Fabulous Free Photoshop Icon Sets Trying to find high quality free Photoshop icon sets can be a real pain sometimes. Everyone thinks they are a designer. Sifting through the garbage to find Photoshop files that are actually useful can seem like a tedious task. If you...
Making Your Typography Shine Sometimes you need to create a quick type treatment to dress up a project. This situation applies when flat text just won't do. You just need an extra something to make a headline or an important word stand out. Photoshop is great for...
Switching From Photoshop to Illustrator Adjusting to new software always seems intimidating, especially when it is packed with so many features, as Adobe products are known to be. Well-designed programs like Photoshop and Illustrator are flexible enough to accommodate...
Cool Stuff For Designers 8 There is a lot of cool stuff for designers this week. You will find a lot of stuff on web design and Photoshop. There is alo a lot of stuff on Wordpress, a contest for free themes and more. Here are some great links to check out! The...
Create a Futuristic Interface in Photoshop We go to the movies because they thrill us. We go there to escape reality and see things that just aren't possible in real life. Movies can bring fiction into real life, such as the comic books that we read, and the...
Polishing Your Photos For Pinterest Prominence Pinterest has become a hub for sharing images, inspiration, cool products, and more. users organize photos into different categories, with links back to the sites where they were found. Pinterest is an ingenious idea and...
Cool Stuff For Designers 5 This week there is a lot of incredibly cool stuff for designers. There are a couple of Adobe Illustrator tutorials to sink your teeth into. You will also find some useful Dropbox add-ons to extend its capability. Create a cool denim effect...
Create Silk in Photoshop Today I am going to show you how to create silk in Photoshop. Some might think this is a straightforward concept, but it can be difficult to create silk in Photoshop that has nice highlights. Highlights add dimension and make the silk look...
Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts Cheatsheet On Tuesday, I created a list of Photoshop keyboard shortcuts to help you save a lot of time. All of these shortcuts are extremely handy. I decided to create a one-page Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts Cheatsheet for you to download....
Why You should Choose Design as a Profession I have a lot of friends that hear about my job and think "I would love to do what you do!" I love the enthusiasm, but I don't think a lot of people really know what is involved in graphic/web design, illustration, or...
Yesterday, I covered some basics regarding glow effects and how to use them to your advantage. Today, I will cover some more advanced techniques that will help you to achieve some really cool effects. I created a new document with the dimensions 1024 x 768 and filled...
Glow effects can really add drama to your designs and really make them stand out. Contrast is key here, so it is always a good idea to use a really dark, or even black background. You can add these types of effects to anything such as text, lines, shapes, etc.To do...
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In Photoshop CS5, the new Repousse Panel is fantastic, in that you can create 3D from almost anything. You can create a 3D object from a selection, a path, text, a mask, etc. What is really cool is that you can create your own textures, or you can use images as...
Image size really makes a difference in the look of your documents. The size of your document and its resolution are determined by where your image is going to be viewed. Print This includes magazines, flyers, posters, and anything else that is printed. The higher the...
This tutorial is just in time for Halloween, with an eerie background and 3D text with textures. In Photoshop CS5 the Repousse abilities give you a lot of flexibility, especially with textures, so you can create some really interesting work. This is only available in...
This is a great method to get great masks in Photoshop. You can actually have 2 masks on an image at the same time. You can use a vector mask and use a custom shape to mask out an image, creating a clean mask for sharp edges. The pixel mask is great for creating...
First, take your image and duplicate the background layer, so you can go back to your original if you need to. Hide the background layer and work from your copy. Go into the channels panel and hold down the command key (CTRL on the PC) and click on the RGB channel to...
Red Giant Software has announced the newest version of Knoll Light factory, Version 3.2. This is great because the new version supports Photoshop CS5. It also supports 64-bit systems and it even includes a few new custom lens presets. They have included Blue Halo,...
Many companies and designers think that branding and identity begins and ends with a logo, but there is much more to branding than simply creating a pretty logo. The whole point of building an identity or brand is to build trust with a client and create a connection...