This tutorial was originally posted on loreleiweb.com but due to technical reasons moved. The tutorial remains a copyright property of Lorelei (me!) This tutorial’s purpose is to make an imitation of real painting, made using semi dry brushes. The final result will be this: so, lets get started… Make a new canvas, 450*450. White your colours are set to black and white, go to Filter >> Render >> Clouds and apply the clouds effect (once) Using the marquee tool, select half of the canvas (or a bit more than half, as this will be out “sky”) and add a lot of Contrast (Image >> Adjustments >> Brightness / Contrast) as shown on the picture below. While the upper part of the canvas is still...

This tutorial moved permanently from loreleiweb.com due to technical reasons. Ok, so this is going to be an ultra simple tutorial for making this image. It can add a lot of sexy and elegant yet creepy effect to any of your family photos, so since it’s a quick and easy tut I sincerely recommend you to try it out. We used a picture of Amy Lee, so for a start you need to get some photo to work with, though don’t forget that you need someone with light eyes, it wont work good enough on brown / black eyes.. discrimination, I know. You can take the picture of Amy Lee that we used as her eyes are really bright. Duplicate the layer. Select the upper layer, and go to Hues / Saturation and reduce the colors of the upper layer...

Dark Fantasy Art tutorial called  “Sleeping Sun” by Lorelei (me!) was originally posted on www.loreleiweb.com The tutorial remains a copyright property of Lorelei © 2009, however,  now it has moved to PSwish.com due to technical / server reasons. We invite all our LoreleiWeb community to subsribe to our feed and make sure you don’t miss any tutorial written by your favorite authors. Despite been classed as fantasy art, this is a mere photo manipulation – make a fairy and your own mystic scenery; creating a landscape from scrap is now possible! I was inspired by the huge success of my previous fantasy art tut, which I posted in this forum last week… I got quite a few emails thanking me for it and many...

OK, here is a text effect I came up with yesterday while making some crappy design and since it turned out pretty nice, I decided to make a tut about it. So, we will be making this nice oily text: So, start off by making a new canvas, and fill it with a dark background colour, we used black. type the word u like… we used customized GauFont PopMagic. go to layer >> layer styles >> blending options, and set the following settings: Inner Shadow Inner Glow and also… Bevel and Emboss Contour Line Inside Contour Satin Colour Overlay After all these settings, u will have this: Now, duplicate your layer. Select the upper (copied) layer and go to Filter >> Blur >> Gaussian Blur, and...

This tutorial has been written by Dreleen. I decided to create a tut for this image. Ok get your images together. For this pic I used the following: Girl Moss 1 Moss 2 Wings Rocks Mushroom Go ahead duplicate all the pics and use masks to single out your selections Once you make your selections delete the back grounds and hide the original layer Open a new file, I used a large size like 3000 x 2500. And Cropped it at the end. Drag and place all your elements onto the page. Hide everything but the girl. Because the color of her clothes don’t match the theme of the pic we will have to adjust it. Start out by desaturating her. Go in and make separate selections masks for her skin, shirt, shorts and hair and save them. Choose colors...

Crumbled Gold Text Effect tutorial written by Lorelei Today we will learn how to make a text effect which looks like crumbled gold.The tutorial is very easy if you have the needed components. This will be your final result… And now lets see how can we achieve this look. Create a new layer – 450*300 px, and fill it with the following colour: #3c0101. Of course you may choose any other hue. Select the typing tool (or press “T”) and type any word in the middle of the canvas. The choice of font here is very essential, do not choose any thin fonts or fonts with many twirls, it wont look good for this particular effect. We need a very bold font with slight crumbly effect, such as “Defused”, which is what we...

Heavenly Castle – Final Result: So, this is the photo-manipulation tutorial we are going to make today, it will create the illusion of a castle, weaved from air above the sea. These sorts of illusions sometimes happen when you feel like an object levitates above the water. So… 1. Start of by taking a picture of a shore. Feel free to use Digital Stock Photo. 2. …and, a photo of some caste (we used Prague Castle, but you can take any object u want for this manipulation) 3. Place the photo of the castle, above the “sea” layer. 4. Now, using the eraser tool with soft edge (50px or even bigger), erase everything around the castle, leaving only the castle (or object) itself. This would create the illusion, as if...