The Complete Overview of Indie Graphics Software for Mac

Everyone knows about the big guns in the graphics field. Adobe is pretty much the unchallenged master of image editing with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks. Adobe’s InDesign shares the digital publishing field, albeit grudgingly, with Quark’s QuarkXPress. Serious graphic designers find themselves stuck between these two large corporations, due in… read more

Best of the Vector Web – August 2010

As you know, each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we found some really great tutorials on vector character design, creating charts in Illustrator, and vector skulls among others. We’ve also expanded this month’s offering…. read more

350+ Beautiful Drawing Brushes For Photoshop

350+ Beautiful Drawing Brushes For Photoshop

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WDL Premium: Japanese Orchard Photoshop Brushes

Today we’re releasing a set of Beautiful Photoshop brushes for our WDL Premium Members. This set from Azigos is called Japanese Orchard and contains 17 high-resolution brushes. If you’re looking to add beautiful hand drawn elements to your nature inspired design, these brushes are what you need.

Be sure to… read more

2000 Free Photoshop Patterns

Today I have put together the largest collection of free Photoshop patterns DesignM.ag has ever offered. Enjoy!

Flowers Patters for Photoshop (6)

Photoshop Patterns

Photoshop Patterns (12)

Victorian – PS Patterns (45)

Vintage Patterns (12)

Arabic Patterns for Photoshop

(4)

Grandmas Flowers (4)

Paisley

Seamless Paper Patterns (6)

Grungy Abstract Squares Photoshop Patterns (4)

Tileable Midnight Blue Grunge Patterns (5)

Flat Grungy… read more

SeaShore: An Open Source Image Editor

Photoshop is the undisputed king of image editing, but it also has a huge price tag and an even bigger learning curve. If you don’t make a living as a designer, the time and money necessary for professional photo editing software is hard to justify. Further, some free options like… read more

How to Make a Flesh Ripping Zombie Type Treatment

When Horror Site Freddy in Space recently ran "Romero Week" they asked Nik Holmes to provide a type treatment to tie the articles together. Could you possibly think of a better Vector Artist for the job? Among one of the best illustrators of this genre, Nik will take you… read more

800+ Beautiful Grunge Brushes For Photoshop

800+ Beautiful Grunge Brushes For Photoshop

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Exclusive Freebie Pack – 25 Ink Brushes

Ink droplets are probably one of the coolest types of Photoshop brushes. Mostly because of how intricate they look in use. They are created when you drop ink into water and then photograph them. Today, we have a set of 25 ink brushes to give away for free. Feel free… read more

How To Trace a Sketch with a Vintage Comic Style

You can find the vintage comic style in newspapers, magazines, and in animation. In this tutorial you will learn several techniques for tracing a sketch, including how to make custom brushes, how to combine shapes and brushes and how to combine multiple brushes. You will also learn how to simulate… read more

45 Free Applications For Designers And Developers

By Callum Chapman

Whether you’re just starting out in the graphic or web design industry, or you’ve been in it for years, the chances are there will occasionally be a time where you want to get a feel for a particular type of application (maybe something similar to Cinema 4D or… read more

Making a Photoshop Brush Part II: Texture Brushes

A long, long time ago I wrote a detailed tutorial on how to make a Photoshop brush. Today, I want to show how to make a texture brush. It’s one of my favorite ways to add texture to a design, without the need to mess with merging images and blending… read more

Freebie: 25 Original And FREE Abstract Smoke Brushes

Freebie: 25 Original And FREE Abstract Smoke Brushes

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Flash Catalyst Tutorial 101 – Creating an interactive video gallery (quickly!) without writing any code

Written by Bear Travis + Tara Feener exclusively for WebDesignDev.com.

Tara and Bear are both members of the Flash Catalyst development team at Adobe, and, along with Matthew Cannizzoro, author the FlashCats blog (flashcats.net)

First things first: we think it’s easiest to learn by example. So to introduce you to using Adobe®… read more

40 New And Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

The Internet is bursting with knowledge. Whatever you want is available at your fingertips, and learning new techniques is so easy with the load of useful tutorials that guide you step by step. Adobe Illustrator is powerful indeed, but when used right, it can perform feats that humans will marvel… read more

12 Beginner Tutorials for Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator

This series is supported by Ben & Jerry’s Joe, Ben & Jerry’s new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here.

Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard vector graphics application, is the tool you use when you need flexible, scalable vector graphics such as logos and artwork… read more

Mountains Bow Down

Created in Photoshop CS5, using various photos and Photoshop Brushes.

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Create Gold Ornamental Text in Photoshop

Ornamental text can be created in several ways. Today we will demonstrate how to combine several stock images to create some nice gold ornamental typography. Let’s get started! Resources Used The following resources were used during the production of this tutorial: Clouds Grunge Texture Splatter Brushes Grunge Brushes Blair Caps… read more

A Sneak Peek at Premium for Non-members

Vector Premium launched in late September 2008. Since then we’ve added over 60 Premium tutorials for Premium members and hundreds of Illustrator and InDesign source files. Over 10,000 members have formed our unique Premium community. Learn more about the material and resources available to Premium members to Join Premium today.

Join… read more

50 Remarkable Free Icon Sets Released In 2010

Today we present a refreshing collection of free icon sets. In the past, we posted a huge collection of icon sets and due to the increasing users’ demand, we decided to showcase a yet another collection. Everyone knows that a suitable icon can help users with nice metaphors (if used… read more

Create a Painterly Apple with Illustrator CS5′s new Bristle Brush

The new Bristle Brush in Illustrator CS5 gives you the best of both worlds: The painterly effects of real media and the control and flexibility of a vector drawing. We’ll use another new feature in CS5, the "Draw Inside" drawing mode, which will let us do what every artist likes… read more

Landscape Photography For the Serious Amateur

This is a guest post by New Zealand landscape photographer, Chris Gin. Some of you might recognise images from Chris’ Flickr stream that we have used in our collections before.

I’ve been into landscape photography for a couple of years now. It’s a fantastic hobby and hugely… read more

WDL Premium: Flourishes Vector Pack from Go Media

Here’s a high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members. Flourishes is a beautiful set of flowing linework. These work great in any sort of elegant design that needs some whispy and waving accents. This pack includes 30 vectors in all.

Be sure to check out Go Media’s Arsenal… read more

Exclusive Brush Pack – 15 Wicked Wings

Photoshop brushes are a popular type of resource because they can be used to not only apply an effect to a graphic but also as clip art as well. Today, we are giving away a set of 15 Photoshop brushes that can be used to easily add wings to your… read more

Lightroom Pro Q&A with Nat Coalson

Hi everyone. Here’s another in a series of mini-interviews with some of the Lightroom pros out there where they’ve answered a short series of questions about how they use and feel about Lightroom:

Today’s Guest: Nat Coalson.

Bio/Intro: Nathaniel Coalson is a travel and fine art photographer, teacher and writer based… read more

10 New High-Quality Free Fonts for Your Designs

We’re always on the look out for high-quality freebies for our readers. Whether it’s Photoshop brushes or icons, we love finding top notch free files and sharing them with you. We do the searching so you don’t have to. This saves you time and helps you focus on what’s… read more

12 Beginner Tutorials for Getting Started With Photoshop

This series is supported by Ben & Jerry’s Joe, Ben & Jerry’s new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here.

Adobe Photoshop, the ubiquitous and industry standard graphics software for photographers, designers, digital artists, as well as casual enthusiasts, can be a baffling application… read more

How to Illustrate a Luminous Vector Sunset

In this tutorial you will learn how to create Vector Sunset, using the RGB color model. Using Art and Scatter Brushes, Gaussian Blur, Gradient Mesh and the Transparency palette, you will create a vector image with depth and luminance.

Step 1

Start the program and install the RGB color model (File… read more

Designious Mega Vector Pack Giveaway

Designious has teamed up with WDL to give 10 of our readers a mega vector pack of their choice. Mega vector packs from designious range in price from $40 to $70, so this is a great opportunity. To be eligible to win, all you have to do is leave a… read more

Free Hi-Res Photoshop Brushes: Assorted Texture Set

I have some very Hi-Res freebies for you today. This is a set of Photoshop brushes meant for making it easy to add texture to your artwork. It’s an assorted set and, as you can see below includes a wide variety of different styles of textures. All brushes are 2500px!… read more

Quick Tip: How to Create a Stylized Wave using Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create some stylized waves, using the Pathfinder, Envelope Distort with Mesh and various Gradients. You will also learn how to use Scatter Brushes to create the foam effect. Let’s begin!

Step 1

Start illustrator, with the Rectangle Tool (M) create a rectangle of… read more

35 Fresh and Wanted Photoshop Tutorials

Photoshop needs no introduction; everyone knows it — even those who do not have any design background. Knowing your tools inside out really counts. If you really know Photoshop, you can do almost everything with it — be it photo retouching, photo manipulation, creating fantasy scenes or creating wild… read more

Mouth-watering designer bundle. Oh my…

Bundle Hunt announced a treasure that is sure to get any designers mouth salivating.  For those who don’t know, Bundle Hunt is a premium resource pack aimed at empowering the creative community, offering more than $1,400 worth of apps, templates, icons, eBooks, hosting plans and premium memberships all for less… read more

How to Illustrate Dynamic Hair Using Adobe Illustrator’s Paintbrush Tool

This tutorial will show you how to create a dynamic hairstyle from a reference image. You will use the Paintbrush Tool, basic skin shading and transparent gradients.

Step 1

I’m going to use a stock image by the wonderful NikxStock, specifically Nervosa. The reason why I’ve chosen this image for the tutorial… read more

36 High Resolution Cloud Brushes – Premium Psdpack

Today, we have a new set of Premium Brushes available for Psd Premium Members. This set was crafted by Grant Friedman of Colorburned and includes 36 High Resolution Photoshop Cloud Brushes. If your next project calls for a scenic sunset or a beautiful cloudy day, then this set is perfect… read more

The World Collabs #4 – with Joao Oliveira

Abduzeedo takes pride in being one of the worlds leading design blogs. Having interviewed a bulk of the most infamous creative geniuses, we want to use our potential to introduce a new star on the Abduzeedo stage …YOU.

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This is our fourth contest for The World Collabs. Our new cutting… read more

Underwater Scene in Pixelmator

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create an underwater scene as inspired by the opening titles of I, Robot, the movie. We will create a brush that will be used to add the bubbles and explore a technique to make your scenes look more realistic. The whole… read more

Sites of the Week #113 – Winners Giveaway

For this Sites of the Week, we’re announcing the winners for the WeGraphics giveaway, check it out below! Also we have selected some great sites such as iFontMaker and Score Factory. As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be… read more

A Compilation of Various Grunge Texture Sets

Add the right kind of distressed, worn-out feel you need for your designs with these free grunge texture sets. Some of these textures are available under Creative Commons licenses, so please read the information about the sets before downloading. Let us know your favorites out of these resources… read more

Brilliant Adobe Photoshop CS5 Tutorials From 2010

Adobe Photoshop CS5 is a new, but experienced kid on the block. With its new powerful features, it provides designers with a flexible tool for printing, making a video or designing for the Web. Some of the features added in Photoshop CS5 are Puppet Warp, 3D extrusions with Adobe Repoussé,… read more

Using Illustrator CS5 Tools to Create a Painted House – Vector Premium Tutorial

We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you want to learn how to use a combination of the new Illustrator CS5 features – including the Perspective Grid and Natural Media Brushes – to create a 100% vector illustration with a painted finish,… read more

Artistic Expressions: Wear and Tear

Making things look old and dirty is another matter and a little tougher.

People usually use Photoshop to make things look “nice and clean,” and many times the Clone tool will suffice to get the job done. Making things look old and dirty is another matter and a little tougher, however…. read more

8 Free Fantastic Fractal Photoshop Brushes

8 Free Fantastic Fractal Photoshop Brushes

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Working with Various Types of Vector Line Art

Line art is the use of lines or stretched shapes to create an illustration or enhance its appearance. Within this technique there are a variety of styles that are often found within the vector art community. In this article, I will show you a variety of illustrations made from vector… read more

New eBook From Smashing Magazine: Mastering Photoshop For Web Design

Mastering Photoshop for Web Design is the third book in our eBook series, and it’s definitely the best eBook we’ve published so far. It was written from scratch by our regular writer Thomas Giannattasio, exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. We are very proud of the result, in particular… read more

Create a Realistic Pencil Illustration in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will take you step-by-step on how I created this pencil and paper scene. This tutorial is written for advanced users who already have a general understanding of the tools and techniques commonly used in Photoshop. Enjoy!

The Final Image

This is what we will be creating:

Step 1: Setting… read more

Beautiful Vector Illustration in Illustrator and Photoshop by Carol Rivello

Hey guys! For this tutorial/making of I created a fun illustration for my sister Stella’s blog. In her blog she writes about funny daily situations and I thought that it would be nice to develop an illustration that expressed that somehow. I hope that this step by step help the… read more

Creating a Mysterious Cheshire Cat in Adobe Illustrator – Vector Premium Tutorial

We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. Would you like to learn how to create a detailed vector illustration based on the Cheshire Cat? If so, we have an awesome tutorial for you.

This Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques

In this detailed tutorial you will… read more

A Round-Up of Free Dirty Grunge Wallpapers for Your Desktop

Great grunge designs create beauty out of the seemingly ugly. Scratches, rust, dust and trash become part of cool, trendy, and high-impact designs. Being designers, our ability to make something remarkable out of elements like these can inspire us to push our limits further, since we know that… read more

Top 15 Online Tools For Drawing And Sketching

If you find yourself bored at work and have the artistic streak in you, you should probably busy yourself with working on a drawing project you can later show off to your friends. Instead of going the traditional way and sticking to pencil and paper, you should explore the arena… read more

Create CS5 Width Profile Brushes in any Version of Adobe Illustrator CS!

Adobe Illustrator CS5 has a new option within the Stroke window known as "Width Profile". This tutorial shows how you can create brushes and use them in any version of Adobe Illustrator CS. You will also learn how to create, save and use your new brushes!

Introduction

Adobe Illustrator CS5 has a… read more

Designer Spotlight: Clare Nicholas

Clare Nicholas graduated in 1986 from Bristol Polytechnic, U.K., with a B.A. (HON) 1st Class in Fine Art, Specializing in Printmaking. She continued her studies in printmaking at the Royal College of Art in London, but was soon lured in by the illustration department next door. In 1988, she sold… read more

30 Sets of Free Tech Interface Brushes for Photoshop

Tech interface brushes can save you a lot of time from creating every single futuristic-looking detail on your own. Whether you’re making the blueprint of a hi-tech alien citadel or simply want to add a cool, techy feel to your design, these tech brushes often have the basics… read more

Watercolor Brush Pack #1

This Brush Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed.

This is a collection of 10 Watercolor Photoshop brushes. It was designed especially for use in texture creation. Included in the brush pack are paint drip brushes, paint… read more

Quick Tip: How to Draw a Stylized Motorcycle with Complex Brushes

The application of brushes can be very different, from imitating smudges in painting up to the most unexpected effects. In this tutorial you will learn how to create complex brushes in Adobe Illustrator and how brushes work together to create some interesting effects.

Step 1

Let’s begin by drawing the outlines of… read more

Foggy Window Effect in Photoshop

After over three days of nonstop rain I decided to use that as inspiration for a new experiment in Photoshop. In 2007 I did a video tutorial showing how to create water drops in Photoshop, but it was only the video without any text instruction, so a lot of people… read more

Draw Simple Fruit in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you how to make some quick and easy fruit using simple Photoshop techniques. Enjoy!

Quick Nav:

Download the PSD filesHow to make an OrangeHow to make a BananaHow to make GrapesThe Fruit

We will be creating an orange, a banana and some grapes:

How to make an OrangeStep… read more

WDL Premium: Linework Vector Pack

Here’s a high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members. This linework vector pack can add a lot of retro punch to a design. Combine these tight line elements with a texture or color gradient and you’ll have a great start towards a custom vintage design! It’s a huge pack… read more

How to Create a Still Life in the Style of Primitive Art

In this tutorial we will review the basic rules of creating still life compositions. The techniques described here will help you to create artworks in the style of primitive art. There is no necessity to create a sketch at the beginning of your work. We will work to reproduce this… read more

5 Handy YouTube Channels for DIY and Home Improvement

The easiest way to learn how to do something practical is to first see it done properly by someone else. By breaking it down into easy-to-follow steps, these how-to videos offer an absolute wealth of knowledge that is just a few clicks away.

We’ve searched YouTube for the very best home… read more

The Future of Abstract

This is my first 3D Abstract piece and I am really pleased with the final piece. I used C4D with Greyscale Gorilla’s HDRI Light Kit Pro and then finally Photoshop. Thanks to PaulW for the great abstract brushes and please fav if you liked… read more

31 Sets of Free Photoshop Paint Brushes

Paint has been one of the most used mediums for creating artwork since the humble beginnings of human creativity. Now that we use computers to create designs, we have more control over the look of each painted stroke on the canvas than ever.

With an eclectic variety of… read more

Practicing Photoshop CS5’s New Features

By Rafiq Elmansy

Since the earliest days of Adobe Photoshop, designers and photographers have depended on it to edit images. Photoshop is perhaps Adobe’s most popular application. Professionals in our industry react with excitement and concern for every new version. They want to know about new features and how Photoshop can… read more

Core Art Skills: Part 1, Welcome to the Course

Vectortuts+ is excited to bring you a new five part series on core art skills. In this series, Ben Mounsey will be sharing in-depth knowledge and analysis of the skills required to become a better illustrator. Ben will be outlining four main skills; using sketchbooks, life drawing, working in traditional… read more

The World Collabs #3 – with James White

Abduzeedo takes pride in being one of the worlds leading design blogs. Having interviewed a bulk of the most infamous creative geniuses, we want to use our potential to introduce a new star on the Abduzeedo stage …YOU.

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This is our third contest for The World Collabs. Our new cutting… read more

20 New High-Quality Fonts for Your Designs

We’re always on the look out for high-quality freebies for our readers. Whether it’s textures, Photoshop brushes, or icons, we love finding top notch free files and sharing them with you. We do the searching so you don’t have to. This saves you time and helps you focus on what’s… read more

10 [More] Killer Dropbox Tips and Tricks

We recently rounded up 15 Awesome Dropbox Tips and Tricks, which was accompanied by a giveaway. Entries required a comment with your favorite Dropbox tip, trick or hack you use. From that massive collection of entries we bring you 10 [more] killer Dropbox tips and tricks to make the most… read more

Fresh and Excellent Photoshop Tutorials For Designing Posters (From 2010)

Photoshop is powerful tool that can add wings to your creativity. With Photoshop manipulation tools, you can create and edit images for Web and print. Every industry needs poster designs for promotion of their products and services. Advertisement is of utmost importance for building a brand and thus increasing the… read more

Photoshop Clone Stamp Tool

I think that, like me, a lot of people out there actually learn most of what they know about Photoshop by teaching themselves. Even if you do take a class, it will likely focus on the basics, and just won’t have the scope to dig into all of the finer… read more

800+ Beautiful Abstract Light Photoshop Brushes

800+ Beautiful Abstract Light Photoshop Brushes

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The Process Behind Good Illustration (Part 3)

Design Informer

The Process Behind Good Illustration – According to a Young Illustrator (Part III)

by Natalie Sklobovskaya for DesignInformer

Good Process and Good Design (Continued)

In Part II I started a list of some personal process-oriented thoughts on illustration—more specifically about some ways to help broaden the creative process and make its execution… read more

WDL Premium: Currency Ornaments Vector Pack

Here’s a high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members. Currency Ornaments contains 22 very detailed and ornate vector flourishes, swashes, crests, leaves, and other design elements that have a very Victorian and Baroque feel to them. You really have to see these up close to understand the details…. read more

Quick Tip: A Simple Way to Create Vector Fog

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a simple yet effective smoke-like illustration. Using this technique you can make smoke, fog and clouds in just a few easy steps. Let’s get started!

Step 1

With the Pencil Tool (N), start creating the mountain scenery. Once you finish drawing the ragged… read more

40 Superb Photoshop Tutorials For Attractive Photo Effects

By Obaid ur Rehman

Photoshop is the basic requirement of a designer and that’s why designers all around the world regularly look for the tutorials that can help them in polishing their Photoshop skills. Since the demand for Photoshop tutorials is too high these days, we prepared a post… read more

45 Sets of High-Quality Adobe Illustrator Brushes

45 Sets of High-Quality Adobe Illustrator Brushes

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.42)

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even… read more

How to Illustrate Deliciously Realistic Grapes using Simple Techniques

In this tutorial we will learn how to illustrate a bunch of grapes using basic Adobe Illustrator tools. You will learn how to render multiple light sources and how to model a complex object using simple shapes and techniques. Let’s get started.

Step 1

Create a new document. We will start… read more

$100 Dropbox Credit Winner

The Dropbox team has generously offered one lucky Web.AppStorm reader $100 credit, and we want to sent out a huge thanks to them for their generosity and for supporting the AppStorm community!

Earlier this week we announced the Dropbox giveaway along with 15 Awesome Dropbox Tips and Tricks, which has generated… read more

Exclusive Freebie Pack – 25 Grunge Brushes

Photoshop brushes are a popular tool that designers use to apply an effect to a graphic. Brushes can be used for digital painting or even to distress text or logos. This set of 25 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes is our little treat to the readers of this website and can… read more

Create an Elegant Theater Interior with Illustrator

The keys to this richly-appointed theater interior are simple Gradient Meshes and a few well-placed gradient fills. Once you’ve created the basic building blocks, it’s easy to re-purpose them for every element in this illustration. Sit back and enjoy the show!

Step 1

We’ll do the easy part first. Start with a… read more

From A Childs View: 30+ Creative Children’s Book Covers

This inspirational post is all about showing you a great selection of different ways the digital medium is put to use in the modern day world to create illustrations for children’s book covers: from toddlers’ short novels and picture books, to books about color for the youth, to older kids… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.41)

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even… read more

Our Premium Content: Eleven Months Later

Eleven months ago we launched WDL Premium, and it’s been a huge success for our members, our premium partners, and us. If you’ve not heard about our premium membership, it’s a way for us to bring you high-quality design files and other goodies from top companies. It’s truly been a… read more

HOW TO: Rent Anything Online

As dumpster diving and extreme anti-consumerism edge their way into the mainstream, more and more renting seems like an easier way to “go green” while cutting costs.

While not everything should be rented, (toothbrushes, underwear, I can go on) most things can be, and it shouldn’t come as a… read more

10 Free Geometric Photoshop Brushes

10 Free Geometric Photoshop Brushes

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15 Fresh and Useful Photoshop Tutorials

Part of being a designer is keeping your skills sharp and up-to-date. Skills may span a broad range of tools, but probably the most used tool of all designers is Photoshop. In this post, we’ve collected 15 fresh and useful Photoshop tutorials to help you brush up on your skills… read more

Design a Multimedia Website Layout in Photoshop

First impressions do count! Stunning our viewers with a visually compelling portfolio is one of the most important things that a designer can do to court a new client. Today we will demonstrate how to use photos, brushes, and textures, and 3D objects to design a creative multimedia website layout… read more

Flashing Design in Photoshop by Mike Speero

The tutorial of this week is very special, it’s from Mike Speero, a graphic designer from Gothenburg, Sweden. Mike has been featured in several books, magazines, done interviews, had a poster up on a fancy Italian galleria and soon he will be selling skateboards as well.

So in this tutorial he… read more

30 Useful Abstract Photoshop Design Tutorials

By Janos Racz

Abstract works have many uses in design: they can serve as a vibrant desktop background, a mysterious webdesign header or they can be beautiful art pieces by themselves. What’s more, abstract design has many forms, and not too many limitations. You can always come up with new shapes… read more

A Compilation of Vintage Textures for Designers

Textures are one of the most used resources in making great designs. They can accentuate your images to better portray the feel of the design you’re aiming for. Vintage textures, for instance, can add a classic or nostalgic touch to your work.

Here at You the Designer, you need… read more

How to Draw a Glossy Yo-Yo Icon using Adobe Illustrator

Entertain yourself with this tutorial on creating a glossy yo-yo icon. You will learn how to combine different gradient and object effects to make a hyper realistic and shiny plastic surface. The result is a perfectly rendered and appealing icon that can be made in just one hour!

Step 1

Start… read more

Quick Tip: Create a Barcode Sticker in Photoshop – Screencast

In today’s screencast we will revisit a quick tip tutorial by Alex Painsi that demonstrates how to create your own barcode sticker in Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial shows how to create custom brushes and apply custom settings to your brushes.

Here is a link to the written version of this tutorial… read more

Simple Underwater Scene in Photoshop

A few weeks ago I received an email from a reader asking me if I could write a tutorial showing an underwater scene. I have written some tutorials on this subject like the 3D type made out of water or the underwater scene for Digital Arts in 2008. However I… read more

50 Excellent Photoshop Brushes

50 Excellent Photoshop Brushes

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Clouds Text Effect in Pixelmator

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a text made up of clouds in ten very simple steps, solely using brushes, blending, and basic filters. The technique is extremely simple and can be used to create all sorts of text effects as well.
Step 1

Open Pixelmator and create… read more

Create a Detailed, Vector-based iPhone Illustration, Part 2

In ‘Create a Detailed, Vector-based iPhone Illustration, Part 1‘, we made our iPhone and the first five icons. Now we will finish the remainder of the icons and add the final touches to the iPhone. You will learn many useful tips and tricks for icon design and how to… read more

The World Collabs #2 – with Bechira Sorin

Abduzeedo takes pride in being one of the worlds leading design blogs. Having interviewed a bulk of the most infamous creative geniuses, we want to use our potential to introduce a new star on the Abduzeedo stage …YOU.

This is our second contest for The World Collabs. Our new cutting edge… read more

WDL Premium: Wings Photoshop Brushes

Today we’re releasing a set of high-quality Photoshop brushes for our WDL Premium Members. These brushes from Designious are a set of drawn wings. Wings are great for adding an emblematic feel to your designs. There are 29 brushes in this set and each one is loaded with tons of… read more

Creative Bookmarks: Best of May 2010

May went by extremely quickly with all the new articles, tutorials and excitement. Here’s Creative Bookmarks May!

Quick Nav:

Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsHexagon Bokeh Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, from Abduzeedo, you’ll learn how to create a digital bokeh effect with hexagons using brushes, patterns, filters and blend… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.39)

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even… read more