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Graphic Design from Kendrick Kidd. 8 Photoshop Tricks I Wish I Knew when I was a Student. Graphics Photoshop is one of the (if not THE) most well known software used in the design industry when it comes to manipulating images and pixels.

8 Photoshop Tricks I Wish I Knew when I was a Student

As a web designer I had some Photoshop lessons at school but that was 2 years ago. Today the software has evolved, more options are available, and I also learn a few tricks while practicing. You will find in this article eight tricks I wish I knew when I was a student (or wish existed in previous Photoshop versions). These are the kind of tricks that could make your workflow faster and your life easier.

Easier Illustrator-like Layer Auto-Select As I do a lot of logo / UI design, I won’t hide it, I’m a huge fan of Illustrator. In Photoshop by default you have to go and select what you want to work on in the layer panel, and use a CTRL + click on the element to select it, or right-click somewhere in the working space and you’ll get a list of your layers (good luck if you did not rename them). Get Better & Quicker Control on Your Current Tool Size. Lorenzo Duran - Designaside.com.

L’artista spagnolo Lorenzo Duran si avvale delle foglie come tela per le sue incisioni.

Lorenzo Duran - Designaside.com

Dopo il lavaggio e l’essiccazione, rimuove con precisione chirurgica ed estrema cura i segmenti in eccesso, usando una tecnica simile a quella del tradizionale paper cutting. Quest’ultimo passo è ovviamente il più difficile vista la fragilità del materiale scelto, il risultatò di questo processo è una serie di affascinanti disegni geometrici incredibilmente belli e dilicati. Top 10 Best Photoshop Tutorials This Week 012 & Tutorialstorage. Sep82012 It’s time to present you a Top 10 selection of Best Photoshop Tutorials.

Top 10 Best Photoshop Tutorials This Week 012 & Tutorialstorage

If you want to share with us your photoshop or illustrator tutorial, your work, design or photography send us a mail or via Twitter using #tutorialstorage in the end of the tweet. In this tutorial I will show you how to create your own custom poker card from scratch by using the wide variety of shapes that come with Photoshop. I will also show you techniques on how to manipulate fire by using simple methods. For this tutorial I will be showing you how to take a few simple elements and turn them into something dark and surreal. To create some nice vintage effects using Photoshop is pretty easy, it’s all about playing with layer masks and textures. 25 Helpful Tutorials for Lighting Effects in Photoshop. Photoshop allows designers with unlimited possibilities when it comes to creative effects, including lighting effects.

25 Helpful Tutorials for Lighting Effects in Photoshop

There are plenty of different ways to create lighting effects in Photoshop, and there are equally as many different possible uses for them. If you’re interested in learning more about how to create awesome lighting effects in your own work, here are 25 tutorials that can help. Looking for hosting? WPEngine offers secure managed WordPress hosting. You’ll get expert WordPress support, automatic backups, and caching for fast page loads. 6 Free Walls TexturePack by TextureQualityPro.

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6 Free Walls TexturePack by TextureQualityPro

The free walls texturepack is about 6 Walls Texture in a .zip file and all the images are free for personal & commercial use. Redistribution in any form s forbidden. Texture is a designer right hand, so if you build your creative collection, look at these fresh free packs. All these textures are Hi-Res .jpg pictures with 3543px x 2362px resolution. File formats for Mac/PC. Did you find this Post useful? Post written by Andrea Donetti Andrea Donetti is a professional photographer from Italy and also the founder of TextureQualityPro.com, a Free + Premium Textures & Backgrounds site for creative works.

Andrea has written 1 awesome articles for Phirebase.com Stay with us, we have a more cool Related Posts: 80 All-You-Need Photoshop Brushes - Noupe Design Blog. 11 Great Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials. Leaf Cut Art by Lorenzo Durán - StumbleUpon. Fubiz™ - StumbleUpon. Coup de coeur pour les étonnants travaux de l’artiste Gavin Worth avec ces différentes sculptures en fil de fer.

Fubiz™ - StumbleUpon

Actuellement basé à San Francisco, il conçoit à partir de 2 mètres de fil des oeuvres et des profils de personnages. A découvrir sur son portfolio et dans la suite de l’article. 50 brilliant &038; creative advertisements for your inspiration. Companies send a lot of money on trying to catch your attention, in this collection you’ll find creative advertising that probably reached their goal. 1.

50 brilliant &038; creative advertisements for your inspiration

Bounty’s big spills campaign 2. Tyskie beer. INCREDIBOX [ Official website ] 106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos - Year 2010. More info.

106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos - Year 2010

Amazingly Creative Photos (67 Photos. Top 10 examples of brilliant shadow art. Ben heine: pencil vs. camera. May 25, 2011 ben heine: pencil vs. camera ‘pencil vs. camera’ by ben heine image © ben heine ‘pencil vs. camera’ by ivory coast-born brussels-based photographer ben heine is a series of images that inject hand-drawn pictures within real-life settings to create a composite effect that is often surreal and highly narrative. manipulating the backdrop to host added elements such as real-life tetris blocks, floating speech bubbles, and an alcoholic panda, the photographs are an exercise in manual photoshop, always including heine’s hand which holds up the sketched piece of paper in the foreground. alarmingly accurate and crisply focused, the series puts great care in the alignment and perspective required to successfully pull off the optical illusion. heine creates seemingly effortless snapshots that are highly imaginative and contextual. image © ben heine via mymodernmet.

ben heine: pencil vs. camera

One Dollar Bill Art by Atypyk. Two brilliant French artists, Ivan Duval and Jean Sebastien Ides, show us how to have fun with one dollar bill.

One Dollar Bill Art by Atypyk

To see more work by Atypyk, visit atypyk.com. L’avant et l’après de peintures connues. Free High Resolution Textures - Lost and Taken.