Diffusion Glow Effect in Photoshop Some hardcore photographers will say that enhancing your photos in Photoshop is cheating. However, most photographers do a little retouching or image enhancement to give their portraits a little extra pizazz. Being able to create...
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Creating Amazing Background Textures in Photoshop
Background Textures in Photoshop This is a really cool way to create custom background textures in Photoshop. I have to let you know first, that if you are working in Photoshop CS6 in 64 bit mode, you will have to drop drop to 32-bit mode in order to enable the...
20 Best Free Photoshop Templates To Download
20 of the Best Free Photoshop Templates I am always looking for inspiration for my projects, so you can imagine that I have spent hours and hours searching the web for quality ideas and inspiration to help get the wheels turning in my head. I never copy anyone's...
Create a Sunburst Effect In Photoshop
Creating a Sunburst Effect In Photoshop Sunburst effects have been around for a while. They are used to call attention to a subject and create a key area of focus. You can also use them to create a sense of action. There are many different methods to creating a...
Web Design Graphic Design and Typography Weekly 12
What's New in Web Design Graphic Design and Typography After a brief hiatus, I am back with the weekly round up. You'll see a lot of great stuff this week, from a lot of great sites. You will see some new Photoshop tutorials. You'll also pick up some freelance...
Create a Selective Color Image in Photoshop
Create a Selective Color Image in Photoshop Some say that a picture is worth a thousand words. And, the more impact that picture has, the more it has to say. The right image can be used to garner attention and tell a deliberate story with careful alterations. That’s...
20 Useful Free Photoshop Brushes
Useful Free Photoshop Brushes Creating dazzling effects in Photoshop is something that we do as designers everyday. One way that we do this is to use very resource available to help us do our work faster and easier. If you read my previous article: 25 Fantastic Free...
Create Custom Brushes in Photoshop
Custom Brushes in Photoshop If there was one skill or capability in Photoshop that could be considered to be at the very foundation of most Photoshop techniques, it would be the ability to use any brush shape that you want. Since this was integrated into Photoshop...
Brighten Eyes in a Portrait Using Photoshop
Brighten Eyes in a Portrait Many times you will have a good photo, but something is missing. You will look at it and look at it trying to decide what is missing. Then, you realize that your subject's eyes are dull and too dark. It isn't difficult to brighten eyes in a...
11 Creative Free Photoshop Website Templates
Creative Free Website Photoshop Templates I decided to seek out some quality Free Photoshop Website Templates that you can use in your mockups and web design work. You can either turn these into fully functioning websites with a little slicing and css knowledge. You...
Web Design, Graphic Design, & Typography Weekly 5
Web Design, Graphic Design, & Typography Weekly There's always great content from around the web. This week was no different in the fact that there is something for everyone. Whether you are into web development, typography, web design, web development, graphic...
Free Website Photoshop Template Triumphant
Photoshop Template Triumphant I designed a new Website Photoshop template for you to be able to mockup your next website easily. The overall design is simple. The area above the fold features a large slider with text content and a signup button. You could have this...
Create a Last Minute Christmas Card in Photoshop
Create a Christmas Card in Photoshop Easily If you're anything like me, this holiday season has flown by. Christmas is just around the corner, and you have only 1 weekend left to get cards out to your friends and family. With that being said, you don't have to settle...
The 10 Best Photoshop Tutorial Sites
Learn Photoshop With the Best Photoshop Tutorials Getting started in Photoshop isn't easy. It wasn't easy a decade ago when I got started with it. There were so many menus and filters that I didn't know where to begin. Back when I started, the method of learning was...
3D Candy Cane Text in Photoshop
3D Candy Cane Text For The Holidays The holidays are here, and there’s no doubt that you will come across a few holiday-related design projects on your to-do list. Being able to create themed designs and artwork is part of the designer’s job description. Having...
Create Unique Glossy Text in Photoshop
Text effects are what make your headlines stand out. Whether you are designing a magazine cover, an inside spread, a poster, or a headline for a website, text effects get great attention. Today I'll show you how to create interesting glossy text in Photoshop shown...
Paste Shapes From Illustrator to Photoshop As Paths
26 Professional Free Photoshop UI Kits
The Point of Free Photoshop UI Kits Free Photoshop UI Kits are extremely useful to any designer. The point of a free Photoshop UI Kit is not to download it and just throw it into a project. The point is to download a free Photoshop UI kit and customize it to fit your...
Web Design, Graphic Design, & Typography Weekly 3
Web Design, Graphic Design, & Typography Weekly This week has been a great week for web development, graphic design & typography. There are so many goodies that you'll be blown away. There are a lot of great Photoshop tutorials this week. One shows you how to...
A Designer’s Guide To Drop Shadows
A Look at Drop Shadows One of the most common design challenges across many mediums is creating depth when three dimensions are not available. Flat designs can be boring and monotonous. To combat this, it is our job to create designs that jump off the page. For years,...