El blog de Martin Arnedo

• John Locke
  The Lost character John Locke.
• Sea Monster
  This creature is very angry. Godzilla let her down.
• Spider-Man
  Superhero Spider-Man with his traditional red-and-blue costume. My spider-sense tells me, i should open Photoshop.
• Werewolf
  A wolflike and very hairy creature.
• Adriana Lima
  Best known for her modeling work with Victoria’s Secret.
• Hellboy
  Another comic character, this time a large red-skinned demon .
• Gabi
  Artists paint not only celebrities, but also photos of the beloved ones.
• Jack Sparrow
  Captain Jack Sparrow. A Pirate of the Caribbean.
• Scarlett Johansson
  Actress Scarlett Johansson. A good example of black and white power. If looks could kill.
• Fergie
  Stacy Ann Ferguson, better known as Fergie.
• Indiana Jones
  After 18 years back in cinemas. Indiana Jones.
• Caravaggio
  Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist. »La deposizione« in photoshop.
• Beyonce
  R&B-Star Beyoncé Knowles.
• Dragon
  The brother of the creature above.
• Mona Lisa
  What a smile. Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece.
• Bob Ross
  Bob Ross was an painter and television host. Now, he was painted himself.
• Waterfall
  How to draw a waterfall environmental concept scene.
• Albert Einstein
  Everything is relative. Famous and brilliant theoretical physicist Albert Einstein.

Button and Interface

• Create a Glass Sphere
  A good basis for a shiny button.
• Feed Icon
  Create your own standard feed icon, the well known orange square.
• Aqua Sphere
  Aqua, Apples visual theme of Mac OS X. Still great.
• Slice and Export a Website Layout
  You can create web graphics in Photoshop. Here’s how to make a website out of it.
• Gel Button
  Another good basis for a button.

Beauty Retouching

• Evolution
  A young classics.
• Face Change
  This is Angelina Jolie face changed in Photoshop into a comic charakter.
• Face Retouch
  Watch the newest plastic surgery tipps.
• Teeth whitening
  Whiten teeth and correct slightly crooked.
• Skin Smoothing
  Smooth the texture, remove major wrinkles and bumps.
• Beauty Saloon
  Photoshop is the best product in the beauty industry.
• Perfect lie
  What is real and what is photoshopped. Don`t believe your eyes.
• Tattoo removal
  Have you ever regretted the tattoo of your youth. Use Photoshop!
• Skin color retouching
  Two ways for getting those skin colors to behave just the way you want them.
• Digital Makeup
  Enhance your appearance and simulate make-up.

Digital matte painting

• Matte painting
  98 layers create this landscape.
• Natural History Museum
  A future vision of the Natural History Museum.
• Matte painting of a city
  A fictional city with a reflection in the sea..
• Matte Painting & Visual Effects
  Matte Painting with animation.
• Fog in the valley
  Rough Matte Painting of clouds or fog in a valley.

Photo Manipulation

• Match Color
  Color correction with »Match color«, found under »Image ↔ Adjustment«. Combine two photos and make the colors match.
• Sin City
  Simulate the style of film noir-like Sin City in your photos. High contrasts, black and white and some spots of red, blue and yellow.
• Produce Scary Photos
  Produce scary photos with the overlay of textures on the skin and dark hair. It’s that simple.
• Human To Statue
  Convert your normal pictures of people into photos of statues. Again, textures used for a realistic effect.
• Sci-Fi
  A mysterious explosion of blue light or a spherical spaceship. They are among us.
• Starry Eyes
  Create eyes with some stars in it. Real stars of a photo, in the shape of the eye and fit with the blending mode »Overlay« or »Screen«. “A little bit of heaven in your own eyes.”
• Changing Colors
  Changing hair, eyes and cloth colors with Photoshop.
• Toning & Burning
  Correct the colors and change the surface. Make a photo old and broken.
• Popout Picture
  The Out of Bound-Effect. A really useful trick to create cool photos.
• Glassball
  A ball of glass, with refractions. A good 3D-Illusion in 2D-Software.
• Mix two creatures
  Two species melt into a new animal. Like this crog, a combination of a frog and a crocodile.
• Lightning
  Photoshop is definitely hot enough to fuse sand into glass, with this lightning tutorial.

You Suck at Photoshop

• You Suck at Photoshop #1
  Donnie Hoyle pulls a digital end-around on a restraining order and vandalizes a Vanagon.
• You Suck at Photoshop #2
  How to fix little mistakes.
• You Suck at Photoshop #3
  Donnie Hoyle makes a very big mistake go away.
• You Suck at Photoshop #4
  Path and Masks.
• You Suck at Photoshop #5
  Donnie’s self-discovery vacation heats up. By the megaton.
• You Suck at Photoshop #6
  Donnie’s four day hold-up at the airport makes for some heavy duty Photoshop diversion.
• You Suck at Photoshop #7
  Donnie Hoyle hots up a facebook photo for one lucky fan.
• You Suck at Photoshop #8
  Donnie opens his home to a new friend.
• You Suck at Photoshop #9
  Donnie Hoyle gets as close to a pair of tomatoes as he’ll ever get.

Graphics, Effects and more

• Exploding Planet
  Some filter combinations creates the illusion of an exploding planet.
• Hyperspace Background
  A good background for a space battle.
• Fire effect
  Let a letter burn.
• Sony Ericsson logo
  Gradients make the logo.
• Realistic Sun in 5 Mins
  An authentic-looking sun.
• Ink
  Draw the lines for clean results.
• Blaze Your Name
  Your name in flames.
• Eye
  Draw an eyeball with iris, pupil and some effects.
• Lightsaber
  Lightsabers – the principal weapons of the Jedi.
• How to Color Comic Books
  Graphic art colored with Photoshop.
• Explosion
  An impressive simulated explosion.

Collections

• PixelPerfect
  Bert Monroy takes a stylus and a digital pad and shows us the tips and tricks in 75 episodes.
• Tutorialchamp
  The Key To Mastering Photoshop. Only 10 but high quality Videos.
• Planet Photoshop
  78 Video-Tutorials. The manipulation of photos is the main theme.
• Lombergar
  Lombergar.com offers over 20 free online video tutorials.
• PhotoshopUser TV
  The Photoshop Guys Dave Cross, Matt Kloskowski, and Scott Kelby shows weekly amazing tricks.
• The Radiant Vista
  20 huge Quicktime-Videos.
• Photoshop Killer Tips
  Again a Photoshop Guy. Get your daily dose of the coolest Photoshop tips with Matt Kloskowski.
• luv2help.com
  He really loves to help us learning Photoshop.
• Adobe Video Workshop
  Start learning about any Adobe application like Photoshop, Lightroom and all the other creative suite products. Tons of videos.

fuente: [smashing magazine]

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Un video mejor que otro, muchos ya sabemos realizar la gran mayoría de los efectos y mascaras que aplica, pero a la hora de la verdad pocos disponen del tiempo para realizar tales proyectos. Mis felicitaciones a quienes dedican su tiempo a enseñar, y a distribuir sus conocimientos en la red.