Category Archive: Photoshop

Falling Off the Wall Text Effect – Photoshop Tutorial
March 4, 2010 - 9 Comments
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial, Typography

At some time or another we have all seen it – neighborhood walls with old and deprecated graffiti or, just as common, you may have seen some flyers or posters that have been stuck for so long on these walls that they start to peel and hang on by their edges. It is this effect that is recreated in this tutorial. Rather than use typical graffiti or a common poster this tutorial opted to combine the two, and have old and peeling posterized letters graffiti slowly peeling and falling from the wall.

A Round-Up of 50 Fresh Photoshop Tutorials and Techniques
February 22, 2010 - 21 Comments
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial

As a graphic designer you will never reach the point were you can say “Yep, I know everything, nothing left for me to learn!“. It doesn’t work that way, graphic design is a constant evolution of learning new techniques, knowing latest design trends and all the while staying focused on your own art integrity.
Photoshop [...]

40 Detailed and High Quality Mobile Phone .psd Source Files
February 17, 2010 - 33 Comments
Graphic Design, Mobile, Photoshop

.psd source files are truly amazing and unique resources – not only do they showcase the talents of the artist, but they also offer the opportunity to dig deeper and discover how they were created. They give you the chance to learn, unlike tutorials which are step-by-step, with a .psd file you roll your sleeves and you get your hands dirty delving into its inner workings.

50 Photoshop Brush Collections – 1000s of Brushes
January 13, 2010 - 38 Comments
Graphic Design, Photoshop

The demand for high quality Photoshop brushes are huge, every designer needs them. The problem may be that there are far too many of them, resulting in it is nearly impossible to find that particular brush that your design needs.
There are certainly no shortage of Photoshop Brush Directories, and there are certainly no shortage of [...]

Creating a Realistic Torn Photo Effect – Photoshop Tutorial
January 7, 2010 - 30 Comments
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial

This is something new for us today – a Photoshop tutorial. It is area in which I have hoped to explore for a very long time. With this, the plan is to have a weekly section dedicated to publishing a fresh and original tutorial, not only for Photoshop, but also for Illustrator and Fireworks.

The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009
December 18, 2009 - 62 Comments
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Popular, Tutorial

On Monday past we published the post 49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009, a collection of the best artistic tutorials for Photoshop from this year. As a follow up to that post, today we have The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009, a collection of diverse and unique effects and type treatments that will add a little extra to your next design.

49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009
December 14, 2009 - 41 Comments
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial

What a year it has been for Photoshop… so many new techniques, so many fresh ideas and so many new and creative web sites offering free tutorials. In this post we have collected the best of them, focusing on photo manipulation, design and drawing, poster design, caricature design and finally, illustration within Photoshop. We have purposely omitted icon design, text effects and GUI tutorials, these will be following in the coming weeks, keep an eye out for them.

30 Artistic and Creative Photoshop Poster Tutorials
November 13, 2009 - 33 Comments
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial

Although posters as a concept have been used for many centuries, in traditional art years, poster design is a relatively new. It has only been in the last 100 years that poster design has been elevated and recognized as an art-form, and has gained the kind of popularity that no other design category can rival.

18 Creative and Horrific Digital Images for Halloween
October 28, 2009 - 6 Comments
Graphic Design, Photography, Photoshop

Horror art can be defined as being “the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human experience” (via Wikipedia). Chilling description isn’t it? Or, if you prefer, it could be described as being blood, guts and gore.
Horror can be [mostly] a very disturbing art, it can also be very memorable and creative. It is the latter two elements that we have captured for todays post.

40 Amazing Photoshop Brush Directories and Collections
October 23, 2009 - 31 Comments
Graphic Design, Photoshop

There are hundreds and thousands of Photoshop brushes available to download for free. Were do you start looking? How do you find that particular brush that you need to complete your latest design project? And most importantly, were are all the the high quality or even hi-res brushes? In this design resource round-up we have compiled a list of the best Photoshop directory resource sites and also compiled a list of the best PS brush collections. If you can’t find the brush that you need here, give up, because it can’t be found (or, I may have missed it).

Beautiful Digital Light Painting from Tony Ariawan
September 30, 2009 - 10 Comments
Illustrator, Inspiration, Photoshop, Tutorial

Digital light painting is the technique that can turn a dull image into an amazing and vibrant work of art that conveys a sense of movement and energy. This effect nearly always works well on subjects that are stationary or static but can be very difficult to produce on animated subjects such as people. It does take a very skilled hand to digitally paint a person with light, this is were Tony Ariawan comes in and excels.

50 Imaginative Fantasy Art Tutorials for Photoshop
September 2, 2009 - 36 Comments
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial

Natural imagination is the key to creating Fantasy art. It could be a depiction of a magical and mysterious scene, a mythical or supernatural fairy, or even a horrendous blood soaked fiend. Whatever the ingredients of the fantasy scene are, the results are always the same, beautiful, mysterious and thought provoking. The real beauty is that it could be anything that your imagination can muster. Unlike natural imagination, having the skills and knowing the techniques to reflect your imagination on screen or in print needs work, it has to be taught.

25 Cool Digital Photography Tutorials, Techniques and Effects
August 28, 2009 - 25 Comments
Graphic Design, Photography, Photoshop, Tutorial

The list of cool digital photography techniques and tutorials is endless, you can even find 10 completley different methods to achieve the same effect. Which is the best? It really depends on the photographer and there level of expertise. In this post we have listed our own personal favorites photography techniques with tips tutorials to help you recreate the effect. You will find tecniques for the currently in vogue HDR, Tilt-Shifting and Lomography to the less common and diverse Sabatier and Escher effects. Which ever effect you use, your images are going to look cool and unique.

50 High Quality Free Icon Sets in PSD Format
August 17, 2009 - 42 Comments
Free Icons, Graphic Design, Photoshop

When a designer releases a free high quality icon set, we are all delighted and grateful. And when a designer releases an icon set accompanied by the .psd files we are ecstatic. An icon set may at times be limited to your requirements, and the chance to extend the icon set, with the use of a .psd file is always helpful.

30 Useful Photoshop Buttons and Badges Tutorials
August 11, 2009 - 40 Comments
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial, Web Design

Sometimes, the smaller elements of a website design, can cause you the most design problems. The simple button is the biggest culprit, you need to craft it so that it will fit seamlessly into your sites layout and designing it so that it helps your readers navigate easily. A difficult combination. All of the tutorials below are to help you create your own custom web site or interface button.

25 Distinctive and Famous Logo Photoshop Tutorials
June 30, 2009 - 20 Comments
Graphic Design, Logo, Photoshop, Tutorial

Have you wondered how to create a logo with the quality and distinction of famous logos like Google, Digg, Transformers or Star Wars. With the help of these amazing photoshop tutorials you will get an insight into how professional logos are designed as well as improving your photoshop skills.

29 Cool and Creative Text Effects Photoshop Tutorials
June 22, 2009 - 19 Comments
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial, Typography

Graphic designers never cease to amaze me. Time and time again, they keep on coming up with new, original and creative text effects. Some of these typography effects tutorials are amazing, just have a look at the MEAT text effect, genius at work.

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