Free Photoshop Tutorials and Photoshop Actions for Fine Artists and Photographers

 

Realist Photo-Painting Learn how to enhance the colors and texture of an ordinary photo and transform it into an extraordinary painting. Photoshop action included.

A Painting from a Photo The right combination of Photoshop filters and blend modes can be used to quickly turn a photo into art.

A Classical Portrait Photo-Painting Put to the test the combinations of Photoshop tools and filters in creating a digital painting portrait in the classical style.

Impressionist Photo-Painting Create an impressionistic photo painting in the style of Claude Monet.

Watercolor Tinted Drawing Effect Turn your photo into a classical watercolor tinted illustration. Photoshop action included.

Cool-Warm Sepia Effect Enhance the aerial perspective and depth of a black and white photo by adding a warm sepia tone to the shadow areas while preserving the cool values in the middle to high range.

 

The Photoshop tutorials in this website are written for artists who use photos as reference material to generate effects that resemble the characteristics of drawing, watercolor and oil painting. Commonly known as Photoshop Fine Art or Photoshop painting, the digital paint brushes, filters and other artistic tools in Photoshop can help painters create multiple studies in color, texture and design, to visualize in a few short steps what their pictures can ultimately accomplish.

Our Photoshop painting tutorials and Photoshop actions are also helpful for photographers, graphic designers, educators and Photoshop users in general.

On this site you'll find a wide selection of informative articles, books, software and product reviews by experts in the computer graphics field. We also provide daily design news as they happen around the world.

Photoshop painting is both creative and fun. Come explore the fine art of digital photo painting, the way Art is created in the 21st century.

Today's Highlights:

 

Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner - Stephen Ballantyne
For both casual and serious users the V500 is terrific value for money.

Bracketeer - Pangea Software
Bracketeer is a front-end GUI for Enfuse, a command-line freeware utility which uses multiple exposures of a scene (bracketed exposures) and merges them together to form a uniformly lit scene, similar to tonemapping with an HDR image.

Painting a Digital Portrait from Scratch - Henning Ludvigsen
An advanced tutorial requiring painting skills, a mastery of Photoshop and a good drawing tablet.