Designious Times

Background effect
1. Open a colorful image in Photoshop. I used a photo taken a few years  ago, i thought it was appropriate for this project.

2. Crop the most colorful part of the image, where’s the biggest diversity in color, and maybe a little black too.

3.  Duplicate the layer (CTRL + J) by dragging and dropping [...]

Here’s a list of ten Photoshop tutorials that manipulate, or achieve different stylized portraits, using various techniques.  Most of them are pretty easy to achieve, but have quite a powerful effect in the end! Enjoy!
1.  Creating an unique profile image

2.  How to create a grunge style illustration with stains

3.  Create a high contrast, artistic portrait

4. [...]