From a designer’s and artist’s perspective, you are always looking for new ways to promote yourself on the web. There are a great deal of art sites around but only a few are quality. Read more
Creating vexel style portraits is a great introduction to some of the basic principles of digital painting. Using a combination of the Pen Tool and Soft Edge Brushes you can achieve the sharpness of vector art coupled with the blending options of Photoshop. Read more
Always looking for things that would be helpful to the average Photoshop user, I came across this fantastic tutorial on water effects. Read more
There’s tonnes of Photoshop Chrome Type tutorials online, so this is hardly breaking new ground in the field.. As the majority of walkthroughs covering chrome type are quite dated and garish, I thought I’d share a process that looks more contemporary / refined. Read more
Colour can really push the direction of a piece, particularly when applying a ‘colour-cast’ to unify the seperate elements. Read more
The righteous journey is often long and arduous.. It’s a sorry fact that being good ‘isn’t good enough’, so you’ve got to pull up your sleeves and put in some serious promo work to get noticed in this day and age.. Read more
Software versions come and go, more often than not with minor updates and tweaks. Photoshop CS5 however is something of a game-changer, packed with new features that are indispensible such as an improved Refine Edge command and Puppet Warp etc. Dealing with hair has always been the stickler in Photoshop, but times they are a changing.. Read more
We’re huge fans of Kuschelirmel’s work here at SurrealPSD, so we’re pleased to report that she has posted a new edition to the ‘Know your Basics’ series. Read more
Photo Manipulation is unique in the fact that you can combine the surreal concepts of fine-art with the clarity of photo-realism. Once you have a basic understanding of Photoshop, you will find that your focus shifts to more artistic pursuits such as producing lighting effects and environments. Read more
Isolating items with clarity and finesse isn’t solely a fine-art pursuit in Photoshop, professional background removal is a common undertaking in the world of Digital Design. Read more
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