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Cool Text Effect with the Puppet Warp Tool in Photoshop CS5. When Adobe started announcing some of the new features of the CS5 version of Photoshop they showed the Puppet Warp tool in which they played with an elephant's trunk.

Cool Text Effect with the Puppet Warp Tool in Photoshop CS5

I was really impressed with that tool but never used it that too much, because of that I decided to give it a try, especially after seeing a screen cast with Russell Brown in which he was showing how to manipulate a rope with the Puppet Warp Tool. So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a text effect using a photo of a rope and the Puppet Warp tool. This tutorial will only work with the CS5 version and I believe it won't take you too much time. Quick Tip: Erase Backgrounds Quickly With The Background Eraser Tool. Preview of Final Results.

Quick Tip: Erase Backgrounds Quickly With The Background Eraser Tool

Fantasy Spring Text Effect. This tutorial will show you how to create a simple brush, then modify its settings, in order to create a nice fresh fantasy spring text effect.

Fantasy Spring Text Effect

The Final Result Tutorial Details Software Used : PhotoshopVersion : CS5 ExtendedTime : 0:45 – 1:15 Resources Step 1 We will start by creating the brush. Double click the circle’s layer to apply a Gradient Overlay effect: – Gradient Overlay. Happy birthday Photoshop! 250 free resources for designers. Create Cool 8-Bit Style Pixel Art from Ordinary Images. I have to be honest.

Create Cool 8-Bit Style Pixel Art from Ordinary Images

I love the look of pixelated graphics! If you’re also a fan of jaggies or old school video game graphics, here is a simple trick to relive a little bit of that low pixel-depth goodness in any version of Photoshop. I start with an iconic image, but use any you prefer. Lisa will be recognizable in any pixel depth, so she’s a good candidate. Press to open levels. Lisa has more highlights and we can see a lot more of the detail in the dark areas.

Astuces et Conseils pour la photomanipulation avec Photoshop. Smashing Magazine nous a dernièrement gâté d’un article sur les techniques de photomanipulation avec Photoshop.

Astuces et Conseils pour la photomanipulation avec Photoshop

Suite à la demande exprimée sur la page Facebook de Design Spartan je me suis chargé de traduire le principal en donnant mes impressions. Voici ces conseils et astuces repris dans notre belle langue afin de parfaire votre technique et maîtriser diverses situations. Chaque professionnel et même chaque amateur possède ses propres techniques et ses habitudes sur Photoshop. Quelque fois, des articles comme celui-ci tombent du ciel et viennent rafraîchir notre vision de Photoshop, de ses outils et des différentes possibilités offertes pour aborder une situation. 20 Fantastically Festive Christmas Photoshop Tutorials. Adobe Photoshop Tutorials & Freebies for Beginner to Advanced. Untitled. Untitled. Adobe Photoshop is the go-to tool for digital artists when it comes to professionally retouching images. Enhancing and retouching photos in Photoshop is an effective way to “work with what you’ve got”. There are many tips, tricks, and techniques for improving things like skin tone and imperfections, and enhancing the photo subject’s features.

70 Photoshop Tutorials For Text Decoration From 2010. Photoshop is such a robust tool that every day is a new day to learn something new with the program.

70 Photoshop Tutorials For Text Decoration From 2010

Today we are featuring fresh tutorials on one of its embellishing feature in form of Text Decoration. You can give any style to text you like. It can be a jungle effect or a flowery or musical effect or just a mix and match of two different styles. Either way, you can definitely make basic text stand out by using any of the tutorials you will find in this list. Super Clouds Text in Photoshop. 40 Best Photoshop Tutorials From April 2012. Adobe Photoshop is the best software for designers that can help designers create anything that they can imagine.

40 Best Photoshop Tutorials From April 2012

I am a huge fan of Photoshop and I always try to bring the latest Photoshop resources and tutorials for my blog readers. Every month I compile a list of best Photoshop Tutorials from that month so that our blog readers can never miss any Photoshop tutorial. This post features the best Photoshop tutorials from the month of April 2012. Don’t forget to share this post with your friends in order to help us spread the word. 50+ Best And Really Useful Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials. Free Web UI Kits & PSD Templates For Web Designers. Designing a website is too much trendy now days; designers are on going to design number of websites every day.

Free Web UI Kits & PSD Templates For Web Designers

To design UI elements of website is much time taking and big task. For the ease of designers there are a lot of UI kits in different websites but it is hard to find best and free of them. If you are web designer and want to save your time than no need to worry we have assorted some best and “Free Web UI Kits & PSD Templates For Web Designers”. These all elements are free for download and you can also modify them according to your design. Download Buttons PSD kit Sweet UI Kit PSD Photoframe and sticky tapes. 24 Spectacular Photoshop Text Tutorials You Will Like. 24 Spectacular Photoshop Text Tutorials You Will LikeReviewed by Photoshop Tutorials Editor on Mar 21Rating: Cookie Text Candy Cane.

24 Spectacular Photoshop Text Tutorials You Will Like

20+ Tremendous Photoshop Tutorials For Web & Graphic Designer. 27 Free & Premium PSD Logo Templates. 20 Best Websites To Download Free psd Files. 42 tutoriels Photoshop pour célébrer le printemps! Le printemps est enfin arrivé!

42 tutoriels Photoshop pour célébrer le printemps!

En même temps qu’effectuer votre ménage annuel, pourquoi ne pas en profiter pour vous ressourcer professionnellement en apprenant de nouvelles fonctionnalités grâce aux tutoriels Photoshop présentés dans l’article qui suit. (ok, j’avoue que le lien n’est pas terrible entre le ménage du printemps et les tutoriels) Voici donc, pour les « addicts » de Photoshop, 42 tutoriels de qualité pour célébrer l’arrivée du printemps.

Bonne séance de perfectionnement! Cet article est une traduction d’une compilation de tutoriels qui a été publiée au début de la semaine par Danny Outlaw sur le site web de 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 77 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials For Designing Posters. When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master. Display beautiful images is a potent element in web and graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using images in an artistic manner.

35 Free Download High Quality Photoshop PSD Files. 25+ Impressive & Useful Photoshop Tutorials. Adobe Photoshop, an essential to any designer’s toolkit is probably the most popular graphics editing program out there. Photoshop is easy to learn and offers an extensive array of advanced tools to create some impressive and realistic compositions. Fabulous Photoshop Patterns for Designers. High Quality Photoshop Pattern Sets This is a big collection and of course, all of them are free. Mainly these patterns are for graphic designers but web designers can also use them well. Usually we give an all-in-one download file but this time, we are not. And no, it is not because our webmaster is unavailable (due to his wedding) it is because these photoshop patterns are huge in volume, some of them are even about 40-50 MBs. So you’re gonna have to download them from the source, and you can do that by clicking the title name of the pattern. If you don’t know what patterns are, here a little introduction.

20+ Fresh High Quality PSD Icons (Freebies) Home » Freebies • Graphics » 20+ Fresh High Quality PSD Icons (Freebies) Its Photoshop trend and large amount of web designers creates new and inspirational icons on daily bases. Some of them are free but it is hard to find some free stuff accordingly. Today we have decided to show you are round up of free psd icons. These all icons are valuable and free for commercial use.

Have a look below ”20+ Fresh High Quality PSD Icons (Freebies)” and find the right icon for your next design. Photoshop Mastery: 25 Techniques Every Designer Must Know. One of the best things about Photoshop is that you never stop learning. I’ve been working with the software for about 12 years, and I always stumble across something I didn’t know, whether it be a new feature, or just a new, better way of doing something. There are countless tips and tricks to help boost your productivity and work flow some are obvious and easy to find while some you have to dig a little to seek them out. In this post I’m going to reveal 25 of the best advanced techniques to help you design faster and better within Adobe Photoshop.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Layer Manipulation Note: These shortcuts refer to the “Cmd” key on a Mac keyboard. Drastically Improve Your Photos in Less Than 5 Minutes - Photography Tutorial. Step 1 Once we have taken the shot we have to develop it; it is very important to use the RAW mode of the camera because a capture in RAW mode will contain more information than one in JPG. Not too much to say about the developing settings in Camera Raw, the “auto” function is usually enough for me; the hard work will be done later in Photoshop. Take special attention to the recovery value if you need to restore highlight zones without details. The blacks value should be between 0 and 5 for not losing details in the dark areas. Adjust other settings when needed, each camera and each lens is different, adjust the sharpness and the chromatic aberrations when needed but leave the colour adjustments untouched.

Step 2 2.1. - In this step we are going to adjust the light of the dark areas. 2.2. - Now in the adjustments palette click at the levels icon to add a levels adjustment layer. Step 3 3.2. - Press ctrl+v to paste the initial image we copied in the step 1. How To: Tilt-Shift effect, Fake a Miniature Scene in Photoshop. 30 Easy Photoshop Tutorials You Can Try Today. Photoshop is widely used by many to make an image look very cool and bright. It assists in enhancing the photos to a large extent. Several of its features can completely transform a dull and boring picture to a very smart and perfect one. 100+ Free and Time Saving Photoshop Actions for Photo Retouching.

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App Icon Template. After more than 10k downloads of my old app icon template and countless of requests for an update, i’ve put together an app icon template that should make your icon endeavors on the iOS platform easier. Notice: My App Icon Template has been updated since i wrote this article. Most of what’s described here is still relevant for the new template, but you could also just go right ahead and read about that here. 80 Best Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials, Part III.