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Brushes are a versatile and core component of Photoshop, so this issue with go big on them. Starting on page 14 we explore seven different ideas to incorporate them into your work. Learn how to make a cool, super-stylised skull, create comic art and much more besides. Also this issue we have a stack of great tutorials. On page 26 we show you how to make a beautiful, fantasy-inspired scene. We get surreal on page 42 with a curious woman/alpaca creature. And in our Advanced section we look at realistic painting techniques (page 54) and investigate character design (page 60). There’s also the usual interviews, portfolios and our regular 18 pages of Elements tips, tutorials and questions answered. Thanks, as ever, for reading. Enjoy the issue. Free step-by-step tutorials online…

Corine Spring www.photoshopcreative.co.uk/user/ SpringDA Image of the issue This photomanipulation was inspired by the work of Mr Xerty. I wanted to make a fashion illustration with an orange and blue atmosphere. The road was created with the Pen Tool, and I added flowers for a touch of glamour. Wilson Semedo www.photoshopcreative.co.uk/user/ wilson%20s I used exposure to blend the images and I found it worked well. This image is about someone looking towards something they can’t reach. Adjustments and masks were key in bringing this picture to life. Emanuele La Grotteria www.photoshopcreative.co.uk/user/LeLe%20 photography Inspired by an apocalyptic future, I used five stock images. I created an empty document and placed everything into Photoshop. I used layer masks to create the composite and I finished with Camera Raw. Bob Parsi www.photoshopcreative.co.uk/user/illusiondezign I…

On the FileSilo Download your free resources at www.filesilo.co.uk/photoshopcreative Essentials Works with What you’ll learn How to beautify photos and add portrait drama with custom sketch effects Time taken 45 minutes Expert John Ross “A creative portrait doesn’t have to use paint or filters. I’ll teach you how to beautify portraits using stylised effects that can be enhanced with a graphics tablet. “With 20 years of professional experience, I educate photographers and retouchers by expanding their knowledge through my website www. TheArtofRetouching.com.” Beautifying photos and enhancing female portraits may seem like a daunting task – even more so if you’re not quite sure which of the myriad of Photoshop tools you should use. You can always opt for the usual suspects of filters and paint splatters, but it’s good to…

Essentials Time taken 8 hours The artist Emi Haze “I’m an Italian digital artist and illustrator. My artworks are a mixture of painting, digital art and photography. I’ve worked for several clients and big agencies like Adobe, Wacom ww.the , Goodby i ro , Silverstein i es .c m & Partners hepixelp , Random sit s House and Getty Images.” Check out more of Emi’s work at www.emihaze.http://www.emihaze.comcomor on Behance at www.behance.net/endalaust. Emi Haze has made a name creating incredible double exposure images for all kinds of clients, including Wacom and Adobe. When asked to create book covers though, Emi was faced with a whole new challenge. “Nowadays, the powerful tools of Photoshop give me the chance to combine drawing, painting and photography together”, says Emi. “Bringing together two or…

On the FileSilo Download your free resources at www.filesilo.co.uk/photoshopcreative Essentials Works with What you’ll learn Use various filters and tools for a real-media painting effect Time taken 3-5 hours Expert BÜRO UFHO “Using a combination of filters can help speed up the illustration process and turn any photo into a painting. “Being both an artist, under the moniker kittozutto, and graphic design studio, BÜRO UFHO, we have been using Photoshop for over 10 years. In 2015, we had the privilege to be invited by Adobe, together with 70 artists, to celebrate its 25th Anniversary of Photoshop.” There’s always something cool about skull art. Skulls repulse us, yet we’re attracted to them. Skull art is full of symbolism and carries both the meaning of life and death. We’re so familiar with…

On the FileSilo Download your free resources at www.filesilo.co.uk/photoshopcreative Essentials Time taken 10 hours Expert Marie Beschorner “Nature is the greatest artist and it serves as an inspiration for my own art. To capture a specific mood and to make details such as fur look realistic can be challenging. In this regard I find adjustment layers and blend modes helpful for creating atmospheric lighting, while experimenting with brushes helps me get the details right. “I am a freelance illustrator based in Germany and Sweden. I focus on character design and environments and create final art and concepts for advertising and campaigns, games, apps and occasionally for books. I have been working with Photoshop since 2001 and ever since I laid hands on my first graphics tablet I am absolutely in…

On the FileSilo Download your free resources at www.filesilo.co.uk/photoshopcreative Essentials Time taken 7 hours Expert Daniel Sinoca “One of the graphic design techniques I like the most is negative space. I can create cool logos, graphics and beautiful compositions utilising this method. “I started to get involved in the digital world more than 15 years ago and have been working as a freelance artist ever since, creating all kinds of multimedia projects and writing tutorial guides.” In this tutorial, we are going to create an astonishing composition by using ‘negative space’ (and positive space, too). Negative space is a very cool graphic design technique which can be used to create a variety of images, such as logos, illustration or photocompositions. Negative space is a process where you subtract the main…

On the FileSilo Download your free resources at www.filesilo.co.uk/photoshopcreative WHAT’S AN EASY WAY TO ADD PLANETS INTO PHOTOS? Whether you’re inserting the Moon or an array of planets to your work, adding a little more interest to your skies can really help to brighten up your landscape photos. It’s a simple idea but by placing a spacey backdrop above a scene, you can quickly transform any photo into a sci-fi inspired piece of art. On the FileSilo, we’ve supplied an image with the planets of the solar system in order. Open this image in Elements, select one of the planets using the Marquee Tool and hit Cmd/Ctrl+C to copy. Open your supplied silhouette and paste the chosen planet; you can rotate it too by using Transform (Cmd/Ctrl+T). Once happy with…

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Challenge entries The best entries and overall challenge winner 1 Corine Spring Face Cut Out This image was created with four pictures blended, with the girl being used as the main focus of the piece. The composition was inspired by Miagui Studio’s work. 2 Andre van Graan The Model I blended the model onto a new background. I used a couple of adjustment layers. I retouched her one eye that was a bit smudgy in the original and finished off with a bokeh effect. 3 Pamela Woerst The Clear Picture Filters were vital in creating this composition. Blurs were used to give focus to the bubble, and Liquify was used to distort the shape of the marble. 4 Trevor Budd Fragile World The concept was a fragile world and the…

On the FileSilo Download your free resources at www.filesilo.co.uk/photoshopcreative Essentials Works with What you’ll learn How to create a scene that mixes fantasy with cultural references Time taken 5 hours Expert Rodrigo Marinelli “Since I was a kid, I’ve always loved to learn about different countries and cultures. India is one of my favourites – the history and the beauty of the Taj Mahal is absolutely incredible, and it’s great inspiration for my art. “I'm an art director and have 12 years of experience in advertising agencies. I learned and am still learning to use Photoshop through following tutorials.” Often we will delve into our imagination to create a piece of artwork, but there’s lots of inspiration to be found in different cultures. Each country has its own characteristics, such…

About the artist Marija Tiurina marijatiurina.com/ @marijatiurina Having moved to the UK in 2009, Marija Tiurina has been busy living and working in London for the past eight years. Over that time, she has worked in the fields of digital and traditional art, game art, advertising and children’s book illustrations. She has a degree in Multimedia Design and Technology. Name of the project Untranslatable Words It’s often said that a picture paints a thousand words, but with her Untranslatable Words project, Marija Tiurina strived to create artwork that illustrated words themselves. After moving to London, Marija had the inspiration to research amusing or interesting terms that couldn’t be translated into English, and from it, she created 14 images in Photoshop to communicate these foreign words. Though Marija claims the project…

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. Ina Stanimirova www.inastanimirova.com/ I started drawing the skull and each person separately on paper. The composition was done with Photoshop, and I used scanned watercolour stains to colour it without losing the hand-drawn feel. Mike Piechota mikepiechota.com/ I started with a quick colour and value sketch, just to have a foundation to build the shapes and gradients on top. The old-school dither effect was achieved by converting the artwork to the Indexed Color mode. Alex Pluda www.behance.net/alexpluda8447 I designed Onyxby layering a Yellow Sea picture shot…

HIGHLIGHTS Cmd/Ctrl-click on the layer thumbnail of your splash shape. Use a white soft brush to softly brush just outside of this selection on a new layer. Deselect the selection and move this layer slightly towards the centre of the splash to create a glossy shine highlight. COLOURS Create a colour palette on the side of the canvas. Sites like Adobe Kuler is great for colour inspiration. Using a Selective Color adjustment layer can quickly help you change colours to help you visualise the different colour combinations. STACKED SHADOWS With the splash shape as a group mask, use a black Soft Round brush to brush in the shadows. We can create stacked shadows by using a few layers with different opacity to create depth for the shadows. DETAILS Finish the…

On the FileSilo Download your free resources at www.filesilo.co.uk/photoshopcreative Essentials Works with What you’ll learn How to create a typographic poster using non-destructive techniques Time taken 1 hour Expert Mark White “I love type; I like to create my own fonts, find exciting ones online, and incorporate them into my work. Plus, I always feel like you’re more likely to read something if it’s written in a nice typeface! “As senior staff writer on Photoshop Creative, I’ve learned all kinds of quick tips to help with even the most impressive-looking pictures.” The relationship between text and art is an interesting one, and typography is a fascinating art style to explore in Photoshop. With so many cool fonts freely available on the internet, we often take it for granted, but sometimes…

On the FileSilo Download your free resources at www.filesilo.co.uk/photoshopcreative Essentials Works with What you’ll learn Assemble a surreal composition with layers, masks and adjustments Time taken 1.5 hours Expert Andre Villanueva “There’s nothing more fun for me on the computer than to toss elements into the Photoshop blender to see what I can come up with. I hope to continually uncover more efficient methods and interesting techniques. “I’m an art director in Alabama, USA, gliding back and forth between print and web. When not glued to my MacBook Pro, I enjoy spending time with family.” Photoshop grants you the power to juggle all manner of elements to create mix-ups that are interesting, beautiful… and just plain bizarre. It doesn’t matter what adjectives you pick; you can rest assured that you…

Essentials Time taken 10 hours The artist Dzmitryi Kashtalyan “I’m an Illustrator, artist, and graffiti artist from Minsk, Belarus. I work on paper as well as in Photoshop and have had my work w . featured h pi e prosit in exhibitions . om in @thepi Minsk el , St. o Petersburg ites , and in Rome. I am trying to improve from work to work; I wish for my art to make our world better, and I want people to look around and think.” See more of Dzmitryi’s excellent work at: www.kashtalyan.com/ “My passion for painting started with classic graffiti,” says Dima Kashtalyan, an artist from Minsk, Belarus. “As time went on, I became interested in characters and full-fledged design.” This interest in a wide range of other art…

On the FileSilo Download your free resources at www.filesilo.co.uk/photoshopcreative Essentials Time taken 7 hours Expert Rebekka Hearl “I’ve been drawing and designing characters since I was very small, and I continue to create my own characters for comics and animations, as well as for professional commissions. “I’ve been using Photoshop since my teens, and it is still a vital part of my workflow to this day. I don’t know how I survived so many years without my Wacom Cintiq 13HD, and my favourite Photoshop tool is without a doubt the Brush Tool.” Good character design is trickier than it looks, but it doesn’t have to be the convoluted process fraught with difficulty and technicalities that most books on the subject would have you believe. Not every character you make has…

TRACE FROM A PHOTO By using a photo as a base, you don’t have to worry about drawing! CARTOON COLOURS Keep the colours strong and don’t use too many for a true cartoon effect. On the FileSilo Download your free resources at www.filesilo.co.uk/photoshopcreative One of the best perks of being creative is the ability to use your talents to make gifts for friends and family. Cards, photo edits, portraits – you have boundless opportunities to create a personalised gift that shows how much you truly care. Or, you could do something really silly, like painting over a photo of your friend’s face to make them look like a cartoon! In this tutorial, we’ll be using basic photo editing and painting techniques in Photoshop Elements. We’ve kept things nice and straightforward,…

A lot of artists see digital painting as a brave new world, perhaps out of their comfort zone. Not so for Marko Rop. The Slovenian illustrator describes his working process as rooted in the practice of analogue drawing. But exactly how does he create his amazing work? We asked him about influences, his favourite tools, and how he uses texture in his work. Can you tell us about your background in art? I have always been into art. There is hardly any white page left in books we had at home when I was a kid, because I drew all the time, and I remember I always thought those white pages in books were intended to be illustrated. One of the first school trips I went on in grammar school…

Starting sketch The sketch for Fish Queenwas created on a layer over a simple light blue to light yellow gradient background. I used an ordinary round brush with an Opacity of about 40%. Apply colour I started applying colour under the sketch layer so that I could follow the general outline of the artwork without losing the visibility of the sketch. Use the Puppet Warp I used the Puppet Warp filter on one of the fishes. I selected the fish layer, then went to Edit>Puppet Warp. This was repeated to warp fishes to cover the subject. The process took a whole day. Finish it off Finally, I painted the background and used a few sea wave brushes to finalise the ocean. The Oil Painting filter was used to give the…