Photoshop Zone

One of the classic Photoshop tutorial topics is the creation of a pencil drawing effect from a photograph. It’s one of those quick and simple techniques that produces a satisfying result, which makes the tutorial great for beginners. Throughout its history, Photoshop has featured lots of built-in filters that produce various sketch and artistic effects, but they don’t exactly produce a realistic outcome. In this tutorial I’ll show some clever steps that will transform a photograph into a hand drawn pencil sketch, which can even be fine tuned to find the most authentic look. The effect we’ll be creating in this tutorial mimics the lines and shading of a pencil drawing. Producing this style of artwork for real would take hours of work for even the most talented artist, but the power of Photoshop gives us the ability to replicate it pretty well in just minutes. This makes it much more feasible to use the sketched look within your designs that might require an ‘artsy’ t...

Designers are truly in love with one of the best tool that helps make the best of their creative skills and get the desired results. In designing, its not just the creativity that works. Along with it, one needs to have a tool that helps them put their creative ideas down and work on it to come up with amazing designs. Photoshop no matter how simple it sounds to work on but then at times leaves you wondering as to how you can proceed further. For the beginners too, its not easy to get well acquainted with it. Now for the matter of fact, it becomes easier for designers to learn more and more of Photoshop, its features and using which one will help you get the results they are expecting. Photoshop tutorials that are written in simple and easy to understand format here helps a great deal. Each month, we come up with the listicles of the best Photoshop tutorials that we believe will be of help for all you designers out there. Ready to sneak a peek at this ...

Enhance Detail Using Color Correction In this tutorial, Ben Secret will go through three very common ways to make local color and tone adjustments in Photoshop. How To Give Your Photos a Cool Retro Analog Effect Back in the days of analog photography imperfections were part of the job. Color washes, light leaks, vignettes and blurs were all common problems that appeared during the processing of your film, particularly from cheap cameras such as the Holga, or simply down to human error. While these problems don’t affect digital cameras, we can recreate the cool effects in Photoshop to give our shots that cool lo-fi retro effect. Create Light Leaks and Lomo Effects Using Actions in Photoshop In this quick tip tutorial, we will explain how to create light leaks and lomo effects for you photos using actions in Photoshop. Retouch Images With Frequency Separation In this tutorial, Ben Secret will walk you through how he retouches an image from start to finish, us...