Compositing Images using Channels in Photoshop, Part 2

Finishing up the composite that was started in Part 1 of this tutorial.

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9 Photoshop Editing Tips Web Developers Should Know

9 Photoshop Editing Tips Web Developers Should Know

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40 Useful jQuery Techniques and Plugins

Over the last year, Smashing Magazine has evolved. We’ve been publishing fewer lists and more in-depth articles about design and Web development. We have invited professionals and high-profile developers to write for us. We’ve been investing more resources in the quality and relevance of our articles. We’ve also explored new… read more

How to Design a Speedometer Icon in Photoshop (Part 2)

Step 12: Creating the Meter – Polishing our indicator

Now we can make visible all our below layers and to pick up a nice color for our indicator. I´m going to use a very bright blue: #24fffc. This is just a matter of preferences and since we created vector shapes we… read more

How to Design a Speedometer Icon in Photoshop

In this detailed Photoshop Tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an amazing speed counter icon and also some nice tricks and tips you can apply on your daily basis when dealing with icon design in Photoshop.

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Inspiration: Fashion-Centric Vector Illustrators

Most people turn to Photoshop if the project they’re working on needs high-level editing on details such as facial features, lighting and shadows. However, if you’re looking to create detailed, scalable illustrations, Adobe Illustrator offers a superb selection of vector-based tools, such as the Pen and Pathfinder. For this reason,… read more

Quick Tip: The Graphic Styles Panel

The Graphic Styles Panel in Illustrator CS4 is more powerful than it’s ever been. Quickly add, create and save appearance attributes to make your work stylin’.

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30 Fresh Web Layout Design Photoshop Tutorials

In our previous post we’ve showcased several inspirational websites featuring various types of design. To add to that, we’ve decided to come up with 30 Fresh Web Layout Design Photoshop Tutorials that you can refer to when making the actual web layout. This post aims to provide guides… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.34)

We have slightly re-branded our weekly ‘Twitter’ design news, by simply dropping the Twitter from the title. Its not that we no longer like Twitter, we still love, it is just that we use a multitude of other sources as well, and we are not limited to only sharing via… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media and Web Events

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event… read more

Daily Inspiration #493

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Ask the Expert – Design Discussion with Chuck Anderson of NoPattern

Chuck Anderson and the Design Process
Hi Chuck, first of all, I just wanted to thank you for doing this interview. I absolutely love your designs. Let’s get started. Can you give us a little background of your training in design? How did you get started with it all?

Thank you, I… read more

Space scenes in modern web design

If you put together stars, shiny multicolors galaxies, gloomy planets and some light effects you can obtain incredible space scenes to use for your artwork, both graphic design and web design.

This style is becoming a cool web design trends for 2010 ’cause it is one of those effects you can… read more

Create a Sleek and Stylish MP3 Player in Photoshop

One of the best ways to learn how to create amazing interfaces it to practice by creating electronic devices in Photoshop. These days just about everyone has some kind of MP3 device to play music. In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a sleek, stylish, and simple MP3… read more

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

The new Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended is about to be released, it was announced already and among the new features there is one really special that is the Repoussé. This new feature or tool will allow us to create 3D objects extruding texts, selections, paths and layers masks. It’s a… read more

How to Calibrate Color for the Web

When is orange more like red? Web designers, even picky ones, sometimes ignore color shift across monitors.
How is a web designer to manage color when the screens of their users could be any size or color or could be viewed under any lighting conditions?

Unlike fixing HTML errors, which… read more

Presets – The Vintage Look

This week on Photoshop TV I did a Lightroom/Camera Raw preset tutorial. Part of the tutorial was creating a vintage-style look for your photos. It came out great and definitely adds a nice 70’s look to a photo. So I decided to create two Lightroom presets for it. One of… read more

Daily Inspiration #492

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

200+ Fractal Brushes for Photoshop

We frequently publish collections of quality Photoshop brushes of various types, and today we’re featuring fractal brushes. Here you’ll find links to 19 brush sets that total over 200 brushes. Fractal brushes are great for adding abstract elements to your designs.

3D Fractals (12 brushes)

Abstract Fractals (12 brushes)

Fractal Brushes (6 brushes)

Fractal… read more

Best of the Week #116

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

Daily Inspiration #491

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Create a light effect in Photoshop

Create a light effect in Photoshop

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A New Type of Theft – Can Post Production Settings be Owned?

I’m hearing about it more and more.

One maker of Lightroom presets accuses another of stealing their concoctions and selling them as their own.

A Photoshop actions artist claims that another website’s actions were actually dreamed up by them.

In this age of digital thievery where photographers are still only… read more

Sites of the Week #99 – Flash-Filter Giveaway

For this Sites of the Week, we have a special edition with a giveaway from Flash-Filter, I’m sure you’ll love it! Also we have selected some great sites such as Precinkt and VP Factory. As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions and don’t forget… read more

Create a Detailed Vintage Television Icon in Photoshop

While Photoshop is a very powerful raster-based image editor, it also comes stocked with many powerful vector-based editing tools. In today’s tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a detailed vintage television icon using Photoshop’s vector editing capabilities. This tutorial is an excellent example of how Photoshop’s vector tools can… read more

Photoshop CS5 Review

THE LATEST VERSION OF PHOTOSHOP HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

Photoshop is now 20 years old and in its 12th version. One wonders how many new features can be added to such a mature program. Photoshop CS4 had some nice new additions, but its new feature list seemed to be shorter than… read more

Adobe Illustrator CS5 Review

ILLUSTRATOR GETS SOME PERSPECTIVE

As the Creative Suite versions of the Adobe software mature, the list of new features for each program grows smaller, but the new features seem to be getting better. Of course, everything depends on your needs. Here are the top new features for Illustrator CS5 (a.k.a. version… read more

Knuckle Down and Back Up

By Melissa Scroggins

Have you put off backing up your work? Too complicated, right? Like many, backing up your work becomes a chore that is put off and put off and finally, put out of mind. When you realize you need a backup, it’s probably too late. A glitch occurs in… read more

Outstanding Photos with Partial Color

Partial color allows a designer to hone in on a particular part of an image and enhance it with color.

This makes the images really “pop” and this technique can be used for many purposes. For example, in advertising or corporate designs, features of a product can be… read more

The Beautiful Execution of Tame Fly Ecuador Campaign

Tourism is an industry responsible for billions of dollars spent in the world a year. Marketing tourism can be tricky. Everyone has beautiful scenery, interesting activities and their own “unique” destinations. So how do you define a specific area or brand from another? Through creative campaigns. The Fly Ecuador campaign for Tame Airlines is… read more

A Personal Selection of Premium Character Design Websites and Resources

It’s important to not get overwhelmed with all the information out there on character illustration and design. In addition to finding a selection of high quality sites you want to participate in, I recommend buying one or two books at a time and working all the way through them. While… read more

30 Useful Photo Editing Softwares

30 Useful Photo Editing Softwares

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Pug

Pug painted in photoshop

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40 Best Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Fantasy Scenes

40 Best Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Fantasy Scenes

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Showcase Of Web Design In Netherlands

The Netherlands, also known as the “Low Countries,” is a small, crowded, muddy piece of land through which a few big important rivers fortunately run. In this country, you can find coffee shops, wooden shoes, tulips, windmills and a lot of water.

And everything is rather small! Well, at least most… read more

Architecture History: 50 Years of Brasilia

Yesterday, April 21st 2010, Brasilia – Brasil’s capital – celebrated 50 years. A revolutionary project of a city built in only 4 years. Counting with talented hands from Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costo, the city became a landmark for brazilian architecture.

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“…a person who visits Brasília can like or dislike the… read more

40 Jaw-Dropping Photo Manipulations

Give a talented and creative Photoshop user some photographs and the possibilities are only limited to the imagination. Photo manipulations are illusions created by photo editing techniques. There are subtle photo manipulations and there are those that depict a far-fetched illusion executed in a realistic way. The latter are normally… read more

Creating and Applying Natural Textures

Textures make a website feel tangible.

They give content a relationship to the physical world, a sense of place and a reality that people can relate to.

Unfortunately, simulating physical textures isn’t as simple as shooting a photo or running a few Photoshop filters.

One has to blend random … read more

Bad Design Vs Good Design: What You Should Be Doing Part 1

Bad Design Vs Good Design: What You Should Be Doing Part 1

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How to Create Bamboo in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to draw semi-realistic bamboo in Adobe Photoshop—perfect for textures and backgrounds.

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Download the PSD (Source Files)Step 1: Creating a New Document

Create a new document with 800 on 600 pixels, resolution 300 dpi and a transparent background.

Step 2: Making the Texture

For texture,… read more

How to Illustrate a Professional Looking Apple iPad

In this tutorial we will learn how to make a realistic looking illustration of an Apple iPad using the Rounded Corner Rectangle, Gradient Mesh and Gradient Tool. Don’t let the professional finish fool you; this tutorial is perfect for beginners and experts alike.

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9 [More] Powerful Image Editing Web Apps You May Need to Bookmark

Few days ago, I have blogged about Tired Of Photoshop’s Complexity? Try These Free And Easy Apps For Your Photos and after a great response I am coming up today with another post to fill up the demand of more image editing tools.

Yes, There are some more image editing tools… read more

12 Tips for Avoiding Burnout as a Freelancer

Freelancing is attractive to a lot of people because of the opportunity to work on your own and to set your own hours. However, in reality most full-time freelancers face a lot of stress and experience burnout in their work on a regular basis. In this post we’ll look at… read more

deVision: A Business WordPress Theme

Here’s another amazing premium WordPress theme from ThemeShift for our premium members. deVision is a complex WordPress theme that lets you create a business website in minutes. Showcase your company or product with clean and professional design without any programming skills.

If you’re not yet a WDL Premium member, you’re missing… read more

Exclusive Free GUI Pack from Art.Gen

The good folks at Art.Gen are providing WDD readers with an awesome and exclusive freebie…

This useful PSD file includes a great selection of GUI elements that you can use for free for both commercial and free app development (with attribution).

All elements are on their own layers which should make customization… read more

30 New Tutorials for Manipulating Photos in Photoshop

Photo manipulation is one of the most common practices of photoshop users and designers. Aside from faking images, This type of technique can create unique and outstanding art designs. Learning how to manipulate photos could be fun and that’s why we compiled a list of photo manipulation tutorials… read more

Creating a Collection of Quirky Caricatures

Last November we decided to round off the Tuts+ year with a bang; a huge giveaway (96 prizes, no less) to reward all the loyal Tuts+ readers. We felt it was a good opportunity to get visitors browsing the content on each and every one of the Tuts+ sites and… read more

Shooting for HDR Portraiture

Few kinds of photography have a more dynamic power than the area of Portraiture.

Portraiture is the medium through which we photographers endeavor to tell the stories of our friends, our family, and our clients. Through this art, we have the ability to capture a likeness of someone that will last… read more

Inspiration: Amazing 3D Typography

Three-dimensional typography is something we’ve seen a lot of recently, and it doesn’t seem to be dying down, either. This post showcases a huge collection of 3D typography, and we have no doubt whatsoever that it is going inspire!

So, how is this magnificent typography produced? There are actually a handful… read more

Amazing Portraits Drawn With… Cassette Tapes!

This post is our first of the series “Talented Designers and Artists” where we feature creative and beautiful artworks produced by designers and artists worldwide. Today we feature Erika Iris Simmons (@iri5 on Twitter), is a kind of artist that you won’t usually meet on an occasional art exhibition.

Her… read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.33

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources, freebies and good reading articles that we have shared via Twitter and Facebook in the past week.

If would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can… read more

A Brazilian Architecture Office – M² Arquitetura

I have been writing some articles showing you really nice offices around the world. And for my surprise there is one of this great offices in a brazilian city really close to me. I’m talking about an office called M² Arquitetura. As soon as I looked at it I was… read more

15 CSS Habits to Develop for Frustration-Free Coding

By Jeremy Davis

It’s been said that the key to a civilization’s success is mastery of the food system. Unless a group of people can effectively control the basic needs for survival, they will never achieve greatness.

Likewise, before CSS skills can be expanded to an advanced level, the basics must become… read more

How to Create a Vicious Medieval Movie Poster in Photoshop! – Part 1

How to Create a Vicious Medieval Movie Poster in Photoshop! – Part 1

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Jeans Social Media Icon Set

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

Jeans Icon Set is a package of 17 Social media icons which is specially designed in Jeans style. The set of icon is suitable to be used… read more

15 Uniform Payment Options Icon Sets for Ecommerce Design

A small but often overlooked aspect of most ecommerce sites designs are the flat and bland payment options icons (Visa, Mastercard, Paypal…). From a usability standpoint the icons do need to be instantly recognized by the user, and you can understand why designers opt to use standard icon designs rather… read more

The Perfect Office #33

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Clash of the Titans Text Effect in Photoshop

A few weeks ago watched Clash of the Titans. The movie was okay, I have to admit, I was expecting much more, but it was awesome to see some huge monsters and mythologic creatures battling in this epic movie. However in the end of the movie, when the credits started… read more

Making the Most of one Flash [Case Study]

A Guest Post by Dev Wijewardane.

Usually, to produce a well lit image of an object, photographers will need to use multiple artificial light sources. These light sources can be costly and may not be easily accessible for amateur photographers. However, in many cases, a single flash can be… read more

Create Amazing Sunsets with Lightroom’s Split Toning Tool

A Guest Post by Andy Briggs.

One of the challenges of landscape photography is that it’s so dependant on the changing weather. This is particularly true when shooting sunrises and sunsets. You can travel for hours to get to the perfect location, only to find a dull sky, nothing… read more

This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (11-17 Apr ‘10)

Weekly Assignment

For our first week of Black and White April, our assignment was Black and White Nature. While we often look at (and think about) the bright, vibrant colours of nature, the challenge this week was to show how nature could be seen in another light, and instead look at… read more

Best of the Week #115

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

Interview with Tony Soh

To many in the vector community Tony Soh needs little introduction. Tony runs an excellent vector blog called Vector Diary and is an all-around great illustrative designer. In addition to this, he also wrote the first tutorial for us here at Vectortuts+ and regularly contributes to various creative blogs… read more

Broken Glass Photoshop Photo Effect

Broken Glass Photoshop Photo Effect

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Sites of the Week #98

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Navflow and Vtravelled. Also we’re featuring the Brizk’s portfolio and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than happy to… read more

Useful Design Tips For Your iPad App

With tools like Appcelerator’s Titanium and some JavaScript programming skill, creating native iPhone and iPad apps is simple. The danger is in not being always on the look-out for the kind of design pitfalls that plague many products in the App Store. In this post, we’ll consider some design tips… read more

Magnifico FREE PSD

Magnifico is a dark, exclusive theme suited for a portfolio, but will also work great for practically anything. It features a rich featured post slider, allowing viewers to focus on the important information right off the bat. Content is contrasted from the background using vivid colors allowing users to find… read more

A&D FREE PSD

A&D Apps and Webdesign is a gorgeous theme designed to promote your items, whether they are web designs, applications, screenshots, or photos, in a sophisticated way. The vivid color choice allows the user to quickly focus on the content eloquently displayed to them. A&D features multiple page designs, all backed… read more

The Designer Who Delivers

Whether you design and code websites all by yourself or run a small business with a pool of talent, you will always face the challenge of how much to work on a design and UI before passing the mock-ups on to the developer? Moreover, how much visual work needs to… read more

Create a Vibrant Colorful Alcohol Product Ad in Photoshop

Create a Vibrant Colorful Alcohol Product Ad in Photoshop

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Layers TV: Episode 129

RC and Corey are back with a new season of LayersTV. They kick things off with a look at Adobe’s newly released CS5. RC opens up Illustrator CS5 and talks about some of the new features like the shape builder tool and the creative beautiful stroke abilities. Corey opens up… read more

35 High-Quality Free Vector Packs

Web and graphic designers have a lot of free resources at their disposal. Thanks to an active design community, finding quality free resources is possible. In this post we’ll feature some of the best free vector packs that are available for download. As always when you are working with freebies,… read more

Great Pixel Art by eBoy

A while ago – December/09 to be more precise – we featured an article showing Super Cool Pixel Art Posters by eBoy. Since I really like pixel art and those three guys, Kai Vermehr, Steffen Sauerteig and Svend Smital – Eboy’s team, manage to create amazing stuff, I decided to… read more

Great 3D Work by Rodolfo Roth

Rodolfo Roth is a 3D artist from Porto Alegre, Brazil. He has been doing some incredible works for Santa Motion, a super cool studio in Porto Alegre. Rodolfo has a major in Graphic Design and despite his young age, he has more than 8 years of experience in the CG… read more

The Ultimate Free Web Designer’s Icon Set (750 icons, incl. PSD sources)

There are thousands of free icon sets out there, and every other day we see new sets being released by the design community. In fact, Smashing Magazine has been releasing icon sets for years now, too. But today’s release is particularly important. Over the last 1.5 years, Oliver Twardowski was… read more

8 of the Best Chrome Extensions for Web Designers

This series is supported by Wix.com, an online design tool that enables you to create limitless amounts of Flash websites, social network layouts, and more. Learn more about Wix here.

Google Chrome’s popularity is rising, but while web designers are likely to be among the earliest adopters of new web… read more

Roughly Speaking: Character Design Sketching Approaches

Character design comes in many styles, but they all start with the rough sketch. Often overlooked in online tutorials, technique and process videos, they are the foundation to creating quality characters. The following is an overview of rough sketches from some fantastic character design artists, with many different styles and… read more

Copyright Watermark Your Images in Lightroom 3

One complaint about Lightroom 2 is its lack of a feature enabling you to add copyright watermarks to your images as you Export them. There are workarounds that make use of the Identity Plate option in the slideshow and print modules but these are cumbersome at best. In Lightroom 3,… read more

Great Illustrations by Erik Jones

I know that a person can do anything in design programs such as good old Photoshop, but that are tons of fantastic traditional artists that don’t come even close to these programs, and make beautiful art.

My point is that if new artists got an eye for “virtual” art, I think… read more

The Stylish Harley Davidson Headquarters

A building with strong lines, elegant and with some aerodynamic lines. This is the Harley Daivdson Hearquarters in Australia, a culture that goes beyond the 2 wheels and that was expressed in this project located at Lane Cove, a place close to Sydney.

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The architects Tony Owen Partners had the pleasure… read more

50 Social Bookmarking Icon Sets for Bloggers – Part 2

This is an update on a post we published last year entitled 50 Social Service and Bookmarking Icon Sets for Bloggers, an enormous collection of only the best social icon-sets. Today’s update is no different, all of the icons are fresh, of the highest design quality and, as you will… read more

How To Design Your House With Live Interior Pro

Live Interior 3D Pro is a powerful and feature-rich application for designing and building both the interior and basic exterior of a home. Though the graphics are by no means photorealistic, there are some primitive rendering capabilities that make it fairly easy to create impressive images.

This review will give a… read more

Spanish User PS CS3 Help – Brush Pilot

As many of you know, I’ve spent the better part of 3 years working on Brush Pilot, a Photoshop brush previewer for OS X. We are about to come out with a major update that not only adds 4 languages (Spanish, French, Swedish, and Italian), but we are also in… read more

No Other God

Created in Photoshop CS3

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Design Makeover: High-flying Redesign

Client:
Good Bird Magazine! www.goodbirdinc.com

BEFORE
I don’t have a huge number of subscribers, but the ones I do have are really into their birds.

Good Bird Magazine! is just one part of Good Bird Inc., a source of information for owners of parrots and similar birds. The complete product line includes DVDs,… read more

How to Automate your Watermarking

A guest post by David Spickett

Watermarking is something that many people use to protect their images online. It is basically placing a mark such as a logo, U.R.L or simply your name, over a part of the photo. This discourages people who intend to steal your images (to… read more

Time-Savers: 400+ Stock Images, Retro Vectors

Stock images can save you many hours of work on illustration and allow you to focus your attention on the important task of designing. Finding the right vector for you, however, is a completely different matter, and can sometimes take just as long as creating a vector image yourself!… read more

Character Design – Nailing the Basics

If you’re thinking of becoming a professional illustrator, character design will come up as a client request again and again, so keeping up on current trends is a must. To get started creating your own characters, you’ll need to nail the basics, which includes: getting comfortable sketching, refining your process,… read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.32

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources, freebies and good reading articles that we have shared via Twitter and Facebook in the past week.

If would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can… read more

The Path To Advertising Nirvana

With advertising, a curious thing happens: most people want its benefits but are rarely willing to put up with its hassles. Those who run websites and applications have enough on their plates without having to worry about handling transactions, putting banners across their website or hearing requests from advertisers. Moreover,… read more

5 Tips for Creating the Perfect Profile Pic

This series is supported by Gillette. Learn more about Gillette and its products at Gillette.com.

No matter how much quality information or witty repartee we send out into our social networks, first impressions are almost always visual. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that… read more

Introducing Digital Artist Kevotu

Its a common mistake integrating 3D modelings into Photoshop by not embedding it well into the background. The choose of right colors also is indispensable otherwise the artwork looks too fake. If my research was done properly I found another very talented young artist at the age of 16…. read more

Stacking images in Lightroom

When you have a lot of similar images from a shoot, you can organizing them using the Lightroom Stacks feature. This allows you to stack images together so that only one image representing the stack appears in the Grid, Filmstrip and Loupe. This can clean up the screen reducing the… read more

Back-in-Time: Making the Most of Time Machine

Time Machine is one of Apple’s greatest inventions – instead of dreading backups and regretting not having one when your disk fails, you can now just switch to your backup disk and restore it.

But as comfortable as the backing up itself is, it can still be tricky to find the… read more

100+ Photography Enhancing Photoshop Actions

Photoshop actions can be a big time saver, especially when you’re trying to add a specific effect to a photo and you’re not sure how to do it. Thanks to talented and generous Photoshop users, we can simply click a button and our photography can take on a whole new… read more

CS5 is Alive Today!!

Make sure that you register for their event!!

One you do, make sure you also stop by for our free Photoshop CS5 Learning center where we will be holding free webinars twice a day, giving away free upgrade to CS5 and taking all of your questions!

http://www.photoshopuser.com/cs5

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Wonderful Office from Sidney Quintela Architects

Some people like to say that can’t work at the beach, that they loose focus around great beaches. Here in Brazil there is an office located in Salvador, Bahia that is a great example about how the beach can actually be a great inspiration for your everyday work routine. Besides… read more

Retro 3D Arcade Text Effect in Illustrator

In this tutorial we’ll make clever use of Illustrators built in 3D capabilities, gradients and opacity masks to design a Retro 3D Type Effect.

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Download the PSD (Source Files)The final image

This is what we will be creating:

Step 1

There are actually two ways to begin this illustration. You… read more

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Now Available

Although there’s a heated Adobe vs. Apple discussion going on, creative professionals are probably much more excited about the latest version of Adobe’s Creative Suite, which is now officially available.

Besides the new versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro and Dreamweaver, Adobe Creative Suite 5 also brings Flash Player… read more

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Brings Sexy Back

Adobe will unveil its new Creative Suite 5 on Monday April 12th at 8AM PDT, just a few hours from now.

You can catch the official launch online here, however, if you can’t wait, we’ll be revealing all the juicy details before the official launch… right now!

The Adobe team kindly invited… read more