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Create a Watercolor-Themed Website Design with Photoshop
Dec 7th
Watercolor in graphic design has become very trendy the last couple of years, many websites and incredible designers are using this style and taking it to another level. Even knowing the technique is important in this kind of design, is more about creativity and experimentation. You will learn how to use the Art History Brush and combine it with watercolor custom brushes to create a nice background header image and more. Let’s get it started! Final Image Preview Take a look at the image we’ll be creating. Want access to the full PSD files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join Psd Plus for just $9/month. You can view the final image preview below.
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Create a Watercolor-Themed Website Design with Photoshop
Creating a Shiny Chain with Photoshop
Nov 30th
In this tutorial we’ll use Photoshop CS to create a shiny new chain. We’ll cover creating shapes using a knockout techniques with Shape Layers to applying some fairly sophisticated contours with Layer Styles. This tutorial will help you rethink how Photoshops Layer Styles work and by the end you’ll not only have a damn sexy chain, but have learned some new techniques by thinking out of the box on how we assume things should work. Time to get to it! Bonus Tutorial and Contest! There’s a second part to this tutorial over at Fuel Your Creativity where we’ll take this completed shiny chain and make it look old, rusted and distressed. In addition, you could win a Premium Membership to Psdtuts+!! So when you’re finished here, head on over to fuelyourcreativity.com for a bonus tutorial and your chance to win a Premium 6 Month Membership to Psd Plus! Final Image Preview Take a look at the image we’ll be creating. Want access to the full PSD files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join Psd Plus for just $9/month. You can view the final image preview below. Tutorial Details Program : Photoshop CS 2, 3 & 4 Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 30-40 minutes Video Tutorial Our video editor Gavin Steele has created this video tutorial to compliment this text + image tutorial. Step 1 First let’s create a new document by pressing Command + N and give it a width of 750 pixels and a height of 1500 pixels at 300dpi. Step 2 Now before we create our chain shapes we need to set up our guides. Hit Command + R to show you rulers, then drag a vertical and a horizontal guide to snap in the center of the document. Drag another guide down 140 pixels from the top and one 50 pixels from the left
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Creating a Shiny Chain with Photoshop
Photoshop’s Brush Tool – Basic Guide
Nov 24th
This time I’ve got for you a really basic guide, which is useful for beginners and people interested in learning a little bit more deeply the power of Photoshop’s Brush Tool. Every single Photoshop user has dealt with the brush tool at least once, but not everyone knows how to explode its full potential. In this guide, you’ll learn how to use the brush presets, create your own brush from scratch and modify its properties, play with blend modes and pressure controls, besides some useful tricks. How much do you know about Photoshop’s Brushes? Psd Plus Membership Want access to the full PSD files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join Psd Plus for just $9/month. Below is one of the brushes we’ll be creating in this tutorial. What is it? The Brush tool is a basic painting tool. It works like a traditional drawing tool by applying the color using strokes. It’s located in the standard Tool Bar and its default shortcut is the letter B. The Brush Tool works by adding a shaped mark on a layer, and if you continue pressing the mouse button or the pen on a tablet, several marks will be added creating a stroke until you release the pressure. The essentials options for the brush tool are: Brush Tip Shape, Blending Mode, Opacity and Flow. You must understand those concepts before moving forward with the advanced settings. Photoshop includes several built-in presets, that are in fact pre-made brushes ready to use. Part 1 – Basics Brush Tip This is the most basic option for any Photoshop User, the Brush Tip settings allow you to modify the way …
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