10 Websites to Help You Master GIMP GIMP – which stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program – is a testament to how open source applications can successfully compete with their proprietary, commercial counterparts. Rich with an amazing set of useful tools and effects filters in a user-friendly GUI, GIMP is an excellent application for image editing and graphics creation. In this article, you’ll find 10 excellent sites that feature design tutorials and information about GIMP. 1. Gimp-tutorials.net is a blog-format site that also features user-submitted tutorials. 2. GimpTalk is a large community site for anything and everything GIMP-related. 3. Gimpology is a place that allows users to submit their own GIMP tutorials or share links to tutorials they’ve found on the web. 4. The official GIMP site has a tutorial section that features detailed tutorials to help users get up and running with GIMP. 5. GIMPguru.org is a site dedicated to sharing information about photo-editing and photo-manipulation in GIMP. 6. gimpusers.com 7. 8.
50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets You Should Bookmark If you’ve got an idea (or concept) but find it hard to present on your artwork because the drawings just don’t add up, try Photoshop Brushes. Brushes are designers best friend, particularly web designers who don’t illustrate graphics much. Adobe Photoshop does comes with a basic package of brushes but it has not been updated by folks at Adobe for quite some time. In today’s post, we attempt to present you some of the high quality and good ones, those we thought would be generally useful in many occasion and definitely worth checking out and bookmark. Some useful Photoshop related entries we’ve previously written: Metal Brushes9 metal texture brush set. 2Bit-Twilight BrushesA set of 12 abstract pixel brushes for Photoshop.
The Beauty Of Urban Decay Advertisement The city is a fantastic source of beauty and inspiration, with all the glitz and glamor glistening beneath the city lights. But there is another side of the city altogether, one rife with its own kind of allure. Across the tracks, away from the dazzle of downtown, lies a darker imagination, this one looking to grunge-ridden, dilapidated architecture for inspiration. In this inspirational installment, we take a tour and show the charm of a more neglected and worn side of the city. You may want to take a look at the following related posts: 35 Beautiful Examples Of ‘Urban Decay Photography’ phill.d6 “It never ceases to amaze me the different colors and effects you can achieve in a boring concrete R.C.P drain.” Magnus Lindqvist7 “Your Worst Nightmare”. *pippyzz*8 Fuckin’ days. Escapista9 That Train Don’t Stop Here Any More. fotografie.berlin10 “This Picture is not photoshopped. GraemeNicol11 American Dollar. Mr. trocker13 “Sienkiewicza” Shifted*Exposure14 Sun Beam. Last Click (al)
45 Sites, Free Icons And PSD Resources For Web-Design Since previous graphic design related article turned out to be really popular, I decided to do similar article about web-design related resources. In this list You’ll find many free icons, psd files in good quality, Photoshop layer styles for easier icon creation and many websites specialized to deliver good quality freebie related content. You could say, it’s better to create icons Yourself, but I think there is no sense to create something that’s already there available for free, however if there isn’t something, this is only way to know it. One more time, before You use these icons read licence terms and legal agreements. 1. Actually I think this is one of the best founding I ever had, that’s why this resource is the first in the list. 2. 2 Button PSD’s by easydisplayname 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Here is offered very nice way, how to present Your photos or works. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. iVista Icon PSDs by gakuseisean 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33.
35 Basic Tutorials to Get You Started with Photoshop Adobe Photoshop is a very powerful and versatile image editing/graphics creation application that is the industry standard in its category. Though Photoshop’s interface is intuitive enough for an absolute beginner to learn basic image editing tasks such as cropping and resizing, to be able to fully master and utilize all of its tools takes a considerable amount of time. If you’re interested in honing your Photoshop skills to create spectacular compositions, this is for you. General tutorials 1. If you’ve never had any experience with Photoshop, this tutorial from SitePoint will get you up to speed with Photoshop’s basic features. 2. This tutorial outlines Photoshop CS2′s interface. 3. This wildly popular and humorous screencast on Photoshop techniques by (probably) fictional character Donnie Hoyle is an excellent Photoshop series to follow if you like laughing and learning at the same time! 4. This tutorial goes over the anatomy of Photoshop’s Toolbox. Photoshop tools and features 5. 6. 7.
65 Photoshop Actions for Photo Touch-Ups and Enhancements Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now In the past we have written on Photoshop actions for touchups related to photography enhancements. But it is common for designers to release their actions for free attribution on certain projects. And many of these newer releases are difficult to track down without scouring the Internet for links! Thus I have put together this collection of 55 fantastic new Adobe Photoshop actions for photo enthusiasts. Idiot Actions Faded Sunlight Nothing but Memories Retro Touch Polaroid Generator Cookie Dough Effect Kream Action Vintage II Cool Vintage Nature Summer & Winter Old Series Vintage Actions AFW’s Bluezy Swagger Jagger Color Action Caramel Haze Vintage Pack of 50 Actions Simple Vintage Pink Action Variety Pack Neon Vintage PS Actions Pack AFW’s Vintage Color Colors Five Vintage Pack Spring Mini Actions Vintage Breeze Colored Highlights Vintage Colours in Photoshop Actions Vintage Actions JJ’s Vintage Set Retro Actions Set Bright Vintage Action HDR Tools More PS Vintage
Free Photoshop Plug-ins Collection Home » Design » Free Photoshop Plug-ins Collection Photoshop plug-ins are the add-ons that power a Photoshop user. They make a complicated task much easier & help creating amazing effects, designing faster & better. There are lots of free Photoshop plug-ins which can fire your skills. How to install Photoshop plug-ins? Photoshop plug-ins are .8bf files. Here they are: AlphaWorks – Transparency Effects A free Photoshop plugin for easily removing black or white values and making the region transparent. It provides 6 different filters to match any photo type. ColourWorks – Colour Modification It has 20 effects to modify image colour values in several ways. The plug-in can be used for digital-photo color correction or any other transformations. EdgeWorks – Cool Artistic Styles It has 20 effects to create dramatic edge and colour modifications. This Photoshop plugin is handy for photo transformations for a highly stylized look & creating interesting texture effects ScreenWorks EmbossWorks B/W Conversion j2k
60 Most Wanted Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes, .PSDs and Resources Jan 04 2009 For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative Adobe Photoshop tutorials and Resources, so you can now rest assured that you will have the necessary tools to get the job done. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of textures, brushes, patterns available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any look you want. So in today’s post, you’ll find an assortment of top-notch tutorials, brushes, patterns, textures, actions and .PSD downloadable files that others have freely contributed to the design community for making your next photoshop effect. Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-Feed and visit my twitter page : nourayehia if you want to keep track of our next post. To make your job a little bit easier, we have categorized this post into 7 section, the links below will get you to your desired section. Photoshop Tutorials - 40 Spine-chilling Horror Photoshop Effects