Photoshop Zone

  1.  How to Make a 3D Book Mockup in Photoshop If you have a book cover design but the book isn’t printed yet, the only way to see how it’s going to look after printing is to use a book mockup. The more realistic it is, the better! In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to make a 3D book mockup using a photo and a couple of Photoshop tricks. 2.  How to Create Rainy Night Scene in Photoshop In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a rainy night scene in Photoshop, with a dark & mysterious mood. The scene is comprised of a Japanese girl wearing kimono carrying a umbrella, standing outside in a restaurant, waiting for something or someone. 3.  Video Tutorial: How to Create a Vintage Pin-Up Effect in Adobe Photoshop In today’s Adobe Photoshop tutorial I’m going to take you through the process of creating a WW2 aircraft ‘nose art’ inspired image, featuring the classic ‘girl-riding-a-bomb’ style pin-up. 4.  How to Make a Graffiti Text Effect With Pho...

Step 1: Setting Up the Texture PSD This PSD will serve as a place to create certain textures used in the final layout. I find it helpful to create textures in a separate document. It’s like a sandbox for experimentation. Make a new document in Photoshop that is 1024px wide by 1024px high at 72dpi. Set the foreground color to #34240f by clicking the topmost color swatch in the Tools palette and entering this number at the bottom of the Color Picker dialog box. Set the background color by the same method to #825826. Fill the “Background” layer with this color by pressing Command + Backspace. Step 2: Making the Corkboard Texture Now go to Filter > Distort > Glass. In the Glass filter dialog box, set Distortion to 15, Smoothness to 1, Texture to Frosted and Scaling to 100%. Click OK. Go to Filter > Render > Fibers. In the Fibers filter dialog box set Variance to 8.0 and Strength to 47.0. You will probably need to click the Randomize button several tim...