Part 1: Creating The Main Text

  Taking a canvas size of 1900 X 1200. Of course you could pick any size according to your preference, but make sure the resolution is decent enough.

Fill the background layer BLACK.

With the Text Tool type whatever you want the text to be. I chose “Leave, but don’t leave me”, from a Pink Floyd song. “But don’t leave me” is coming later. Right now we’ll work on “Leave”. The font I have used is Futura Heavy.

1. Right-click on the text layer, go to Blending Options to create Layer styles.
2. On the Layer style box, go to Gradient Overlay, tick it.
3. On the Gradient Overlay, we open the Gradient editor and make the New Custom Gradient as above. I have chosen shades of black, white and grey so that we can easily modify the colors later.

 Tutorial Resources

• Blanched Paper Textures from WeGraphics
• Dancer from Shutterstock
• light_effects_custombrushes (ZIP, 26.1 MB)

Step 1: Set up the background

Let’s start the tutorial by creating a new document (Ctrl/Cmd + N) in Photoshop. Since I like printing my work, I will typically choose a large standard document size (like A4) and set the Resolution at 300 pixels/inch

1. Abstract brushes from Rubina – (6 brushes)

 

 2. Veruct Brushes by Disporatik (8 brushes)

3. Starwalt Abstract light brushes by gigistar (6 brushes)

 

4. Abstract splash brushes by Rce-Ordinary (12 brushes)

5. Ecol Brushes by Rubina (6 brushes)

6. Silicon Brushes by Axeraider (5 brushes)

7. Abstract Brushes by Metal-CX (8 brushes)

8. Fractal Chaos by Javier ZhX (10 brushes)

9. Dawn Brushes by differentxdreamz (12 brushes)

10. Serenity Brushes by Axeraider (15 brushes)

 

Part 1— The Background

So create a new document in Photoshop at 1920px wide x 1200px high, and with the Gradient Tool (G), draw in a radial gradient of browns (#5c3d09 to #1f1409) so you get something like what is shown below.
Notice that the gradient is not centered vertically but sits toward the top. In this image we want the top of the text to be on fire, so the top part of the image sh

Tutorial Assets

The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.

• Damaged Road
• Empty Highway
• Source Photography

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Introduction

This is probably one of the hottest compositing trends today. A lot of photographers are now choosing to photograph athletes in a studio and then composite them into a background that’s more fitting to their sport, or simply more dramatic. Whether it’s for an advertisement (Nike and Under Armour do it all the time), or whether th

In this tutorial, I will teach you how to easily create a successful piece of cityscape concept art. We’ll be using a very basic 3D scene as a foundation for the piece, then taking it into Photoshop for some creative photo manipulation of reference photos, basic painting and adjustments. Let’s create this urban scene!