Best Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes and Textures of November 2008 As we do every month we selected for you the best Photoshop resources (tutorials, brushes and textures) you can find on the web. This is the November 2008 issue. We are looking for contributors We are looking for talented bloggers, that want to promote themselves and their websites by writing articles for our blog. The topics we are interested in are : Graphic Design, Web Design, Flash, Photoshop, Vectorial Graphics, Design Inspiration, Programming, Print Design, Design Resources, photography or just “top 10 articles”. Beautiful Fluffy Clouds in Photoshop - Christmas Tutorial | Abdu A few days ago I was watching a movie and I saw the Dreamworks logo. It's very well known and incredibly beautiful; that little kid sitting on the moon fishing. But what caught my attention was the clouds on the logo. They were so dramatic, and I thought that it would be a nice idea try to replicate the effect in Adobe Photoshop CS4. The first thing I did was search on the web for references, and to see if there was already a tutorial showing how to accomplish the effect. In this tutorial I will show you how to create fluffy clouds in Photoshop. Step 1 Create a new document in Photoshop. Step 2 Add a new layer and create a rectangle with the Rectangle Tool (U). Step 3 For the Clouds I created a brush. Brush Tip Shape: Round shape, 500px Diameter, 0% Hardness, 25% Spacing. Step 4 Now add a new layer and select white for the color. Step 5 The previous step we created the first part of the cloud, but to make it look more volumetric and realistic you will have to create some dark areas. Step 6
How To Give Your Photos a Dark Processed Lomo Effect This post was originally published in 2010 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated. Follow this step by step post processing guide to give your photos a dark lomo style effect with high contrast, blue tones and vignette burns. The effect is based on the popular lomographic technique and is similar to the processing effect used in many fashion shots and advertisement designs. Overall this effect does a great job of adding impact to a plain photography with cool colour casts and unusual saturation. View full size photo effect Begin by opening your photograph of choice into Adobe Photoshop. Go to Image > Adjustments > Levels and tweak the tones of the image. At the bottom of the Layers palette, click the Adjustment Layer icon and select Curves. Change the drop down menu to Green and tweak the graph for the green channel to further alter the tones of the image. Finally alter the Blue channel, creating an inverted ‘S’ shape to enhance the blues to give a cool colour cast.
Create a realistic folded paper text in Photoshop - StumbleUpon Today we will learn how to realize a folded paper text effect from scratch in Photoshop. We will firstly create the background using a couple of patterns, then we will work on the type treatment with the help of the pen tool, layer masks and other useful techniques related to dodge,burn and the transform tool. This tutorial is very simple to follow, so I suggest to everyone to give a try. Preview: Click to enlarge Become a Premium Member and get unlimited access to source files and premium resources for only 7$/month. Step 1 Create a new document in Photoshop. *note for Mac users: ctrl=cmd, alt=option Step 2 Fill the background with a dark green (#41514c). Step 3 To create the textured effect of the background, I’ve used 2 of our soft grunge patterns created by Piervincenzo. Select the pattern2_380_hard and press ok to fill the background. Finally set the layer to overlay with opacity 50%. Step 4 Create another layer, this time fill it with pattern_9_380_hard. Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10
Sketch Effect Here’s a simple trick to create a sketch effect. First, open the image you want to ‘sketch’. (Me) For best practice, I will utilize a ‘Layer Set’ (called Sketch) in this tutorial, and place the original image layer in there.Duplicate, the original photo/image layer (I called mine ‘copy’), and hide the original. Select the copy layer, then go to ‘Image > Adjustments > Desaturate’.(Alternately, PC Shortcut: ‘Ctrl + Shift + U’ = Desaturate | Mac Shortcut:’Cmd + Shift + U’ = Desaturate.) Works well on all sorts of image types Share and Enjoy
Tutocity.com - Full Photoshop Web Design - Journal Author: Scott Webb Type: Photoshop Difficulty: Medium Description: I n this tutorial we will be going through a full photoshop design of journal/personal type website . Click on the images to see them in full size! NOTE: To be able to complete this tutorial your should have good knowledge of photoshop and where to find its tools. For an affordable web design Melbourne service contact Vivation Design. Step 1: Open up a new photoshop document 1000 pixels wide and 750 pixels high. 1st we will be making the background. Place the image into your document and then duplicate the image untill you have filled your intire document with the texture. Now duplicate the "Background1" layer and call the new layer "Background2". Duplicate the "Background2" layer and call the new layer "Background3". Now create a new adjusment layer Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation and click OK. Now create a new layer and call it "Background4" and then go Image > Apply Image . Thats the background finished.
The Digital Comic Museum 20 Beautiful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials | Top Design Magazine - Web Design and Digital Content - StumbleUpon If you want to create distinctive vector artwork, then Adobe Illustrator is the best tool. If you don`t have inspiration, below you can see 20 great tutorials. Have fun. How to Make a Map in Illustrator How to Create Blueprint-Style Text How to Create Anatomy Illustrations Create Your Own Spoof Airplane Safety Illustrations How to Create a Crazy Cool Logo How To Create a Repeating Camo Pattern How to Create Farmville Type Effect How To Design a Print Ready Letterhead & Comp Slip How to Create Vector Clouds How To Create a Gothic Blackletter Typographic Design How To Create a Fun Cartoon Style Poster Design How To Design a Sweet Linework & Typography Combo Create a Color Picker Icon How to Create an Iconic Poster Design Design a Vintage Poster with Vector Pack 16 Create a 3D Vector Labyrinth Create a Mummy Text Effect Create Grainy Textures Creating Seamless Textures Quick Tutorial: Create Chunky Buttons Create a Polished Raised Type Treatment
50+ Great Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials, Part II | Photoshop T Few months ago we showcased 22 best Photoshop text effects Photoshop tutorials here at hongkiat.com, but then we soon realized they were still plenty of good tutorials out there and the current ones aren’t enough to satisfy most designers anyway. So we went searching for more and 3 months later, we beg to show you more. This time we put together another 50 really nice text effect Photoshop tutorials, making it more than 70 great Photoshop text effects in our archive. Recommended Reading: More Photoshop Text Effects! Text In Stitches How to convert text to a path and how to stitch that path using a custom brush set. Colorful Glowing Text Effect Spray Paint Text Bling Bling Simple Gold Text Effect How to make a simple gold text effect by using some layer styles, namely the Gradient Overlay layer style! Cheese text effect How to make a stylish cheese text effect. Reflective Glass Tutorial (Video tutorial) Entrails Photoshop Tutorial (Video tutorial) Taco Bell Text (Video tutorial) Chained Text
60 Impressive Free High Resolution Textures and Backgrounds FlyPaper Textures is the home of the finest and most exquisite artistic textures collections available. Their extensive library of textures, frames and overlays are ideal to create different textures and atmospheres for your artistic work. This set you are going to download now, is a sample of 8 high resolution images from their beautiful painterly and classic grunge paper backgrounds. You can use these free textures in both personal and commercial projects. But before doing so, please read FlyPaper Textures License here… Visit FlyPaper Textures and grab some wonderful artistic textures while you are there… 70 Tutorials Using Photoshop To Design A Website This article features a huge amount of Photoshop web design tutorials, which will teach you simple effects which can be combined together in order to create a great website design. Theses tutorials are perfect for first time Photoshop users because there short and sweet. I hope you enjoy the article and feel free to leave a comment below. 1) Carbon Fiber Layout you’ll learn how to make this sleek layout with a carbon fiber background that would look great as a landing page for a website. 2) Design Studio Layout In this tutorial you will learn how to make a layout for your design studio website. 3) Create a web 2.0 layout in photoshop In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a very fancy “Web 2.0″ website layout in Adobe Photoshop using beginners skills. 4) Watercolored design studio blog layout In this tutorial you will learn how to make a clean and simple watercolor design studio layout for a blog. 5) Corporate Business Layout 6) How to create a worn paper layout 7) Arhitecture layout