It may happen especially when using a wide-angle lens and/or applying filters that the corners of the picture are covered by something. The effect may range from a slight darkening to a rough black border. In artistic pictures, this darkening may even look nice, but most of the time it is rather annoying, so it is best to eliminate it as described below.

Create a simple vignette for your photo.

Hallo and welcome in making a GEM tutorial. In this tutorial we will make a stone. The thing is here is to figure our how the light bounces out of the many sides of the gem. Such things are often used in different RPG s and other games so hope you will find out something new for you. Moreover we will make a small series about the rocks, their texture and reflections.

Paint Frodo (from Lord of the Rings) with the help of this tutorial.

Marta explains the workflow and shares some thoughts on painting several elements of this artwork in Photoshop.

Tutorial on how create a Photographer, a war journalist picture in a cartoony look created in Photoshop.

Tutorial of changing color of an eye. You can color as you like, in any color.

There are lots of methods of aging a photo. Instead of just weathering and roughing it up, Brian Harber shows us the basic properties of old photo exposure, and how to achieve the same look in Photoshop.

Create a colorful Fairyland with photoshop. I used the source from the victoria tulips photoshop contest.

Tired of seeing those half-baked cd tutorials that hardly even give the effect of a realistic looking cd? Well this tutorial will walkthrough how to make a cd that actually looks like it came from your local store.

Learn how to make a photo look old

In this cool tutorial :-) I will show you how easy it is to create planet from the map of your favorite city. To start, we need space with stars. For that, I used my favorite ContextFree program. I wrote about it detaily in one of my earlier tutorials, so I will keep it short.

In this tutorial, I will describe tips about how I made the Dolphins wallpaper.

An easy to follow and realistic looking lightsaber method.

Design a futuristic space scene with crazy lighting.

See a walkthrough of the digital painting "You Cheat", a chaotic market were four thugs doing gambling and one of them gets caught doing cheating with cards.

What this tutorial leads you to create is something that can add holiday spice to your graphics, your Christmas photos, or just give you something to play with.

This tutorial will show you how to change those regular human eyes into a feline form.

Detailed explanation of how this "Skate-or-Die" poster image was created from start to finish.

Through this tutorial you will be able to make a realistic pencil.