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. Watch as I turn an ordinary photo into a piece of pop art, then mount it on a virtual wall. Part 1: I create the poster, drop into the wall graphic, transform and warp it, and add the drop shadow and reflection.

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.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. A quick and dirty trick using channel mixer to simulate the look of infrared film.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Add varying amounts of noise to each color channel to achieve a tighter film grain than just adding noise to the entire image in Layers.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Build your own color wheel from scratch and learn a little color light theory along the way.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. I turn an ordinary image, into an extraordinary one by adding a dramatic lighting effect courtesy of Photoshop's Render > Lighting Effects.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. As requested, we go through the entire Glamour Shot Retouch video and give step by step instructions.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. This week I used text as a graphic by converting words into custom brushes and tweaking the brush settings to give them a scattered effect. I then used the effect to serve as a background for a template to use as an ad or a handout.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. We show you how to turn a scan of an ink splotch, into a Photoshop brush! Use your custom brushes to create an infinite amount of backgrounds.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. This week I salvaged a throw away image by turning it into a surreal composite image. For a complete look at my thought process, and also my Photoshop process, check out my Weekly Five Minutes thread in our forum.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. I turn an ordinary outdoors shot into a brochure worthy image.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. This time we get rid of a red color cast in our image by analyzing our histogram and making the necessary adjustments in Levels.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Utilize the histogram palette and the Levels histogram to correct low contrast images. Set a new black and white point to correct a narrow tonal range.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. I replace a distracting backround with a simple gradient type background which I then add some dynamic looking lighting effects to.

In this video we go over some basic shortcuts, settings and workflow ideas. Tab key, caps lock, brackets, CTRL+J and ALT click on the layer eyeball just to name a few.