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38 Photoshop Photo Editing Tutorials

Thomson — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:17:03 +0000

Photo Editing Tutorials is a best way to improve your Photoshop skills make the design more exciting. Here are 38 of the best tutorials to show you how it can be done. With Adobe Photoshop you can create amazing results are possible. These tutorials shown here can teach you a wide variety of techniques to get the end results.

1. Dual View Photo Editing In Photoshop

2. Portrait Retouching Techniques

3. How to Create Cityscape Concept Art

4. Make A Photo Sharper And Brighter

5. Retouching A Picture

6. Doll Man

7. Using Liquify Filter and Photo Retouching Photoshop Tutorial

8. How to Create Glass Transparency in a Cute Photo Manipulation

9. Zombie Face Photoshop Tutorial

10. Correcting Keystoning In Photoshop Perspective Correction In Photoshop – Keystoning

11. Blend a Planet Transparently into a Photo Manipulation

12. Non-Destructive Dodge and Burn in Photoshop

13. Create Grungy Style Artwork, Mixing with Great Lighting and Shattered Effect in Photoshop

14. 5 Really Easy, yet Essential Photo Retouch Techniques for Photoshop Beginners

15. How To Create a Photo Manipulation with Your Own Photos and Textures

16. Creating a magazine cover in Adobe Photoshop

17. How to create a fantasy photomanipulation in Photoshop

18. Create a Funky Perspective of a Model Riding Digital Volume

19. How to create amazing light effects in Photoshop

20. Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Photoshop

21. Create a Fuel Game Cover in Photoshop

22. How to Create a Colorful Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

23. Design a Colorful Illustration

24. Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos

25. Design a Stunning French Perfume Advert Poster

26. Cross Processing Photo in Photoshop

27. How to Create a Chilling Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

28. Retro Polaroid Coloring on your Photo

29. Nostalgic Retro Fairytale Look in Photoshop

30. How to create a fairy using photos

31. Warzone Photo Manipulation

32. Adding a Realistic Tattoo the Easy Way with Photoshop

33. Twister in the City

34. Realistic View Water Reflection

35. Professional Hair Processing in Photoshop

36. How to Create a Severed Arm in Photoshop

37. How to Create Laser Beam on Body

38. How to Create a Fantasy Landscape Photo Manipulation

20 Awesome High Quality Abstract Photoshop Brushes Sets

Thomson — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:54:47 +0000

Abstract photoshop brushes are one of my favorite brushes which I use in my designs. Abstract brushes are very appealing and suites all kinds of design work and it is one of the best and useful resource used by designers. Using a photoshop brushes saves you a lot of time when you come want to give an effect to your design work. In this post I have collection 20 awesome and High quality abstract photoshop brushes sets. Each set contains several brushes that will be more than 270+ awesome abstract photoshop brushes!

I hope you enjoy this good list of compilation and put these brushes to good use for your next design work.

Abstract brushes from Rubina – (6 brushes)

Veruct Brushes by Disporatik (8 brushes)

Starwalt Abstract light brushes by gigistar (6 brushes)

Abstract splash brushes by Rce-Ordinary (12 brushes)

Ecol Brushes by Rubina (6 brushes)

Silicon Brushes by Axeraider (5 brushes)

Abstract Brushes by Metal-CX (8 brushes)

Fractal Chaos by Javier ZhX (10 brushes)

Dawn Brushes by differentxdreamz (12 brushes)

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Serenity Brushes by Axeraider (15 brushes)

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Abstract Brush pack by Forty-winks (4 brushes)

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Spaxio Brushes by Flow Graphic (4 brushes)

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Beser Brushes by Rubina (8 brushes)

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Curvy Lines by Differentxdreamz (12 Brushes)

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Streaks of Light by Colorburned (40 brushes)

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Sparking Light Effects from Colorburned (24 brushes)

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Abstract Curves Brushes by Fresh eMedia (28 brushes)

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Radial Brushes by Rubina (14 brushes)

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Abstract Brushes by You The Designer ( 25 brushes)

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3D Abstract Lines by env1ro (24 brushes)

20 Compact and Sporty Sans Serif Fonts

Thomson — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:37:13 +0000

San Serif is a very popular typeface among graphic designers right from the beginning because of its crisp, clean, uncluttered lines of these sans serif fonts. You can see the use of San Serif fonts on signs, posters and even on the web. In this following blog post I have listed 20 beautiful serif fonts. While most of these fonts are free make sure to check their website about their commercial use.

Amerika Sans

Champagne & Limousines

Times Sans Serif

Segan Light

Swansea

Oregon LDO

Angostura

Ageone

Dream Orphans

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Liberation Sans

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Bernur

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BonvenoCF

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COM4t Fine

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Sansation

15.

Familian Son

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JUICE Light

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Kingthings Exeter

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Paneuropa Road

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Chiquita

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Jesaya-Free

20 Fresh and Beautiful Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Thomson — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:55:35 +0000

Text Effect using photoshop is a very popular technique often used by designers. In this post we are features 20 top text effect tutorials using different photoshop techniques. No matter what are you planning to design using a text effect really makes the design stand out and attracts the visitor. There are several photoshop text tutorials on the web but for today we have picked some of the most awesome and fresh photoshop text effect tutorials for our readers. Try using some of these photoshop text effect tutorials in some of your coming design projects.

Below we present 20 fresh and awesome Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials linked to their original sources.

You might be interested to check other Photoshop related posts:
32 Excellent Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorial

55 Useful Photoshop Tutorials on Designing Wallpapers

21 New and Fabulous Retro Style Photoshop Tutorials

27 Excellent 3D Effect Photoshop Tutorials

29 Excellent Typography Tutorials for Designers

1. How to create an impressive-looking text effect

2. How to Create a Silver Text Effect with Photoshop

3. Create Gloomy Text Effect by Utilising the Amazing Cloud Filter in Photoshop

4. 5 Useful Little Photoshop Tricks to Add Extra Elegance For Your Design

5. Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

6. The Wheels Text Effect

7. Create mile-high type art

8. Create a Colorful Vibrant Typographic Wallpaper

9. Create a fancy neon text effect

10. How To Create Great Typographic Wallpaper In Photoshop

11. Create a Steam Powered Typographic Treatment

12. How to Create an Ice Text Effect with Photoshop

13. How to Create Eroded Metal Text with Photoshop

14. Magic golden text effect in Photoshop

15. Creepy bloody text effect in Photoshop

16. How to Create Gross Evil 3D Text

17. Create a Unique Burning Text Effect

18. Wave’s text effect

19. Create a Blazing Lava Text Effect in Photoshop

20. Brushed Silver Reflective Text Effect

34 Excellent Fresh Free WordPress Themes

Thomson — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:31:43 +0000

Word press is an excellent open source CMS with that you can build blogs and websites. The main aspect of using word press is because of its easy to use and extensibility which made word press the most popular blogging software out there. There are thousands of free wp themes out there but it is still difficult to find the right wordpress theme for your blog. We have complied a list of 34 great free wordpress theme that are ready for you to download. These wordpress themes covers a variety of your needs like layouts and customization.

After deciding the theme, you will need a wordpress host for hosting your wordpress blog. You can go through reviews of best wordpress hosts at webhostingsearch.com and select a suitable one as per your requirements

This is not just a long list of all available wordpress themes on the web but it is collection of the best handpicked and fresh set of free word press themes created by wordpress professional.

1. Demo Blog

2. VodPod

3. LiveTwit

4. Foodiary Premium Magazine WordPress Theme

5. Magiting

6. Matiyaga

7. Rockstar

8. Mainstream

9. Meta-Morphosis

10. Newsworthy

11. Photabulous

12. Little United Nations

13. Orange Surfing

14. Presents

15. Vice WordPress Theme

16. Lead WordPress Theme

17. Glassical

18. Free Podcasting, Video and Photography WordPress Theme

19. Paper Wall

20. Scherzo

21.TouchRiver

22. Modicus

23. Morning Racer

24. Creative by Nature

25. Money Theme

26. Tipz Theme

27. LapOfLuxury Theme

28. Ekologic

29. Chronicle

30. Pork and Beans

31. Blue Rooster

32. Newspress

33. Simplicity

34. Selecta

24 Fresh & Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Thomson — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:58:23 +0000

Adobe illustrator is a great tool for creating vector graphics which can be used in web pages as well as print design. However, it is very important to know how the different techniques and how to achieve certain design effects. So these step-by-step tutorials will help you get you there. We spend lot of time to find unique and best tutorials out there and it resulted in 24 new and fresh adobe illustration tutorials from the last few months.

Below is a list of very useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials that I’ve found to be most useful for learning new techniques and brushing up your vector design skills.

You might be interested to check other Illustrator related posts:

26 Examples of Vector Elements & Background in Web Design

44 Really Useful and New Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

1. Illustrating a Hippie Bus

2. Vectors Imitate Life with Gradient Mesh

3. Create a Happy Sun Character

4. Eye-Catching 3d Pie Graph

5. How To: Create a Seamless Diagonal Pattern in Illustrator

6. Create a Rolling Stones Inspired Tongue Illustration

7. How to Create a Photorealistic iMac and Magic Mouse

8. Draw a screaming little girl in Illustrator

9. How to Create a Recycling, Paper Bag Icon

10. Swirly Border Design in Illustrator CS4

11. Zee Logo in Illustrator

12. How to Create a Climbing Rope Pattern Brush

13. Create an unique twitter bird for your website

14. Create A Grisly Zombie Illustration With A Pen Tablet

15. How to Create Roads and Rail Tracks on a Path

16. Old style typography tutorial

17. How to create a funny insurance agent

18. Distressed/Grunge Art in Illustrator

19. How to Create Smoky Brushes and Type In Illustrator CS4

20. Create a Cute Pig postcard from sketch

21. Using the Glyphs Panel in Illustrator

22. How to draw a delicious Burger

23. How to Create Vintage Vector Bottle Caps In Illustrator CS4

24. Halloween Pumpkins

30 Beautiful And Creative Logo Designs For Your Inspiration

Thomson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:26:41 +0000

A logo is a graphic element along with a logotype makes a brand. When we talk about a brand the first think that comes to our mind is the logo of that business. A logo is the most important component of brand and also the hardest part to execute. A logo is a reflection of a business’s credibility. A logo is vital for creating a great brand identity and you should be careful when picking one for your business.

In today’s blog post I’m presenting some 30 Exceptional new logo designs for inspiration.

Why are these logos looks amazing? All of these logos use different creative ways to represent their brand through colors, shapes and typography. If you look at these logo design careful you will notice how creativity they are representing their business.

You may be interested in the following related posts:

28 Beautiful Animal Inspired Logo Designs
24 Logos Inspired by Origami Style
25 Beautiful Logos with Sequential Concept

1. John Logo

2. White Washers

3. Dance Academy

4. SewPerfect

5. Families

6. Fathom

7. Child Vision

8. Pendulum

9. Musikings

10. Norcomm

11. Coffee tree

12. Ecogive

13. Quote9

14. Coffeenerd

15. Play

16. Restless Napkin

17. HybridPedal

18. French Bakery

19. Pixeldemon

20. Buzzdog

21. Jazzcuzzi

22. Mistercutts

23. Ostreech

24. Beer Hive

25. Eattocure

26. Bend

27. Oil

28. Firestarter

29. Stringerss

30. Rooms

Weekly Design News Round Up – Nov 1 – Nov 7

Thomson — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:51:41 +0000

This Week we have a lot of interesting design related stuff highlight great content that we found on the web which would be interested to designers. You can keep track of these great resource links by simply following us on twitter. If in case you missed out some of this weeks great blog posts we always post it here in our weekly update.

You may also be interested in the previous weeks roundup
Weekly Design News Round Up – Oct 18 – Oct 24
Weekly Design News Round Up – Oct 4 – Oct 10
Weekly Design News Round Up – Sept 28 – Oct-3

1. 26 Eye-Catching Long Exposure Photographs
2. 43 New Typography Wallpapers For Type Fanatics
3. 30 Photo Effect Photoshop Tutorials Every Designer Will Love
4. jQuery Lessons Series: Manipulating CSS Classes
5. Best Practices for 6 Common User Interface Elements
6. 60 Inspiring Examples of Black and White Photography
7. 43 Cute & Beautiful Twitter Icon Sets
8. 10 Awesome Techniques and Examples of Animation with jQuery
9. The Beauty Of Splash Sculptures
10. 32 Beautiful Text Art Creations

31 Creative use of Typography in Web Design

Thomson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:40:57 +0000

Typography is very important in visual communication it is been used in Brochures, Ads, flyers and other marketing materials. Today there is a growing trend among designers to use typography on the web. One of the major reason for the rise of using typography in web design is the evolution of CSS and using of Sprites and browser side font rendering technologies.

A good typography is just as important on a web as it is on any other medium. It should be eye catchy and easy to read.

You may also be interested in the following related content:
28 Excellent Examples of Using Gradient Effects in Web Design
48 Creative Websites Designed in Blue
26 Examples of Vector Elements & Background in Web Design
35 Creative Paper Inspired Website Design

Below are some of the 31 examples creative use of typography in web design.

1. Random Thought Pattern

2. Hdlive09

3. Merge Web

4. Project 365

5. Second and Park

6. Creative United

7. Dialogi

8. Tanq

9. Hungry for Change

10. Brooklyn Fare

11. Area 17

12. For A beautiful Web

13. Espira

14. MediaFlex

15. Matthamm

16. The DECK

17. Oliver Kavanagh

18. The Ideal Candidate

19. GIANT Creative

20. Grow Interactive

21. Pixel Thread

22. BIG Omaha

23. Jesse Dodds

24. Denise Chandler

25. Rodney Keeling

26. Trippling Words

27. Crafted Pixelz

28. Sto Solutions

29. Rodeopark Communication

30. Jan Eike Koormann

31. Kerplunc

21 Really Awesome Swirls for Inspiration

Thomson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:08:44 +0000

Swirls are beautiful and a nice way to enhance and give uniqueness to your design work. Here are 21 swirl design taken from different form like nature, food and art to inspire you and give more ideas on how to use them.