I love caricature and occasionally make an attempt at it myself but here are ten caricatures created OR finished in Photoshop from some of the talented artists on Deviantart, and there are tons more on there. This may be the first of a series on caricatures. So in no particular order (they’re all brilliant digital art); Dr House by Macpulenta Agent Smith by Timshinn Bruce Springsteen by Jason Seiler Nicolas Cage by...

On the Photoshop work area, the “artboard” – the area around your image – is by default 50% gray in all views except Full Screen mode. The artboard is the part of the Photoshop image window that appears when you make the viewing window larger than the image itself or that surrounds your image if you use any screen mode other than Standard. If you don’t like 50% grey as your background colour, and let’s...

Christophe Huet is a professional retoucher and CG specialist with great imagination. I find his work inspirational because of the skill involved, the humour and the wonderful ideas that are portrayed. Combining computer generated art and photography his work is both clever and charming, and sometimes a little scary. A feature I particularly like on Christophe’s site is the “making of” section where you can see how...

In this typography based tutorial, I’ll show you how to create the effect of a triple stroke on a piece of text. Unlike Adobe Illustrator, where you can apply multiple strokes, Photoshop only allows you to add one stroke on any particular layer. In this case, we’ll use a gradient trick to apply this effect. The good thing here is that the text remains fully editable after the effect has been applied. 1. Create a new Photoshop document...

This is an easy yet elegant technique for finishing your images for display online or even in a PDF and should be useful for web designers and photographers. Using Photoshop, you can create the effect of a matte and frame around your image. 1. Open up the photograph that you want to frame. (This is a photograph I took in South Kerry in February. Yes February!) Set your Foreground and Background colors to black and white respectively by...

The Clone Stamp tool (quick photoshop cloning tip here) is one of the most often used tools when it comes to retouching in Photoshop. But two other tools which are often overlooked by people new to the sport are the Healing Brush and the Patch tools. In this post, I’m going to show you how to use these tools to remove some wrinkles from an elderly lady’s face. To ensure that we get a realistic result we’ll firstly duplicate the...