In this tutorial, we will learn how to create an e-book cover. The final output can be seen below:

Creating a Modern Logo Layer
Modern logos often use sans-serif fonts (fonts without the fancy curly ends like those of Times New Roman). They also use white space and incorporate some bold color.

Here is the making of my third matte painting, this time it is the Oratoire Saint-Joseph (in Montreal) under the rain !
I use a Wacom Intuos² A4 board.
For each step of the matte painting, useless to remind you to create a new layer so that the work will be easier and mistakes avoided !

This is my second matte painting tutorial.
Here I wanted to change the season of a scene from summer to winter.
Specific device used : Wacom Intuos² A4

This tutorial is actually a "making of" where I explain how I proceeded to achieve this matte painting. I use a Wacom Intuos² A4 board, if you don't have any graphic board this is going to be hard but not impossible. At each step of the matte painting, useless to remind you to create a new layer so that the work will be easier and
mistakes avoided !

Select the Pen tool. In the options bar, make sure you’ve selected the Paths option.

You’re now ready to begin. Perform the following:

1) Access the 775x420 blank image window you just created. This is the size of the web page you’ll design. Set your background to Transparent.

Layer styles are cool visual effects you can add to each layer of your image. Specifically, there are two options you can apply to layers.

We begin to look at uses of the more automated dynamics of the Paint Engine--size, angle and roundness--for creating your own custom brushes.

Looking at the blue color of your button, you might feel it’s a little too bold. (For some reason all that blue makes me think of clowns or cartoons.) It just doesn’t feel right for a lawyer’s website.

Great web images can really aid in the overall appearance and design of websites. Unfortunately, web images are also one of the most common flaws of a website as well. Even if a web image looks great, if it’s too large it can cause a web page to load slowly.

A brightly lit scene can contain an infinite number of tonal values. Our vision system ingeniously adapts to such conditions; however, no cameradigital or otherwise is capable of recording the entire tonal range of such a scene in a single shot. In this section, I'll show you how to use Photoshop's new Merge to HDR filter to create digital images with incredible dynamic range.

Now comes the tricky part, blending the different versions into one.

I would like to show you how to create a texture looks like a leopard skin.

First, let's start with a technique that emulates the classic red filter with black and white film.