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Designing web layout for design studio
Jan 10th
Learn how to create an effective and contemporary web layout for your design studio.
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500+ hearts brushes for your Valentine designs
Jan 10th
Instead of putting together a roundup of the best Photoshop brushes for this month, we decided to come up instead with a long list of the best Photoshop brushes that you can use for your Valentine designs. We tried to include only those brushes created from February 2009 to present. Just by looking at these brushes, I can already imagine endless of design concepts using these brushes. I am sure you will also find these brushes very useful. There are more than 500 Photoshop brushes contained in 30 sets in this round up. Read Best Design News
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40 Sets of Vector Heart Images for Your Valentine Designs
Jan 10th
Here is another set of graphic freebies that you can use in making Valentine designs. This time we gathered together all the best heart images in vector format that you can use for free. The files that you can download from this set are either in EPS, SVG or Adobe Illustrator (Ai) formats. You can use the images as background or just add your text in the designs to personalize these Valentine designs and send them to your friends and loved ones as greeting cards, e-cards, post cards etc. The license or terms of use of each set may vary from author to author so be sure to check with the authors first if you decide to use them for commercial purposes. Read Best Design News
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50 Beautiful Valentine Wallpaper Designs for Your Desktops
Jan 10th
There are varying versions as to how Valentine’s Day has originated. Some historians are saying that the Valentine’s Day celebration originated from St. Valentine, a Roman who was martyred for refusing to give up Christianity. He died on February 14, 269 A.D., the same day that had been devoted to love lotteries.Whether you believe in Valentine’s Day not, here we are listing down 50 beautiful valentine wallpapers that you can use for your desktops. There are wallpapers about love, funny cartoons as well as wallpapers for those who are loveless and do not believe in Valentine’s Day. I hope you will also like this collection of Valentine wallpapers. Read Best Design News
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Get Your Free Wallpaper + Win a Unique 2010 Poster – 12 for 2010, Day Twelve
Dec 31st
To welcome in the new year and finish up our 12 for 2010 celebrations we’re releasing a wonderful unique 2010 desktop wallpaper created by James White , free to all Tuts+ readers and available in a number of different resolutions. We’re also giving away one unique wall poster of the design, part of a limited run of only 12 and surely a collectors item! Entering to win a poster only takes a few seconds, since all you’ve got to do is leave a comment. Too easy! And everybody is welcome to download a free wallpaper. Meet Aaron & Jordan – Support Ninjas Aaron and Jordan radiate Zen and calm in the office. There’s not a question they can’t handle, or a problem they can’t solve – usually in under 4 minutes (and those are ninja minutes, which are swift and cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet). These two have been friends for a long time, allowing them to communicate almost telepathically as they sweep aside problems with ease – kind of like Dr. Phil before he sold-out. Free Wallpaper by James White Start the new year off right with some colorful inspiration on your desktop from James White . Download this Free Wallpaper 1024
New Psdtuts+ Editor Announcement – Welcome Alex Beltechi!
Dec 20th
Hey all! We have a new editor taking over Psdtuts+. Don’t worry, you’re all familiar with his work and the site will be in good hands! Alex has been helping out on the site and training for the last month. He’ll be transitioning into running the site completely before the new year! He’s taking over the the editor’s chair and let’s welcome him to this new position! Welcome the New Psdtuts+ Editor Alex Beltechi Alex Beltechi is taking over as Psdtuts+ editor. If you visit the site regularly, then you’ll be familiar with his work, as he writes some of the best tutorials on our site. His most recent tutorial is a holiday Psd Plus tutorial shown below . Alex is awesome with Photoshop and has a well trained artistic eye. He’ll bring some fresh ideas to the site in 2010, which is great. He’s been helping out with editing for the past month, but he’s still getting used to some of the more demanding aspects of running the site, so give him a little time to get rolling. Here is some more information on Alex: Behance folio and an interview on Abduzeedo . Also, I’ll still be editing Vectortuts+ and working full-time for Envato next year. Having Alex take over this site frees me up to work on one of the upcoming Envato projects in 2010. It’s still top secret at the moment, but keep your eyes open for a new, groundbreaking, creative site from us in February. Some Closing Words A huge thanks to all the fans of Psdtuts+! Running this site has been a high point in my design career. It’s given me a chance to interact with a huge audience and help bring high quality resources to the design community. I look forward to the next project being just as successful. Anyone who wants to keep track of what I’m up to can follow me on Twitter: @seanHodge . Growing this site, mixing with the audience, and working with so many talented designers/artists has been awesome. I look forward to opening up Psdtuts+ again in the near future and looking at it through the eyes of a fan again, continue to learn, and share with the audience. Big thanks everybody! I also look forward to watching Alex head up the team and continue to build Psdtuts+ in 2010. Stay Up To Date – RSS Feed Also, don’t forget to subscribe to the Psdtuts+ RSS Feed to stay up to date with the latest Photoshop tutorials and articles.
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New Psdtuts+ Editor Announcement – Welcome Alex Beltechi!
How to Make a Highly-Textured Site Layout in Photoshop – Screencast
Dec 14th
“In this tutorial, we’ll create a textured site layout by layering multiple images. Creating highly-textured web design layouts is easier than you may think. You can learn to build image intensive designs rapidly. For intermediate Photoshop designers creating this design will take less than an hour, and you’ll learn some professional tips along the way. Let’s get started!” Razvan Here is a link to the written version of the tutorial How to Make a Highly-Textured Site Layout in Photoshop and the video version is below.
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Carton Design Shapes
Dec 5th
Carton Design Shapes – 15 Free vector collection of carton design shapes. Creative examples of package designs, fill free to download it and use for any purposes. Size: 0.5 mb Format: eps (Adobe Illustrator) License: free for all Homepage: Carton design shapes Author: Cartonus.com Download carton packaged design shapes from: Rapidshare DepositFiles MediaFire
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Water Brushes
Dec 2nd
15 brushes, all about water. Water drops, ripple effects in the water, water spils. Hope they’ll help create some cool effects to use in your design projects.
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Color Fragments Effect on the Black-and-White Photo
Nov 26th
Photoshop Tutorials Home About Advertise Affiliates Contribute Resources Subscribe Tutorials Digital Camera Reviews Color Fragments Effect on the Black-and-White Photo Here is one more tutorial photo effect tutorial where I’ll teach u how to create color fragments effect on the black white photo. So, let’s start! Well, first off you’ll want to start by finding a nice stock photo on the stock photo websites or on the Google Images or feel free to use my own . Open up the picture. Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create dress selection of the first woman, then press Ctrl+J to copy selected part of image on the new layer. Select and copy the other two women dresses in the same way. Now go to the background layer and make it black-and-white with Image > Adjustments > Desaturate . Time to create studio background. Create a new one layer and use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to create selection as on my picture below. Fill selected area with dark grey color ( #444444 ). Then set opacity up to 70% for this layer and change layer mode to Hard Light
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Transparent Glass Musical Shapes
Nov 25th
Photoshop Tutorials Home About Advertise Affiliates Contribute Resources Subscribe Tutorials Digital Camera Reviews Transparent Glass Musical Shapes This tutorial about how to create unusual transparent glass effect which you can use in your designs. Create a new document about 500 pixels width and 500 pixels high and fill it with any color, it doesn’t meter for now. Then apply Gradient Overlay layer style for this layer: After that I would like to add the picture of microphone which can radiate musical notes. You can find suitable stock photo or use mine . Open up the picture and use Polygonal Lasso Tool to separate microphone from the background. Press Ctrl+C to copy selected area, then go back to the main canvas and use Ctrl+V to bring copied part of image to here. Move it left and down. Ok, now apply Color Overlay Blending Option to this layer. See the result below: Ok, continue our tutorial next. After that select the Custom Shape Tool and draw the next shape what you can see on my screenshot below. This is one of the standard Photoshop custom shapes. Use white color for shape. Then press Ctrl+T to rotate it a little bit. Ok, after that apply following layer styles to this layer: • Drop Shadow • Inner Shadow • Outer Glow • Inner Glow • Bevel and Emboss • Contour • Satin • Gradient Overlay • Stroke And the result should be next: Then select the shape contour with Select > Load Selection , after that create a new layer above and fill selected area with white to transparent gradient. Remove selection with Ctrl+D and change layer mode to Overlay . We are almost done with this effect. Add a little bit more shapes to the background. Looks good, don’t you think? And there you have the finished product: Return home . Published Nov 24th, 2009 under Effects , Graphic Design . Previous Random Digg Delicious Reddit Float Stumble You must be logged in to post a comment. Photoshop Tutorials Blog Effects Graphic Design Offsite Photo Effects Photoshop Basics Photoshop News Resources Text Effects Web Graphics Website Design Photoshop Blog Register Log in Contact Subscribe Digital Camera Reviews (last posts) Canon EOS-1D Mark IV Scuba Series HD320: underwater mask with a built-in camcorder Sigma releases a compact semiprofessional DP1s camera 12,2-megapixel waterproof G3WP camera introduced by General Imaging Nikon D3S Canon PowerShot SD980 IS FujiFilm introduces FinePix Real 3D W1 camera and Real 3D V1 picture viewer More Digital Camera Reviews Home About Advertise Affiliates Contribute Resources Subscribe Tutorials RSS Feed Free Photoshop Tutorials Copyright 2006-2008 Free Photoshop Tutorials – Most Rights Reserved! Please do not reproduce content without permission!
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How to Create Packaging Gift Paper
Nov 19th
Photoshop Tutorials Home About Advertise Affiliates Contribute Resources Subscribe Tutorials Digital Camera Reviews How to Create Packaging Gift Paper Sure, you love to receive gifts, but also you love to make it to. Ok, in this small simple, but useful tutorial I’ll show you how to create your own packaging gift paper to make your gifts unique. Ok, in the beginning create a new document about 1000х1000 pixels. If you want to make print of this paper in future use the resolution (DPI) of 300, but I just tried the default resolution (DPI) of 72. Fill canvas with grey color ( #4a4a4a ). After that I would like to bring some texture to the canvas. You can feel free to use this one . Open up this file and copy image to our main canvas. Change layer mode to Multiply for pattern layer. For the relief effect apply Filter > Texture > Texturizer with similar settings to these: Now we have a relief like this: Ok, next we create a new layer. Then with the Brush Tool selected, choose the soft round brush about 300 pixels from the standard Photoshop palette and create some green prints with color of #c6ff00 . Change layer mode to Overlay . Create a new layer and add more prints with blue color ( #00d1fd ). Change layer mode for this layer to Overlay also. Add a couple of prints more in the same way using following colors: #fe8a00, #fe00b9 и #7601da . Ok, now time to add the stars and we are done. So, create…
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