Tutorial: The Exploding Puzzle Globe Part II

Welcome to the great Exploding Puzzle Globe 3 part tutorial series. This is where we’ll take an ordinary planet, apply a jigsaw, add an energy explosion and get a cool effect:

This is the second part. Which follows the first part but comes before the third part. In fact it sits right between those two. It is in fact the very second part. Clear? I hope so. Let's get moving, we've got  puzzle globes to explode!

Tutorial: The Exploding Puzzle Globe Part I

Welcome to the great Exploding Puzzle Globe 3 part tutorial series. This is where we’ll take an ordinary planet, apply a jigsaw, add an energy explosion and get a cool effect:

You’ll see that this cool effect can be produced fairly easily with the creative application of several commonly over-looked features in Photoshop. What appears to be a time consuming, intensive drawing task can be greatly streamlined. And hey, you can use the saved hours to come up with silly pun filled adjectives to describe it: “Earth Shattering” or “Ground Breaking” or “World Rocking” just to name a few.

Video Tutorial: Realistic Soap Bubble Part I

Learn to use a creative combination of Photoshop filters and layer styles to create a photo realistic soap bubble In Part 1 of this step by step video tutorial.

Video Tutorial: Realistic Soap Bubble Part 2

This is the second video of the two part series on bubble creation. So this one follows the first, yet comes before the non-existent third part, which bears no meaning at all.

This sequel to the original Soap Bubble tutorial contains inventive instructions on creating a bubble with that extra tasty layer of photoreal-iness. Watch and see. You'll laugh, I'll cry and there will be much rejoicing!