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• Gold Lion

  In this tutorial I will show you how I took a picture of my friend Cecile, who was standing in front of some plants in a yard, and turned it into a sparkling golden portrait. The main tools that I will be using in Photoshop CS4 is Gradient Map, Curves, Selective Colour and blending images onto the portrait with the Screen mode. The catch lights in her eyes are from a single rectangular softbox used for the light setup.

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  - Laura Ferreira

• Unique

  This tutorial will show you how to incorporate 3D render with the stock photos to create an appealing watery scene. I will talk about using alpha channels, adjustment layers and how to make image to pop-up by concentrating on coloring and lightning. Used stocks from http://www.sxc.hu

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  - Olli-Pekka Jauhiainen

• Before the Ball

  In this tutorial, you will learn how to cut out images and use them in another background, without having them looking fake, but more like an illustration. You will also learn how to change a color of the background of an image even with unkempt hair, without actually erasing the original background. You will be able to see the power of the clone tool and liquify tool to retouch body faws and enhance the beauty of the model. There will be interactions between multiple mounted images and color retouching of the different images to ft in a whole picture. I will guide you through the basic artifcial make up, highlights, shadows and sparkling light effects. I added some extra tips for the use of some blending modes, as well.

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  - Marcia Gaudêncio

• The Surreal

  In this tutorial, I’ll show you how I created a surreal photo manipulation called The Surreal. During this tutorial, you will learn how to blend different images to make a dark atmospheric background, blend different objects in the background, adjust lights and colors of your image, and much more. We will be using several tools such as the brush tool, levels/curves, different blending modes, and more. Let’s get started!

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  - Luis Afonso

• Abstract

  In this tutorial I am going to show you how you can combine real life stock with some abstract renders that are being made in any 3D program like Autocad 3Ds Max and Maxon’s Cinema4D. I will try to make each step as details as possible. Of course the way I work is pretty old fashioned but with todays Photoshop you have layer mask options to blend and fade things. In this tutorial I will work old school way with the eraser tool…why you may ask…for the simple reason that I am used to this way and takes less time and I got more control over the area’s I want to blend in or erase.

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  - Dario van Zundert

• Neytiri

  In this tutorial we will paint Neytiri using a simple technique of airbrushes and a lot of layers for ultimate control. I use the digital airbrush in Corel painter and differ my opacity according to what I’m doing. Increase the brush opacity when working on hair and details and soften it when shading and highlighting. This is a fast way to paint in stead of using liquid brushes in two steps!

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  - Lina Eriksson

• Photo Make Over

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  - Apple May

• Digital Art Air Brush Portrait

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  - Bandula Samarasekera

• Creativity, Colours and Cut through book #THREE by Brand Nu

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  - .psd Photoshop Team

• AutoFX

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  - Robert Coppa