June 18th, 2010 · Photoshop, Tutorials · No Comments
Besides photo edition and image manipulation, Adobe Photoshop has many other uses, like for example, create objects from scratch, by drawing and using shapes, image filters, layer options and other tools, resulting in some very creative ways to use this design software and creating some really cool objects that can be used in any other design or project.
This online tutorial will teach you in some easy and detailed steps, how to create a photo camera using only Adobe Photoshop.
You will be combining vector shapes, layer options and layer styles, and of course, manual drawing with the tools provided with the application.
Recommended for both experienced and beginner designers, as it is a very useful tutorial that might teach you some nice techniques.
Link: Photoshop Tutorial
Tags:adobe photoshop·Create a camera with photoshop·drawing with photoshop·free tutorials·layer options·Photoshop·photoshop techniques·photoshop tutorials·vector shapes
June 17th, 2010 · Textures · No Comments
Textures are like fonts, you can’t have enough of them, and it doesn’t matter how big your stock is, you will be needing some new form time to time, to use in designs and projects.
Textures can be used in backgrounds, photo manipulation, image retouch, banners or just to add some more quality, depth, visual effects or color to any design, as they don’t have a unique style to be used on.
This texture set includes 8 really good painted wall textures of high quality, and can be used in both commercial and personal projects, and the only restriction is not to sell them or claim they are your own, which are some fair rules.
Link: free textures
Tags:design resources·free textures·graphic design·high quality textures·painted wall textures·photo effects·photo manipulation·Photoshop·Textures·wall textures
June 15th, 2010 · abstract · No Comments
Most designs and projects can benefit from abstract techniques as these techniques don’t belong to a particular style like grunge or retro, and they can add some vibrant colors, quality backgrounds, additional depth, texture or simple some shapes as eye candy.
Today’s link are several Abstract tutorials for Adobe Photoshop covering many different styles and techniques, for example creating the shapes via computer algorithms, drawing them with creativity and imagination or just following simple patterns that we had in our computer or stock images.
There are some aimed for experienced designers, but most of them are really easy to follow and very detailed step by step for anyone to start designing abstract shapes and backgrounds.
Link: Abstract Tutorials
Tags:abstract backgrounds·abstract shapes·abstract techniques·abstract tutorials·adobe photoshop·free tutorials·online tutorials·photoshop techniques·photoshop tutorials
June 14th, 2010 · Photoshop · No Comments
High resolution resources are more than welcome for every designer, are they can be used in any design and enhance it by adding more quality, and they can also be resized and edited with no noticeable quality loss, mostly because they are above standard in quality.
Today we are sharing 8 high resolution spray brushes that can be used with Adobe Photoshop to add some urban flare and grunge style to your creations to make them stand up from the rest.
These brushes have a really nice quality and are recommended to download for free, as they can be used in both commercial and personal artworks, but a friendly link back to the creators would be well appreciated.
Link: high resolution brushes
Tags:adobe photoshop·Brushes·free brushes·free resources·Grunge style·quality brushes·quality resources·spray brushes·urban style
June 11th, 2010 · PSD · No Comments
It’s very common to separate an object from an image and its background in photoshop via the selection tools, but this is a process that may take a lot of time depending on the shape of the object we are selecting, that sometimes can be a very easy one like a ball, but other times it can take several minutes if the objects are complex, like skeletons or trees.
So today we are haring trees in Psd format, already without the background, and ready to be used in any kind of design or project, commercial or personal.
The trees have a transparent background, so you won’t have any layer problems, and with an excellent rsolution and high quality.
The file is 12.7 MB and includes various trees.
Link: DiegoMattei
Tags:adobe photoshop·photoshop resources·phtoshop·psd tres·separate objects from background·transparent background·tres in psd
June 10th, 2010 · Photoshop, Textures · No Comments
Sometimes you look at a design and wonder how could you complete it and make it better, but you don’t want it to use different styles to do so, and that’s where Patterns and stock images come into action, as they can be used in every style and add more detail, depth and color, especially if they are abstract patterns that don’t belong to an specified graphic style.
These Photoshop patterns have an abstract deep blue tone that can be modified with photoshop itself to bring different colors into play.
The set contains 10 high quality patterns that are free to download, individually or you can get the Photoshop .pat file with all of them.
The size and resolutions are 530×530 300 DPI.
Link: Photoshop Patterns
Tags:abstract patterns·free resources·free textures·graphic design·Photoshop·photoshop patterns·photoshop resources·textures and patterns
