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Gritty HDR Photo Effect in Adobe Photoshop

In today’s Adobe Photoshop tutorial we’re going to play around with some filters and adjustments to create a gritty HDR style photo effect. This effect works great with street photography, urban images and any pictures that would be enhanced with a grungy mood with harsh contrast and sharp details. Typically, HDR images are created by shooting a range of exposures and combining them in Lightroom or Photoshop, but today’s tutorial will look at some filters that mimic HDR aesthetics and produce an effect that can be applied to standard images.

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VHS Style Glitch Effect in Adobe Photoshop

In today’s Adobe Photoshop video tutorial we’re going to apply a range of adjustments to a photograph to create a distorted glitch effect that mimics the kind of warping you see on old VHS tapes played on VCRs and analogue TVs. We’ll cover a range of tools and techniques that will help us destructively edit the original image and replicate bad tracking, TV scan lines and colour fringing, which are all aesthetics associated with old video footage.

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How To Create a Blueprint Effect in Photoshop

Today we’re going to combine a few simple tools and techniques to produce an old and distressed blueprint effect in Adobe Photoshop. If you’re a bit of a whizz with 3D design software, this effect is ideal for creating cool technical drawings for your concept car, spaceship, or even character models. Export views of the front, side and top, and maybe even a wireframe view to combine into a cool presentation. Alternatively, you could also find some existing real life technical drawings, like my example of an F-16 fighter, or even create the effect from a photograph.

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Tattoo Style Illustration Effect in Photoshop

In today’s Photoshop tutorial we’re going to take a look at some handy illustration techniques that mimic the style of traditional tattoo flash graphics. Solid outlines, bold colours and a stipple shading effect are all key aesthetics of this style. I created the initial sketch of a panther on paper, which you can download to follow along with the rest of this guide in Adobe Photoshop.

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Speed Lines Type Effect in Adobe Illustrator

So-called “Speed Lines” seem to have become a popular type effect recently. In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial I’ll show you how to add these fast movement lines to create a custom type effect using Illustrator’s various shape building tools. Along the way we’ll touch on a range of useful tips and techniques that are handy time savers to help take some of the tediousness out of the process.