Free Hi-Res Photoshop Brushes: Acrylic Textures For this set of brushes I wanted to create something with a little body and depth, and I really wanted to accentuate the wisps and pieces of the brush strokes themselves. With that in mind, these brushes are perfect for textures, overlays, and even poster making, letting you achieve a great organic feel. This set has a total of 9 Acrylic Texture Brushes all hovering at exactly 2500px. As always these are free for personal and commercial use. Enjoy! Preview: Download Acrylic Textures Photoshop Brushes (via MediaFire): contains 1 .abr file – 9 brushes, 27.6 Mb AT Casa: arredamento casa, design, architettura, mobili per la casa 34 PhotoShop Tutorials That Will Leave You Looking Like A Pro Design This time we are bringing you a lot of Photoshop tutorials on all sorts of topics. It's meant to be a good collection for those who aren't quite pro yet, but want to be. From making amazing business cards to bringing a stone statue to life, these take us through hours and hours of practicing those skills. These tutorials are some of the best and varied out there. Great and Interesting Photoshop Tutorials Photo Strip The warp tool is used to create a twisting effect (you need Photoshop CS2 or above). Create a Hellacious Flaming Skull This tutorial goes through all the steps of creating a flaming skull in Photoshop. Customized Product And Label Pay close attention when you do this tutorial. Print-Ready Business Card Design up a simple business card in Photoshop and get it ready for print with crop marks and bleed. Awesome Digital Bokeh Effect Learn how to create a digital bokeh effect. Abstract Watercolor Wallpaper There are plenty of ways to create a watercolor effect in Photoshop.
Post-Apocalypse In this tutorial, we'll change a full of sunshine, ordinary photograph into a gloomy image of the world after destruction of mankind. Using simple tools, we'll turn lively streets into abandoned ruins overgrown with weeds. A number of stock images and a few little tricks will let us optimize our work and make this job more interesting and spectacular. Final Image Preview Take a look at the image we'll be creating. Preparation All the photos I've used are taken from the stock.xchng site. Step 1 Open the city image, which you intend to use, and save it under a different name. Step 2 Now, in order to create the appearance of destruction, several actions need to be taken. Step 3 Open the flag image, and separate the flag from the background. Select the Eraser Tool (large size and hardness set at 0%) and remove the side part of the flag. Finally, make the image monochromatic (Image > Adjustments > Black & White). Step 4 Place the flag onto the surface of the main image. Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8
1000+ great free Photoshop brushes by PaulW by aloa Wed, 05/21/2008 - 15:24 My friend PaulW has uploaded a lot of great Photoshop brushes over at DeviantArt.com . If youre interested in abstract art you have to download them. PaulW is an awesome graphic designer from the UK who made great brushes like abstract, grunge or vector brushes for you. Here you can download his whole collection. The Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Design 01 / Stamen Design » For clever ways of delivering both bountiful information and surprising beauty gleaned from data sets -- and Twitter. 02 / Local Projects. For showing how digital design can create powerful emotional experiences. 03 / Hoefler & Frere-Jones For creating brilliant typefaces used in everything from presidential campaigns to stock tables. 04 / Berg For tackling design challenges, from iPad apps to RFID tags, as if they were science experiments. 05 / Fuseproject For proving that great commercial design can be used to underwrite great philanthropic design. 06 / ideo For opening its own innovation processes to the world. 07 / Ammunition For cutting-edge consumer electronics that still have soul. 08 / Pentagram For graphic design that sets a new standard, for old-school books as well as newfangled animated logos. 09 / Michael Van Valkenburgh For transforming rotting docks and wastewater facilities into enchanting environments.
Quick Tip: Remove a Person From a Photo With Photoshop CS5’s Con With the launch of the new Adobe Suite of programs comes the long awaited Adobe Photoshop CS5. Packed with new features to speed up your workflow it truly is the most advanced edition of Photoshop to date. One of the new features we will be looking at today is called Content Aware. This feature allows you to quickly fill in a selection with surrounding content making it look like a part of the original image. Original Image Before we begin, download the image that we will be working with. Step 1 Using the content aware tool on different images produces different results. Step 2 We are extracting the person on the left from this photo. Notice in the image below how far I am drawing the path from the subject. Step 3 Once you complete the path around the subject, turn it into a selection. A dialog box will pop-up, make sure the feathering is set to 0px. Step 4 Now we have an active selection around our subject. A dialog box will pop-up, make sure the Content Aware option is selected. Step 5
Light Incorporating lighting effects is a great way to bring energy and flow into your designs. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create some amazing lighting effects from scratch using a free open source program and then adding final touches to the image inside of Photoshop. Required Resources Download the Resources (Includes the final PSD) Final Image Preview Take a look at the design we’ll be creating. Step 1 To start off this tutorial you will be creating the main glowing object using a program called Apophysis. Note: If you would like to skip the creation process using Apophysis, I have included the rendered output in the resource files. After you have downloaded and installed Apophysis. Step 2 In the left hand panel of Apophysis, double click on different flame titles until you find one that you like. Step 3 Hopefully you found a good flame to use. Tip #1: You can mutate flames. Tip #2: Try Zooming in and out Step 4 Once you have perfected your flame, go to Flame > Render to Disk. Step 5
Photoshop For Beginners: 6 techniques to extract anything from its background This is the second of a series of tutorials thought for Photoshop beginners. I’ll explain in depth those features that can result difficult to understand for a newbi. Today I’ll show you 6 techniques you can use to extract a person/object from its background. From now on extraction won’t have secrets for you! Extraction is one of the worst enemies for those who start using Photoshop. While it’s simple to extract a geometric figure from its background, it is difficult to do the same with a tree or a blonde flowing hair model. Do you want to learn Photoshop basics with simple yet effective tutorials? How to: Before we start: in the following exercises I take for grant you’ll unlock the background layer when you open a new image in Photoshop before start the exercise. For mac users: alt=options. ctrl=cmd. Exercise 1: How to extract simple form objects Objects with simple forms are easy to be extracted. Open the screw image in Photoshop. Why to press shift? Why to press alt? Why red channel?
Text Effects Every day morning, designers around the world come up with new fresh ideas for text effects and Photoshop text effects tutorials. It has been awhile since I shared with you the last Photoshop text effects collection. Text is an important element in your design, this importance goes because the text serves both the design and the message behind the design or the message you want to deliver. However, choosing the best font and text effect is one of the most important factors for the design success. Today is the time again to share Photoshop tutorials collection for amazing text effects. It is always fantastic to use special style of words to express your thoughts. Creat A Cool 3D Text Scene In this tutorial we will learn how to create a cool 3d text effect in photoshop. In this tutorial, it will show the processes to design this fantastic text effect – Rock Standing on Colorful Ground. In this tutorial, it will show you how to use a photograph of fire to set text to the match.
25 Great Free Photoshop Texture Packs 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 → Typo picture I love Photoshop techniques that offer all kinds of possibilities for experimentation—and the following tutorial is a perfect example of one of those techniques. In this issue, we’re going to take a portrait and replace the person’s image with text (think 2009 Grammy posters). Pick a portrait that offers good contrast—a photo that’s very dramatic and dark probably won’t work as well. I’ve had the best success with straight-on head and shoulder shots, but again, feel free to experiment with all types of photos. For the best results, choose a photo that has a light background (or select the background around the person and make it lighter). Create a new document (File>New) in a size that’s smaller than your photo: the specifics don’t really matter. Switch back to the photograph. Then, press Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J) to copy the selected pixels onto a new layer. Go back to the Select menu and choose Color Range again. Click the Create a New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel.
Create a realistic folded paper text in Photoshop Today we will learn how to realize a folded paper text effect from scratch in Photoshop. We will firstly create the background using a couple of patterns, then we will work on the type treatment with the help of the pen tool, layer masks and other useful techniques related to dodge,burn and the transform tool. This tutorial is very simple to follow, so I suggest to everyone to give a try. Preview: Click to enlarge Become a Premium Member and get unlimited access to source files and premium resources for only 7$/month. Step 1 Create a new document in Photoshop. *note for Mac users: ctrl=cmd, alt=option Step 2 Fill the background with a dark green (#41514c). Step 3 To create the textured effect of the background, I’ve used 2 of our soft grunge patterns created by Piervincenzo. Select the pattern2_380_hard and press ok to fill the background. Finally set the layer to overlay with opacity 50%. Step 4 Create another layer, this time fill it with pattern_9_380_hard. Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10
Cloning Advertisement Photoshop’s wide array of cloning tools is the cause of many of the absolute best and worst works created with the application. In a skilled and experienced hand, these tools lead to phenomenal results. In the hands of a careless artist, Photoshop cloning can be disastrous to the credibility of the result. The Clone Stamp Tool The Clone Stamp tool is the oldest and most widely known of the cloning tools. Use the “Option” key (“Alt”) to set the source. To clone out the name on the tombstone above, you would select a source that shares the texture of the area you want to replace. To begin, simply click on the preferred source area while holding down the “Option” key (“Alt” on a PC). To be able to use this tool effectively, let’s look at the relevant settings. Basic Settings: Brush Below, you’ll find the default settings when the clone stamp is selected. The clone stamp’s basic settings. The first setting you’ll want to familiarize yourself with is for the brush. The Healing Brush