External Tip - 10 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials You Should See
In this category we want to give you an advice to other great sites, where you can get a lot of very useful information, inspirations and materials. Here I collected 10 great Photoshop tutorials, which can help you to expand your skills. Create a Devastating Tidal Wave in Photoshop Create Quick Particle Effect on Photo via Custom Brush Options in Photoshop Create a Surreal Upside Down Mountain Painting in Photoshop Business Man – Awesome Black & White Tutorial Create A Human/Robot Hybrid In Photoshop Create a Vintage Memorabilia Poster Design a Awesome Supernatural Dark Scene with Fiery Effect in Photoshop How to Create Cityscape Concept Art Create a Water Girl Photo Manipulation Mixing with Splatter Brushes in Photoshop Create a Nebula Cosmolady in Photoshop – Tutorial
Free All-in-One Graphic Design Starter Kit
Graphic design has an amazing community. Comprised of both the vets from the pre-computer era to the newbies who were raised on the internet and computer-editing applications, there is a huge gamut of people sharing their work and expertise online. I know when I was starting out in design, I found tons of inspiration and information from sites like JustCreativeDesign, DesignNewz, and more. If there’s one issue, however, it’s that there’s almost too much great information out there. I know – good problem to have, right? But for those designers just starting out, or for those designers who are considering getting into design, the amount of information can be a little overwhelming. This “kit” was originally intended to be a zipped file containing all of the links below; however, it clocked in at about half a gigabyte, which I thought most people wouldn’t want to sit and download (plus it would put a strain on our hosting). Software GIMP (Snow Leopard) (Leopard) (Windows) EBooks Textures Fonts
How To Learn Photoshop In 24 Hrs
Quite a bold statement, Learn Photoshop in 24 hours. Its simple and you can. Stepping into Photoshop at first can be quite daunting, were do you start? Tutorial 1:Combining Two Photos for New Effect – Basic Tutorial running time : 10 minutes. We’ll start with something basic. Tutorial 2:Grass Texture – Basic Tutorial running time : 15 minutes. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a nice-looking grass texture. Tutorial 3:Underwater Effect – Basic In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an underwater scene from scratch, using Gradients, Transform and Filters. Tutorial 4:2d Mirror Effect – Basic In this tutorial you will learn how to Duplicate, Flip Horizontally/Vertically, Feathering and Blending. Tutorial 5:Sony Ericsson Logo – Basic Tutorial running time : 20 minutes. This is your first tricky tut. Tutorial 6:Paint Graffiti on Wall – Basic Tutorial running time : 30 minutes. You will be using custom brushes to recreate the graffiti wall, and working with multiple layers.
Useful Photoshop Tools and Techniques For Your Workflow
Productivity is a crucial asset of professional designers. Photoshop is an extremely powerful application for photo processing and image manipulation, and we can make it even more powerful by using handy tools, actions, plugins and templates to save time for solving mundane regular tasks. The better our professional tool set is, the more time we can spend to focus on the actual design process rather than the tool we are using to implement it on screen. Here at Smashing Magazine, we’re continuously searching for recent time-saving, useful Photoshop resources for our readers, to make the search of these ever-growing techniques easier. Useful Photoshop Tools Link Mr. Photoshop Tych Panel3 Every photographer and Web designer who has spent time arranging images and photographs knows that scaling and resizing takes time. Pixel Proliferation: A Toolset For Managing Screen Resolutions5 This tool will help you to manage screens resolutions more easily. Further Resources Link Freebies, Goodies Link
25 Helpful Tutorials for Lighting Effects in Photoshop
Photoshop allows designers with unlimited possibilities when it comes to creative effects, including lighting effects. 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.
20+ Must See Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011
jQuery gives developers the chance to enrich websites with amazing elements without the need to write dozens of lines of code. This post presents advanced and cutting-edge jQuery plugins that will enhance your web designs tremendously. Full screen background slideshow plugin for jQuery. The main idea is to have a grid layout created with jQuery Masonry. Quovolver is a simple extension for jQuery that takes a group of quotes and displays them on your page in an elegant way. Smart spin is a jQuery spin button plugin that mimics the very common windows spin button control. FitText makes font-sizes flexible. Creating custom dropdowns is usually a tedious process that requires a ton of extra setup time. Remember that awesome music player psd created by Orman Clark? A simple jQuery circular content carousel. Image Gallery with Lightbox effect and slideshow functionality for jQuery UI. Overscroll is a jQuery plug-in that mimics the iphone/ipad scrolling experience in a browser.
20 More Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know
Back in October we wowed you with 20 Excellent Ajax Effects You Should Know. The post went on to become one of the most popular ever published at Nettuts+. This time around we have twenty more equally excellent Ajax effects for you to know and love. 1. Image Menu The Image Menu is a simple piece of JavaScript that uses images to make a horizontal image menu. 2. ImageFlow is an unobtrusive and "user friendly" JavaScript image gallery script. 3. If you're looking to add some interesting backgrounds, rotations and other effects to images, Instant.js might be just what you're looking for. 4. We've all heard of Lightboxes and even Greyboxes, but how about GlassBoxes? 5. Auto-completing search fields are highly valuable when it comes user interaction. CSSGlobe has a very nice tutorial on how to enhance your site's searchfield (unobtrusively, no less) with a bit of CSS and Ajax. 6. Loading images and fields are important to modern web applications that use Ajax. 7. jwysiwyg 8. jquery.biggerlink 2
Perfect Full Page Background Image
Learn Development at Frontend Masters This post was originally published on August 21, 2009 and is now updated as it has been entirely revised. Both original methods are removed and now replaced by four new methods. The goal here is a background image on a website that covers the entire browser window at all times. Fills entire page with image, no white spaceScales image as neededRetains image proportions (aspect ratio)Image is centered on pageDoes not cause scrollbarsAs cross-browser compatible as possibleIsn’t some fancy shenanigans like Flash Image above credited to this site. Awesome, Easy, Progressive CSS3 Way We can do this purely through CSS thanks to the background-size property now in CSS3. Works in: Safari 3+Chrome Whatever+IE 9+Opera 10+ (Opera 9.5 supported background-size but not the keywords)Firefox 3.6+ (Firefox 4 supports non-vendor prefixed version) View Demo But careful, reader Pierre Orsander said they tried this and had some problems with links on the page going dead. Enjoy
12 Excellent CSS3 Button and Menu Techniques | Tutorials
1139 shares 20 Fresh CSS3 Tutorials The design industry is probably one of the fastest changing and growing. Read More 559 shares Developing Streamlined and Efficient CSS Styles CSS can be compared to the sculptor’s tool set when crafting a sculpture.
