Big Wave - Victor

"I got the inspiration to make this wave from the tutorial 'Create an Explosive Color Swath' and this picture.

I used a random noise gradient and warped it in to a wave shape. I then used a paintbrush to paint three bands of color and blurred it to mix the colors. After I used different sized brushes with scatter paint out the white water. I duplicated, blurred and colorized the white water layer to have the effect of it glowing."

Liquid Soul - Thomas O.

"I saw a tutorial called Liquid Soul and thought I'd do my own spin on it with a more dramatic scene using the same ideas from the tutorial.  My Rainbow Dude had seamless shading but when I applied some filters I got a cool grungy look that highlighted the brush strokes on his face (shadows).
The orbs and rings were from the tutorial . . . they help to divulge the scene in a outlandish manner..eh?  The broken glass effect is my absolute favorite effect in Photoshop and it is one I have mastered and created a bit of a new way to do it to give some parts a more realistic see through window look. (which I love)."  - Thomas

Girl in Space - Brenda

"I used many different layer blending modes and the lens flare tool. i got the picture of the stars from a NASA website and just adjusted the layers and converted it to a smart object." - Brenda

Hunting Club - Zach O.

"In this project, i started out by adding the wooden background and then darkening the corners/ giving it a gradient overlay. Then I used Hue and Saturation to bring out different colors in the wood.  Next, I used the custom shape tool for the shield, and then gave it a drop shadow, inner shadow, and inner glow. Then i used the wood back ground again, and pressed alt. between layers to combine the shape with the wood. I then used the Ellipse tool to create rivets in the wood, also giving them drop shadows, outer glow, and a gradient overlay. After this, I repeated the process for creating the shield to create the the top board of the shield. finally, I added and edited the text, the guns, and faded an emblem into the wood to finish up the project." - Zach O.