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. Full list after jump. 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) Aqua Text Photoshop Tutorial
50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes | Developer's Toolbox | Smas by Daved Brosche Having a good collection of Photoshop brushes is essential for any designer. There is certainly no shortage of Photoshop brushes on the Web these days. The problem with Photoshop brushes isn’t in finding brushes, but in finding quality brushes. Below you’ll find a collection of quality brushes that every designer should find handy. These 50 Photoshop brush sets are ones I find myself using over and over in a variety of projects. Paint Splatters Link Paint splatters are an essential set of Photoshop brushes to have. Splashes of Paint1 Splatters3 Splatter5 Photoshop Brushes Set 17 Photoshop Brushes Set 29 Photoshop Brushes Set 311 Lucidity Brushes13 Gradiant Splats15 Go Media Brushes17 Massive Splatter Pack19 Brush Strokes Link These types of Photoshop brushes are great to have on hand because they can achieve a variety of effects. Simple Smudges21 20 Painted Brushes23 Watercolor Brushes I25 Watercolor Brushes II27 Messy Spraypaint29 Grungy Watercolor Brushes31 Hi-Res Watercolor Brushes35
1000 Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Sets Oct 15 2008 Hundreds of thousands of incredible Adobe Photoshop brush sets are all over the web. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of Photoshop brushes available, you can now add patches of 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. Without further ado, we present 1000+ high-Resolution Adobe Photoshop brush sets that will be perfect for any project you may happen to be working on. Important: Licenses of every brush set varies, so be sure to check that information before using them. 1. 1.1 Sidewalk Series Vol. 2 Oil Stains 10 high resolution grungy concrete stains inspired by all the cracks, stains, and spots on the sidewalk and in the street. 1.2 Sidewalk Series Vol. 1 Cracks 6 Excellent high resolution sidewalk cracks to give you a nice grungy texture. 1.3 Cracks Part III 15 brushes made with Photoshop 7.0. 1.4 Urban Decay Photoshop Brushes 1.5 QuadGrunged 1.6 Cracked Brush Set 2. 2.4 Autumn Glory
8500+ Free Photoshop Brushes. Weekly Roundup from DesignFloat Hey guys, the time for Friday roundup has come and we want to share some useful resources featuring free Photoshop brushes with you. We all know that brushes turn out to be the essential tools for web designers and help to add the desired atmosphere and create stunning websites. Using this Photoshop tool, it is possible to give the design the impressive touch and make it catchy. Of course, you have seen a vast amount of brush sets all around the web, but here you can find the top-notch collection of the most popular among them. We have decided to compile 8500+ various brush sets for our readers and we hope that this post will come in handy and add inspiration for your future designs. So, you are welcome to enjoy this roundup that features the ultimate collection of brushes. Additionally, we’d also recommend you to check out the compilation of 60 free Photoshop gradient sets, which you can easily use to improve your graphics. 1100+ Abstract High Quality Free Photoshop Brushes
October Tutorial #1: “Blend If:” Masking Note: *Intermediate and above. This is a semi-automatic masking technique that enables users to mask or knock-out complex and unwanted areas of a picture with ease and accuracy. Most designs and artworks will require us to do montaging of several images. However, we can only use those images effectively if we are able to extract the “parts” out cleanly. Step 1 To begin with, we need to extract the model from the background. Then, create a “Layer 2” under “Layer 1” and fill it with a bright blue background. Model - Image ID: 2625298 © Claude Belanger 123RF.com Step 2 Double click “Layer 1” to bring out the blending option, and focus your attention on the “Blend If:” option. You will see a gradient bar with values 0 ~ 255 (with 0 being the darkest point and 255 being the brightest point) and sliders on each end. Step 4 Likewise, dragging the white point slider will result in the image below, blending or knocking away some of the brightest points of the image. When to use, and what to use?
400+ Time Saving Photoshop Actions This post is a roundup of latest free web design resources released during the month of March. This collection includes patterns, icons, themes, and… Continue Reading → These days many artists are collaborating with big brands in order to reach a mass market. As well as interiors, artists and designers are… Continue Reading → This post is a roundup of latest free web design resources released during the month of February. Continue Reading → 100 free textures for photo editing in Photoshop: textures 1-10 | Techniques | PhotoRadar How to use Lightroom: 8 mistakes every photographer makes (and how to fix them) Adobe Lightroom is an incredibly powerful image organisation and editing software package. Of course the downside to having such a powerful tool at your disposal is that it’s possible to make some pretty significant mistakes, especially when you’re first learning how to use it. To help out we’ve drawn up a list of the most common mistakes that photographers make when using Lightroom and have some advice about how to get things right from the outset. 8 reasons why cheap kit lenses are the perfect lens The low-cost kit lenses you get with digital SLRs or compact system cameras don’t have much of a reputation, but is that fair? Full-frame lenses: 4 quick tips for the first-timer All lenses create a circular image, and your camera’s sensor simply records a rectangular portion of this. Lightroom Lens Correction: how to fix common lens and perspective problems
Collection of 30 Best Adobe Photoshop Brushes Something that always comes handy we all need to use Brushes while creating some new designs. There are thousands of incredible Photoshop brush sets available all over the web. So every designer needs to know where to look to find the perfect brushes for the moment. In this today’s post we have showcased 30 Best Adobe Photoshop Brush packs should have in your Bookmarks. Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS or Follow us on Twitter if you want to keep track of our next post. 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32.
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. 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…
Digital Cameras & Digital Photography | PhotoRadar The 50 best free Photoshop brushes | Photoshop Photoshop brushes are a fantastic time-saver as they allow you to quickly create rich artwork without having to draw all the individual design elements. There's a huge spectrum of brushes available ranging from leaf designs to fabric textures, cloud patterns to typography. While Photoshop CC does ship with a set of brushes pre-installed, they only scratch the surface of what's possible with the brush engine. So whether you're using CS3 or have joined the Creative Cloud, grab the free downloads below and start adding amazing design flourishes to your work now! As well as browsing through the whole list, you can jump right to the section you need right now using this handy menu! 01. Jonas Stoltz created this set of 30 Photoshop brushes in the best possible way: by simply splashing paint onto white boards and scanning the results in high resolution. Limitations: none 02. Limitations: free for personal use; contact for commercial use 03. 04. Limitations: none 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11.
60 Impressive Free High Resolution Textures and Backgrounds I’m passionate about textures. I’ve already published some compilations, such as 30 free paper backgrounds and textures at my Creative Closeup blog and 10 grunge, rusty and dirty tileable textures at this site. Now it is time for a new roundup of incredibly cool high resolution textures. These textures belong to different authors. All of them can be used in commercial projects, but it is safer to check the term of use of each texture before doing so. There’s an interesting book called Crumble, Crackle, Burn: 120 Stunning Textures for Design and Illustration that comes with 120 high resolution textures on a bundled DVD. There’s an amazing Photoshop plugin, FilterForge plugin, that lets you create your own textures plugins without coding a single line. And if you want to know how to create some textures yourself, you should check the Textures and Backgrounds Tutorials section of this site. The following images are a small and partial preview of the complete texture.