Filed under Adobe Photoshop, Articles, clipping, Design, design tutorial, masking, methods, photoshop, photoshop tutorial, selection, techniques, Tips by Chris Spooner
One of the most important Photoshop skills you need as a Designer is the ability to clip out images of various detail using masks or selections. Whether you’re creating designs for print, web or just fancy artwork it’s inevitable that you will be faced with the task of removing a subject from its background in [...]
Continue Reading "Photoshop Masking Techniques Everyone Should Know"Filed under adobe illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, Illustrator, illustrator tutorial, photoshop, photoshop tutorial, poster, Tutorial, Tutorials by Chris Spooner
My absolute favourite style of motorcycle is the custom “bobber”. I love the stripped down appearance and the raw vintage styling. It’s my plan to chop up a bike of my own one day, but for now I have to settle with designing custom motorcycle posters instead. Follow this step by step Photoshop and Illustrator [...]
Continue Reading "Create a Dark Vintage Style Motorcycle Poster Design"Filed under Animation, photoshop, Tutorials by Daniel Bramhall
May 14, 2012 at 1:51 am Comments (0)Filed under Button, CSS, HTML, photoshop, Tips, web by Daniel Bramhall
April 30, 2012 at 1:06 am Comments (0)Filed under fireworks, icon, Inspiration, iOS, photoshop, Tips by Daniel Bramhall
April 23, 2012 at 3:49 am Comments (0)Filed under photoshop, psd by Speckyboy Editors
We have another amazing freebie for you today. Exclusively designed for us by Robby from RobbyDesigns.com, it is a corporate identity package called ‘Jack Designs’ that includes PSD templates for business cards, CD covers (front & back), envelopes, letterheads, door-handles and even a design for a mousepad!. The Free Jack Designs Corporate Identity Package ‘Jack Designs’ is a corporate identity design package for those who appreciate elegant and clean design. The package includes templates for business cards, CD covers (front [...]
Filed under photoshop, Tips & Tricks, Web Design by Jacob Cass
I’ve been using Adobe Photoshop on a near daily basis, since 2006 and over this time I’ve learned quite a number of tips & tricks. I’ve optimized Photoshop for performance, learned all the essential shortcut keys and tools, and have [..]
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Filed under Design, dribbble, guide, How to, interface, photoshop, photoshop tutorial, Portfolio, Tips, Tutorial, Tutorials, Web Design, website by Chris Spooner
Follow this step by step tutorial to create a simple single page portfolio website design that will self-update using shots from your Dribbble profile. In this first of the two part series we’ll go through the process of designing the website concept in Photoshop, before coding up the HTML and CSS next week. The portfolio [...]
Continue Reading "Build a Basic Dribbble Fed Portfolio Website (Part 1/2)"Filed under photoshop, psd, Web Design by Oleg Mokhov
Today we have a 25 fully-layered PSD web templates that have not only been designed with current web design trends in mind, but are also so detailed and professional you simply won’t believe they are free to download. But, do you know something, they all are! Enjoy. You may also like… 20 Free Web UI Element Kits and Stencils → 50 Free PSD UI Kits and Templates for Web Designers → 40 Professional and Detailed Web Layout PSD Templates → [...]
Filed under app, Button, Design, dev, effects, font, Graphic, Graphic design, Illustrator, map, mobile, photoshop, Resource, Resources, Template, Text, Tutorial, Typography, Vector, web by Tara Horner
It’s election season! Time for graphic designers to start helping clients design posters for their upcoming campaigns. It’s a great time to be a designer as each and every city has candidates making their run for spots. Using Live Trace and Live Paint in Illustrator makes stylized posters an easy task. This tutorial walks you through how to quickly make stylized posters that are vector based. This lets you use and re-use designs in various sizes – billboards to coffee [...]
Filed under Graphic design, Illustrator, photoshop by Ben Fellowes
With this tutorial I wanted to create a club flyer design that was not your typical “scantily clad” affair that appeals to the more discerning club goers. So, with a few easy Photoshop and Illustrator effects, and my preference for black and white elegance, I created this enigmatic and outer space type design. Here is a preview of what we will be creating… …and here are the source files. Required Resources: Stock Source: http://browse.deviantart.com/ Swirl/Fractal Brush effect: http://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/1563-spirals-and-halftones Organic Brushes: [...]
Filed under app, Design, effects, Graphic, photography, photoshop, Text, theme, Tutorial by Jameel Khan
You’re a creative talent. The last thing you probably want is to be stuck performing the same task a hundred times on different images. Adobe programmers understand this. It’s why they created Photoshop Actions. With Photoshop Actions, a set of otherwise repetitive tasks can be applied automatically, freeing you up for the real work: being creative. In this article, Jameel Khan shares 60 time saving actions you can use to give your photos the boost they need without taking all [...]
Filed under app, book, CSS, Design, dev, font, Graphic, icon, Icons, jQuery, Logo, minimal, mobile, photoshop, Resource, Resources, showcase, theme, Tutorial, Twitter, Vector, web, Weekly News by Paul Andrew
This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy 
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Filed under adobe illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, illustration, Illustrator, photoshop, Tutorial, Tutorials, typographic, Typography, Vector by Chris Spooner
In today’s tutorial we’re going to create a typographic blackletter layout full of character with dirty textures. We’ll begin by creating the layout in Illustrator before importing everything into Photoshop to bring the design to life with colour, tone and weathered textures. The typographic design we’re going to create is the quote ‘All Roads Lead [...]
Continue Reading "How To Create a Dirty Typographic Blackletter Design"Filed under photoshop, techniques, Tutorials, Workflow by Adrian Taylor
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The creative process is not a linear one. As artists and designers, we often set off in one direction only to decide that the proper solution lies somewhere else completely. Unfortunately, many of the creative software packages we use (Photoshop in particular) can be pretty unforgiving when in comes to making changes late in the game.
Sure, we’ve got “Undo” for a quick change of heart, but often we don’t realize we need to make an adjustment until several steps (or days) later. Luckily, Photoshop has some great features built in that allow us to work in ways that protect our precious pixels—truly freeing us to do our best work.
Continue Reading "Top Non-Destructive Photoshop Techniques"Filed under app, Application, book, Button, Design, dev, effects, flash, Graphic, Graphic design, icon, Icons, Illustrator, mobile, photoshop, Text, theme, Tutorial, Twitter, Vector, web by Jameel Khan
We are visual creatures. As much as we like to think we appreciate the inner quality of things, the reality is that we start off judging every book by its cover. It comes as no surprise then that icons have a huge impact on how we experience the digital world. So as a web designer, the ability to create quality icons is critical to your ability to breathe life into people’s online experience. In this post, Jameel Khan guides you [...]
Filed under actions, Adobe Photoshop, Articles, Design, design resources, effect, Graphic design, Photo Effects, photography, photoshop, Resources by Chris Spooner
There’s an abundance of Photoshop actions available that allow you to quickly transform your photos with a retro or vintage effect, the problem is choosing the best actions from this vast collection. Over 40 Photoshop actions were downloaded and tested to create this showcase of the best freely downloadable retro and vintage actions. The original [...]
Continue Reading "25 Tried and Tested Retro & Vintage Photoshop Actions"Filed under Adobe Photoshop, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, photoshop, photoshop tutorial, poster, skull, Tutorial, Tutorials, western by Chris Spooner
I recently watched the movie Tombstone (1993) on TV, which gave me the inspiration to try my hand at designing a wild west themed movie poster. Follow this step by step tutorial to create a grungy western poster design, see the whole design process from start to finish as the various stock resources are manipulated [...]
Continue Reading "Design a Grungy Western Movie Poster in Photoshop"Filed under Design, forms, Graphic, Inspiration, magazine, mobile, photography, photoshop, Tutorial, web by Tara Horner
Do you need a twist on your photographic inspiration? Check out the following HDR photographers. The techniques they use to create surrealistic images combine multiple exposures to capture a wider range of value and color. Since most HDR photography is used to achieve difficult exposures with wider dynamic ranges, the subject matter of the art tends to be architectural or landscape in nature; however, there are many different forms of abstract HDR photographers. These photographers are setting the standard for [...]
Filed under photoshop, Tutorials by 2Expert
In this tutorial we will be creating a Surreal Greenery effect on an open book. Its very easy to make this Greenery scene by following the simple steps here. So lets get started…
Tutorial Details:
Program: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Difficulty: Intermediate
Estimated Time: 1 – 2 hrs
Final Image
Tutorial Resources:
Here are the sources used
Sky
book
Train track
Grass land
Tree
Crane
Windmill
Elephant
Thanks for all those people [...]
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