorful design set against a dark background.
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18. Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs
I’m a huge fan of James White’s work. I love the way he plays with geometric elements and colors. It gives a retro feeling to the design, but at the same time he uses a modern approach. In an interview, he mentioned that he uses a Flash script to generate the vector shapes. Then he does the rest of the job in Illustrator and Photoshop.
Well, inspired by James’s designs, I decided to figure out my own way of creating that type of effect in Photoshop. In this tutorial, I show you how to mix cool retro geometric shapes into your photos.
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19. Awesome Photorealistic Coloring Techniques
In this tutorial we will color a black and white photo using gradient maps, solid colors, and the Color blending mode. Using these techniques, you will be able to hand color any black and white photo in a way that looks photorealistic.
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20. Enhance Your Image with Selective Color Adjustments
In this tutorial, I will show you a nondestructive process for color-editing and retouching photographs. These techniques will make your images “finished” and professional. My main weapon is the Selective Color adjustment layer. Let’s get started.
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Maciej Hajnrich, AKA Valp Nietylko, is a designer who embraces the merging of chaos and color. He has a great sense of free-flowing composition. Look at his work long enough, and your eyes will turn into shattered rainbows. Valp is a freelancer with the ability to create unique and stylish work while being grounded in a strong work ethic. He has some excellent advice to share with us about art, design, and business. Let’s get on to the interview.
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22. Quickly Build an Abstract Background of Colored Bars
Oftentimes there’s a need for a quick but unique design. In this tutorial, I’ll be showing you a short but attractive way to create a graphic for backgrounds, wallpapers, greeting cards, designs, and all that other good stuff. You will learn a simple Photoshop trick that you can easily manipulate for your daily needs.
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23. 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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24. Creating an Abstract Watercolor Wallpaper
Another great contribution from our reader! In this tutorial, we will showing how to use one of the most fascinating and powerful Photoshop method, Layer Masking, in making watercolor designs.
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25. Transform Photo into Watercolor Painting
Often we are unable to turn a photograph into a realistic watercolor painting by simply using the default watercolor filter in Photoshop. This tutorial provide another method of achieving that classic effect.
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26. Creating a Grunge Rock Poster
This tutorial will mainly cover how we can create simple grunge effects by using displacement maps. And also using several stock images to form up a colorful rock poster.
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27. Color Effects with Alpha Channel
This tutorial will show how to apply colorful gradient effects over an image by using its alpha channel.
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28. Photo Collage from Color to Black and White Effect
Here is one interesting tutorial where I will show u how to create small photo collage and apply color and black and white effects together. If are you interesting, let’s read and make!
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29. Semicolor Transparent Chameleon Effect
Here one more not so long, but very interesting Photoshop tutorial how to make unusual semicolor transparent chameleon effect.
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30. Design Creative Multicolored Sunset
Now we are going to design creative multicolored sunset using photo mixing some vector shapes and lighting effects.
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