How Do I Apply Multiple Pixel Masks to the Same Layer?

Masking is a non-destructive way to hide certain areas of an image. In this tutorial we will explain the best way to apply several pixel masks to the same layer in order adjust the transparency of a wine glass. Let’s get started!

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Announcement: Winners of Impressionist UI Packs Giveaway

A weeks ago, we created a contest at instantShift called Impressionist UI Packs Giveaway had announced the four winners of Impressionist UI Pack by DesignModo to InstantShift readers.

We’ve got more than 60 response comments. After voiding spam and non-legit comments we have left with 52 valid comments. It’s really good… read more

Win 10 free PSD to HTML conversion! (valued at $99 each!)

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40 New Dribbble Freebies Published in 2012

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The community of designers over at Dribbble are always happy to release new freebies to the public. It’s such a populated network that it can be frustrating to browse through all the newest shots looking for hidden gems. Thankfully I keep up with all the latest… read more

Awesome Photoshop Custom Cars by Richard Andersen

I really enjoy seeing people doing cool photoshop works in photographs, doing all kinds of crazy stuff, like customizing real-life cars. That’s exactly what Richard Andersen does, and it’s pretty awesome.

Richard is a South African graphic designer. For more of his custom cars, you must check his portfolio. Do so,… read more

30+ Outstanding Photoshop Digital Paintings

30+ Outstanding Photoshop Digital Paintings

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30+ Fresh & Cool Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

30+ Fresh & Cool Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

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Meme Management: Meet the Man Who Reps Internet Stars

Ben Lashes is a meme manager — and as far as we know, he is the first and only of his kind.

Consider him an agent for the stars of the Internet. Lashes represents memes and their creators such as Keyboard Cat, Nyan Cat and Scumbag Steve, to name a few…. read more

Clean Mobile Login Screen Tutorial

Clean Mobile Login Screen Tutorial

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Character

Character design. Personal project. Photoshop.

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Use New Features in Photoshop CS6 to Create an Administrator Dashboard Interface

Photoshop CS6 is packed with new features that will help you create better interface designs. In this tutorial we will utilize Photoshop’s new vector editing and stroke capabilities to create an administrator dashboard interface. We will also take advantage of Photoshop’s new snap to pixel grid feature to help create… read more

20 Beautiful Nature Inspired Tutorials from Vectortuts+

There’s nothing like the seasons and nature to inspire great works of art. Today we have have bundled together a collection of beautiful and inspiring tutorials from the Vectortuts+ archives. Covering a variety of subjects from landscapes to water drops there’s plenty of projects to help you imagine and create… read more

Finally, Background Save and Auto Recovery in Photoshop CS6

Be honest, how many times have you lost hours of work because you forgot to save your files? Photoshop users have been asking for a background save and auto recovery feature for a long time. In Photoshop CS6, Adobe delivered! In this episode of our Introduction to Photoshop CS6 series… read more

Ecards: a great marketing tool!

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Free Download PSD Buttons & BuyNow PSD Button

Free Download PSD Buttons & BuyNow PSD Button

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Stats meter PSD

Stats meter PSD

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Ridiculously Photogenic Guy Answers Questions on Reddit

Zeddie Little knew how Reddit worked, and liked memes.

He just never thought he would become one.

Little, more commonly known of late as Ridiculously Photogenic Guy, found out four hours after he became a viral sensation that everyone suddenly knew his face.

In response to Redditors who asked for a Q-and-A… read more

50 Free PSD social web icon pack

50 Free PSD social web icon pack

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Freebie PSD Mac app UI kit

Freebie PSD Mac app UI kit

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Note Paper (PSD)

Note Paper (PSD)

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Capturing Motion Blur in Camera Explained

Part of being a great photographer is learning how to accomplish all those effects we tend to rely on Photoshop for, in-camera. Take motion blur for example – it’s fairly easy to apply this effect in Photoshop, but takes a lot of practice to get right in-camera. But, don’t let… read more

31 [+10] Cool Photography Tutorials, Tips, Videos, Hacks and How To’s from Around the Web

This morning I spent some time trawling through some of my favourite photography blogs to see what they’ve been posting – the array of great tutorials, videos, hacks and advice I found was amazing! What a great time we live in where we have so many great resources to draw… read more

A New Front-End Methodology: BEM

This article is the sixth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for… read more

50 Fresh And High Quality Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop is an excellent tool that has been used in the graphics and designing field. It is such widely used even by the novices that it needs no introduction at all. Though everyone knows it and even uses it, the software needs some guidance to let you use it… read more

Thanks to Our Weekly Sponsor: iDraw

Our featured sponsor this week is iDraw, a fantastic vector illustration application.

What Pixelmator is to Photoshop, iDraw is to Illustrator. This amazing app will blow you away in its ability to provide professional level vector editing capabilities at a price that you simply won’t believe.

iDraw for Mac… read more

Create a Snowy Landscape From Desert Photography in Photoshop – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

Photoshop is a great tool because it allows us to be creative and produce imagery that would be impossible to create otherwise. In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Tony Aubé will create a snowy landscape from desert photography and photos of sand. This tutorial is available exclusively to Tuts+ Premium… read more

Create A Robotic Pony in Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator can be a little tricky to get your hands around, particularly after getting used to the workflow of applications like Photoshop. The differences between layer use and the creation of objects and shapes can be really strange at first hand.

In the following steps you will learn how to… read more

Latest & Awesome Free PSDs From Dribbble 2012

Latest & Awesome Free PSDs From Dribbble 2012

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Free & Premium Design Elements For Creating Infographics

Infographics Free Elements Set

Free Vector Infographic Kit by WeGraphics

Infographic Vector Kit by Pixeden

Free Infographics Template by Free Web Elements

Vector Infographic Kit by Medialoot

Business Data Elements Vector by Zezu

Infographics Premium Elements Set

Set Elements of Infographics – World Map – $4

Infographic Elements – $5

Election Infographic Elements -… read more

Task List Web App PSD

Task List Web App PSD

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Daily Inspiration #1109

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Photoshop CS6 Beta: A Quick Look

As with other recent incarnations of Photoshop, Adobe have released a beta version of their latest image editing software. You can grab yourself a copy from Adobe here http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/photoshopcs6.html If you don’t have one, you will need to register an Adobe account as once installed the software will connect with… read more

Freebie: Download Buttons PSD

Freebie: Download Buttons PSD

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Our favorite tweets of the week Apr 9 – Apr 15, 2012

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Wallpaper of the Week 199 by James White

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by the mighty James White for FITC Toronto 2012. It’s another amazing work coming from James for this amazing event that FITC is.

The game has changed and FITC is on it! Featuring over 70 renowned digital creators from around the globe,… read more

Design an Eye Catching Energy Drink Advertisement

Design an Eye Catching Energy Drink Advertisement

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Stunning Tutorials of Adobe Photoshop CS5

Stunning Tutorials of Adobe Photoshop CS5

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A Superb Collection of Fresh Tutorials using Photoshop

A Superb Collection of Fresh Tutorials using Photoshop

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Advanced Portrait Retouch on a Male Subject in Lightroom 4 – Part 1 of 3

Introduction

This tutorial has been transcribed from the SLR Lounge Adobe Lightroom 4 DVD Guide, a 14 hour DVD featuring over 130 tutorials for mastering Lightroom which can be purchased from the link above.

Lightroom can be a powerful advanced editor, and we often use it for portrait retouching. While it does not… read more

Best of the Week #218

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

4 Tips for Editing Photos in Photoshop

In this article we will present you with some great tips to retouch your photos using Photoshop. Let’s take a look! Before We Begin Let’s take a look at the original photo that we will be using courtesy of Alraunie-Stock on Deviant Art. 1. Study Your Photo First It’s very… read more

Elegant Photo Editing with CameraBag 2

With apps like Instagram and services like Facebook, it seems everyone now is taking pictures and submitting them out to the world via the Internet. Taking pictures is just one part of the equation though. Those who want a perfect picture know that editing typically follows the capture. Manipulating light… read more

Comics of the week #125

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Daily Inspiration #1108

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Lightroom Tip and Seminar Contest Winners

Happy Friday everyone. I’m in Portland, Oregon right now getting ready to head up to Seattle. I’ll probably be shooting at Olympic National Park this weekend so if you’ve got any great photo spots, I’d sure appreciate it. Anyway, I figured I’d close up the week with a tip as… read more

Quick Tip: Create Digital Tintype Photos

Tintype photos are more than just a black and white photo with a grunge layer blended on top. True tintype photos were developed under unique conditions with specific equipment. For example, the film used in the era of the tintype required the subject to attempt to sit still because the… read more

Free download: Exclusive Stylish User Interface Kit (PSD)

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25 Detailed Web Layout PSD Templates

Today we have a 25 fully-layered PSD web templates that have not only been designed with current web design trends in mind, but are also so detailed and professional you simply won’t believe they are free to download.

But, do you know something, they all are! Enjoy.

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Creating an extruded glass text effect using Adobe Photoshop

Creating an extruded glass text effect using Adobe Photoshop

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Ultimate Roundup of 30+ Free Form PSDs – Part 2

Ultimate Roundup of 30+ Free Form PSDs – Part 2

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Colourful Squared Abstract Seamless Photoshop And Illustrator Pattern

Colourful Squared Abstract Seamless Photoshop And Illustrator Pattern

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16 Good Questions to Ask Before Hiring PSD to WordPress Provider

16 Good Questions to Ask Before Hiring PSD to WordPress Provider

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89 Photography Links & Photographs To Rock Your Socks

The Toads return from a wonderful Easter weekend to share this week’s list of tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs encountered during their weekly adventures online.  This list contains some really wonderful photographs and images as delivered by some truly talented folks.  The Toad really hopes you enjoy viewing these… read more

How to Convert a PSD File into a fully functional CMS Website?

How to Convert a PSD File into a fully functional CMS Website?

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Daily Inspiration #1107

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Doodle

Doodling with Photoshop… Just started to bend images and *puff* several hours later there was this little imp.

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How to Use the Content Aware Move Tool in Photoshop CS6

In Photoshop CS6, the Photoshop team introduced a new Content Aware feature called Content Aware Move. Content Aware Move will allow you to select pixels and move or extend them to another area of your image without the use of layers and masks. All you need to do is select… read more

Grunge Photoshop brush roundup

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Create A Glossy Sphere Icon With Network Energy Bands Using Photoshop

Create A Glossy Sphere Icon With Network Energy Bands Using Photoshop

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We’re Giving Away 3 Personal Copies of the Impressionist UI Pack from DesignModo!

DesignModo has invited us to host this giveaway for them, and since this is a great resource for us designers we just had to say yes!
 

 
Impressionist UI is the world’s biggest user interface elements pack, containing over 300 elements for web design that represent almost anythng… read more

Multihued Easter Photoshop, Illustrator Tutorials and Freebies

Multihued Easter Photoshop, Illustrator Tutorials and Freebies

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25 Functional & Free Downloadable Photoshop Brushes

25 Functional & Free Downloadable Photoshop Brushes

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20 Photoshop Tutorials That Will Get You Up to Speed

Photoshop is one of Adobe’s most widely used products, however most users barely scratch the surface of the features the software offers. As people who love photography we come across great things that folks are doing with Photoshop on a daily basis. Below is a list of online tutorials we… read more

350+ Fantastic Tileable Pattern Resources

350+ Fantastic Tileable Pattern Resources

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Daily Inspiration #1106

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Ultra Realistic Oil Paintings by Pedro Campos

Photorealistic paintings on canvas are definitely in a whole other level of awesomeness. Seeing a painting for the first time and thinking it’s actually a photograph is definitely a compliment for an artist like Pedro Campos.

Pedro is a Spanish artist that makes these astonishing pieces of oil on canvas. He’s… read more

Fab Pad – Digital Graphic Tablets Mock-ups

fab Pad is a product destined to all
who care to showcase with style. Are you a digital artist looking for a great way to display your work.
This unique pack of digital 12” graphic tablets is the perfect one for you.

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Well organized layers and… read more

How Do I Use Photoshop and InDesign Together?

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign work extremely well together. This is especially true if you add Adobe Bridge to the equation. In this tutorial we will explain how you can get Photoshop, InDesign, and Bridge to work together to improve your workflow. Let’s get started!

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CSS Sprites Revisited

I’m pretty confident that I won’t surprise anyone here by saying that CSS sprites have been around for quite a while now, rearing their somewhat controversial heads in the Web development sphere as early as 2003.

Still, the CSS sprite hasn’t truly found its way into the everyday toolkit of the… read more

How to Use the Content Aware Patch Tool in Photoshop CS6

When Content Aware was added to Photoshop CS5, people described the feature as "magical" or "impossible." Now that we have had a couple years to get acquainted with it, most people find it to be an incredibly useful tool to have in their arsenal. In Photoshop CS6, the Adobe team… read more

CloudOn Brings Microsoft Office, Adobe Reader To Your iPad

In January CloudOn launched its iPad app allowing you to access and work with Microsoft Office documents directly on your iPad, saving those documents to DropBox. Tuesday, the company took its app a step further, adding support for Adobe Reader as well as the ability to also store and access… read more

Daily Inspiration #1105

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

30 Great Open Source Mac Apps

An open source application is a piece of software for which the source code is available and in the public domain. Developers are able to download the code and modify, contribute and change it to suit their needs. This means businesses can ‘tweak’ software according to their needs and individuals… read more

Quickly Apply Effects to Your Artwork Using Filter Forge 3.0

Most designers have at some point in their career, been faced with having to design artwork for a friend or family member, on a tight deadline, with no budget. In those instances, designers often have to rely on special tools and effects to help them quickly produce the artwork they… read more

DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack (The World’s Biggest User Interface Elements Pack) Giveaway

DesignModo is running a contest, where Impressionist User Interface Elements Pack for 3 winners (1 developer license and 2 personal license) are givingaway. Well, you guys know what is Impressionist UI Pack? Let’s say it once again for n00bs.

Impressionist is the world’s biggest user interface elements pack. It contains over 300 elements… read more

Olympus SZ-14 Review

This review camera dropped out of the box — in bright red! Talk about making a statement!

I’m not sure how you all feel about CICs — cameras in colours. It’s not that important to me, except for the benefit of making the control IDs more visible.

Otherwise, the Olympus SZ-14 is… read more

Use Photoshop CS6 to Create a Micro Machines Inspired Scene

Photoshop CS6 is packed with new features and effects that you can use in your work. In this tutorial we will utilize Photoshop’s new 3D capabilities as well as its new content aware features to create a Micro Machines inspired composition. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were… read more

Weekly Poll: What Do You Think of The Photoshop CS6 Icon?

What Do You Think of The Photoshop CS6 Icon?

This week we dove deep into the Photoshop CS6 Beta preview and told you all about the great new features and changes (see that article here). This is one of the most dramatic updates Photoshop has seen in years. It sports… read more

40+ Useful Free Online Books for Web Designers

Today, Web site Design is a very important part of current Graphic Design. To keep up with the fast-paced web design industry you must look out self education sources, such as books, books are very important, helps us to build our spirit, give information, helps us to write and think… read more

What’s new for designers, April 2012

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.127)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

Win a Free Ticket to the Lightroom 4 Live Seminar!

This month, I’m kicking off my Lightroom 4 Live seminar tour from Kelby Training. First I head to Minneapolis, then on to Los Angeles, Chicago, and Lansing, Michigan. If you’ve been wanting to finally figure out how to work Lightroom into your photography this is a fantastic chance to come… read more

Free PSD UI Kits and Templates for Web Designers

Free PSD UI Kits and Templates for Web Designers

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Daily Inspiration #1104

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

20 Free Blackboard PSD Models

20 Free Blackboard PSD Models

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20 Basic Yet Useful Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

20 Basic Yet Useful Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

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35 Free and Premium PSD Nightclub Flyer Templates

35 Free and Premium PSD Nightclub Flyer Templates

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Customizing Panel End Marks in Lightroom 4 (or LR3)

Introduction

This tutorial has been transcribed from the SLR Lounge Adobe Lightroom 4 DVD Guide, a 14 hour DVD featuring over 130 tutorials for mastering Lightroom.

If you own your own studio, or are heading in that direction, it is nice to have your Lightroom customized to your own studio. This portrays an… read more

vCard: Free PSD Single Web Page Template

vCard: Free PSD Single Web Page Template

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Wooden User Interface Login Design

Wooden User Interface Login Design

Give your online or iOS application some much needed character with this small but useful wood user interface for photoshop. It is well layered and comes with buttons, form elements, error and ok indicators and a cool switch for auto… read more

45 Fresh Collection of High Quality Free PSD Files

What else can be so great for a designer than finding out high quality Photoshop PSD files? This is because PSD file format allows designers to add their own personal touch to an already designed work while saving loads of time that will be required to create that work from… read more

Create Stunning “Tron Legacy” Fan Art in Photoshop – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

Disney’s "Tron Legacy" featured some stunning special effects. In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Sheridan Johns will explain how to achieve similar results using digital painting, composition, and lighting effect techniques. This tutorial is available exclusively to Tuts+ Premium Members. If you are looking to take your digital painting skills… read more

Photoshop CS6 Beta: What Makes This Update Great

Since Adobe announced the beta for Photoshop CS6 a little over a week ago, it has been downloaded more than half a million times. Even if you’ve managed to miss the onslaught of tweets and reviews, the magnitude of eager testers should indicate how anxious photographers and designers were for… read more

Giveaway: Win Impressionist UI Packs

We are again excited to present you with special, more exciting prizes. InstantShift again came up with cool freebies giveaway as promised. This is our way of saying thanks to our readers for being part of the iShift community and helping us make it to where we are right now.

We… read more

Step by Step UI Design Ebook Giveaway – Winners Announced

Last weeks Step by Step UI Design Ebook giveaway has just ended and it is now time to announce our randomnly chosen winners.

Congratulations to the winners, we promise, you will really appreciate this book. You should have all by now received your winner email, if not, please do… read more

Amazing Work of Julian Burford

A few weeks ago we saw this amazing food icons and we were blown away by the quality of the illustration. We decided to check out who was the author and we ended up on Julian Burford’s Web site. Julian is an extremely talented illustrator from the Netherlands and totally… read more

iPad PSD Freebie! Black & White

iPad PSD Freebie! Black & White

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Latest Features in Photoshop CS6 That You Will Enjoy

Latest Features in Photoshop CS6 That You Will Enjoy

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Google Glasses on Famous Faces [PICS]

Ever since Google announced Project Glass, people have wondered what place the augmented reality glasses could have in everyday life. Some were excited about the possibilites of Project Glass — while others poked fun at their seemingly impractical nature.

SEE ALSO: The Internet Makes Fun of Google Glasses [PICS]We’ve decided to… read more

Daily Inspiration #1103

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com.

Do you want to see… read more