technique

Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees

Hey guys, the time for Friday roundup has come and we want to share some useful resources featuring free Photoshop brushes with you. We all know that brushes turn out to be the essential tools for web designers and help to add the desired atmosphere to the websites. Using this Photoshop tool, it is possible to give the design the impressive touch and make it catchy.

8500+ Free Photoshop Brushes. Weekly Roundup from DesignFloat

http://www.designfloat.com/blog/2010/11/05/8500-free-photoshop-brushes-weekly-roundup-designfloat/

From Sketch to Vector Illustration

Hey everyone! Welcome back to the GoMediaZine. There has been such a wonderful response on my vector art tutorial “Beautiful Vector Illustration” that I thought I better write another one.

photorealisme

The hands are a notorious source of frustration. This section won't concentrate on the muscle structure, since the hand is very complex in this regard, and knowing this won't help much in drawing them. Instead, we'll look at proportions, range of motion, and possible simplifications. Structure and proportions

http://hippie.nu/~unicorn/tut/xhtml-chunked/ch02s05.html

The hand

Analytical Figure Drawing SP08

2nd step to draw trogdor

Photoshop

24 Really Cool Photoshop Actions To Enhance Photography Photoshop actions are the best — they save time and make you more productive during post-processing. They can be used to speed up repetitive tasks, make quick work of time consuming edits, and give you a little creative inspiration. So here are 24 Really Cool Photoshop Actions To Enhance Your Photography 110 Free PSD Web Design Elements

Making precise selections in Photoshop is an essential skill that every designer needs. As a print designer, you will find yourself using selections to remove objects from their background to place within ads. As a web designer, you might extract an image and place it on a website with no background.

Making Complex Selections in Photoshop

by Guest Contributor Anna Gay Photographers are often striving for a “vintage” look in their photos, and even though there are endless ways of achieving a vintage look, there are a couple of characteristics to keep in mind. First of all, the color tones in a vintage photo often lean towards either a blue or a red hue, or a cross-processed look. Vintage photos also have an element of noise or grain that can be achieved through textures, and also a certain amount of vignetting around the edges of the photo. In this tutorial, we will look at adjusting color tones and adding vignettes. This photo is the result of adjusting the color curves, adding two vignettes, and a color fill, which we will walk through step-by-step.

Achieving a Vintage Look Through Color Tones in Photoshop CS

20 PSD Tuts That Will Turn You Into A Photoshop Guru

Many people can use Photoshop, but only a select few can call themselves gurus. Learn all the methods in the 20 tutorials below and you’ll be well on your way to joining this elite. Rather than focus on tuts for beginners , intermediates or advanced users , we’ve simply chosen ones which produce jaw-dropping effects. All of them are easy to follow, although most do require at least some prior knowledge and experience. 1.

Published in Design , Photoshop Tutorials

25 Helpful Tutorials for Lighting Effects in Photoshop

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/helpful-lighting-effects-tutorials/

http://www.tutorialmagazine.com/tutorials/index/photoshop/effects

Tutorial Magazine / photoshop / effects

photoshop How to Create a Jumbotron Effect Create a jumbotron screen effect like you would see at big sporting events | 26406 views | by denisdesigns

25 Mind Blowing Text Effects Photoshop Tutorials

It seems that text effects have become extremely popular over the last years.

The BIGGEST ever list of design resources! - ProofHQ

Following the huge success of last year’s “World’s Biggest Ever List of Graphic Design Blogs”, we’ve decided that we should turn it into an annual event – after all, more people than ever before are blogging and the talent pool continues to grow. This year, we’ve added in some additional categories including typography and image sourcing sites to help you along your way. The list is at least 40% larger than last year and is the one stop shop for all that you could need in terms of inspiration, reference material or tools for you to use. So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen…. drum-roll please! Graphic Design

10 Useful Web Apps for Designers

DesignWoop welcomes this guest post by Tomas Laurinavicius . Since the iPhone and iPad entered the market you can hear lots of news about apps for these devices. Tons of apps available today and you can find everything you want.

Cloud Security : Tech Center

2012 Cyber Risk Report In the HP 2012 Cyber Risk Report, HP Enterprise Security provides a broad view of the vulnerability landscape, ranging from industry-wide data down to a focused look at different technologies, including web and mobile. This report will provide actionable security intelligence critical for organizations to understand the vulnerability landscape as well as provide insight on how best to deploy their resources to minimize security risk. Security for the Cloud The cloud brings with it some unique challenges for security monitoring and management that require careful review and adjustment to security strategies, tools, and policies. Understanding what capabilities become critical in a cloud environment is key. This brief outlines how the HP Security Intelligence Platform delivers security capabilities to protect and defend business functions that rely on the cloud.