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50 of the Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2010

50 of the Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2010
Photoshop is probably one of the most indispensable pieces of software in a designer’s toolbox. It can be used for everything from retouching photos to creating entire web layouts or original artwork. And specific design tutorials are a great way to familiarize yourself with what Photoshop can do and how to do it. Below are 50 of the best Photoshop tutorials from 2010. They cover everything from manipulating photos to creating icons to digital painting and text effects. There are tutorials for all skill levels, whether you’re new to Photoshop or a seasoned pro. Photo Effects and Manipulations Working with photos is what Photoshop was originally created to do (hence the name). Create a Nature Inspired Photo Manipulation in Photoshop Here’s a quick (around 1 hour) intermediate tutorial for creating a nature-inspired photo manipulation. Create a Magical Four Piece Stardust Composition Create a Realistic Panoramic Matte Painting in Photoshop Reader Photoshop Tutorial: Sisters by Marcos Torres

50 Excellent Digital Photography Photoshop Tutorials Advertisement Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for digital-image editing and graphics creation. Photoshop’s versatility makes it a popular choice among Web designers, graphic designers, digital media artists, print designers, photographers and other professionals in design and image-editing. Whether you’re designing a business card or website or digitally enhancing an image, you can rest assured that Photoshop will give you the necessary tools to get the job done. In this article, we focus on tutorials on digital photography. You’ll find an assortment of top-notch tutorials that deal with applying post-production techniques and effects, color correction, enhancement and photo retouching. Without further ado, we present you with 50 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials for Digital Photography. Photo Effects HDR-Style Results Using Layers in Photoshop1Learn how to achieve HDR results in Photoshop using bracketed exposures during the production process and then Photoshop layers afterwards.

40 Must Learn Text Effect Tutorials in Illustrator Tutorials January 31, 2011 The love of creating text effects has become a common ground for many designers and enthusiasts. Indeed, it has even become an art form in itself. It would be best to learn from other artists every now and then. Create a Green Viscous Text Effect In this tutorial you will use illustrator’s 3D tools to add dimension on the text, and then add a green viscous text effect.. Learn to Create a Variety of Script Lettering This tutorial will showcase three different approaches, which result in three different script lettering styles. starting with a nice simple basic script, touch on a more athletic inspired lettering style and work along the way to a classic, fancy script. How to create a glassy text effect in Illustrator This tutorial will teach how to create a glassy text effect in Illustrator. How to Create an Entangled Lettering Illustration A two part tutorial where you will learn how to create a brief typographic message from scratch. Create a Mummy Text Effect

40 Really Useful Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials No matter you want to design a banner or logo, text effect is very important. Why? It is because a beautiful text effect on the banner or logo will attracts the visitor and also delivers a better message. There are tons of Photoshop text tutorials around us, but today we are going to pick the most 40 beautiful Photoshop text effect tutorials for our readers. You may or may not seen them before, but believe me, they are really useful, cool, beautiful and easy to follow tutorials. You may subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us in Twitter so that you can always receive latest news from us. 1. 2. A very nice wooden text effect tutorial in Photoshop presented by 10steps.sg. 3. 4. This tutorial will show you how to create the 3D text shape and give it a high quality metal look using pure Photoshop. 5. In this tutorial, the author shows you the process involved in creating this golden flame text effect with soft smoke texture in Photoshop. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.

24 Captivating Digital Painting Tutorials All designers know the power of photoshop and the fantastic stuff they can create using it. There is always more to learn in photoshop, if you want your sketches to get painted photoshop is best tool. Digital painting is a beautiful art that requires too much experience and talent. I came across many great online digital painting tutorials out of which i collected the best ones and compiled a list for you. If you are interested in learning digital painting these 24 captivating digital painting tutorial will definitely help you but if you have no interest in it i assure you some of them can build your interest in digital painting too. 1. Author of this tutorial says, “Here’s how I do my painting. 2. Author says, “Firstly I wanted to draw a girl with a big dragon head up on her shoulder. 3. Illustrator JS Rossbach shows you how a popular fantasy theme can be viewed in an abstract way 4. Melanie Delon shows you how to create enchantingly beautiful cover image. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

24 High Quality Adobe Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials There are lots of Photoshop tutorials available to create text effects, but only few tutorials are available following which you can create really amazing and high quality text effects. I have gone through almost all of them and picked 24 high-quality text effect tutorials. All these tutorials will be really help for you but do tell us by commenting which one was the best. In this tutorial you will be designing a cool retro text effect, which is growing more and more popular in today’s design. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an ice effect completely from scratch using special Photoshop Brushes. 3. Very nice tutorial to create 3D flowery text effect. 4. In this tutorial you will learn how to create an eroded metal text effect. 5. In this tutorial, designer will show you how to create a gold text effect. 6. Here’s a quick way to create some nice looking translucent glass type that’ll work great on any background, made completely with layer styles. 7. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

50 Excellent Tutorials of 3d Effects Using Photoshop There are lots of 3d tools to create 3d effects but creating 3d effects in Photoshop is really interesting. Even if you want to create 3d object or 3d typographic design everything is possible in Photoshop. Photoshop 3D effects are incredibly wonderful to have a look at. Designers can produce their own world of imagination with the help of 3D effect. Photoshop is very helpful and necessary tool for any designer. It facilitates designers in plenty of tasks and let them create attractive artworks and effects. So today i have compiled 50 amazing tutorials of creating 3d effect in Photoshop. Hope these tutorials will add up something in your knowledge and you become more passionate to learn more and more. You may also be interested in 35 Logo Designing Photoshop Tutorials, Photoshop Typography Tutorials With Source Files and 24 High Quality Adobe Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials 1. 2. 3D Metal Text Create 3D Metal Text with lighting ambience. 3. 4. 3D Magnetic “A” 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

22 Tutorials To Create Shiny Effect Using Photoshop Creating different effects is very interesting to do with Photoshop. There are many effects that you can create using Photoshop, which you can search on internet but here i have compiled 22 tutorials to create shiny effect using Photoshop. There must be more tutorials on creating shiny effect but here i tried to collect the best ones for you. Wherever you wish to place a lock icon, this tutorial will show you how to create an attractive one for you to use! In this tutorial, we’ll combine simple vector shapes, layer styles and generous amounts of shininess to create the perfect magnifying glass for all your search icon needs. 3. In this tutorial, designer will teach you how to make a shiny new apple remote. 4. In this tutorial we’ll see how to picture an illustration, which contours are introduced in a computer by scanner or digital photo camera or how to give it a luminescent effect. 5. 6. Nice tutorial to learn how to make a shiny smile. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

60+ Free PSD Poster and Flyer Templates This is a mighty collection of poster templates/flyer templates. All of these are free but you’ll have to reach source page to download them. Since this is a big collection, gathered from various sources, we cannot provide an all-in-one pack as we usually do in other resource posts. All these files are PSD so you can open and edit them using Adobe Photoshop. This is a mixed collection, most of these are party posters of flyers, but there are many other types of PSDs as well. UPDATE: This post was one of the most popular template collections that we have ever made. Free Poster and Flyer Templates One more thing, these flyer templates have different licenses. Restaurant Flyer This is one of the ideal flyer templates for restaurants, hotels, caterers and takeaway businesses. Night Flyer/Poster Template This is a party poster template. Flyer Template This is one groovy design for parties. The Big Game This is one of the highly customize-able sports flyer templates. MMA Fight Night Flyer Neon Sign St.

Create a Beautiful Under Water Scene in Photoshop CS5 Create a Beautiful Under Water Scene in Photoshop CS5 June 6th, 2011 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Designing, Drawing Techniques, Special Effects, Textures & Patterns In today’s quick tip tutorial, I will show you how to create a beautiful under water scene using brushes and custom shapes in Adobe Photoshop CS5. Final Image Preview Start working by creating a new document (Ctrl+N) in Adobe Photoshop CS5 with the size 1900px by 1200px (RGB color mode) at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch. Create a new layer and select the Soft Round brush and set Opacity to 60% in Options bar. Use this brush to paint the canvas with #52D4FF color as shown. Create a new layer which will be painted with the same Soft Round brush of white color this time (Opacity – 60%). Paint on the canvas as shown: Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay. Create the next new layer and select the Soft Round brush of white color (Opacity – 30%) to continue painting the canvas. We’ve got the next result: The final result!

160 Free and Premium PSD Flyer Design Templates – Print Ready Today we’ve prepared a compilation of a niche which will always be in demand – flyers. You can never have enough design resources, so we thought we would celebrate the weekend with some epic free design resources we found if you need some help with your next Poster Printing or Flyer designing project. Any nightclub parties can be promoted successfully with great flyer templates. These nightclub flyers are very important when you are trying to attract someone’s attention fast!! Flyers are the cheapest and the best option for promoting your parties among your friends or other media. Night-clubs require fresh club flyer templates each and every week. Photorealistic Flyer Mock Ups by Carlos Viloria Freemium tropical party flyer FREE Artwork party flyer psd Poster / Flyer Free PSD Icicube PSD Flyer Template Party Flyer PSD Eleventa Flyer Template Vixen A3 Poster Template Harmony Flyer Template Spring Party Flyer Valentines Day Flyer -PSD- Cube Club Flyer Party Flyer Always Party Flyer -PSD-

70 Excellent Logo Design Tutorials and Resources By Jacob Gube An effective logo sets the tone and public perception of your brand, and therefore careful thought and creativity must be put into constructing it. In this article, you’ll find a large collection of tutorials and resources on the topic of designing logos by some of the most well-respected logo designers in the industry. Logo Design Tutorials Step-by-step logo Designer/Author Chuck Green shows us the general process he takes when designing a logo. Big Bocca – Illustrative Logo This downloadable tutorial goes through the process of designing an illustrative logo. Piranha’s Revenge – Illustrative Logo Artist Von. Logo Frustration Take a peak into a real-world project to see an actual logo designer in action. Creating the Logo / Identity for “Blackberry Creek Community Church” You’ll see, from start to finish, the creation of a logo for the "Blackberry Creek Community Church". Drawing a Good Logo UX Developer Nathan Smith discusses his method for creating an iconic logo design. LogoPond

33 Best Splash Photoshop Tutorials Logo Design Love - Part 16 Firefox sketches Martijn Rijven of Bolt Graphics shared some sketches for the Firefox OS identity. → Continue reading Firefox sketches Logo paintings Jorge Oswaldo’s works are largely influenced by the logos of mega corporations. → Continue reading Logo paintings Cool and Realistic Bubble Text Effect | Text Effects Where this idea came from...i've watched some bubble text tutorials using photoshop and wondered if i can make texts from bubbles that look actually realistic. During making this tutorial, i realized that it was simplier and easier than i thought. Resources:Underwater pic Bubble brush Light rays brush 1. Create a new blank layer ( 550x450 px) and fill with with color 3a6eb6. 2. Click to choose "Create warped text" on property bar: 3. We have selection: Make a new layer and hide the text layer: Click to choose Retangular tool then right click to the selection, choose Make Work Path wit minimum tolerance ( 0.5). We get: 4. Hit F5 to adjust settings: Choose Pen tool and then right click the path, choose Stroke path: Then right click it again, choose Delete path. Duplicate this layer, merge them all and set Outer glow: This technique can be used for many text effects with different brush kinds. 5. 6. Lower opacity to 60% and apply Motion blur: Perspective tool: 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Final effect:

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