Star Light in Photoshop

We will start our image in Adobe Illustrator. We could have done it entirely in Adobe Photoshop but I like to use the right tool for the right type of work, if there’s vector I will always use Illustrator, it’s easier and faster. In Illustrator select the Star Tool and create a star.

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Design a simple illustration for Christmas

In this tutorial, you’ll go through easy steps and techniques to design a simple illustration for Christmas. You’ll learn how to use the brush presets and modify its properties. Let’s get started!

Create a new document (Ctrl+N) in Photoshop with the size 1920px by 1200px (RGB color mode) at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch. Using the Rectangle Tool (U), let’s represent a big rectangle reserved for background we want to have.
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Particle Illustration Design With Photoshop

Now open up the image in Photoshop and duplicate the background layer. With the background layer duplicated go to Image>Transform>Flip Horizontal. This is what you should have at the moment.

Now let’s add a Linear Gradient, select your gradient tool from the Photoshop Toolbar (Shortcut: G) we will be using two colors – #bf294d and #391948 after you have setup your gradient (Supplied Gradient outcome below) change the blending options of the layer to Soft Light and change the Opacity to 51% After that grab the Eraser tool and erase the parts you don’t want in the image.
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Anime Look With Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to get that smooth shiny Anime look. We’ll start with a simple character outline and build the correct hierarchy for the base colors, tones and highlights. Also, we’ll learn how to work with this “method” for later projects in case the client or director will ask for changes, it will be easy to replace colors for a specific part of the character without redrawing all the tones and highlights again! You are about to learn one of the many techniques from the Anime industry. Let’s get started!
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Making A Film Strip With Photoshop

In this two-part Photoshop photo effects tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a fun photo collage using a simple film strip shape as a photo frame for multiple images. In this first part of the tutorial, we’ll draw the actual film strip itself using Photoshop’s shape tools, then we’ll save it as a separate document so we can easily re-use it any time we want without having to draw it all over again. In the second part of the tutorial, we’ll use several copies of the film strip to create our photo collage.
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Design a Colorful Illustration With Photoshop

In this tutorial we will be learning how to design a colorful illustration. This will be created by using Ellipse Tool, Pen Tool, Brushes and Layer Masks. Let’s get started!

Start working by creating a new file (File>New) of 1920×1200 px and 72 dpi. Using the Paint Bucket Tool (G), fill the new background layer with black color.
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Photoshop Scrapbooks

Scrapbooks are a great way to preserve a memory. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a high resolution digital scrapbook on photoshop, including torn paper, sticky tape, handwriting and spilt ink.

Create A Solar Eclipse in Photoshop

The new season of Heroes is on and it’s really good. While I was watching the last episode I saw the opening credits and I thought to myself, why I haven’t done that effect yet. So I decided to create the Heroes eclipse effect in Photoshop with a litle extra retro style.

So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a nice eclipse effect using only Photoshop. We will add a texture in the end just to give that retro feel to the image.

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Design A Slick Rich User Interface With Photoshop

Typical examples of rich user interfaces can be found on a variety of iPhone apps, where designers have created detailed skins based around a theme, often paying close attention to the smallest detail to develop a stunning interface. The interfaces of ConvertBot and WeightBot from the app manufacturer Tabots are a couple of my personal favourites, and it’s clear that their designs have been a great source of inspiration for this tutorial.

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How to Create a Realistic 3D Baseball Cap with Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you how to create a realistic 3D Baseball cap in Adobe Photoshop using the Pen tool, brushes and some nifty tricks.

Step 1: Create the shape

Create a new document in Photoshop and fill it with white (#FFFFFF). Create a new layer and use the Pen Tool (P) to create the shape of the cap (you can use an image of a cap as reference for this, or use the outline shown below). After that, press Command+Enter to transform the path into a selection. Then fill it with the color #1c1812.

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Create a Vintage Radio Poster with Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how simple it is to create a vintage poster using different brushes, blend mode, adjustment layers and some very simple filters in Photoshop. Let’s get started!

Start working by creating a new file (File>New) of 1920×1200px/72 dpi. Open the next page: Grungy Paper textures and download out of it the paper textures. Insert one of the textures as a background for our poster to be.
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How To Make A Digital Painting Of A Rose From Scratch

I’ll help you to create a digital painting of a rose from scratch. Beginning from a simple sketch, into the transformation of a beautiful rose.

We’ll use drawing and painting techniques using Photoshop.

Painting and blending the colors with a Spatter brush.

Working with layers to accomplish our goal.
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