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Fonts. HDR. Search. 80+ Photoshop Actions for Giving Your Pictures a Vintage Look | Web Design Ledger. Photoshop actions are great. With just a click of a button you can apply a complicated effect to a photo instantly. One of the most popular type of actions is the vintage or retro style.

With the popularity of vintage-inspired Instagram filters and film emulation, the older style is desired with many photos. Fortunately, there are plenty of quality Photoshop actions that will help you to get vintage effects quickly and easily. In this article, I’ve rounded up over eighty Photoshop actions that will add very cool vintage or retro effects to your photos. Instagram Filters (13 actions) Lomocam (10 actions) Lomo Action Hard Lomo Action Holgarizer Vintage Light Leak Action Vintage Heaven Action Vintage Dream Action Retro Cross Action Vintage Matte Action Faded Film Action Old Film Action Retro Style Actions (10 actions) Instant Hipster (10 actions) Prestalgia (10 actions) Vintage Gold Action Aged Black & White Action Glory Days Vintage Actions (7 actions) Muted Colors Vintage Action Old Tones (6 actions)

70 Of The Best Photoshop Actions For Enhancing Photos. The compilation consist of 70 of the best Photoshop actions collected from all around the web from photo effects to actions for even creating photo borders, An essential design resource for all designers weather your an expert or an beginner. Photoshop actions consist of a series of menu commands such as i.e. filters, image adjustments etc which can be recorded and played back this process is called a Photoshop action. Photoshop actions are perfect for novices to Photoshop simply because it allows you to apply multiple different photo effects to an image within a few seconds without having knowledge about the ins and outs of Photoshop. Photo Effect Actions 1) Double sketch effect action for Photoshop This action offers a “double” sketch effect, just like if you painted the sketch twice, once from left to right, and once from right to left. 2) Photoshop Action – Bright Eyes A Photoshop action to enhance the appearance of the eye but only works with blue eyes. 3) Pencil Draw Photoshop Action.

How to Create Remarkable 3D Text in Photoshop. By Tyler Denis In this quick and easy graphic design tutorial, you’ll discover a handy process for generating eye-grabbing three-dimensional typography with the help of Photoshop and some creative techniques. Final Result Here is a preview of what we’ll be working towards (click on the image to see the result in full-scale). Setting up the Photoshop document 1 First off, we are going to open up Photoshop and create a new document (Ctrl + N). 2 With your canvas created, fill the Background layer with a dark gray (#333333) color.

Creating the text 3 Now we’ll place the text on the canvas. 4 Rasterize the text so that we can more easily work with it; this has the side effect of not being to modify the text anymore so make sure you’re happy with the text. Using Free Transform on the text 5 Now we are going to skew the text to give it more of a dramatic 3D look. 6 Holding down Ctrl, click on the top right transform control of the box.

Adding some layer styles Creating the 3D effect The Burn Tool. Create a Realistic Space Scene from Scratch with Photoshop. In this intermediate-to-advanced-level design tutorial, we are going to create a stunning space scene that has realistic-looking planets, stars, and lighting effects using a few innovative Photoshop techniques and some textures. Final result This tutorial can have two variations, check out both versions below. Remember to click on the image to see the full-scale images of them. The planets’ reflections will be fully adjustable depending on how you want to set up your scene.

Version 1 Version 2 Let’s get started! Getting started: what you will need 1 To start, let’s go and grab our rust texture from Zen Textures and open it up in Photoshop. Creating the large planet 2 We are going to start off by creating our large planet. 3 We want to put that area beneath the circular marquee selection onto a new layer. 4 We can go ahead and hide the original texture layer (click on the layer visibility icon on the left of the layer – it looks like an eye). Adding an Outer Glow and Inner Glow layer style. 5 Secrets of the Photoshop Crop Tool. Create a Vibrant Modern Blog Design in Photoshop | Blog.SpoonGraphics.

This post was originally published in 2008 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated. Taking a closer look into the world of web design this tutorial will cover the process of designing a vibrant and colourful modern blog layout in Adobe Photoshop. Beginning with a blank canvas we’ll go through the process of creating the entire structure and effects from scratch. This particular design is one I'm currently producing as a WordPress theme for Springy Developments, in the future we'll take a look at the coding process and see how the site is pulled together into the final product. Bear in mind that during the original creating of the concept, the process was much less clear cut that the following tutorial steps. Plenty of experimentation was conducted and elements were often recreated to test out what worked the best. However this walkthrough will hopefully give a good understanding of what tools and techniques are used during the creation of this chosen layout from scratch.

The Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Actions | Developer's Toolbox. 35+ Nature Tutorials for Photoshop | Vandelay Website Design. Thank you for visiting the Vandelay Design Blog! We regularly publish collections of Photoshop tutorials like this one.

If you would like to improve your Photoshop skills, please consider subscribing to our feed by RSS or by email so you don’t miss these posts. There are plenty of great Photoshop tutorials for working with different aspects and elements of nature. This is a collection of tutorials for working with the sky, clouds, grass, water, rain, and much more. Looking for hosting? WPEngine offers secure managed WordPress hosting. You’ll get expert WordPress support, automatic backups, and caching for fast page loads. 24 Perfect Photoshop Vectors.

As graphic artists, we always feel the need for vectors to truly bring our designs to life. Sometimes, these vectors can be easy to find. Other times, it can be quite a daunting task. Today, I’ve compiled a list of 24 Vectors that are available for download that will speed up your search. I’ve tried to compile a list that features many different styles that can be used in many different situations. I am sure you will find some of these useful to you sometime down the road in a future project. Enjoy! .Ornaments .Tree Silhouettes .Plants .Ornaments .Paper Notepads .Watercolors .Arrows .Wings .Grunge Circles .Fall Background .Human Silhouettes .Arrows .Skull Pack .Graffiti .Skylines .Social Media .Swirls .Coat Of Arms .Birds Flowers Tags Urban Loosyding Glossy Icons For more Photoshop tutorials check out the new tutorial site, The Tutorialist. 23 Most Incredible Photoshop Tutorials.

Paired with yesterday’s 24 Perfect Vectors , I wanted to list off some incredible Photoshop tutorials I’ve found on the web that will help you utilize those resources. I’ve done my best to select a wide variety of tutorials from web graphics, to photo enhancement, to just plain incredible. Remember, its not about the destination, instead its all about the journey. Don’t neglect a tutorial because you aren’t interested in the final product. Instead, follow each one, step by step. Further Reading: 25 More Most Incredible Photoshop Tutorials How To Master Photoshop In Just One Week 75 Insane Hi-Res Photoshop Brushes You Know You’re Addicted To Photoshop If… 21 Best Photoshop Text Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3D Tentacles . . . . . . .

I hope you enjoyed this collection of Photoshop Tutorials . For more Photoshop tutorials check out the new tutorial site, The Tutorialist . Forums - Vista Aero Glass Buttons in Photoshop. Glass Tutorial. Here you will see how nethskie and i create the WhiteFlame Glass borders 1. first open photoshop then open a your favorite image for example I will use this “Drops on leaf” image. 2. Go to layer then create new layer (a transparent layer) 3. then click the rounded rectangle tool then change it’s radius to 7px then draw a rectangle in any size like shown in this picture. 4 after that go to layer>layer style>blending options then follow this pictures: 5. then after that click ok to apply then change the opacity to 90% and fill to 20% (or any value that suits you) 6. then it’s done it’s that easy but you can save it as a separate glass png of your own just hide the view of the background “Drops on Leaf” follow this screenshot then save it as png 8. after that choose your desired opacity for the overlay image for example 30% 9. after that you can manually create a glow effect on it’s sides just draw with a colored 1px line tool or any method you like and it’s done hope it helps.