I don’t know how inspired is this title, but I can’t think about anything else than a journey through stars…or a thrilling ride like the one that you can enjoy in the game Crysis, when inside the cave system(although the effect seen there is quite different, and I am going to remember and write a different tutorial for that). Anyway, we’re here to learn some new Photoshop things, and not to talk about games, so let’s see how easy can be to create an image like the one below, shall we?

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Most tutorials I’ve seen about cutting text from an image involve working with two documents, more layers, sometimes even layer masks… but there’s a really simple method to do this, and today I want to share it with you. Below, you have a possible result achieved by applying this technique, but you can let your imagination run free and obtain different results(unfortunately, you’ll end up using more layers, masks, and so on…so let’s keep it simple, shall we?)…

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You got a picture with your kid with at least 20 other kids, but you want to make your little Jimmy stand out from the crowd? Nothing easier than using the colorswash effect, keeping your kid in its entire full-color glory, and turning the other elements of the image into black and white! If this seems to be hard, you don’t have to worry, because it’s much easier than one would expect, so here we go…

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The tutorial about creating a nebula needed some stars, and I promised to give you this part too. Well, I don’t want to keep you waiting, so today I decided to show you how to create a basic star field. It may not be something outstanding, but it’s a good foundation for a lot of projects involving stars/space/planets, so here we go…

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If you want to give your photos a professional look, cropping them and adding a frame is a pretty good idea, together with some color adjustments, where needed. Anyway, I suppose we have a good picture already, and all we need is to add a nice frame to it, so here it goes…

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