Sure, you could take a photo of some wood and use that for a texture. But the real way to separate the Photoshop men from the boys is to make your own. In this tutorial, we are going to create a wood texture and apply some artwork on top of it that...
This tutorial will teach you how to create a Header using Vector Shapes, you'll also learn how to apply a few blur filters and textures to give a nice colorfull effect to the header.
In this tutorial you will learn some great Photoshop techniques, such as how to use textures in your designs, how to use the threshold tool, and how to use layer masks - all whilst creating a simple yet effective Superman poster.
Imagine doing artwork involving a dragon, dinosaur, snake or other type of reptile that has a scaly skin texture. Drawing and coloring all those scales would be very time consuming and rather monotonous. Fortunately, there's a way to get Photoshop...
This tutorial will show you a very easy method for making rock and stone that's incredibly photorealistic. No special artistic skills are required here. We'll just be using Photoshop's built-in filters and tools.
This is more of a delicate texture rather then the hardcore type look. It can be used nicely for a web page background or even print type work. As with most textures, they need objects and design to really give out expression and feel. I've included...
For one of my projects I had to draw 7 absolutely different old paper textures. During my search of proper paper material I came up to the idea that I would rather just draw it myself rather than to spend all the time looking through library...
This tutorial will teach us: to create a custom brush in photoshop, to play around with layer blending mode and of course to ultimately create 'Purple Haze'.