Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Add some finishing touches to your digital painting by painting in some more texture with a low flow brush setting and adding a canvas stock image for added realism.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Turn a photographic image into a realistic, digital painting. This photo painting technique uses the smudge tool in conjunction with various brush presets.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. In the last part of the globe exercise, we tweak the brush settings for the standard round, soft brush and create a starry backdrop for the globe to sit on.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. In Part 2 the text gets a cosmic makeover with layer styles and various filters.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. We finish up the simple globe graphic we started several months ago and turn it into a realistic-looking, 3D celestial body. Part 1: Wegive the globe a dramatic makeover.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. You can apply many filters directly to the color channels. Here I've quickly applied a gaussian blur to the blue channel and desaturated the image for an interesting softening effect.