The Dark Side of Photoshop: Demolition and Destruction!

Learn how to create truly impacting images!

März 12th, 2014, 10:49 am

Some artists love to let the evil and dark side of Photoshop roar. As long as only in fantasy, there is a certain sense of awe in the images that show events of destruction and catastrophic nightmare scenarios. We have, of course, researched amazing and inspiring examples of this trend. They are rather awesome!

As is the norm, in addition to the amazing examples we give you, you will find the article also brings tips and tricks from our experts to add some action of your own to your designs!

Enjoy and let your creative side take over you!

20 tutorials about destruction!

These Photoshop tutorials are all about destruction. Truth be said, it would be awful to see any of these images come true, but as long as they are only in the imagination the visualizations that can be achieved are rather amazing, artistic and eye-catching!

Create a Devastating Tidal Wave in Photoshop

Designer: Ed Lopez
Website: psd.tutsplus.com

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© Ed Lopez

Creating a Building Destruction Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Designer: Waseem
Website: designzzz.com

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© Waseem

Tutorial: „Making of Chaos“

Designer: Alain Descamps
Website: cgarena.com

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© Alain Descamps

How to Make a Dark, Post-Apocalyptic City Illustration

Designer: Mikolaj Dobrucki
Website: psd.tutsplus.com

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© Mikolaj Dobrucki

Create a City Destruction Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Designer: Dek Wid
Website: photoshoptutorials.ws

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© Dek Wid

Matte Painting: Create A Distressed Surreal Cityscape

Designer: Santhosh
Website: myinkblog.com

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© Santhosh

Stunning Dragons Attack in Photoshop with 3D Features

Designer: Abduzeedo
Website: abduzeedo.com

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© Abduzeedo

End of the World Photo Manipulation

Designer: John Conanan
Website: psd.tu-torial.com

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© John Conanan

Making of Urban

Designer: Pierre Fabre
Website: cgarena.com

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© Pierre Fabre

Creating ‚Spin Cycle‘

Designer: Isam
Website: worth1000.com

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© Isam

Photoshop Tutorial: Apocalyptic Christmas Card

Designer: Sito Alvina
Website: crestock.com

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© Sito Alvina

Tutorial: Making of Sichuan

Designer: Philip Zeplin
Website: mentalmirage.com

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© Philip Zeplin

Modern Ruins

Designer: Tocath

Website: worth1000.com
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© Tocath

Design Dramatic Planet Impact Scene (Inspired by Mass Effect 3) in Photoshop

Designer: psdvault.com
Website: psdvault.com

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© psdvault.com

Manipulating a WW2 Fighter Aircraft

Designer: Ross Aitken
Website: photoshoptutorials.ws

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© Ross Aitken

Create a Surreal Apocalypse Photomanipulation Photoshop Tutorial

Designer: Joe Moore
Website: design.creativefan.com

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© Joe Moore

Create an Alien Invasion Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Designer: Narendra Keshkar
Website: photoshoptutorials.ws

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© Narendra Keshkar

Creating or enhancing an explosion effect

Designer: Base
Website: signaturestop.com

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© Base

Photoshop Tutorial – Making of the Deathwater City of Destruction Wallpaper

Designer: Blair Hillen
Website: blairhillen.wordpress.com

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© Blair Hillen

40 Matte Paintings und wie Sie Ihre Photoshop-Künste auf ein neues Level heben

Designer: Dirk Metzmacher
Website: drweb.de

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© Dirk Metzmacher

More wreckage and absolute destruction in these 10 video tutorials

These video tutorials will show you how to create chaos.

Meteors and Destruction | Photoshop CS6

Designer: Operation Photoshop
Website: youtube.com

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© Operation Photoshop

Photoshop Tutorial – Destroy City – Put a hole in the building

Designer: mahalodotcom
Website: youtube.com

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© mahalodotcom

Photo Manipulation #2 „Destruction de New York“

Designer: GraMZii
Website: youtube.com

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© GraMZii

Photoshop Tutorial – How to draw destruction of zombies

Designer: likozor
Website: youtube.com

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© likozor

Photoshop: Speed Art City Destruction time lapse

Designer: Creavite
Website: youtube.com

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© Creavite

The Destroy Photoshop Speedart

Designer: Sylvester Philip
Website: youtube.com

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© Sylvester Philip

destroyed city photoshop

Designer: Hamza Moukrime
Website: youtube.com

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© Hamza Moukrime

City flood Photoshop

Designer: HightLink
Website: youtube.com

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© HightLink

Project Z – Noah’s Ark (#Photoshop CS6)

Designer: Alex Koshelkov
Website: youtube.com

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© Alex Koshelkov

Luftbanza Airlines ( #Photoshop )

Designer: Alex Koshelkov
Website: youtube.com

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© Alex Koshelkov

10 matte paintings that show how destruction looks like!

The following matte paintings will inspire you to further chaos!

Apocalyptic City Scape

Designer: Jorik Dozy
Website: akajork.deviantart.com

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© Jorik Dozy

Destruction

Designer: huiyen
Website: 3yen.deviantart.com

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© huiyen

City In Ruins

Designer: Anonymous
Website: wallpapervortex.com

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© Anonymous

Apocalyptic Destruction City In Ruins

Designer: Anonymous
Website: wallpapertube.com

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© Anonymous

Destroyed City

Designer: YingZhi
Website: shadowyingzhi.deviantart.com

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© YingZhi

Matte – Lost among the ruins

Designer: MartaNael
Website: martanael.deviantart.com

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© MartaNael

Matte Painting „Paranoia“ n3

Designer: Bastien Grivet
Website: grivetart.deviantart.com

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© Bastien Grivet

Dark house Matte Painting

Designer: Sebastien Gaucher
Website: www.3dm3.com

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© Sebastien Gaucher

ZOMBIE CITY CONCEPT ART

Designer: Robert D. Brown
Website: robertdbrown.com

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© Robert D. Brown

Ovnimattepainting

Designer: MattePainting.Org
Website: mattepainting.org

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© MattePainting.Org

 

Tips and tricks

We still have three very own tips and tricks that will help you adding fire, creating explosions and shattering windows in your images.

Photoshop Destruction Tip # 1: Fire place

It is very easy to set things in fire in Photoshop when an original image of fire is photographed against a black background, as seen here:

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Now you just have to change the layer’s blending mode to Screen. If the effect is too weak, copy the layer once Ctrl + J . Then go to layer> New Adjustment Layer> Curves and select a linear contrast as default. Just like this, fire comes to improve your images.

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Photoshop Destruction Tip # 2: Exploding Stuff!

Shortly after an explosion there is a lot of dust in the air, as well as flying fragments all around. You can easily simulate this with the appropriate graphics, which you can on mediamilitia.com .

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With this 25-items „Particles Pack“ you can easily simulate the explosive material. After downloading and unpacking you just have to add one or more of the graphics and use the Multiply blending mode to adjust them as necessary. Easy!

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Photoshop Destruction Tip # 3: Shattering Windows

If you want to show a broken or burst window then just add a texture of a broken glass panel on a black or white background. The blending modes Multiply or Screen make it easy to adjust the image for the desired effect.

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