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Hi dear friends :wave: It's my honor to have a chance to share my tip at Manip Academy here. First of all, I have to tell you that I'm a lazy self-taught digital artist. I know how to use only some simple tools in Photoshop old version (CS3). Besides, English is not my first language. However, I hope this article will be useful somehow at least for beginners and intermediate artists. Last year I held KING KONG AND I contest. And I found that some contestants had trouble to put the woman stocks in their works properly, while they seemed have no any problem with gorillas and backgrounds. Why is that? I noticed that most woman stocks they u

 Hello everybody! Today I'm going to show you how to make glowing things. Light is very important in making photomanipulations, so techniques you will know will be useful. Make base for your glow Start from making base at new layer, change blending mode to Color dodge. You can use shape brush (here, dragonflies or stars or anything), or normal soft round brush. Then, duplicate it and change blending mode to Linear dodge (Add). After, for better effect draw with big soft round brush dot over your thing and use Color dodge blending mode. You can duplicate layer with glow or layer with glow and base for better effect. Light around It's impo

Article by Aegis-Illustration (https://www.deviantart.com/aegis-illustration) Post-production is one of the key points on producing an image. You can spend hours finding the right model, atrezzo, composition, mixing everything up... But if you forget about giving the right atmosphere to your artworks, you're missing one of the key points: to give an atmosphere to what you are creating. Creating atmospheres is something very personal and each one of us have a way to achieve that, but there are some basic techniques I'd like to share with you all. I encourage you to take them as a starting point and then discover your own depending on your personal style. Here we go! This is the base image wit

Welcome to Manip Academy 2.0! What is it about? Manip Academy is about learning and sharing! Much like in a real school, the idea of this project is to teach you valuable Photoshop tricks on a regular basis. >>> Manip Academy 2.0: Calendar and Sign-Ups <<< >>> All Manip Academy articles <<< Depth effect When you create a scene and it has details in the background, it is very important you remember to keep the depth, in this way you will get a more realistic result. The details in the foreground will have more contrast in comparison to the details on the background, then the scene in the background will