Tutorial Magazine - 33 Best Photoshop Tutorials of April 2009 - Photoshop Recreate the Iron Man Interface Effect This tutorial will show you how to create the screen interface from the hit movie Iron Man. | 41410 views | by abduzeedo How to use type as a creative effect Unlock the power of the Distort tool in Adobe Photoshop to create this enigmatic image. | 35561 views | by digitalarts Create Watery Text in Photoshop No towel included. | 32799 views | by Minervity How to Create colorful posters Learn how to recreate an awesome ad campaign by RayBan, called colorize. | 26588 views | by abduzeedo A Comprehensive Intro to the Type Tool We've all used it at least once, but do you know all its potential?
| 22497 views | by psdtuts Malleable Effects with Colorful Lines In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create fantastic colorful effects using only Photoshop. | 21850 views | by psdtuts How to color in lineart in photoshop When you get to this tutorial, click on the image to view the whole thing :) | 20649 views | by kuitsuku Turn a Texture into a Tiled Background. 500+ Free Exquisite Vintage Textures and Backgrounds | Graphic D. The scariest thing about time is how fast it goes. It’s so fast that most of us doesn’t even know what we’ve missed, and before we know it, they’re all gone in a blink and all that is left are vintage images of the past which will just oftentimes, bring nostalgic feelings of the good ol’days. Sorry, I just can’t help feeling nostalgic this new year prompting me to gather some good ol’stuff like this round-up of 500+ free exquisite vintage textures and backgrounds that you can download and use right away without the hassles of going to antique shops or searching in your granma’s attic.
These are all free, but please make sure your read each of their terms before using. Blast your way to the past, download and enjoy. 8 Old Books Textures by Flowersong This old book texture pack contains eight huge hi-res textures, each about 3000px on its longer side, on transparent backgrounds. 5 Vintage Sheet Music Pack by Neonescence 253 Various Vintage Textures and Objects by Playingwithbrushes. The 15 Best Articles For Designers in 2009 | Design Reviver - St. What a great year it has been for design related articles. So many new blogs, new blog writers, great content, great resources, a lot of inspiration, it really has never been a better time to be a designer. In this round-up we have collected fifteen of the most popular design related articles from 2009. There are great resources for fonts, Photoshop, web design templates, as well as amazing web design and graphic design tutorials.
Lets hope 2010 will be even better! Logo Design – How NOT To Design A Logo This was the most popular design related article of 2009, published on Web Designer Depot in January. It was an article about how underrated logo design in today’s world and how peolple do not understand how important a good logo is and how valuable it is to their business. They outline the ways in which you should NOT go about getting your logo designed… that is, if you are truly serious about business.Logo Design – How NOT To Design A Logo 30 high-quality free fonts for great designs. 50+ Beautiful Patterns & Useful Tools for Web Designers - Stumbl. On 03.26.10, In Freebies, Patterns, Web High quality free seamless vector and pixel patterns that you may need for your web projects, prints or any other design related works. Feel free to use any of these patterns and also consider giving back the credit to the authors. 50+ beautiful patterns and useful tools, enjoy this great stuff.
Advertisment Feel free to use any of these patterns on your own site. If you do decide use one, a credit link back to the squidfingers.com site is always greatly appreciated. Pattern8 was created to make it easier to find high quality free seamless patterns. Huge collection of free high quality patterns. As the name implies, this section of K10k is a resource for deliciously pixellated patterns. PatternCooler is a a free Seamless Pattern Background Design Resource. Great site with simple navigation, providing about a hundred patterns, allowing you to get a full page preview of each pattern. The best source for any type of digital art, including patterns. Free Adobe Photoshop Tutorials | Photoshop CS4 | Text Effect on. I love Photoshop techniques that offer all kinds of possibilities for experimentation—and the following tutorial is a perfect example of one of those techniques.
In this issue, we’re going to take a portrait and replace the person’s image with text (think 2009 Grammy posters). Pick a portrait that offers good contrast—a photo that’s very dramatic and dark probably won’t work as well. I’ve had the best success with straight-on head and shoulder shots, but again, feel free to experiment with all types of photos. For the best results, choose a photo that has a light background (or select the background around the person and make it lighter).
Create a new document (File>New) in a size that’s smaller than your photo: the specifics don’t really matter. Switch back to the photograph. Then, press Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J) to copy the selected pixels onto a new layer. Go back to the Select menu and choose Color Range again. Click the Create a New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel. 50 Smoke Effects Photoshop Tutorials - Photoshop Website - Tutor. 30.Create A-Smoke Photo Effect 31.Smoke Effect 32.Creating a Touching Story Scene in Photoshop 33.How to Put Smokin’ Bullet Holes and a Wanted Sign into a Piece of Wood 34.A Slick Supernatural Text Effect 35.Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text 36.Design a Golden Flame Text Effect in Photoshop 37.Adding Flames and Effects to Make an Image with Impact 38.Manipulating a WW2 Fighter Aircraft 39.Construct C4D Renders and Integrate them into a Photoshop Composition 40.How to Create a Surreal Scene of Flying Bombs on Fire 41.Create Smoke Effect on Grungy Wallpaper 42.Creating realistic smoke: Photoshop effect 43.How to Create a Fallen Angel on Fire Photo Manipulation 44.Professional Workflow for Adding Smoking Fire to a Building Video Tutorial Related Post 500 +Smoke Photoshop Brushes 100 Beautiful Smoke Textures.
Speed and flame Peugeot 908 RC wallpaper. Speed and flame Peugeot 908 RC wallpaper September 22nd, 2008 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Designing This lesson I’ll try showing you how to give some speed and flame to a static car. Final Image Preview Find a picture with a car like the next one: Mark out the car’s wheel with the Elliptical Marquee Tool (M) …then select the next selection: Filter>Blur>Radial Blur We’ll get the effect of rotating wheel: Next try to give the same effect to the second wheel. Make a copy of this layer (Ctrl+J) and try to enlarge it by 20%, using the Free Transform option. We need to get the next result: On a new layer we’ll insert with the brush a blue silhouette, using the next indicated color’s code: Set the next indicated parameter: We’ll get the next result on this stage: Select now the Pen Tool (P) to draw a line along the car’s body, as you may see below: Choose again the Smudge Tool (R) to blur out the line to give the effect of the smoke as it is represented below: Pass on the next parameters: Finished!