Photoshop Tutorials

Create an exciting comic out of photos and filter effects. This tutorial will teach you how turn a normal highway photo into an intense action scene.

Comic Book Effect Photoshop Tutorial

Step 1

Open an image of a city like this one. The original photograph is a photo taken on the highway of Austria during a vacation.

Step 2

Duplicate the background layer then rename this layer to “Original”. Use the Magic Wand tool to create a selection of the blue sky then press Ctrl+J to duplicate the selected area into a new layer. Name this new layer “Sky”.

Step 3

Now select the Original layer and put an effect over it called Poster Edges. Take over the number or play with it to try you own style.

Step 4

Then select the Original layer then choose Filter > Poster edges > 10,10,6. Don't mind the blue sky area in this layer, we have a clean blue sky in the Sky layer.

See? The Sky layer is above the Original layer so the Original layer has the filter effect.

Step 5

I want to break up the highway so i need some rocky land with a lot of big stones. I used a photograph from the high mountains in Norway. I took this photo while i was hiking the famous Preikestølen. I took the half of the photograph and copied it to the other side, like a mirror reflection.

I pasted this on a new layer then distorted it (Edit > Transform > Distort) it a little to fit correctly in the perspective of the photograph.

The erase all the unnecessary parts of the rocks. Use the Eraser tool (E).