One of the hot trends on magazine covers is the desaturated portrait look.

In this short Photoshop tutorial we’ll see how this look can be accomplished in about a minute, using a photo from your webcam.

In this short ten minute video we look at creating out own fatter-looking text, and beveling the text to create the appearance of fluffy pillows.

Here’s how to accomplish this look:

Here’s a short-ish youtube video on creating nebula and space backgrounds with Photoshop.

Basic idea is to create clouds with the render clouds filter, and stars with the noise filter and then adjust.

Here’s what you can end up with:

Here’s a short video on using clouds to paint explosions or fire with Photoshop.

The main concept is to create a brush from a cloud.

You’ll need a photo of a cloud to play along, so if it’s night or there aren’t any fluffy clouds close by to photograph, grab one of these…

Here are a few clouds:

As always, you can reach me with questions and comments at aj@yahoo.com.

Here’s what you could end up with: