Photoshop

The first Psdtuts+ Design Challenge is already under way but you still have plenty of time to submit your work for this month’s challenge. The following steps are some guidelines to keep in mind when you submit. Help us to get your work featured by ensuring these important details!

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Entries to the Psdtuts+ Design Challenge should be original works created by you. Include links to all photo references from legitimate sources such as free stock photography websites. These references help us understand...

Still-life illustrations can be great practice for anyone wanting to learn how to create life-like illustrations. In this tutorial, we will explain how to create a photo-realistic fried egg from a reference. Let’s get started!

The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.

• Metal Texture
• Brush File

The block-in stage. Lay down the basic color of egg using a basic hard Photoshop brush with shape dynamics on and spacing to zero. I always get right into an image without any preliminary sketches or line work. It is easier for me to think in terms of large shapes and colors, as opposed to lines. This time I figured I would begin with a color as the main theme for the base of the painting.

Continue painting with a hard brush, which has a nice hard edge to it, this will come in handy during the initial stages of defining the forms with light and shade. Lay down a flat red as well as some other colors. Don’t go too overboard and try to paint it all right here; start small as I did. Paint in the overall color for the egg, Put in the different shades of yolk and egg white and do not highlight yet.

Lay down more colors around the shape we laid down in the previous steps. Put some soft bright strokes down with smudge tool and smudge the frying pan area a little bit. As we are going to directly put photo textures on the pan area to save the time, so it doesn’t matter how you paint this area, just paint it along with other part of image.

Lay down some more solid colors and use the smudge tool to make the...

Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

• Create a Surreal “Parting of the Sea” Photo Manipulation

  Water, by its very nature is difficult to convincingly incorporate into a composition. In this tutorial, you will discover how to combine advanced masking techniques, blending modes, adjustment layers and clever use of filters to part the sea and create a surreal photo manipulation. Let’s get started!

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• How to Replace a Woman’s Lipstick With Artwork Using Creative Retouching Techniques

  Creative retouching techniques are often used to enhance the photography that is being used for a particular project. In this tutorial, Stefka Pavlova will show you how to replace a woman’s lipstick with artwork using some creative and effective photo retouching techniques. Let’s get started!

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In this tutorial, Steve Caplin will explain how to place a 3D model into a scene and match the perspective of an existing photograph by combining Photoshop’s 3D features with the vanishing point filter. Let’s get started!