Photoshop Creative No. 146

In today’s digital age, it’s easy to fixate on how many Likes, Shares or Appreciations our artwork receives online. While there’s nothing wrong with this, there’s perhaps something even more satisfying about seeing your artwork printed out and used in the real world. Whether you create a simple greetings card or a personalised board game, turn to p18 to check out the 12 practical projects in this issue’s feature, and have a go at creating something unique in Photoshop. There is also a plethora of creative tutorials inside, from using masks to composite an incredible scene like the one on this issue’s cover to adding dimension to a basic sketch. Discover advanced techniques for applying blend modes and filters, and learn how to design custom wrapping paper in Elements. All…

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1 More for Elements users We launched a new Elements-only section that includes basic tool guides as well as challenging tutorials for Elements users. 2 More on 3D You wanted to understand Photoshop’s 3D capabilities, so we regularly include tutorials on how to create 3D art using just Photoshop. 3 Industry insight We increased the size of the magazine to feature expert guides, advanced tutorials, and interviews with professional artists and studios. 4 Resource projects Every issue now includes a resource project that shows you how to make your own assets in the real world to take into Photoshop.…

There’s nothing more inspiring than surfing the internet and seeing what other artists are creating, and we encourage you to do so. Here are some of our favourite pictures that caught our attention recently, from some of the world’s most exciting artists and designers. Retoka www.retoka.com This effect was achieved by playing with Photoshop filters. The lines were made with the Halftone Pattern filter, before they were distorted with the Displace tool. Colour adjustments were made with Curves and Selective Color. Rony Rekany www.behance.net/ ronyrekany I first rendered 3D objects and when I was finished, I composited them in Photoshop and added colour. I used depth of field to give this image some shape, and played with exposure, shadows and saturation. Leonardo Betti leonardoworx.prosite.com This project began when I started…

Felipe Hackriptos www.photoshopcreative. co.uk/user/Jose%20M.%20 Felipe Image of the issue This art was made for a Photoshop challenge. I used a few filters, gradients and Camera Raw, and worked a lot on post-production. I love to play with the surreal in Photoshop, and am always learning new things. Steve Dellasala www.photoshopcreative. co.uk/user/SDS50 I painted some buildings in laying out roughly the overall perspective of the piece. I imported in some lights to overlay on the buildings to bring them to life. Then I used a few different filters to create the rain effect. Evelyn Aguiar www.photoshopcreative.co.uk/user/EvyLeeArt I used a lot of stock images and created the background with clouds. I got the dark tone by using Color Lookup on the scene, and used orange tones by changing blend modes. Felipe Siqueira…

We challenged you with these In Issue 144, we challenged you to get creative with these four images. You were allowed to use any or all of the pictures, and whatever other resources you chose. Here’s what you created. Challenge entries The best entries and overall challenge winner 1 Marcus Jones Say Cheese I used all four images. When I saw them I thought it would be neat if she was taking a photo of herself, so I gave her an extra hand to hold the camera and an extra hand to hold the rose. 2 Beth Foxcroft Xeno All four images were used. The geometric background was lightened over the other three images, which were edited using the filters, before finishing the whole thing off with a few brushes.…