What you can see below is the real photo of a nebula. Looks amazing, isn’t it? Well, some may say it doesn’t, but that’s not the point. Creating such an image in Photoshop from scratch is easier than you may think, and this is exactly what we’ll learn today…

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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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I know a lot of people that create their own wallpaper graphics, and even more people that would really enjoy doing this, but don’t have the required knowledge. Today, we’re going to take care of this, and create a nice single-color “explosion” wallpaper, something like the image you can see below…

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Fire effects are always great, if everything is done right, but we won’t set a building on fire today, because that requires a lot of work (I am talking about “adding a fire effect to a building’s image”, let’s set things straight once and for all, OK?). Text in flames looks great, and creating it isn’t that hard, so let’s do this instead and leave the more advanced fire effects for the future, all right?

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If you want to know the theory behind today’s tutorial, I think it’s enough to say that Duotone images are basically monochrome grayscale ones, but the use of different colours for specific tone ranges makes them really attractive, sometimes much better than their full-color version. Now, let’s learn how to turn a color picture into a Duotone one…

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