I am an artist by nature so I tend to draw a lot. One thing I have had to learn through trial and error is how to bring my drawings into Photoshop, color them and maintain ALL the lines that were made whilst drawing it. In the past I used to scan it in, place the layer to multiply and then color on a bottom layer but that had it’s share of problems. For one I had a hard time blending one color seamlessly into another, and I could not color my lines a nice sepia brown or gray due to multiply adopting whatever color was beneath it. So I am presenting this tutorial to help any of you out there who have had this issue. This is the definitive way of bringing in line art for coloring in Adobe Photoshop. Continue reading »

Adobe Photoshop is the king of illusion. It allows for bad skin to appear flawless, plain landscapes to appear lush and boring squares to have nice torn edges. Being that t he torn edge look is one of my favorite effects to abuse, I decided to share my method of accomplishing this through Adobe Photoshop.

In this tutorial we will be utilizing layer masks, the lasso tool and layer styles. If any of these are new to you, this is a good method to practice the use of each in a meaningful way. Continue reading »