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Let's face it: stars can be really hard to draw. I'm not talking about the singular balls of blazing gasses, though, I'm talking about the subtle and beautiful star fields that make a piece of celestial art what it is: a portrayal of space. One of the reasons space is so much fun to draw is because, despite the plethora of Hubble images inundating cyberspace and science magazines, most people don't have a preconceived notion of what space should look like. This means that there are endless possibilities for wondrous visuals, as nobody's been to or seen wherever or whatever it is that you're depicting. There is one exception, however: stars. Variety Looking at Hubble images, you can easily find images of stars where the entire image is jam-packed with as many of the brilliant suckers as possible. Look at the Hubble images: are all the stars the same size? Density Once you've established the types of stars you're working with, think about where they'll be in relation to each other.

30 Best Photoshop Abstract Effect Tutorials Under Articles Sometimes, you may find it difficult to look for some of the highest quality photoshop tutorials using search engines. As most of time, almost all tutorials would label themselves to be good, high quality or even the best photoshop tutorial you can find. In order to save your time, Photoshop Lady come up with 30 Best Photoshop Abstract Effect Tutorials of All Time. Under Photoshop Tutorial, Texture & Patterns In this tutorial I will create an effect like the one in the header of the MSNBC.com website. This tutorial is about making a “mac” style background. Under Abstract Effect, Photoshop Tutorial I decided to write another one on some of the photoshop effects. This is my first tutorial in over a year and a half. This article shows you how to create a smoke effect in photoshop, and to achieve that I used a photo of smoke and some photoshop filters. This tutorial explains you how to create a energetic, vibrant, colorful wallpaper, like the ones available at Color Charge.

100 Best Photoshop Tutorials From 2009 If your anything like me i use Photoshop near enough every day weather I’m cropping images or designing a poster for a client, i’m always on the hunt for new Photoshop tutorials in order to help expand my knowledge and to learn new Photoshop techniques. This is a compilation of 100 best photoshop tutorials from 2009. The collection of tutorials feature text effects, illustration, web designs, photo effects and much more every aspect of Photoshop every designer should look into learning showcased all within one post. The Creative Nerds team also run another blog called Design Chair which features the best Photoshop tutorials, illustrator tutorials and resources for designers worth checking out if you have some spare all want to search for a specific design tutorial. I hope you enjoy this article and let us know in the comments which is your favourite tutorial featured within this post. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 3D Typography in Photoshop 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.

How to Install Photoshop Brushes, Styles, Shapes and Other Content There are hundreds of Web sites (including this one) offering free Photoshop brushes, layer style effects, actions, shapes, patterns, gradients, and color swatch sets. Here's what you need to do with these files to get them working in Photoshop, along with links to where you can find these free goodies. Brushes Place the *.abr files into: Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop X\Presets\Brushes where X is the version number for your version of Photoshop. Brushes created in Photoshop 7 or later will not work in earlier versions of Photoshop. From the Brushes Palette in Photoshop, click the small arrow in the upper right corner of the palette, and choose load brushes. • Free Brushes Layer Styles Place the *.asl files into: Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop X\Presets\Styles where X is the version number for your version of Photoshop. • Free Layer Styles Shapes • Free Shapes Patterns • Free Patterns Gradients • Free Gradients Color Swatches Actions • Free Actions Zip Files Questions?

Psdtuts+ | Adobe Photoshop tutorials, from beginner to advanced. 100 Tips about All Adobe CS4 Applications | Layers Magazine It seems like only yesterday that we were working on the “First Annual Layers 100 Hot Tips.” Now here we are three years later with our Fourth Annual installment of one of our most popular features. After all, who doesn’t love tips? Those little nuggets of wisdom that make you say, “That was really cool. I can’t wait to fire up my computer and give that one a try.” This year we decided to try something a little different. This time around we decided to go straight to the horse’s mouth: the Senior Product Managers at Adobe. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 By Tom Hogarty Get smart with your collections Create a Smart Collection in the Library module to automatically gather a set of images. Quickly navigate to recently viewed folders The filmstrip at the bottom of the Lightroom interface includes a number of navigation tools that are accessible in all modules. Panels only when you want them I often hide my left and right panels in each of the modules by tapping the Tab key. Adobe Photoshop CS4

Photo Manipulation and Surreal Art Inspirations | Flash, Design, Deal mania on GraphicMania! Check out our deals section for graphic designers and developers. The newest deal can be seen below! Value: €150 | Now: €15 | Discount: 90% In this post, you will find an amazing collection of Photo manipulation inspirations and Surreal digital artwork. This gallery contain back and white and mono color artwork. From titme to time, one like to run away from the ordinary designs and client requests and amuse eyes with new artwork ideas and colloection. You may like to see those other photo manipulation amazing ideas: Tags: Photo editingPhoto EffectsPhoto manipulationphotographyc inspirationsPhotoshopPhotoshop Effectssurreal artSurrealism — Rafiq Elmansy Rafiq Elmansy is a graphic designer and runs his own design studio Pixel Consultations.

Photoshop Tips From The Pros - Outdoor Photographer How-To Tuesday, May 19, 2009 By Tim Grey There are many elements that separate the top nature photographers from hobbyists. With today’s digital tools, not only do photographers rely on a great eye, time-tested technique and quality equipment, but also on their ability to optimize images after capture using Photoshop and other tools. Jay Goodrich (www.jaygoodrich.com) is an internationally published and celebrated photographer. Jay Goodrich Color Range Selections 1 One of my favorite Photoshop tools is the Color Range selection tool. Smart Selective Sharpening2 With Smart Selective Sharpening, I utilize a layer mask to control how much to sharpen specific areas of the image. To make this work, click on the Background image layer on the Layers panel and choose Filter > Convert for Smart Filters from the menu so you can apply a filter nondestructively. If you take too much sharpening away, press X again to make white the foreground color and paint again to bring back the sharpening.

20 awesome Photoshop Brushes for your webdesign layouts | CSS inspired blog Your brushes set is also very important, sometimes is really what you need, and is what can make your work easier and faster TCAInspired selected the 20 best awesome photoshop brushes! Download the best ones, and make your photoshop more powerful! Dreamon Shape Brushes Abstract Brush Pack Floral Brushes Cloud Brushes Tech Brushes Crack Effect Brushes SM splatterisM Carbon Fiber Patterns free-hi-res-watercolor-photoshop-brushes Bubble brush abstract-curves-brushes Real Brush Strokes Set Tech Brushes Twilight dirty brushes spraypaint brushes Beyond the Mist brushes romantic disasters doodled trees ps brushes Ribbon Revolution Brushes Eyelash Brushes Darius Brushes Water Color The Church of London Step 2 Reality

60+ Useful Photoshop Actions For Photo Enhancements | Photoshop Tutorials Each Photoshop action stores a sequential series of tasks/jobs, and by hitting the ‘play’ button you get the same effect again and again without the need to repeat steps individually. Photoshop actions are powerful and great time saver when it comes to batch photo processing. Adobe Photoshop comes with a default set of actions pre-installed that could give you a pretty good idea how thing works. In this post, we want to show you a list of 60+ Useful Photoshop Actions For Photo Enhancements. You might also be interested in these following Photoshop resources: Color Balance, Hue/Saturation Photoshop Action 2by saturn-rings Cross-Processing ATNby mutato-nomine 50 Photoshop Postwork Actionsby manicho Portrait Actions I by ver00nika Portrait Actions II by ver00nika Action Pack I by EmberGFX Actions Clyck by muffim-clyck Caitlins actionsby mumbojumbo89 Color actionsby freaky665 Color Enhancing Actions by Princess-of-Shadows Colors Actions by anaRasha-stock Cool photo effect actionby Numizmat Black & White

10 High-Quality Free Leaf Textures In this set, you’ll find 10 free and high-resolution leaf textures which can be utilized in a wide range of ways. They have a very liberal Creative Commons license so you can use them in any manner you choose, whether it’s personal or commercial. Preview You can find various sizes of each image in by clicking on its title or preview image; doing so will bring you to their own Flickr pages where you can download the texture files that interest you. Alternatively, you can browse the entire Six Revisions Leaf Textures set on Flickr. Leaf Texture 01 Leaf Texture 02 Leaf Texture 03 Leaf Texture 04 Leaf Texture 05 Leaf Texture 06 Leaf Texture 07 Leaf Texture 08 Leaf Texture 09 Leaf Texture 10 Licensing details The above works that featured here and in the Flickr Leaf Texture set are licensed under the Creative Commons license and can be used for personal and/or commercial purposes. The Creative Commons license requires you to "attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor".

Massive List of 1009 Hi-Res Free Textures and Background Images | 2experts Design - Web Design and Graphic Design Blog As most of you already know that uses of textures is one of the interesting trend in modern web designs. The though of this list is to serve as a one stop solution. In this list, you’ll find 1009 variety of high quality and high resolution textures for Free! 50 Free Rusted Metal Texture Backgrounds 50+ High Resolution Textures 15 free, high resolution rough textures [postadsense] 20 free cardboard textures and objects for designers 6 High-Res Red Rocks Texture Pack 6 High-Resolution Grungy Paper Textures 7 Free High Resolution Wood Textures 20 High-Resolution Denim Textures 15 High-Resolution Grunge Textures 10 Free High Resolution Bricks Textures 10 + Free Grunge Style Rust Textures Cardboard Textures For Designers 400+ High Quality Patterns 60+ Free Textures from SXC.hu 29 Most Useful Texture Packs of 2008 40+ Beautiful Patterns and Textures 60 Impressive Free High Resolution Textures 300+ Vintage Style Textures 20 Free Hi-Res Grunge Stained Paper Textures

46 Stunning High Resolution Photoshop Light Effect Brushes This set of brushes can be summed up with only 2 words “really” and “awesome”, but since this post would look rather silly if I only wrote “Really Awesome” as the headline I will tell you a bit more. Lately, I’ve been experimenting with lots of new Photoshop brush-making techniques. I’ve found that the inspiration for these new techniques always comes at the strangest times so lately I’ve been keeping some odd hours. Anyhow, this set of brushes was the result of another late night and I was truly blown away at the results; so much so that I am willing to say that this is probably the coolest set of brushes that I’ve made to date. In this set you will find a collection of 46 high resolution Photoshop light effect brushes. These brushes are perfect for creating cool mystical or cinematic looking light effects in your designs. File type: .abr Compatibility: Photoshop Size: 37.1 MB About Grant Friedman Grant Friedman is a graphic design, blogger, and author.

30+ Most Wanted Photo Manipulation Tutorials in Photoshop Part I Inspired by the 30+ Weirdest Animal Photo Manipulations, I made a list of Photoshop Tutorials for you to learn how to make your own photo manipulation. Here is a 30+ Most Wanted Photo Manipulation Tutorials in Photoshop to help you enhance more techniques on manipulating images. There will be a Part II on this showcase so make sure to watch out for it. How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation On this tutorial, you’ll manipulate a picture so it looks like a woman burning in flames. Alien Photo Manipulation Photoshop Tutorial Turn a woman into an alien by combining two photos. Landscape photo manipulation In this tutorial,you will learn how to create your unique wallpapers using photo manipulation.Using some images you’ll learn how to blend in different landscapes creating a surreal effect. Making of “Color Combustion” a Photo Manipulation In this Photoshop tutorial you’ll be walking through the making of a digital photo manipulation called Color Combustion. Alien Invasion Ads

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