Conte Crayon Filter in Photoshop

One of the Filters built into Photoshop, whatever be the version you are using is Conte Crayon. You can use it for special effects.

This is a free stock image.

The same image with the Conte Crayon Filter applied.

Here is another free stock image with the Filter applied.

Another free stock image with the Filter applied.

The tutorial is here.

Other Phortoshop tutorials are here.

Photoshop Resources - 4

You can download a free Photoshop filter which you can use in your work.

This is a free stock image.

You can turn it into this.

And this and much more. You can download it here.

Other photoshop tutorials are here.

Photoshop Resources 3

Photoshop, whichever version you have, provides quite a large number of Brushes, Gradients, Shapes  Patterns etc. You can also download and install a lot of others that are of good quality and available for free. These save a lot of time, especially when you are in a hurry. It also helps you improvise.

This is an image created solely with downloaded brushes. You can do it too.

The tutorial is here.

Other Photoshop tutorials are here.

Page Curl in all versions of Photoshop

Making a Page Curl in Photoshop CS is easy with the Warp Tool. You can make a Page Curl with earlier versions which do not have the Warp Tool as well.

This is the effect  you will be able to make without use of the Warp Tool.

The tutorial is here.

Other photoshop tutorials are here.

Shattered face effect in Photoshop

I call this a Shattered face effect. It is done with whatever is provided in Photoshop. No filters or textures are used.

You can create this effect too. All you need is a bit of patience. The tutorial is here.

Other photoshop tutorials are here.

Photoshop Resources - Lens Flare Brush

Here is a rare, but a free Photoshop brush for download, which will be of immense help.

Download it here.

This is another unusual brush. Download it here.

Blending with Layer Mask

The Layer Mask can be used very effectively to blend two images seamlessly in Photoshop. No special expertise is necessary. You can choose any two images and use a Layer Mask to blend them.

I have taken this image.

And this image.

This is how the two images have been blended with  simple Layer Mask.

I have used two images and blended them with a Layer Mask for this image.

It is easy. The tutorial is here.

Other Tutorials are here.

Wings with Photoshop 2

You can add wings with Photohop to a person quite easily.

This is what can be done

The tutorial is here.

Other Photoshop tutorials are here.

Gradient Coloring

You can use the Gradient Presets to change the color and tone of a color photo in Photoshop. It is very simple to do.

This is a free stock image.

These are variations of one of the Gradients used.

The tutorial is here.

Other photoshop tutorials are here.

Brightening eyes

Should you need to brighten the eyes without affecting the rest of the image, you can use the Pen Tool and Levels to do so. You can also use the Magnetic Lasso to select.

This is a free stock image.

The eyes and lips have been brightened. The tutorial is here.

Other photoshop tutorials are here.

Cutting out image from background

When you need to cut out an image from the background, the test is to have clean edges. You can achieve this with the Pen Tool. Some have a horror of the Pen Tool. Therefore let me show you how to do it with the Magnetic Lasso, one of the basic tools and also how to eliminate errors in edge selection.

I will be using this free stock image. I will cut out the girl cleanly from the image with the lowly Magnetic Lasso.

The image has been cut out cleanly with the Magnetic Lasso.

I have place the cut out image on a new background.

The tutorial is here.

Other photoshop tutorials are here.

Cracked Glass in Photoshop

Creating a cracked glass effect in photoshop is not very difficult to do if you use a Texture. You also need to use a Displacement Map. I will show you how to make it.

This is a free stock image which I will use for the cracked glass effect.

Here is the cracked glass effect.

The tutorial is here.

Other Photoshop tutorials are here.

Wings in Photoshop

Let us create a winged figure. You can do so with Brushes found for free and a little imagination. You also need a free stock image, the link to which I will provide.

Here is the winged firgure.

The tutorial is here.

Other Photoshop tutorials are here.

Photoshop Resources

A lot of Photoshop resources are available for free. High resolution Brushes, good quality Patterns and Shapes are also available. You need to get as much as possible for adding that extra something to your images. I have given links from where you can download free resources for free.

Here is something that I dished up in Photoshop using resources like Brushes, Shapes, Patterns etc available for free.

Please see here.