Photoshop Tutorial – Christmas Fairy Magic – Fantasy Art
This tutorial was originally published on loreleiweb.com and moved for technical reasons. After the huge success of the previous two fantasy art tutorials, i wanted to do something like that again, but different… hope you will like this one, feedback is as usually appreciated!
So, today we will make this:
Start off by making a new canvas, 500*500 pixels. The color is irrelevant as we will overlay it with a photo later.
Fish out a photo of clouds from somewhere. I used some free stock on DA, but since YOU will probably make a picture for private use, you can use almost any photo u find.
We are still gathering material. Next step is to find a nice girl we will turn to a fairy… As always I used liam-stock.deviantart.com but again, this is up to you, you may use your own photo just as well.
Select the clouds photo and paste it unto your 500*500 canvas. Then, crop the girl carefully, and paste it unto your canvas either, above the clouds, more or less in the center.
Make a new layer. Using a white color and a Brush Tool with a radius of about 250 px, make a “stamp” above the girl.
Now, just like we did in the Moon Eclipse Tutorial, using the eraser tool of almost the same size, cut most of the stamp you made, in order to leave a small, “young” moon.
Go to Layer >> Layer Styles >> Outer Glow, and add White Glow to your moon. See illustration HERE.
This is what you got so far…
Select the Clouds layer and go to Filter >> Renders >> Lightening Effect. Apply this lightening effect exactly on the place where you have your moon.
Photoshop Tutorial – Ancient Rough Gold Effect, Perfect for Game Logos and Text
This tutorial was originally posted on loreleiweb.com and moved for technical reasons. Ok, yesterday I posted that old gold pic I made and Dale asked for a tutorial so here we go… in case you forgot what am I talking about, we are going to make this text effect:
So… Make a new canvas, and fill it with black color (#000000). Please note that this tutorial will only good against dark, ideally – black background. We leave a dark border around the text, which is invisible to you now, though if we take a lighter hue for the bg, you will notice that the effect looks different, a lot less interesting.
Next, type a word on your canvas. Make sure you use a very bold font. We used ‘Yikes!’ for this tutorial.
Go to Layer >> Layer Styles >> Blending Options, and apply the following settings:
