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An intrepid heroine in some fantasy realm is wandering through some dark and dangerous dungeon and happens upon a hideous Medusa who instantly turns her into stone. It’s a familiar scene from Greek mythology and the pages of fantasy art. For Medusa, turning someone into stone was all tooeasy. For the rest of us, however, we need a little help from Photoshop, a suitable hero image, and a picture of some rocks that were taken at a local beach. Here’s a fun tutorial that lets you turn flesh into stone and also learn about a more advanced form of the familiar Blend Mode process. 01 We begin with a suitable fantasy heroine type. Luckily for us and this tutorial, she’s decided to do her adventuring in simple armour designed for…

Up until now, if you shot a photo in either vertical or horizontal aspect ratio, then that was a decision you’d have to live with. You could change the aspect ratio by cropping the frame, but that would mean losing a large proportion of the image, usually not a satisfactory solution. Now, however, the new Generative Expand feature allows you to change the aspect ratio of your image by adding new AI-generated content, calculated to blend in seamlessly with the previously existing image. Although the quality and authenticity of the additions will vary to some extent depending on the content of the original image, under most circumstances the results are astonishingly good. Let’s take a look at how this apparent miracle works. As our example, we’ll use this vertical-format shot…

The Toolbar in the newly updated layout of Camera Rawsits vertically in the top right side of the interface. It is broken down into a series of buttons that you can click. Each button you click, will display its particular tools in the maincontrol panel situated right next to the Toolbar. This version now looks more like Lightroom, the mobile-focused version. Edit First in the Toolbar is the Edit button. Clicking on this displays the main tools that you will be using to edit and adjust your photos. Edit is broken down into nine sections that cover all your typical adjustment tools such as altering Brightness and Contrast, Hue and Saturation, Detail and Noise Reduction. There are also tools to correct optical flaws in camera lenses and alter image geometry…

Here’s a scenario to ponder. You’re out with your camera, taking shots of some beautiful scene. It’s sunrise down by the water’s edge. The light is amazing, the clouds are well defined and lit by the rising sun, there is a glow along the horizon and some cool reflections in the wet sand at your feet. You compose a strong, yet simple shot and click off a few frames. When you get home and download them to your computer, you open them up and you’re surprised at how different the images look to how it was in real life. The images are a bitwashed out, the colours seem a little weak. Did you get your camera settings wrong? There’s every chance you didn’t. Sometimes what you see with your own…

Transforming a face into a text portrait is a fairly simple task, but it gives fantastic results that elevates a simple image into a piece of art. If the portrait is of a friend or loved one, you can even make the words used for the portrait reflect the character and experiences of the subject in question. 01 We’ll need a suitable subject in black and white. A nice, high contrast image will work well. Our example image is 3000px square, and our settings are based on that size image. If you are using a different size, your settings may have to be altered to suit the size you are working at. 02 First we create a Displacement Map to shape the text in our portrait. Rightclick on your image…

There may have been occasions when you have looked at one of your favourite photographs and wondered, ‘what would it look like if it were drawn in pencil instead of being a photo?’ Photoshop and all its photo editing counterparts offer various artistic filters that can turn your image into a watercolour or an oil painting. Some of them can be quite effective. However, the pencil sketch filter offered byPhotoshop does not really capture the essence of a hand-drawn image. However, there is an approach in Photoshop that may take you a step closer to being able to create a more realistic pencil sketch effect. It requires your favourite image, a few Photoshop layers and a little patience. You don’t need to be Leonardo Da Vinci to create a masterpiece,…

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Firefly is what is known as a text-to-image Generative AI. What that means is that you can tell the system what image you want it to create using a short description in plain, natural language, called a “prompt”. What happens next is massively complex, but in layman’s terms, Firefly uses that description to choose elements from its vast database of images, and then synthesise them together to create a new image that will hopefully match what you were looking for. It can imitate many different art styles, from realistic-looking photos to simple line drawings, add a wide range of filtersand effects, and the range of image subjects is limited only by your imagination and one obvious rule; at present, since Photoshop is not age-restricted, Firefly cannot be used to create…

The main interface of Camera Raw is comprised of a series of menus, each with a series of control sliders and some additional menu tabs to access further features. Although you will no doubt spend most of your time workingin the Basic panel, when used in conjunction with adjustments from the other control panels, you will be able to enhance your images beyond what you thought possible. Edit The Edit, previously called Basic, panel in Camera Raw is probably the one you will spend the most time in and also making the most important global image adjustments. You can adjust White Balance, Exposure, Contrast, Highlights and Shadows as well as Whites and Black. You can also adjust Temperature, Tint, Vibrance and Saturation to boost the purity of the colours in…

It’s a popular trend at the moment to be able to turn a picture of yourself, a friend, or loved one into a cartoon that you can use as an avatar on social media sites etc. There are plenty of tutorials out there that cover all aspects of the process, however, some can be very involved and require digital painting and illustration skills in both Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. There are also a varied number of methods to achieve acartoon style. We have a tutorial that can cartoonize a portrait, producing a result that has a graphic novel feel to it, without the need for a lot of illustrative technique. Here’s how to do it. 01 We have chosen an example portrait of a very fierce-looking tiger in a snowy…

There are a few ways that you can add or create fire to enhance your images. If you have an image or perhaps a photograph that couldn’t deliver convincing flame at the time of shooting, be it because of safety reasons or the effect was impossible to apply at the time, then adding fire post process is the logical way forward. Whether you are augmenting a real life photo or a CG image, here isa safe, realistic way to do it. You can create flames in Photoshop by using more traditional painting skills or using Photoshop CC, which has a flame generator. One approach is to use actual references to real flames. You won’t get more realistic than that. 01 We can begin the tutorial by starting off a suitable…

Compositing is the name given to the process where you combine two or more visual elements in order to make them look like they are all part of the same scene. There are a number of ways to create composite images. In our tutorial, we will cover the greyscreen composite technique. It is a method preferred by many visual professionals and is quite easy to master. When photographers shoot subjects for this kind of technique, they shoot them against a flatmiddle grey coloured background. It not only gives your subject a nice crisp outline for accurate masking but other images can be blended seamlessly into this image without the need for intensive cutting out. We’re going to show you how to create your very own gritty, fantasy style movie poster…