When we talk about image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is the first thing that comes to our minds. The software itself is hard to learn and harder to master though. Thanks to the many tutorials available though, even novices can learn the tricky tecniques used by the pros fairly easily. Selecting the best tutorials from a pool containing tens of thousands is very difficult. That is were we come in. To make things a bit more easier for [...]

What a great year 2011 has been for the Photoshop community. With so many new tutorials being published daily it has never been easier to learn a new creative techniques that will help reduce your learning curve substantially. In this yearly round-up we have collected the best of them. It covers Illustrating & Painting, Photo Manipulation, Poster Design, Text Effects, Abstract Drawing and finally, Special Effects. We have purposely omitted any GUI tutorials, these tutorials are strictly for graphic designers. [...]

Nowadays, the iPhone and the iPad play a big part in our life, from apps to social networking, we all make use of them…what I like at apps is that all of them has fancy and glossy icons which are populating our devices and therefore, In this to show you how to design a Facebook icon following some easy steps. This is what we`ll be creating… Download the Source Files Facebook Icon Source Files Step 1 First step, open Photoshop [...]

In this article we have highlighted the best Photoshop brush packs that have been released recently. With a total of 50 packs and well over 500 brushes, covering almost all categories (grunge, light effects, ornamental, abstract, paint strokes, paper, splatters…) and all of the highest quality, you are guaranteed to find the brush pack that is needed for your next project here. You may also like: 38 Watercolor Photoshop Brush Sets (950 Brushes) → 1000 Grunge Photoshop Brushes (40 Sets) [...]

Photoshop is one of the most popular tool used among graphic artists. Photoshop tutorials are definitely one of the best ways to learn and master this tool. There are lots of high quality and variety tutorials on the web available for free so you can learn something new by yourself not going out from home. Today I’d like to focus on surrealism related tutorials. I’ve collected 30 amazing tutorials on creating surreal artworks in Photoshop. Most of the covered techniques [...]

Photoshop is near-ubiquitous with graphics design. Even if you don’t consider yourself a graphic designer, having some Photoshop skills can really come in handy with your poster design/photo/text/etc. work. And tutorials take a lot out of the learning curve, since you can just follow the steps and get up to speed fairly quickly with a certain technique or style. This article shares with you the 30 Photoshop Tutorials for Graphic Designers. Specifically, it covers photo manipulations, photo effects, painting, text [...]

Photoshop is near-ubiquitous with graphics-based web design. Even if you don’t consider yourself a graphic designer, having some Photoshop skills can really come in handy with your web design work. And tutorials take a lot out of the learning curve, so you can just follow the steps and get up to speed fairly quickly. This article shares with you the 30 Recent Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers. Specifically, it covers web layout, UI elements, and Icon Photoshop tutorials. Think of [...]

Watercolor effect is one of the most popular design styles in both web and graphic design. Using various combinations of pastel and neutral colors, this subtle technique gives designers the ability to give a natural, fresh and spring-like feel to their designs. In this roundup we have put together 950 watercolor brushes for Photoshop to help you create your own watercolor designs. You may also like: 1000 Grunge Photoshop Brushes (40 Sets) → Retro & Vintage Photoshop Brush Collection → [...]

It is fundamental that every app designer have a selection of pre-designed and editable UI elements that will allow them to optimize, organize and speed-up work-flow. To help streamline your iPad design work, we have put accumulated a comprehensive selection of iPad specific GUI Kits & Stencils, Wireframing kits, Sketching Templates and fully editable PSD templates that will allow you to rapidly prototype beautiful designed apps. We have also previously published a post that focuses on iPhone GUIs and Stencils, [...]

For every web designer, having a selection of pre-designed and editable web UI elements is key to organizing and optimizing work-flow. Not only do web UIs allow you to rapidly prototype multiple web pages with uniformity, they also aid your personal creativity by having each elements basic structure in-place allowing you to give each your own personal design touches. In this post we have 50 beautifully designed and editable pre-designed Web UI kits, all in .psd format, covering all of [...]

Photoshop is near-ubiquitous with graphics design. Even if you don’t consider yourself a graphic designer, having some Photoshop skills can really come in handy with your poster design/photo/text/etc. work. And tutorials take a lot out of the learning curve, since you can just follow the steps and get up to speed fairly quickly with a certain technique or style. This article shares with you the 30 New Photoshop Tutorials for Graphic Designers. Specifically, it covers photo manipulations, photo effects, painting, [...]

Typically, the timeless and always popular grunge design style is characterized by its aged and fading visual graphics, with either broken or misshapen design elements and is entirely inspired by industrial architecture, urban decay, or in its simplest form, graffiti. To effectively recreate the grunge style you could of course design all of the elements yourself, which would be time-consuming and certainly repetitive when you consider the high quality and volume of freely available grunge brush sets. So, if you [...]

The best designers never stop learning. Only the mediocre ones think they know it all, that there’s nothing else to learn. But you don’t don’t want to be a mediocre designer, do you? That’s right – you want to be a great designer. One that’s always hungry to learn a new technique to make your first web and visual design project slick, cool, user-friendly, and just plain awesome. There is only thing holding you back – How to do it [...]