If you have need of a product to take your images and present them in the best light, Storybook Album Designer has a product for you. Storybook can work with a small number of images & layouts, but its primary function is handling all of those images and prepping them for scrapbooks, cards for family and friends, etc. Where they get full use is for professional photographers who need an automated way to assemble images and make an attractive presentations and albums for clients.

Background Remover is a helpful plugin for Photoshop and other photo manipulation programs designed to streamline the process of extracting images from their original backgrounds.

Pixenlarge could be a useful tool for those working with Photoshop and many low resolution graphics of the illustrated style but don’t expect it to work miracles especially with images lacking an illustrative and hard edged ink line.

Nico di Mattia is an Argentinian artist and Photoshop user who received worldwide attention with his performances of “digital speed paintings” posted on his YouTube´s channel, which has thousands of subscribers and more than 45 million of views.

In this new tutorial, I will guide you into making a simple self-made HDRI from scratch, without the use of a photo camera.

One-click masterpieces—the Holy Grail for Photoshoppers worldwide. Novice or master, we comb the Web for inspiration and that elusive, undiscovered, artsy effect that will quickly give our images the edge they need. But, after reading countless blogs touting the perfection of the latest and greatest (but often über-expensive) plug-ins, we give up. We go back to our comfort zones and relinquish the edginess we craved.

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Beauty Box from Digital Anarchy is the makeup artist we all would love to keep on staff for all of our retouching jobs. We all want to give our clients breathtaking images that have the skin smoothing we desire without spending countless hours doing tedious retouching (thus the fine line between perfection and I guess it will be ok), hiring a retouch artist at $300 an hour or “plastic skin” that often is produced by cookie cutter actions.

AV Bros. Page Curl Pro 2.2 is a Photoshop plug-in to create page curls and folds with your images, however it can also be used as a texturizer, lighting lab, and to create some nice 3D style effects. However, creating page curls and folds is where this plug-in shines.

Backdrop Designer is a Photoshop plugin that has a variety of presets and customizable options to create backdrops for images. It includes over 600 presets as well as having the functionality to customize the style, scale, shape, and color of the backdrops you create. Favorite designs and options can also be saved as new presets.

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In this Tutorial talented digital artist Kyle Lambert is going to talk to you about how he painted very realistic image of Rihanna. It is not a step by step guide with instructions on what shapes to draw and what colors to pick, but more of an overview of the process he go through when doing a piece like this. we hope it is of interest.

What will the beautiful models of today look like forty years from now? What about your mother-in-law—after gaining a lot of weight? Will you be the handsomest at your school’s 25th reunion? If you have ever asked questions like these, then you might consider taking Abalone’s FaceAge for a spin.

In this tutorial Adrian will show you how to make a large space ship hovering over the sea. Are there any other sci-fi fans among Photoshop users?

In this tutorial Daniel Romanovsky teaches how to paint an exotic open desert landscape and imbue with a sense of mystery. The painting was created using Adobe Photoshop CS3, took approximately 8 hours of work over the course of two days.

In this tutorial Daarken will show you that you can achieve a “photo real” illustration not by adding tons of detail, but by getting the shapes, colors, and values correct. If you can get these things correct you can paint very loose and still create a very lifelike and believable piece.

In this tutorial Brett David Gordon will show you how to draw an impressive portrait of young woman. Enjoy!

In this tutorial we will learn how we can create curves in Photoshop and then take into any 3d application for modeling that object. Let’s start!

In this tutorial Nagy Gergő will teach you how to make a realistic blue foil.

ts every photographers nightmare. That fuzzy grain and colour dotting that seems you ruin your images. Noise. It lives in the shadows, loves high ISO’s, grows as you correct underexposed images and it destroys detail throughout a shot. So how do you beat it?