Using Color Balance to turn Dust And Particles into Fire, Ice And Magic

Time to dust up on your Color Balance Adjustment Layer. Here’s a quick Photoshop trick that will add some more magic (or magical fire and ice) to your composites. This technique works wonders using dust particles shot against a back background. You can shoot this yourself or use a pre-made dust resource if you don’t have […]

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How I Art Directed A CD Cover Shoot Over The Internet

When Chris Sebastian contacted me about creating cover art for his debut album ‘The Good Old Days‘, I initially wasn’t sure how the scenario would work. Chris was in Sydney, I was in Melbourne, and his photoshoot was happening in Sydney within the week. I admit, I’m a bit of a control freak… In order […]

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You Decide How Much To Pay For Files From EVERY SINGLE PACKAGE We Sell

We know that you are itching to know what kind of things we have in each and every package. I mean, it is one thing seeing the samples on the web, and another thing to experience a fabric file at 36MP resolution or a gorgeous decay back-plate shot with a medium format camera. This is why […]

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Tutorial: How To Create A Textured Face White Walker (From Any Portrait)

The year comes to an end and just before the busy days of watching StarWars and celebrating the holidays I’m rushing to finish some images and close this year off. One of the images that needed to be done was my contribution to the Dark Realm Collective – Black Christmas Art Pack. I’ve been part […]

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Add Hand Painted Backgrounds To Your Photos In Seconds With This Digital Trick

Some of the iconic portrait photographers, like Annie Leibovitz have a very common look for their studio portraits, they are shot against a hand painted textured backdrop. You know what I am talking about. Those gorgeous backdrops with random soft patters. Those backdrops are hand painted on canvas (just like works of art), and show great […]

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Use These Practice Files To Improve Your Retouching Skills

Over the last few weeks, we shared a few retouching tutorials, there was one about color and one about masks (and a few others here and there). If you are shooting for yourself then practice comes easy, you use the files you shot. But if you want to practice retouching (and leave photography for another time) you […]

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DIYP Goes Black Friday: 25% Off Anything On Our Image Manipulation Store

6 weeks ago we kicked off our Image Manipulation Store. Boy we did not see this coming. You downloaded over 5,500 packages during this month and a half. This is almost 100 packages a day. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! But we don’t just thank you with words, we want your photos to rock even […]

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