Digital Illustration with Adobe Photoshop CC Extended

Daniel Johnson shares his digital illustration work in Adobe Photoshop CC with an emphasis on realistic imagery and matte painting. Here you will find tutorials on raster and vector techniques for creating realistic images from scratch that you won't find anywhere else. Daniel is an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor in the latest versions of Photoshop and Illustrator. Feel free to e-mail him with any questions you have. Click on the thumbnails for larger images.

19 May 2025

A cautionary tale about NFTs

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Recently, I was contacted by someone unexpectedly who claimed to have seen my work on ArtStation and wanted to purchase some as NFTs (Non-F...
09 February 2025

Wrapping it up

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And here it is. I think it's the final version. There's not that much difference between this and the image in the last post. Often,...
08 February 2025

It's the little things

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My intention all along was to add some kind of fun, colorful designs on the swim trunks. Some of my students suggested flies and that seemed...
07 February 2025

Working with shadows and more details

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To increase contrast and work toward a finish, shadows must be considered. I paint shadows on their own layer, set to Multiply mode. This is...
06 February 2025

Changing swim trunks

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I wasn't really liking the color of the trunks, although they may have been fitting in well with the overall color scheme. I used the ba...
05 February 2025

Adding highlights

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It's a good idea to start out with a bit of limited values and work toward the extremes of dark and light as the image progresses. This ...
04 February 2025

Next step in the process

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I continued working on this image during down times in class while my students were working. In this step, I lowered the opacity of the sket...
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