A talented illustrator and photographer, Ben Heine creates wonderful combination photography and pencil sketches he calls “Pencil Vs Camera“. “Pencil Vs Camera” is a series of images that inject hand-drawn pictures within real-life settings to create a composite effect that is often surreal and highly narrative. It’s a new visual concept invented and initiated by Ben Heine in 2010. It’s full of magic, illusion, poetry and surrealism. His creative thinking combines both art and pictures portraying two different things within the same scene. Ben creates a strong perspective for the viewer by expertly matching the lines of the background scenery. These visual impacts have become a favorite among artists and photographers.

A few days ago I posted a tutorial how to draw a planet with photoshop, but the steps I show only half the journey. There are still some steps that must be completed to obtain the desired results. Here I’ll show you the final touches of the process of making these wallpapers, including environmental effects such as cosmic clouds, lighting, stars and sun.

In this Photoshop tutorial we will discuss how to draw a space scene with various objects that decorate the sky, such as planets, twinkling stars, amorphous space clouds, sunlight and others. How to create a surface texture of the planet, create 3D effects to form a ball, drawing stars, and sun glint effects you’ll find it all here.

Photoshop is a great application, you can create many things with it, includes creating a burning candle. In this Photoshop tutorial we’ll also learn how to create fire or flame and smoke in Photoshop. You can have a lot of fun experimenting with fire in Photoshop, with none of the danger.

In today’s Photoshop tutorial, we will create an cool black briefcase icon from scratch using simple shapes and layer styles. Let’s get started!

In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to create the gel effect in button from absolute scratch. Gel button or also known as glass button is style of button or graphic that used by some websites, and then it has been made extremely popular with the introduction and rise of the Macintosh OS X system and the Windows Vista system. Lets learn how to create it!