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How To Make Someone Look Metallic In Photoshop | Step-by-Step Tutorial

Making someone look metallic in Photoshop can be a bit tricky. While you can easily turn someone black & white (which will get you one step closer to the metallic look), this won’t let you achieve a realistic metallic effect in Photoshop. In this tutorial, I’ll show you step-by-step how to create a shiny metal effect to make a face look silver in Photoshop. Finally, we’re going to add a metallic texture to enhance the ‘steel’ feeling even more!

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How To Create A Tiled Gallery In WordPress

A tiled gallery in WordPress is a fantastic way to display your portfolio on your artist website. Whether you’re a digital artist, photographer, or other visual creator, you’ve surely been wondering about the best photo gallery plugin for WordPress. Well, here’s the answer: The WordPress gallery widget that comes with Elementor Pro is a powerful tool to create advanced galleries. With all its other features, Elementor Pro is way more than a simple WordPress gallery plugin. Let’s see why!

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TOP 10 Tools Digital Artists Use In Creating Their Artworks

What do digital artists use in creating their artworks? In this post, I give you a round-up of the TOP 10 tools that most artists use to create digital art. We'll speak about the best digital art hardware – like the tablets digital artists draw on – but also about the best software apps to make digital art. So let's jump straight in and see what shouldn't be missing in your digital art toolbox!

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How To Add A Masonry Gallery To WordPress (Easy Step-By-Step Tutorial)

Learning how to add a masonry gallery to WordPress is a great way for all visual creators to showcase their portfolio on their own artist website. In this post, I walk you step-by-step through how to create a masonry gallery layout in order to add image galleries to posts, pages, and other post types. We’ll be using an amazing WordPress gallery plugin with lightbox, download, social sharing, and much more!

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19 Lifehacks To Break Out Of A Creative Rut

Creativity is not always free-flowing. As artists, we all have experienced phases where we just didn’t feel inspired to create art. Every artist gets stuck creatively at times. That’s totally normal and it doesn’t last forever. So how to break out of a creative rut? Luckily, there are some things you can do. In this post, I’ve put together the best 19 lifehacks to spark creativity when in a rut!

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3 Easy Ways To Create A Portfolio Gallery In WordPress

Creating a portfolio gallery in WordPress is one of the must-do’s for every artist and photographer with their own art website. In this WordPress portfolio tutorial, I show you different way to add a gallery in WordPress. You can use the basic WordPress editor to display your portfolio. But if you want a more professional-looking photo gallery, you’ll learn how to create a portfolio page using a WordPress portfolio plugin!

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Transparent Jars With Glass Effect – Photoshop Download | PSD Files

Have you’ve already had the idea to make a glass style Photoshop creation? If you’ve ever tried to create a glass texture in Photoshop you will have noticed – just like me! – that adding a glass effect is definitely not a walk in the park. But you can get the transparent jars with glass effect as Photoshop Download right here to make your own glass style creations!

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What Is Digital Surrealism? [Surreal Digital Art Explained]

Everyone, by and large, has an idea of what digital art is. But what is digital surrealism? In this post, we are going to look at what digital surreal art means and what some of the characteristics of surrealism are. You will get to meet some of the top artists in this field: modern surrealists, digital and pop surrealism artists. At the bottom of this post, you will also find a few pieces of surreal digital art for sale, if you're interested!

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Image License Types – Ultimate Guide To License Your Art

The image license types are many and if you are new to photo licensing everything can be quite confusing. There are, at least, around 20+ different types of image licenses out there. Some are for personal, non-commercial use only, some are for commercial use of an image. Using stock photos requires an image license. If you want to use a photo, you need to understand its license type. You also need a license when selling your own photos. I looked a bit into the most common image licenses and prepared this overview for you!

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How To Write A Digital Image License Agreement (+ FREE Template!)

Selling prints of your digital art or photography is a great way to make some extra money. But to take your artist business to the next level, you might want to sell certain usage rights of a photo to a client. So how do you license a picture? This guide explains how to write a Digital Image License Agreement, step by step. Plus, you will get a FREE License Agreement Template that you can adapt to your personal needs.

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