Creat a super burning man in Photoshop

It’s summer blockbuster season, and this image recalls a still from a superhero movie or big-budget television series. In this tutorial, Photoshop maestro Fabio Sasso demonstrates how to fake a human torch using little more than stock imagery, a little patience, and a lot of Photoshop know-how. Sasso will talk you through honing your use of layers, tweaking the same image several times and layering up the central model. You’ll use layer styles...

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Fantasy light effects in Photoshop

Fantasy art scenes are usually handled with a liberal sprinkling of Photoshop plug-in fairy dust – but you don’t have to slavishly follow that route. By creating your own brushes in Adobe Illustrator, and using scanned elements with Photoshop, it’s a simple process to create otherworldly scenes that are alive with glow effects and shafts of virtual light. This masterclass takes a standard stock model – a super high-resolution version is included...

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How to Use Texture and Lighting to Create Rounded Artwork

 Using stock photography is not always necessary or desired, but we can reference images of real objects to learn techniques for perspective and lighting. In this tutorial, we will be creating an abstract orb. In order to get the highlights, shadows, and perspective as accurate as possible we will study real images to create our own interpretation.Final Image Preview Step 1 - Setting Up the DocumentLet's start by creating a new document (1200px...

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