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PHOTOSHOP Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials are a great way to learn more graphic design strategies and principles of using the Photoshop software. Below is our collection of Photoshop articles and tutorials for your viewing pleasure.

5 Tips for Photoshop Efficiency
Are you on your way to becoming a Photoshop expert, wizard, or guru? Here are five tips for working more efficiently with Photoshop that will make you a faster expert, wizard, or guru.
Thursday, 27th March 2008

Photoshop "Inferno" Typography Tutorial
Create cool inferno style typography with the techniques from this Photoshop tutorial.
Wednesday, 19th March 2008

Photoshop Indiana Jones Poster Tutorial
Well if you're a movie buff of any bearing you would be aware of the looming release of ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’. You would also definitely have seen some of legendary poster artist Drew Struzan's work (bow). His art for this latest movie is classic Jones, classic action adventure, it's brilliant. Hell, everyone should have their own Indy Poster. In homage to Struzan, let's do it.
Tuesday, 18th March 2008

Photoshop Plasma TV Design Tutorial
This Photoshop tutorial takes you through the process involved in designing a plasma tv.
Monday, 17th March 2008

Designing a Black Zune 2 in Photoshop
This Photoshop tutorial guides you through the process of creating your very own Black Zune 2.
Sunday, 16th March 2008

Design a Cool Old Book with Photoshop
This Photoshop tutorial walks you through the steps involved in creating an old book from scratch.
Friday, 14th March 2008

Making a Cool Anime Header in Photoshop
This tutorial walks you through the steps to making an anime header using Adobe Photoshop.
Tuesday, 11th March 2008

Making Your Own Watermark with Photoshop
This Photoshop tutorial walks you through the process of creating a simple watermark for use with all the images you would like to protect.
Friday, 7th March 2008

Minimize, Colorize and Bodypaint a Supercar
In this tutorial is written how to create a very cool looking mini-super car with bodypaint using Adobe Photoshop. Grab a picture of a supercar and get ready to minimize, colorize and bodypaint it. Pimp that ride!
Tuesday, 4th March 2008

Candy Coated Photoshop Tutorial
In this tutorial I'll teach you how to make a web 2.0 logo so damn sugary sweet it'll give your website a cavity. Then I'll give you the PSD, the font, and all the patterns used in the image so that you can play with it yourself.
Monday, 25th February 2008

Photoshop Tutorial: Reflective Eye
In this tutorial you'll learn how to simply and quickly add the reflection of a scene to your subjects eyeball. I've also included the actual Photoshop session in with notes so you can see for yourself how this is done.
Monday, 25th February 2008

Making a Seamless Granite Background From a Photo in Photoshop
In my article "Making a seamless parchment background," I showed you how to use Photoshop’s offset filter to modify a parchment paper image to create a tiling background for a web page. The same techniques are used in this tutorial, but you’ll see how I handle a photo with an irregular image.
Thursday, 14th February 2008

Design a Print Ready Valentine's Day Postcard
This tutorial walks you through the process of using Photoshop to create a print ready Valentine's day postcard.
Sunday, 10th February 2008

Making a Seamless Parchment Paper Background
Making a seamless tiling background is not as hard as it may seem – especially when you make use of Photoshop’s offset filter. In this example, I’ll use a stock image of some old-looking textured paper to make a seamless background appropriate for the content area of a web page.
Thursday, 31st January 2008

Create a Sony Playstation 3 in Photoshop
This tutorial teaches you how you can create a realistic looking Sony Playstation using Adobe Photoshop. Each stage is simply outlined allowing you to follow along.
Monday, 28th January 2008

Creating a Custom MP3 Player with Photoshop
This tutorial walks you through the steps of creating a really cool looking MP3 player using Adobe Photoshop. It is illustrated along the way for clarity.
Friday, 25th January 2008

Using Gaussian Blur to Add a Sense of Depth to Your Second Life Snapshots
We all know that blurring parts of a photographs help create the effect of depth in a photograph. This is most clear with macro and portrait photographs. This tutorial is about how to add ‘Shallow Depth Of Field’ in photoshop. There are many ways to achieve this effect, but the basics are explained here.
Saturday, 15th December 2007

Web 2.0 Style Button
So you like your buttons web2.0 style? Well in this tutorial I show you how to create this button...
Thursday, 15th November 2007

Marquee Based Selection
The most basic way of making a selection in photoshop is to use one of the standard shaped marquees. The standard shapes are: elliptical and rectangular.
Wednesday, 14th November 2007

Seamless Backgrounds with Photoshop
This Photoshop tutorial shows you an easy way to design your background images allowing them to blend seamlessly when repeated.
Tuesday, 6th November 2007

Digitally Coloring Hair with Photoshop
With just using the technique of layering tones and highlights, getting a great mop of hair can be easy. The more layers and individual strands you put in, the more detailed and realistic it'll look!
Friday, 1st September 2006

What is New in Photoshop CS2
This tutorial will teach you how to highlight the new features in Photoshop CS2. Also we will be discussing some of the new cool features in Photoshop CS2.
Wednesday, 29th June 2005

Introduction to Photoshop
This lesson is a brief introduction to Photoshop, I will not cover all the topics but I will cover enough of them so that you will be able to work with Photoshop yourself and edit images yourself without asking somebody else.
Wednesday, 15th June 2005

Drawing a Wavy Image using Pen Tool
As you may know when it comes to wavy things it is quite difficult to create them in Photoshop, except with Pen tool of course. In this tutorial you will learn how to use Pen tool to create a simple wave image.
Wednesday, 15th June 2005

Create Realistic Smoke in Photoshop
This tutorials quickly shows you how you can create realistic smoke effects using Photoshop CS.
Wednesday, 15th June 2005

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