Fabio, I bow to your photoshop mastery … *bow* … wicked effect!

Ok…now THAT is DOPE. Doper than the Pope…even if the pope had soap on a rope.

Kudos to you my friend, I believe I will have to open up some major effects if I want to keep up with you.

Great job on this tut. I have to try this now. Thx.

omg this is awesome! great tut, thank you!

Seriously amazing tutorial. That is top notch! I’m definatley liking the break apart effect.

Thanks for sharing

Awesome, but I think I liked it better without the star bursts. It looked cooler when it was just fading away.

Really good ! good job and thx

Fabio, I love you.

THank you very much ! Amazing work.

Great tools to be used. Thank you for the free tutorials. I’ll try to use these in my works too (But not reproducing the same effect. Tweaking and playing with it)

Its freaking awesome!

keep Rocking!

Aloke Pillai

i was waiting for this fabio.. thanks!!

Great tuto buddy !!

Wow, very good tutorial, keep up the great work!

It’s legen …. wait for it… dary! Truly awesome!

AMAZING AND GORGEOUS. Can’t wait to try this one.

Does not give the effect of “exploding” at all. The detail is flat and lacking any kind of dimension. I don’t “get” how this is exploding. It just looks like slopping masking. I don’t get it. Why would you choose a happy woman jumping as a subject for exploding something. Are you happy when you explode too while wearing attire popular in the mid-90s? I don’t think so.

freaking amazing

Seriously? … This image is a disaster. Could you possibly have more random things happening to this poor girl?

I know you do better work than this Fabio. Not only is this piece lacking your usual style and the graphical focus, but the end result is altogether ghastly. And while ranting, let me say (on behalf of real life designers everywhere), I think we’ve seen quite enough of these swirly glowing light tutorials. How about a tutorial that has graphical relevance in the real world?

This is one great tutorial. Achieved very nice effects and also learned some new (at least for me) methods for my future works. Thanks!

AWSOME!!!!!!!!!

Please could you link to the original image as I realy want to give it a try. I’ve looked all over http://www.sxc.hu. but can seam to find the original.

This is a great tutorial – with an effect I might actually use for once! Nice and keep it up

Does anyone know what the type face is that Abduzeedo uses for his logo??

Cool tute, really like it.

Great work! Loved the tutorial

Wonderful tutorial and spectacular effects.

hey nice work!!. persoanly i wouldn’t add those extra flares beside the leg it made it look over done and cheesy, with that said i couldn’t have come with a better outcome then yours

Very nice work!
thanks!

Amazing. Simply amazing. Great effect on the breaking away. Whys the picture called “Teste” though…lol

Gr8t Work really fantastic

Hail, Fabio! For the awesome tutorials!

Don´t ever stop making tutorials! This is easily the best site on the entire web for tutorials. Keep up the great work.

Was about time to be published on psdtuts. I was wondering how you managed it since i’ve seen the results last week on your blog

Congrats

Great work and thank for showing us how to use this tools and effects for our own compositions… sorry about my english…
Adios a todos.

Wonderful Fabio, oustanding effect !. Love that one ! Thanks for sharing

I have test, it’s very simply and beautiful.

How great is that effect!
Abduzeedo for president! ;.)

The effect is really nice, and the tutorial is clear and simple.
Fabio’s workis stunning!

Apart from that, I have to say I agree with Hero:

quote:
we’ve seen quite enough of these swirly glowing light tutorials. How about a tutorial that has graphical relevance in the real world?

I wrote my own but unfortunately it was rejected. That’s ok, probably it wasn’t good enough, but Collis, please, publish something useful for us working with photoshop and not only playing around to create a nice new desktop wallpaper effect.

Look at the interface section: it is soooo poor!!

Nice tutorial, but you can achieve a nice break apart (explosion) effect with Filter > Distort > Displace.

It’s all about to get a good displacement map. In cinema 4d just create a polly and explode it, then export and use it as displacement map.

Good work guys.

Hiya,

Nice tutorial. For anyone trying to find the original image then you can just type in jump at http://www.sxc.hu and you should see it appear as one of the first images.

http://www.sxc.hu/photo/950733

Hope that helps.

Best wishes,

Mark

A very impressive end result. Thanks for the tutorial.

Amazing tutorial! cant wait to try it, I love these type of effect but I do agree with Alberto when he says…

quote: “Look at the interface section: it is soooo poor!!”

I would really love to see more interface tutorials!

Very nice and simple Tut. You can find the Org. Pic here:
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/950733

Thanks for another great tutorial. Also really helpfully that you stated what size document you started with

Jason,

Check out http://www.soemone.com. That is where this effect is from.

From Lupe Fiasco’s album cover.

wow :p

Great tut, learned some great stuff.

Woah. Now that’s what I call awesome! O.O

Awesome tutorial as always.

Awesome! I just love your light effects! xD

wow,
now we can all make work that looks the same. totaly radical. I’ve been trying to get my designs to have that played out 2002 urban outfitter catalog design look. next time use some futura and throw in some floral patterns, william morris is so hot right now.

Excellent tutorial! The light effect may be a bit overdone, but the tutorial it self is very good and educational.

Impressive. I found the title a tad misleading but found the tutorial to be quite useful. Thx

@ Hero: Don’t think that’s really fair, first off this is a free tutorial (and an amazing one at that). You may not like the result, but I know many people who come here not to turn in these exact tutorials into their own work, but rather to learn new skills in the applications that are utilized in these tutorials. Keep in mind that what doesn’t work for you in your “real world” may work wonders for others. The illustrator effects alone in this tutorial will help me on two projects I’m currently working on.

Just astounding… as always.

nice work you are great a real photoshop master

Awesome effect! You got my bookmark on del.icio.us.

Absolutely amazing!

Makes me wanna work in photoshop yet again – with other stuff that just correcting photos.

Keep up the good work

that’s really cool, thanks for sharing the links to the brushes you used.

Hey thanks for using my brushes

@Fredro – If you LEARNED anything – you have no business designing. There is nothing shown in this ‘tutorital’ but very basic, beginner things you should already know.

@Hero – You are 100% correct. This is very played out design and holds no relevance in todays market.

This site looked promising at first. I was sure someone would come up with a tutorial site that didn’t pander to the non-designer beginner. I keep watching for new posts and keep finding the same poor tutorials. Now they want $9 for additional tutorials. If they’re like the free ones – there is no way I would pay $9 or $0.09.

I get tired of these tutorial sites pandering to the lowest common denominator because its easier to sell to the vast majority of non-designers than it is to write quality tutorials that have merit and usefulness for intermediate to advanced students and professionals.

I would give the pay for site a try just to see what $9 gets me – but I am very sure I would not be able to get a refund if I found it to be more useless garbage as shown above.

Try and change my mind with future content. But I don’t know how much more of this I can waste time looking at.

Cheers.

amazing stuff

Woooooooow, extraordinary!

@David/Hero:

Are you serious? Come on, man, be realistic here. Not everyone in the world has the Photoshop or designing skills you apparently claim to have. Not having seen your work, I can’t make a claim either and I’m not saying mine is mastercraft either.

But on that same token we have the fact that most sites that ‘cater to the lower denomination’ don’t have the same quality of stuff that PSDTuts has. You take a look at any site with PSD tutorials, then look here, I guarantee this one will have the majority of the better tutorials.

Before you and Hero go saying nobody likes these shiny, flashy light tutorials anymore stuff a sock in it. I happen to like them, call me a noob or novice or whatever you like. The stuff I learn from here helps in basically everything I work on after that. And before you flame me like you did Fredro, I’m not a designer. I just like Photoshopping for the fun of it. Ever consider that those two projects Fredro’s doing might just be for personal use? Drop the flaming, it’s not helping out the site at all.

@Fabio:

I love your stuff, everyone else may hate the shiny light effects but I personally love them and yours are amazing. Keep it up and don’t let the flamers shut you down.

holy crap.. i love this… wow… wait til i do some craziness to my kid’s pics!!!

@david: lowest common denominator? who are you to judge what is or is not a quality tutorial? everyone starts somewhere, and this incldued you. if you don’t like it, please, PLEASE, submit a tutorial that the rest of us can use. you must be a highly paid master of your craft, so bestow your wisdom upon us plebes!!! please, link us to all the huge accounts you’ve worked on, and please, show us your massive portfolio of never before done photoshop projects!!!

it’s self-centered and hypocritical to put beginners on the fringe, and this is no place for people to down the folks who want to find the basics for this, but can’t afford school.

maybe you should go to another site instead.

@ the rest: keep them coming. i really like fabio’s work flow, and i think that in itself is a help.

peace

Congrats on all the Diggs. This was an exceptional tutorial.

NICE. I have done similar things in the past. But this is alot cleaner. Really nice.

@david,

i cordially challenge you to link me a tutorial that you find worthy of your time, but i have a feeling you can’t.

as someone who’s been using photoshop since v2, i still browse ps tutorial sites. why? for me, it’s never really about how pretty/practical the end results look. it’s about the process. that’s where you may find something you don’t know. people never cease to amaze me.

Yeah Jin, you’re right.

i also think that anyone who thinks a decent tut has to have dozens of steps should post one. hell, i’ll pay for their own tutorial site.. not really…

good job team!!!

That my friend, is amazing. Well done!

Yeah that David guy has no clue as to what he’s talking about. I’ve been using Photoshop since v3, and trolling around looking for sites with photoshop tutorials off and on for the last 10 years. This site has a lot to offer. Unlike most PS tutorial sites PSDtuts offers tutorials with the end result of a polished professional looking technique/design. PSDtuts is like the Bob Ross of Tutorial sites.

The thing about PS tutorials is that they are meant to show you the endless possibilities in Photoshop. A simple tutorial and a complex tutorial can easily manifest into something much more special if a reader decides to attack the technique taught in a tutorial at a different angle. Much like… I don’t know…. ART SCHOOL. To go off on a rant about how these tutorials are for novices must mean that Dave isn’t trying to hard as an artist to make these tutorials work for him. That or he’s looking for tutorials on how to write Adobe Scripts. If that’s the case then yes Dave… these tutorials are not very advanced from a technical standpoint.

i think i did a pretty good job

http://octavisanderson.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/breakapart.jpg

@WesTwood: Nice one there for yours too! Haha. Very soon we’ll see lots of individuals’ photos with themselves exploding or vaporized.

to the flamers posting in here — there are some good IDEAS in these tutorials (this one included)… that’s what I get from this site. The results of the tuts are pretty cheesy and over the top, but some aspects can be translated to suit the occasional project I’ve worked on.

Use your (supposedly) creative brain to apply some techniques where appropriate, or to give you some starting points to expand on. Or you could stop visiting and leaving non-constructive comments.

keep up the good work psd tuts!

Wow!!. Amaging work. Hope u keep more good stuffs here.

http://www.kishoreblog.com

@Morons

Fabio is good. It’s a tutorial for a reason; to show those who don’t know how to do this “simple” thing how to do it. If you’re true designers you shouldn’t be looking for tuts, anyway, you should spend more time writing them

-A real designer.

Well, if you really work in the graphics sector or study for designer…you see David is right about some things. Expecially this part.

“I get tired of these tutorial sites pandering to the lowest common denominator because its easier to sell to the vast majority of non-designers than it is to write quality tutorials that have merit and usefulness for intermediate to advanced students and professionals.”

The vast majority of non-designers. Its crystal clear what he tries to say here.

Nice tut

Its not just the finished result that is important its the techniques used to get there. I found the tut very useful thank you.

PS – Which set of BLOOD-grunge brushes did you download from here: http://www.brusheezy.com/brushes
(I can’t see it )

Could anyone help please

Excellent work congratulations has already implemented some
Work and is a pretty good effect Thanks see my work http://design-digitaldream.blogspot.com/

@manicd

I spent a few minutes looking else where for the brushes and they’re found here I believe: http://krisnreine.com/?page_id=28

You want us to do the same ? But anyway, I got the ideas and the ways you’ve done.

I was always looking for such good tutorials, though am a webdesigner and designed over 300 sites but i wanted to know abt the advanced photoshop which now have helped me a great thanks to you all buddy’s

Thanks once again

Brb

Very neat effect indeed!

kostenlose_brushes_photoshop url – error 404

Great work!
Creativity, is not a mather of tools (only )
congratulations

really professional tips!

@ lou thanks mate I appreciate it.

Ultimate. i’m gonna check every tutorial on this site now.
tutorial pirate i am. thank you sooooo much for this dude!

wow, you rock.
this is amazing.
this is AWESOME!!
thhhhhaannnnnkkk yyyyyooouuu

Absolutely fab!

I have to say, I agree with Hero and David. A tutorial that teaches you to rely on brushes and reuses the same glow effect that is all too common on this site? Wow. Thanks. How about something useful. Not more of the same “look swirling glows!” space fillers. The original text effect tuts, by Collis, on this site were great. They were simple techniques that could be used in a variety of ways to achieve great effects. How about following the trends at least. How about a tutorial on the homemade look or a better explanation on giving things a vintage look than “do exactly what I’m doing or risk ruining the effect.” I mean, why not try and keep people caught up with design trends rather than teaching us how to use the clone tool or makes things glow, etc.

simple and cool

i like the way you put your tutorial

keep up the good work

so, if there are professional people here, aggro’d at the idea of beginners actually learning something, why are they not submitting tutorials? and why is it assumed that photoshop is used only by pros? what about the illustrator, the DIY home enthusiast, or the person who simply does not have the time to go to school or meet other people in this field of work? are amateurs some kind of “dirt”? maybe you should read up on Gestault and take some design classes at the CC if you need help. if you need a tutorial based web site to step up your level of skill so much that everything that is posted is critical, maybe school is a better answer. they serve lessons with lots and lots of steps.

it’s the process people. the end result of an “example” is just that; and EXAMPLE.

good job fabio.

WOW!i dont know what can i say else^^

Super bro!!!

Awesome! I feel inspired and humbled that you would take the time to do a tutorial for all of us.

Great work! The amount of effort put into this must have been huge! I’m a fan of really cool graphics, and this tops it all. Love it! Pls share more soon!

-clearice

that’s nice pal .
look i wish to have like this work on my mail .
if you can help me by seb\nding them to mine plz .
anyway nice work.

wow nice

Nice tut, but it’s ugly as ass.

Hey …awesome tutorial….. u give out such amazing tuts…. really appreciate it for sharing some of ur tips and techniques ….. very clear, understandable and easy to follow ….. detailed tutorials u give out….Keep At It….!!

Wow! So amazing!!! Great job!

this is awesome tutorial hot simple niceeee

Where did you get teh font at the end what is its name???

Also, how did you do the lighting/glowing effect ont eh writing?

AMAZING!!!

Great Coll Effects

excelente tutorial, muy inspirador
gracias!

very nice tutorial!
thanks!

WOW!!…amazing tut, there is so much to learn here!!

STUNNING effects and final image result… very very nice!!!
Good job… I love that!

fantastic tutorial, but can you link the images in sxc.hu please

congratz!

You are amazing..Wonderful tutorials !!! Keep up the good work !!!;)

When i press (W) on my keyboard, the magic WAND tool is shown? I want the blend options up so i can create the lines , Could some one help me?

Uh, I like the explosions, but I think they’re poorly executed here… It just looks like you’re blowing off her arm and leg… but it’s fun and colorful, so it’s cool? I feel like this idea could be done in a different, more effective way… but I’m not photoshop master, so I guess I can’t complain. I just wish there were something I could use beyond this stock photo.

I agree with Hugh Jass. These stupid tutorials really suck big donkey balls actually. I can easily do better while im taking a crap. YOU SUCK!!!!!

Nice tut! And thanks for the links to great brushes as well -

Great tut!

My only problem is that I don’t have any illustrator..

but great nonetheless!

wow thanks for the excelente tutorial

Couldn’t find the brush. Pls Tell me!
Isn’t you mean “Photoshop grunge brush”?

uhh i love itt.

PLEASE HELP ME. I AM STUCK AT STEP 4!!!

With the Lasso Tool (L), select the girl’s leg like I did, then go to Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal All. After that, select the Paint Bucket Tool (G) and fill the selection with black. Make sure that you paint the selection.

I can’t even select the LAYER MASK!! What should i do? I can only do that after i duplicate the layer but after i make a selection and paint bucket tool into it, it won’t go black! It won’t cover it. PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!

one of the best and simple tutorial i ever read, its easy and has an amazing effect, really love it

Thanks for Posting.
Great Tut.

nice artwork again…. keep up!!! ^_^

Never imagined before. I’ve tried to make one, but I still can’t achieve like yours

Wonderfull photoshop tutorial!

really good tut but could you replace the links with ones that take you directly to the image/brushes – i spent half my time looking for the damn things

tht is stunnig….u r my master

@Fabio – Thanks as always for the tutorial, good tips and ideas

@Those flamming about the glows — There was all of a paragraph describing how to actually make the glowing effect, the following steps were to show that gradients can be used to create the effect in a different way. The glows were not a huge portion of the tut, and I probably spent less time reading over “the same old crap” than I am spending now complaining about your whining. If you are such a great designer and you know all these things… a. stop reading tutorials, b. write some amazing tutorials, I want to see these, and so far I’ve seen none of the complainers respond to any of the other requests for “quality” work…. not even a set of works, let alone a descriptive tutorial, c. try just skipping over these steps…. look at what you may not know(although apparently some of you have all knowledge in the universe, except the ability to realize that without all that knowledge you shouldn’t need sites such as this), and use those portions to your benefit.

I’m not saying that this piece will win awards, and yes, in my opinion, it’s a bit over played with the lights, but there were some good ideas in there, and honestly I have learned as many if not more concepts and techniques at this site as I have reading through Photoshop magazines which I had to pay for.

People just need to quit whining

nice! thanks for posting this, very helpful!

i just wanna ask how to blend those 2 lines… i cant get it.. thanks.. hoping some of u will help me.. thanks..

Hi, I’m using Photoshop CS3 and I can’t find the Blend Tool anywhere Does PSCS3 have this tool? I press W and it’s the Wand selection tool for me….

please help I want to know how to blend those two lines like that!

Really nice effect !
I still can’t have a decent result, but I’ll do it again and again until I get something good looking.
Thanks again

Liath from France.

nice tutorial.. i like the effect that you create.. goodjob! thumbs up!

i want some futuristic touch, can u do that?

u did amazing on this…………..but ur not very good about giving directions……, some of the stuff u did, where u told us it where to find certain options, they r not where u say they are, im using CS2 on a mac, which maybe ur using cs1 or 3 or elements or something, which may account for it…….but on some of the things, i do exactly as u say, and it turns out completely different, i have tried this tut multiple times with the same results………..i know someone is gonna call me stoopid or something because i supposidley cant follow directions…..but oh well…………ur doin pretty well

It’s about the different techniques, not about the outcome. I like the outcome but I’m more interested in the techniques he used. Now, I’m NOT gonna make a copy of this tutorial but I’m gonna copy his techniques and integrate it in my own creations.

That’s what the tuts are for.

cant find the brushes where are they!!!!!

I like the effect and want to use it for something unlike what you’ve done. To make step 4 work, you have to make a layer from the background. The main image can’t be the background image.

When I got to the step that involved testing the lighting, it didn’t work as shown in the tutorial. I think something must be missing. Your version has it in interesting colors immediately, which shouldn’t work if the colors are only on the clouds. And the dodging does something weird. Anyway, I still love your site as always

I don´t understand how this light effects work:

If I place a white brush it is … White!

How is this glowing light effect done?

Featured here: http://www.presidiacreative.com/10-amazing-effects-from-abduzeedo/

Does this work with Photoshop Elements 6? Cause I cant select anything but all the layers.

I am getting stuck on the 14th step: Illustrator.
Is the tool supposed to come up as a circle with a + sign in the middle of it?

Do you know that freiedigitale.at use your artwork on their site?

where I find blen options?! please help me

Looking on a website solely dedicated to tutorials, as a design “expert” then criticizing it for teaching people new skills is…? Redundant? Ignorant? I don’t know. Good tutorial, I’m definitely not a graphic designer (C++ for me) but I like to dabble, and this is a great tutorial.

I got lost on step ten after making the folder”lights” on top of the other layers. Can someone help me please?. I’m a newbie

Looks cool I’m gonna try it. Does anyone know the name of the font he used?

And to the people flaming:
Just leave. If you haven’t noticed, only about 3 people agree with you, leaving the rest of us NOT agreeing with you. If you dislike this site so much then just leave. We don’t want to hear your ranting.

Love it!

Can you please recover the link of the brushes thanks!

Nice Tutorial, I’ve applied here
http://sheikhnaveed.blogspot.com/

this was too complicated to do… i think you should give more details on the differents steps…. thank you

hai iam irani veri veri goooood

I clicked on this tutorial hoping to learn how to make the light effect, rather than be told to go use the brush. So I am a little bit disappointed, but I’m sure I can figure it out on my own given enough time. It is, however, a very good tutorial for beginners. I remember looking at all the shiny glowy wallpapers and hoping I could do that someday. Sure, it’s a bit passé by now, but there’s no need to be offensive about it and vent your frustration on some guy who’s been nice enough to share his knowledge.

hey this is amazing man..but the link for the brush is not working. is there an alternate link? tried the hrisnreine.com one but which is it? thanks. your work is helping me learn psd alot!

Seriously, that’s a cool photoshop explosion effect… I mean… seriously..

O_O… This… Is… AMAZING !

I love this! and about the brushes to anyone looking for them, there’s one on deviant art here:

http://kirbymonster.deviantart.com/art/blood-grunge-splatter-brushes-77475931

u ar my hero !:D

The lightning brushes dont work, sooo disappointed now, because after all that work and making my own style of this tutorial i cant finish it :(
pleaaase fix the link!

It’s very good

I had gone through your tutorials. It was fantastic a have no words to describe it.Thanks very much for the this tutorials page .I think people who cannot afford to to join classes can do so in this tutorial.

this confuses me help me comment me at my site

I tried it and got an bad mark, so crap job……. don tlose you day job and if this is your day job, hahaha your screwed…. i dont know why anyone would pay for that.

thanks it’s so nice tutorial

EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fuck u david

You are the most inspiring person ive ever seen. honestly keep up the good work. you are really helping the photoshop community.

Thanks.

te felicito.. estas cosas sirven

i think u r d master not rembrand…thank u…..

Very nice! The only thing I would suggest doing different is to select the subject using the pen tool instead of the lasso. The pen tool is more precise. =)

speachless! that’s awesome!

Awesome effect!!! And you made it so simple, too!!!

Thanks, I’ll be sure to try this one!

genial!!!!

i mean can you make a picture like that to me? i don’t have pohotoshop