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30 High Quality Photoshop Tutorials Released In 2013

Bogdan — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:56:49 +0000

Being a web or a graphic designer is not an easy job because you constantly need improve your skills and stay up to date with all the newest tricks, technologies and trends. All of these things require a lot of time and if you are at the beginning of your career then you’ll need to allocate a good slice of your schedule for learning.

The following tutorials are extremely valuable because they cover a lot of design types, so I recommend you to bookmark them for later use. From learning to create an icon and all the way to cleverly change a background, these tutorials will help you cover a lot of techniques while boosting your skills.

Check them out and let me know if you know other great tutorials.

Create a Letter App Icon in Photoshop

Rusty Vintage Tin Sign in Photoshop

How to Replace a Woman’s Lipstick With Artwork

Create a Furry Little Monsters Wallpaper in Photoshop

Strawberry-Inspired Text Effect

Create a Retro Spaceman

Create a Surreal “Parting of the Sea” Photo Manipulation

Changing Your Background

Create a Plastic Beach Ball in Photoshop

Create a Photo-Realistic Fried Egg Using Digital Painting Techniques

Add Text on a Wet Window

How to Paint a Lovely Pair of Birds in Photoshop

Create a Science Fiction Environment With Photoshop

Add Textures and Color FX to Lifeless 3D Renders in Photoshop

Create an Emotional Surreal Landscape in Photoshop

Design and Print Custom Silk Screen Die-Cut Stickers in Photoshop

Create your own world

Create a Colorful Scene With Flowing Lights Effects in Photoshop

Create an Adorable Children’s Illustration

How to create Nexus 7 Background

How to create a planet in Photoshop

Combine real and digital brushes

Snow, Ice and Overpainting

Create a digital collage from hand-drawn elements

Design amazing mosaic effects

Create a Battlefield Scene Using Stock Photography in Photoshop

Send in the Clowns

Create a Folded Island Map Icon in Illustrator and Photoshop

Create a Fantasy Out the Door Wallpaper in Photoshop

Create a Space Invaders Poster

Quick Review : Adobe Photoshop CS6, a Top Rated Design and Photo Editing Software

Bogdan — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:36:41 +0000

Technology has made great impact on real world and people are utilizing it in different aspects of life. One prominent impact of technology we have seen is in the field of designing whether it is web designing, cloth designing or any other stuff that rely on design. In the beginning of internet era people don’t have much options or you can say sense of designing but with advancement in technology, people started focusing on design and it is observed that most people got attracted to unique and interesting designs. So to support designers, different software has been developed and since then things are getting better.

Adobe is one of the pioneers in term of providing design and development software, Photoshop is one of the most powerful design and image editing software. Initially, Photoshop offers fewer features but currently the latest version of Adobe Photoshop CS6 is available in the market. According to the critics it is considered as the best Photoshop version so far which is offering numerous features that suits designers and photographers as well. We are going to discuss some key features of Adobe Photoshop CS6 briefly.

Cleaner Interface: The previous Adobe Photoshop interface was bit messy and complicated for the user but now Photoshop CS6 offers cleaner interface, they have eliminated the redundant toolbar and made it sleeker, beside this side panels that provide history or layers is now optionally displayed and in the preference settings you can set fly-out panel to auto-hide.

Fast Performance: Considering the performance of the software, now Photoshop CS6 offers Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine which uses system Graphic memory to speed up image processing. This feature was initially limited to video processing but Photoshop CS6 offers it for image processing as well, also it keeps on working in the background and save the progress after every 10 minutes so that user don’t have wait long in the end.

New Crop Tool: The New Crop tool provides you more flexibility in terms of cropping, it selects the whole image instead of guessing crop size and you can rotate the whole image to see the final result and can go back to the un-crop image to modify it.

Video Editing: The Video editing feature is available in extended Photoshop version and it has been made more powerful in terms of editing, you can easily add still images and adjust them in video clips accordingly. In addition to that you can use several other features such as filtering, cropping and more. The noticeable feature of video editing is that the each video clip is treated as a single layer; this provides you freedom to adjust each clip separately.

Content Aware Move and Patch: One of the most amazing features of Photoshop CS6 is Content Aware Move and Patch. This tool allows you to move an object from an image without affecting the background. For instance if you want to remove a person from a scene, you can easily select it and remove without affecting the background image. This tool works best with the consistent background texture.

Along these prominent changes in Photoshop CS6, there are numerous encouraging improvements in drawing tool, Layers and JDI, 3D tool and new text tools are also added. In simple Adobe Photoshop CS6 is a complete design and editing suite for professional designers and photographers.
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Anyways if you haven’t used Adobe Photoshop CS6, I really suggest you to switch on to it now and experience the new features.

35 Best Photoshop Food Tutorials

Bogdan — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:43:12 +0000

Delicious and sumptuous foods appeal to all our sense organs. It should taste great, awesome to look at, have a delicious smell and comes with a soft and supple texture. The foodies do not simply eat food, but they enjoy experiencing it with all their senses. The master chefs have an artistic flair within themselves and they use it for presenting the food in an attractive as well as innovative way. Food should be presented in a way so that it entices the consumers to indulge in it.

A cut throat competition exists between the different kinds of food manufacturers. Therefore they need to market their brand with mouth watering graphics of their food products so that they can entice the potential consumers to indulge in them. Adobe Photoshop is absolutely essential for creating graphic images of different kinds of delicious foods produced by a company and thereafter marketing them successfully. Since Photoshop is a complicated software, creating delicious graphic images of food items will be quite difficult. Therefore, they can make use of the different Photoshop tutorials for learning different techniques which they need to apply for creating awesome images of different food products like ice cream, beer bottles, coffee, cakes and many more.

Out of the thousands of Photoshop food tutorials, we have handpicked thirty five awesome tutorials that have been developed by experts. These will help the graphic artists to learn new skills and expand the horizon of their knowledge. Enjoy and let us know which one you liked most.

Beer Glass and Bottle

Festive Cocktail

Chocolate Volcano

Cereal Box

Coffee Cake Photo Manipulation

Banana style text effect

Beer Themed Poster

Citrus Fruit Design

Colorful Cake

Ice Cream

Milk monster and chocolate splash

Awesome Milk

Broken Egg and Yolk

Coffee Cup

Colorful Alcohol Product

Composites with Octoberfest Glassware

Cookie Text Effect

Cool Glass of Beer

Delicious Green Apple

Delicious Ice Cream Bar

Eat Typography

Elephant Sundae

Energy Drink Ad

Fresh Splash

Popcorn box

Real Apple Logo

Realistic Loaf of Bread

Realistic Soda Bottle

Realistic Wine Bottle

Simple Coffee Cup

Sweet Chocolate

Sweet Donut

Tasty 3D Typographic

Tasty Cupcake

Wine Bottle

Author Bio – Chris Peterson is a freelance writer at DesignCrowd Singapore, where he writes about web and graphic design trends

25 Gorgeous Decorative Brushes For Photoshop

Bogdan — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:52:26 +0000

This pack will surely make a great addition to your collection because many design project require aesthetic tune-ups. In this article you will find 25 great sets of free decorative photoshop brushes. These can be great for adding touches to your designs, especially on those who need a great level of detail. Also, for more photoshop brushes check out BrushLovers.com.

Extremely Useful Photoshop Custom Shapes For Any Designer

Bogdan — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:17:07 +0000

Without a doubt, Photoshop is the most popular tool among designers because it can help you create anything. Thanks to its modularity, you use optimize your work by using already made objects such as brushes, filters or shapes. This way you will not only save a lot of time but you will can also benefit from using something better than you can create, therefore this presets are great especially for beginners.

These Photoshop custom shapes can be used in virtually any type of project such as websites or digital works because they are extremely easy to implement and adapt to your needs. All of these packs have a very high quality but what is most important is that they are very easy to use. That being said, if you are a designer then you need a very large and well organized toolbox, therefore these Photoshop shapes are indispensable.

Simple Buildings – PS shapes

Photoshop Shapes: Heraldry

Book Plate Custom Shapes

Summer Time Shapes

Animal shapes

Central America Custom Shapes

Dead Trees

Viking Rune Shapes

Isometric Shapes II

Auto Gauges

Photoshop Shapes: Graffiti

WW2 Planes

Car logos

Assorted Logos

Custom Shapes: Birds

Straights and Swirls

Floral Banner Shape

Custom Shape Pack

Photoshop Shapes: World Map

A mix of lots of Photoshop shapes

30 Awesome Photoshop Brushes Useful For Any Design

Bogdan — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:17:17 +0000

Photoshop is an amazing tool which offers a lot of possibilities to create stunning graphic illustrations so there is no doubt that it is the number one tool in every designer’s toolkit. Thanks to its versatility, you can optimize your work by using various things such as actions, filters, presets, brushes and more and thanks to the design community, you can find almost anything you need. In this article you have a collection of 20 simply amazing Photoshop brushes which give your works a new, fresh and stunning look.

Marker Pen Strokes

Grunge Borders Brush Set

Abstract Round

Tech Brush Pack

ASdal Digital

Photographer Brushes

Feather brushes

Abstract Light Free Photoshop Brushes

HD Grass Brushes

Photoshop Splatter Brushes

Space background brushes

High resolution floral brushes

Photoshop Cracks Brushes

School Doddles

Serenity Brushes

Dreamy Flower Set

Assorted Vintage Brushes

Galactic Photoshop Brushes

Sea Creatures

High-Tech Reloaded

Gradient Shape brushes

Overlay Lines Brushes

Hand Drawn Arrow Photoshop Brushes

Skin Care Photoshop Brushes

Sketch book Scribbles

Grunge Lines Brushes Part.1 by DieheArt

Nebulae Photoshop Brushes

Retro Photoshop Brushes

Grunge Typo Brushes

Cloud Photoshop Brushes

35 Outstanding Examples Of Vector Art

Alexandru — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:00:56 +0000

I know exactly that out there are many vector lovers and for them sometimes it’s tricky to find great examples for inspiration. Vector creations are simply stunning when executed correctly so today I want to show you 35 outstand examples of vector art.

20 Free PSD Templates Useful For Any Designer

Bogdan — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:33:37 +0000

When creating a design, no matter the project, there’s a high probability that you’ll encounter difficulties. When the deadline is short or your knowledge base is not too big, then you need to start being even more creative. Even if working with Photoshop you will save a lot of time, thanks to its huge popularity you can find many types of resources. Among them there are the .psd templates which acts not only as a way to learn new tricks but also to make your work more efficient by using and adapting already made components. Below you have a collection of 20 psd templates which are useful for any designer.

Corked Screwer

Gastronymous

Layman Politics

Dead Stocker

Badge PSD Template Set

5 Pagination PSD Buttons

Segmented Control

Landing Page

Theater Sign

Clock

Google Maps UI Controls

Cinema PSD

Email subscribe box

Woven/Wooden Frames

Product Box

Coming Soon Subscription Box

Return to top

Facebook Butons

Mail Icon layered

Task List Web App

Astounding Images Of Melting Cars

Alexandru — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:00:52 +0000

The melting parts of the cars were created by Souverein in 3D, the cars were shot in a studio and everything was put together in post. CGI and postproduction done by Souverein Weesp, shot by Maarten de Groot.

Souverein is a postproduction company which consists of a group of creative individuals who specialize in high end image creation in various forms.

“Pencil Vs Camera” In 40 Amazing Photos

Alexandru — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Belgian artist Ben Heine seamlessly matches pencil sketches with real life settings to create images he calls ‘Pencil Vs Camera’. This new type of art mixes drawing and photography, imagination and reality, in a awesome way. Ben Heine initiated and popularized in 2010.

It’s full of magic, illusion, poetry and surrealism. Ben published his first “Pencil Vs Camera” image in April 2010 but the series is the result of a long graphic exploration and a logic consequence of his personal artistic development