Tutorials added on January 31, 2009

Turn your idle sketches into gold with amazing Photoshop techniques from Craig Shields. Doodling is an everyday part of life for most creatives – it’s as natural as holding a pen. Whether you’re etching out little characters on the back of an envelope while you’re on the telephone, or creating a complex masterpiece in the back of a notebook, bus trip by bus trip, it’s an essential part of developing your own style and honing your imagination and artistic skills. In this masterclass, Craig Shields shows you how to turn these little outbursts of creativity into artworks. You’ll learn how to spirit your doodles off the Post-It note and into a digital illustration, using them to add a very personal touch to an image. The masterclass makes use of several images that can be downloaded for a small fee or for free.

Using Photoshop and Illustrator, it’s possible to create a fantasy scene using brushes and blur effects to their fullest. Fantasy art scenes are usually handled with a liberal sprinkling of Photoshop plug-in fairy dust – but you don’t have to slavishly follow that route. By creating your own brushes in Adobe Illustrator, and using scanned elements with Photoshop, it’s a simple process to create otherworldly scenes that are alive with glow effects and shafts of virtual light. This masterclass takes a standard stock model – a super high-resolution version is included on the cover CD, or you can use your own – and applies layers of light and vector shapes to generate the main image shown left. During this masterclass, you’ll learn to wrap your source image into a multitude of layers that add a fantastical theme to your art. The key here is to tread softly. When recreating fantasy light effects, soft brushes and fine application is the order of the day. Anything that’s too heavy can ruin the look.

Learn a facinating effects to use on backgrounds!

St. Valentine's day is the day of the happiest people on the Earth - those, who are in love. The hearts start beating faster, the presents and Valentine cards are being prepared, you're trying to get everything ready so that you can make the February 14 the happiest day for your beloved person, to make it an unforgettable event of the year. The most romantic holiday of the year is coming soon, and it's time to remember all the sweet symbols of the holiday - cupid, roses, chocolates, Valentine cards. There are hundreds of tutorials in the Internet on how to create St. Valentine's day themed graphics and I thought it'd be a good idea to collect them all in one page. I really hope you'll find that list useful when you decide to create a Valentine card or decorate your website with some St. Valentine's day symbols. The selection contains the tutorials for popular graphics editor software packages such as Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and Corel Draw.

Finally, the Web 2.0 Blog Layout is here as promised! Several new techniques are covered in this tutorial, such as interesting use of the drop shadow element. We’ll also cover creating a see-through navigation bar, as well as creating our own unique icons for this layout!

A Retro Wallpaper/Poster Step By Step Photoshop Tutorial. Retro posters are popular. Learn to design your own.

How to draw custom 3-D arrows with photoshop tutorial.

In this Photoshop tutorial I will show you a neat little text effect using only layer styles and selections. I call this the Sugar Bag Effect because I got the idea from an old bag of sugar. Original… I know. It’s a great beginner text effect though and unlike many of the tutorials in this category that are either over the top or simply meant to teach you to use your tools, the Sugar Bag Effect has real world possibilities.

Photoshop tutorials are like candy. Delicious to consume, and not always good for you. Each tutorial you devour will expose you to different techniques and ways of doing things, good and bad. This considerably amazing list of photoshop tutorials strives to provide the best candy for you. Your mind will be blown. Your mouth will water. Get some tissues.

Following our series of quick tips, I will show you how to enhance a regular photo in Photoshop and make it look better. Of course you can change the presets in order to make it look more subtle, my idea was to exaggerate a bit. Also we will use the Shadows/Highlight adjustments showing how you can easily simulate a sort of HDR style.

For those who prefer creating their own space and planet wallpapers.

Since I’m not about to go out and spray paint my website on the side of a city wall, I figured I could at least simulate the look in Photoshop. With the help of some awesome brushes from Bittbox and Deviant Art and a cool font I found at Dafont. The effect is rather easy to create, here’s how… This tutorial has been updated to include the vanishing point filter thanks to the advice of Andre and Erika. I also took the liberty of adding a couple of extra steps to help improve the realism.

Designing a Black Zune 2 in Photoshop.

This is a very tutorial for making colourful text, ideal for any kids decoration or web sites.

How to simply create a paint splodge looking text using blending options and the pen tool it will take only around 5 minutes to complete.

Create a Sony Playstation 3 in Photoshop.

What you'll learn: - Creating A Bubble Brush; - Creating / Employing Actions; - Illustrating 3D-Typography Using Only Photoshop; - Illustrating Vector Swirls; - Additional Visual Effects. I will most likely not be the first person to tell you that three-dimensional typography is experiencing an ever increasing popularity amongst both designers and their audience. An understandable development as the third dimension introduces new elements and uncharted playgrounds into the wonderful world of typography, combining the aspects of design and communication in an unparalleled fashion. While most other articles on 3D-typography employ external 3D-rendering applications, this introduction will guide you through the complete process of recreating the tutorial’s cover illustration using Adobe Photoshop and it’s built-in tools only. The tutorial comes with the illustration’s original, layered .PSD-file, a set of 8 3D-Actions and the original bubble- and smudge-brushes.

In this tutorial, i'll show you how to create a rust texture.

This tutorial shows you how to create a nice 3D text using only photoshop 7.

Using Photoshop to achieve scalable 3-dimensional vectors circles.