The most creative ideas how to use Photoshop and Illustrator

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• Fantasy Portraiture Editing
  Eithné Ní Anluaín
  In this tutorial I will endeavor to give people a good idea of how to go about editing a portrait image with some fantasy elements. It will also show my workflow of non destructive editing in where the origional image is kept safe. To get a fantasy image you do not need dragons – colors, tones and the subject itself will give a lot to the overall feel of the image.
• Fertility
  The Source of Life
  Daniel Reuber
  The inspiration for this image came from different influences, but mainly from Davinci’s famous Adampainting in the roof of Sistine Chapel. So, basically his hand and the position of it was what I wanted to use.
• How to create stylized planet illustration
  Lukas Lancko
  I’m going to guide you across breakdown of my futuristic illustration I’ve created recently as for new CD cover artwork. Do you want to follow me? Ok, I’m going to show you some of my techniques & approaches, so stay tuned. We are going to pass through initial creation process, planet modeling, painting and postproduction. I will share some of my tips & tricks as well, so I hope you are going in to enjoy it. This tutorial is dedicated mostly to intermediate users, but if you’re beginner don’t worry. You can easily follow slowly step by step and I’m sure you can learn something new anyway. Let’s get started!
• The Lake
  João Marcos Britto
  This is a personal project of mine. I always carry a camera with me while I’m traveling. This landscape was made with some photos I took during a trip. I also used some stock images as well. This is not a tutorial for beginners, so I’m assuming that you know at least how to use Photoshop and do masks with channels and other tools.
• Intuitive 3D Typography in Photoshop
  Mit-halous Qumer
  Hey, Ready to grab this tutorial? This is typography tutorial based on very flexible and intuitive hand drawing, where I shown you how to convert your hand-drawn stuff into nice digital artwork. My motto behind this artwork was to exhibit the major essence of celebration of colorful Holi Festive in India, I merged various vector object as well as, to balance entire artwork with big contrast with bright colors and different kind of light glow and strokes, I`m sure you`ll learn some techniques and evolution to this artwork.
• TheBiker
  Fabrizio Calicchia
  In this tutorial I will share with you some of the techniques I use to edit the images. I will use some values and parameters that work well on this image. If I may give a suggestion it’s to read the tutorial, understand the work process and then experiment with other images also. Hope you will appreciate it.
• ESTEEM – self portrait
  Sascha Niederreiter
  In this tutorial we make a photo manipulation of a man walking on cubes that were flying around the air. The tools that were used on this tutorial were Photoshop, Cinema 4d and Illustrator. I want to show how the different layers in Photoshop can be used to get lightning effects, customized shadows, get more depth to your images and play around with the Layer Styles.
• Create Abstract Dark Art Composition in Photoshop
  Lazar Mitev
  In this tutorial I’ll show you my technique how to create dark emotional and abstract piece of art using stock images mixed with texture and different shape brushes. I will use some basic techniques to create nebulas and we will play with light and dark tones for contrast and finding the balance between the elements. I like to use a lot of different brushes and I’ll show you some of the ways to make cool effects with them.
• How to create an illustration portrait
  Carlos Becerra
  In this tutorial I will show you how to create a illustration taked from a photography using Adobe Photoshop. On this illustration I used a digital tablet Genius MousePen 8×6 but you can use any brand you prefer this is one of many other techniques you can use to make a illustration, but I hope this one can be useful for you.
• Create a vibrant Impressionism on digital surface
  Csaba Szabó
  In art history we had many easily separatable art periods.
  But nowdays unlimited visual informations effects us, so many artistic influence in the same time. And as we got the tool of digital visual creation, we got the unlimited possibility to make our imagination come true. I cannot say we have an actual new art period, better to say we have got a trend. The digitalism. While some of the artists creates futuristic, denudative 3D reality, in the same time some others build the new from the classic’s style. Create a vibrant painted effect, a digital paint with the impressionist’s painting characteristics.
• Signed & Sealed
  Sebastian Stenz
  Learn how to create a nice looking composition by combining people shots, flowers and ink brushes.
• Making of ladybug
  Pedro Conti
  In this tutorial we will talk about the development of an illustration made by Techno Image for an Italian agency called Forchets. This amazing idea was imagined and created by Pedro Conti and
  conceptualized by Tiago Hoisel, partners at Techno image.
• A.CON.CEPT
  Rayan Saputra
  A.Con.Cept is a merged down of 3 words: Accept, Con and Concept.
  I want to engage the viewers with the visual feast. Feed– not only their eyes – but also their emotions, their minds. That’s what I’m trying to achieve.
  When I make an artwork I want to let the viewers break the code, let them decipher, let them ask questions. This will engage my artwork to the viewers, make them think what’s obvious and which is symbolic with the shapes and colors as their hints. The results may takes time, but often long lasted. They can study the meaning from the hidden objects, too. It’s like a feast, visual attraction as the main course, while solving the puzzle represent the dessert. For me it brings more spices for the artwork.
  In this tutorial, Study Case: A.Con.Cept, I will show you the steps how I made this artwork, not particularly, but more general techniques instead. Be warned that all of these following techniques might be easily used, but still requires more experience and experimentation to master.
• How to collage printed materials in Photoshop
  Akane Yabushita
  In this tutorial, I’m going to show the process of making vintage flavor poster using crops from free flyers, newspaper and my sketches by collage on Photoshop. I don’t use any digital materials but I use only real things. All of them are able to keep their actual condition such as small stains, faded colors, and folding lines by simple scan and very minimum treatments in Photoshop. To using them helps to deepen an whole hand-crafted taste and boost up perfection level of final piece.
• Energy
  Kevin Roodhorst
  Energy is a fantasy photo manipulation where I combined a dancer and a dragon together. For this piece of art I combined Cinema 4d and Photoshop together.
• Create an apocalyptic world war
  Matteo Della Chiesa
  This is a tutorial where you can learn how use Adobe Photoshop to create an apocalyptic worlds war in the sky, travelling through different ways, like digital paint, colours adjustments, and different tools to make your personal apocalyptic scene.
• Interview with Kristina Stankeviciute
• Gallery of Lukas Lancko