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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
How to Create a Contemporary Style Illustration Without Drawing Skills – Screencast
Nov 16th
“There are many ways to illustrate and be creative even if you can’t draw so well. If you’ve got an imagination and some Photoshop skills, then you can create illustrations that are bang on trend. I’ll take you through the necessary steps

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How to Create a Contemporary Style Illustration Without Drawing Skills – Screencast
Amazing Fading Effect for Illustration using Photoshop
Nov 9th
In this tutorial, it is going to show you a simple process of manipulating an image with lighting effects and incorporating brushes techniques too. This tutorial will demonstrate you a step by step guide on how to achieve the illustrated outcome. Very nice! ( View This Tutorial )

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Amazing Fading Effect for Illustration using Photoshop
