How To Create A Trendy Galactic Poster Design in Photoshop

Galactic space scenes are a popular theme for digital art, they’re packed full of texture and vibrant colour, which are two ingredients of an awesome design! Using Photoshop’s blending modes along with a mix of textures and brushes, let’s get lost in space and create an abstract cosmos poster design.

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Design Badges with Photoshop

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create 3 different types of cool badges. I’m going to use Photoshop CS4 and hopefully will make this very easy for you.

The first type of badge I’m going to create is star shaped badge with rounded corners.

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Create A Fantasy Flower Creature

We are going to create a cool fantasy flower creature and I will show you exactly how to do it! I used Photoshop CS3 to create this image.

A few of the tools/techniques we will need to use throughout this tutorial: radial gradient layer effects, adjustment layers, dodge, burn, sharpen, gradient tool, layer masks, warp, and clone.

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How to Create a Water Effect on Text and Graphics

One of the many great things about Photoshop is that you can start with a basic idea and then just start experimenting (a.k.a. playing) to see what you get. Although the following technique was originally designed to make water droplets (and discovered through playing—I mean experimenting), it’s easy to apply the same idea to type and graphics of any kind.
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How To Work With Displacement Maps for Graphics in Photoshop CS4

One of the most creative ways to use the Displace filter in Photoshop is to “map” an imported graphic so it follows the contours of an object in a photo; for example, adding an Illustrator logo to a photo of a T-shirt in a realistic way. Add the editability of vector smart objects and you have a match made in heaven.

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Create a Planet with One Texture

Ok, so over the ages, i noticed that if there is one thing that space artists (especially newcomers) struggle with, then it has to be planet textures. Lots of them just cant get their planets to look good, cant find good textures, or simply dont have 3d studio max Read more

Create a Glowing Globe Icon in Photoshop

In this tutorial we are going to create a simple 3D glowing world globe icon. This can then be applied to a logo or one color image instead of a map.

In Photoshop lets open up an 800×800px document. Our document doesn’t have to be huge because we are only making an icon.
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How to Design the Firefox Logo in Photoshop

Firstly create a new document at 1024px x 970px and start off with selecting the ellipse tool (U) and drawing a large circle (hold SHIFT to constrain the proportions) and make the top of the circle nearly touch the top of the document and the bottom of the circle nearly touch the base of the document.

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Making of a Scary Mental Hospital Scene

Create a new document of 500×708 pixels. Download Abandoned Hospital 13 by Kathy Ophelia. Open up the image and drag it into your working document. Rename this layer to Hospital.

Create a Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer above the Hospital layer and key the Hue to 75, Saturation to -50 and Lightness to 0.
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How To Create A Ripping And Tearing Poster Effect

In this tutorial we are going to turn a flat, artificial poster into something that looks as if it’s been hanging around on the wall for a long time.The initial poster was created using techniques that we have covered in previews tutorials. As you can see, it’s a brash image that looks nothing like a real poster.
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Design a Five-color Magazine Cover using a Spot Metallic

This is an advanced tutorial commissioned especially for Graphic Design Week. I’ll demonstrate how to integrate a spot-color metallic ink into your workflow using InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat Professional. Let’s get to it!

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Create an Asian Inspired Illustration with Impact

While creating things from scratch is an awesome way to showcase your style and technique, using stock photos is an easier way to add impacting detail to your work. To be able to do all that, we’ll be using various ways to separate photos from their backgrounds, manipulating them and altering the overall lighting, contrast, and color balance to finish off this complex illustration.

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