In this tutorial, I will show you the processes I used to transform a daily average photo into a Painting-like Image in Photoshop. The steps are really simple and you can apply them in pretty much any photo you like.

Used the history palette and brush for creating visual action

How to create a softened photo in photoshop. This is mainly for portrait photos. This is a good trick to know when editing photos of yourself....

A droplet is a small application that applies an action to one or more images that you drag onto the droplet icon.

Photo To Painting

Learn how to turn your photo into a beatiful canvas painting in Photoshop.

Add instant metallic effect to almost anything using curves.

In this tutorial I will teach you how to turn your ordinary portrait photos into professional looking asian paintings.

Using the texturizer filter to create and apply instant textures to your images.

How to create instant textures with the texturizer filter.

in this tutorial I will show you an easy, and very fast way, to create a light painting in Photoshop.

Bring more focus and attention to the subject of your photo and add excitement to your image by creating the illusion of a photo within the same photo.

This tutorial will teach you how to paint your drawings using some of the basic tools available in Adobe Photoshop such as the smudge tool, brushes, the fill bucket, and lasso tool as well.

Basic painting techniques for illustrations.

Learn how to make a custom brush and then use it to create vibrant, freehand paintings. This tutorial gives a breakdown of how the author created one of his pictures, with some helpful tips along the way.

How to paint realistic trees in Photoshop.

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 !

In this work, I want to interpret a new feeling of an old Chinese poem, and try to make it more fantasy, sci-fi and surreal

A step by step guid to painting a realistic looking teapot using photoshop.

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 !