This is a cool tutorial I have seen in every search I have done for tutorials. I was looking for quick tutorials so i always passed it up. Recently I decided I don’t need to limit myself to quick tutorials instead I would do whatever I thought was cool. I took a an hour or longer one day and came back to it today to finish it today. I found this tutorial at computerarts.co.uk if you like the look go ahead and check them out. You have to download a PDF with the instructions to do the tutorial this was the first time I had to do that.

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Here is the final image of this tutorial, I think it is really cool. I have seen this technique done on a lot of different images or at least something similar and think it is a very popular trend emerging in a lot of design. Here are a few examples of similar designs I found.

Below is my final design, my friend Pat catching some air dunking.

This tutorial was a little hard to follow it needed just a little more description in some of the steps. It would say to do this or that and not tell you how to do it. I got the just of it though, there were some steps where the author added his own sketches which he scanned and traced in Illustrator. I used some photoshop brushes and did not use my own sketches. I also added some things here and there like the background texture. This tutorial was pretty cool, I used Illustrator and Photoshop, overall it was not so easy to follow but had a great final effect.

I have been missing a few days of tutorials, so maybe I should call it “A Tutorial Every Couple Days”, but “A Tutorial a Day” just sounds better. I had started this one a few days ago but I had to go off somewhere so I only had a chance to really glance at it. So I decided to go back and do it all the way through. I found it at photoshoptutorials.ws go check it out it’s very easy and will only take a couple of minutes.

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Here is the original picture they started with, pretty dark.

Then boom a whole lot of sunlight!

Here is my original not as dark as theirs but good enough for this tutorial.

Then bang sunshine in the morning! This tutorial is very simple and only takes about 2 steps. It’s nice to add a little something to those ordinary pictures. I think maybe a little smaller shine would work well also, but the big burst of light is pretty awesome. I think it gives the picture more drama, they are not so boring. Overall a very easy tutorial that can be very useful for certain images, not every image but for certain ones.