45 Useful Tutorials Of “How To Create Astonishing Text Effect” On Photoshop

Nearly all the designers and artists use, interact and rely on Photoshop and its tool for completing their design projects. Photoshop is being employed in all aspects of graphics designing. The majority of us don’t yet realize it because of the spectacular practicality and integration of the environments.

One of… read more

33 Latest Photoshop Wallpaper Design Tutorials

33 Latest Photoshop Wallpaper Design Tutorials

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.63)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers 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 by subscribing… read more

30+ Fresh New Illustrator Tutorials

30+ Fresh New Illustrator Tutorials

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Stunning Slideshow CU3ER Giveaway

CU3ER is a fantastic Flash-based app that makes it simple to create 3D slideshows with a wide range of customizable options that will be sure to catch your site’s visitor’s attention. The CU3ER team is generously offering three lucky Web.AppStorm readers Pro accounts, each worth $49.

Read on for more information… read more

60+ Killer Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful Illustrator and Photoshop tutorials from around… read more

The Remarkable Changing Colours of Uluru

The largest rock in the world, Uluru is one of the great landmarks of Australia and a photographer’s dream. The amazing thing is how the colours of the rock change depending on weather conditions and the different moods that can be evoked by a good photographer. Enjoy… read more

33 Latest Wallpaper Design Tutorials

by Bhanu Ahluwalia

Designing wallpapers in Photoshop is mostly admired among designers. And why shouldn’t it be? You are free to decorate your desktop any way you like. You can go for abstract, nature, typography, simple, contemporary or any other style you want. Besides this, designing wallpapers is also a fulfilled… read more

How To Design a Print Ready Letterhead & Comp Slip

How To Design a Print Ready Letterhead & Comp Slip

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40 Essential CSS Templates, Resources and Downloads

Every web developer should have in their toolbox a collection of CSS tools and resources like the ones outlined in this article. A set of techniques that you rely on and that are always at the ready to cover any possible eventuality.
You will find not a selection of the… read more

25 Must Read Tutorials For Photographers

25 Must Read Tutorials For Photographers

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Easy Casino Style Sign in Photoshop

A few weeks ago while walking on the streets of NYC, I saw this big billboard of a movie called Burlesque (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1126591/). What really caught my attention was the effect applied in the text, sort of those old signage that casinos used to have. I loved that effect and thought… read more

HOW TO: Start Developing for iOS, Android or Windows Phone 7

An increasing number of first-time mobile app developers are also first-time developers. This makes sense if you think about it; mobile is the hot new platform and the barrier to entry is a lot lower for mobile devices.

Furthermore, a simple — yet well-done — mobile app can be functional and… read more

And Your Favorite Post-Processing Software is…

Last week’s poll on your preferred post-processing software proved both very popular and a little controversial. With over 1300 votes and a heap of comments as of this morning, it appears a lot of people have an opinion on the topic.

While it was no real surprise that… read more

7 Captivating Works of Crowdsourced Art

If enough people complete them, tiny tasks can accomplish great things. Companies like Yelp, for instance, have used the input of millions to create review databases. iStockPhoto pools images from a huge group of photographers to make a cohesive collection. Newer companies, like Waze, which leverages its user base’s smartphones… read more

22 Imposing Images of the Himalayas

While the Himalayas are a Mecca for mountain climbers, many photographers also flock there every year in search of the perfect mountain shot. The conditions present a huge challenge for photographers, but many manage to come away with some spectacular shots of the terrain and the people…. read more

20+ Professional Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials

20+ Professional Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials

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This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (31 Oct – 6 Nov ‘10)

Weekly Assignment

Glamour is an interesting aspect of portrait and fashion photography, and it can also be quite difficult. Lighting was especially important in this week’s assignment, and our winners all used lighting very effectively in showing us glamourous shots. Our winner this week was villafane928’s model in sepia. This one… read more

Best of the Week #144

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

A Beginner’s Guide to Photographing Motor Racing

This is a guest post by Haydar Turkhan. Find some great photography tips on his blog.

It’s fast, moving fast and you have to focus in seconds, push the shutter and get a clear Picture of what’s coming on the track; it is not easy.

Here are some, practical… read more

11 Surefire Landscape Photography Tips

Photo by Auto matt

My first love in photography when I first got my trusty old Minolta SLR as a teenager was landscape photography. There’s something about getting out in nature with the challenge of capturing some of the amazing beauty that you see. Perhaps it fits with my personality type… read more

Vectortuts+ Assignment: Create a Vector Doodle

We’re adding more community features to Vectortuts+. In addition to larger community projects, which launched this week, we’ll also regularly have assignments for you all to do. This week the assignment is to get everyone to pick up their pencil and draw a bit, then vectorize your imagined doodle creations…. read more

10 Awesome Pure CSS Graph and Chart Techniques

Lets be honest, CSS would typically not be the first technology you would go to for building a visually effective interactive graph or chart, certainly not without at least a touch of Javascript. There are quite a few technologies you would think, Flash comes to mind first, followed by Javascript… read more

Add the Model Look to Your Portraits with These Photoshop Tips

Having a “model look” to your portraits is a bit more than just great lighting and using a sharp lens – while you can create stunning, magazine-quality photos with just your camera, you can bring out the true beauty in your images using a few simple Photoshop… read more

20 Useful CSS3 Button Resources and Tutorials

20 Useful CSS3 Button Resources and Tutorials

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Customizing a DIY Vinyl Toy – Vector Premium Tutorial

Today, we have another Vector Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your custom toy skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you where you’ll learn how to create your own decals in Illustrator, then apply them to your own… read more

50+ Excellent Adobe Fireworks Tutorials

by Aquil Akhter

Adobe Fireworks is a somewhat unnoticed but very useful member of the Adobe Creative Suite. It is used for multiple purposes such as to create vectors, design application interfaces, digital artwork, and create rapid prototypes of websites. There is a lot more you can do with Adobe Fireworks,… read more

65 Very Useful Adobe Illustrator Character Tutorials To Help You Create Your Own

65 Very Useful Adobe Illustrator Character Tutorials To Help You Create Your Own

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Digital Shaving Using Photoshop

This is a guest post from the folks at Travel Photo Stock.

Have you ever had a great model who, for whatever reason, did not get a clean shave? Nobody wants to dwell on armpits, but we all have them — even our models. While a bit of… read more

Quick Tip: Create an Axonometric Image Without Guides or Grids

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an axonometric image in a few simple steps, without using guides or grids. It’s a simple trick to apply, but very useful. Read on to learn more.

Step 1

Open the file "Vector_Tuts_card.ai", or your chosen image. Select the object with Command +… read more

Essential Startup Funding Tips From 8 Seasoned Investors

The Small Business Tips Series is supported by Bantam Live, a web-based collaboration workspace with “Social CRM” for small business teams. For more information visit BantamLive.com.

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups… read more

How To Build A Mobile Website

Over the past few years, mobile web usage has considerably increased to the point that web developers and designers can no longer afford to ignore it. In wealthy countries, the shift is being fueled by faster mobile broadband connections and cheaper data service. However, a large increase has also been… read more

Best of the Vector Web – October 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 creating magazine layouts, illustrative vector type, and drawing vector water, among others. Grab your quick dose of colorful… read more

The Classification of Fonts

The classification of fonts is still unclear, even with the various classes and categories that have been created by some of great type lovers of the years. Some may consider categorizing fonts separately, others may think of it is a common division… I honestly believe that this debate will go… read more

17 Striking Black and White Photos at the Beach

We associate beaches with sun, fun and colour. And while we have shown some great colour photos of the beach on this site before as well as some tips, black and white has been less prevalent for us. But these images show what can be done with… read more

Make Beautiful Banners: 12 Banner Ad Tutorials

Make Beautiful Banners: 12 Banner Ad Tutorials

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Quick Tip: Getting Clever with CSS3 Shadows

As soon as we detach a shadow from the element, itself, we can them transform the shadow in interesting and creative ways. Subscribe to our YouTube page to watch all of the video tutorials!

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Absolutely Awesome Tutorials To Create (Eye-Catching) Vector Illustrations

At this moment in time, Vector art is getting very popular amongst the artists and the users. This is because of the fact that it is not hard enough to do and does not require any special training, although it does requires loads of patience and time.

Since there is no… read more

Rain Drop Design in Photoshop

Corey Barker is a Photoshop instructor and graphic designer who maintains a blog at PlanetPhotoshop.com. Visit his site for more tutorials and tips.

In this tutorial, Corey not only creates the raindrops, but also the splashes that are formed with the raindrops hit the hands.

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Photoshop Tutorials Roundup: October 2010

Photoshop Tutorials Roundup: October 2010

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.62)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers 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 by subscribing… read more

Code a Stylish Portfolio Site Design in HTML & CSS

Code a Stylish Portfolio Site Design in HTML & CSS

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Create a Simple Mechanic Character in Illustrator

Create a Simple Mechanic Character in Illustrator

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How to Add Mist to Your Landscapes with Photoshop

Adding a bit of mist to your landscapes is not only simple, but fully customizable in Photoshop. This is a great way to alter the entire mood of your image and make an otherwise boring landscape into something more powerful.

Before we get into the techniques, you should… read more

8 Character Drawing Art Tutorials

8 Character Drawing Art Tutorials

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Congratulations To The Winners Of Business Icon Set Giveaway

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which you could win Business Icon Set. We ran the MySql random query and selected these commenter to give them Icon Set from Web Icon Set.

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Global Freelancers Survey: Enter & Win!

The 2010 Global Freelancers Survey is online and we want YOU!

Freelancers by nature usually work on their own, as such we often don’t really know what others are doing, charging and thinking. This survey aims to compile our collective knowledge for the benefit of freelancers everywhere! The 2007 survey rendered great… read more

The Ultimate Illustrator Toolbox

by Robert Bowen

In case you have missed them, recently we have been going through the Adobe Creative Suite and putting together posts that would assist our readers in creating their own personal toolbox of resources. We hope we have managed to help you get a handle on the various programs… read more

Twenty Ten’s Front-End Code: 5 Things it Gets Right

By now most bloggers using WordPress should have upgraded to the latest version of WordPress which is officially at version 3.0.1.

Along with updates to the core framework, when version 3.0 was released the WordPress team also added a new default theme, replacing the now obsolete Kubrick. The new… read more

15 Sketches To Illustration Tutorials

15 Sketches To Illustration Tutorials

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Best of AppStorm in October

We’ve collected the top five reviews, roundups and how-to articles from across the AppStorm network in October. Whether you’re interested in Mac, iPhone, or Web apps, there’s bound to be something you didn’t spot over the course of the month.

Now would be a good time to explore a part of… read more

Successful Freelancing With Ruby On Rails: Workflow, Techniques And Tools

Warning: Freelancing Is Not for Everyone

A freelancer is a self-employed person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any particular employer. Your curiosity in this opportunity was probably sparked by posts marked “Freelance” or “Work from anywhere” on the myriad of job boards around the Web. Freelancing is… read more

Sharpening Workflow in Lightroom

Matt Kloskowksi travels the world teaching people how to integrate their photography and Lightroom. He writes a blog at LightroomKillerTips.com which features tips, tutorials, and weekly content about how to improve your Lightroom workflow.

Sharpening is always a hot topic when it comes to working with Lightroom and Photoshop. We… read more

Awesome Flash Image Gallery Tutorials To Create Professional And Stylish Slideshows

Many people debate on the effectiveness of CSS and Flash in creating an image gallery or a slideshow. Both of the above mentioned options have their own advantages. However, most of the people consider Flash gives a more professional and stylish look to an image gallery as compared to CSS,… read more

Today’s Gaming Releases: “Rock Band 3,” “Fable 3,” “LEGO Universe”

Every Tuesday, the majority of each week’s retail video games hit store shelves. PlayStation Network game downloads arrive on that day, and many Xbox Live downloads hit the following Wednesday. We’ll be taking a closer look at the releases each week, so let’s get started.

Rock Band 3 (360, PS3, Wii)

Without… read more

Quick Tip: Spice Up Your Graphs with Column Designs

Illustrator includes a powerful graph tool that allows you to present numerical data in a visual manner. In this Quick Tip, you’ll learn how to augment a column graph with Illustrator artwork for a more interesting and informative look.

Step 1

Select the Column Graph tool (J) and click once on the… read more

Design an Awesome Paint Splattered Dancer

Design an Awesome Paint Splattered Dancer

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20 Beautiful Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

20 Beautiful Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

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Sleek jQuery Accordion Menu Plugins and Tutorials

Sleek jQuery Accordion Menu Plugins and Tutorials

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.61)

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from last 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 by… read more

How to Photograph Water Drops

This is a guest post by Shakira Duarte who you can find on Flickr!

Photographing water drops is a hugely popular area of photography that we have covered before with the incredible photos of Steve Wall. Here, Shakira Duarte takes us through the steps needed to get your… read more

Top 7 Social Media Services for Small Business [MASHABLE AWARDS]

As part of the ongoing Mashable Awards, we’re taking a closer look at each of the nomination categories. This is “Best Social Media Service for Small Business.” Be sure to nominate your favorites and join us for the Gala in Las Vegas! Sponsorships are available. Please contact sponsorships@mashable.com for more… read more

Daily Inspiration #649

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 Futuristic Portrait Poster in Photoshop

Create a Futuristic Portrait Poster in Photoshop

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Retro Surf Logo Design in Photoshop

Corey Barker is a Photoshop instructor and graphic designer who maintains a blog at PlanetPhotoshop.com. Visit his site for more tutorials and tips.

Use a series of selections, gradients and colors to create this surf-inspired design with a retro theme.

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High Quality Patterns Resources

By Cameron Chapman

When used well, patterns can be a great way to add an extra element to your designs that take them to the next level in terms of aesthetics. Creating your own repeating patterns is one way to go about this, but it’s not always something you want to… read more

Halloween Photography Tips

Photo by Maharepa

With Halloween just a few days away I thought it was time to update our Halloween Photography Tips article with some new information and photos.

Photography Tips to Keep in Mind for Halloween

There are plenty of subjects around to photograph at Halloween ranging from the traditional jack-o-lantern through… read more

Create a Stylish Portfolio Site Design in Photoshop

Create a Stylish Portfolio Site Design in Photoshop

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How To Create a Vintage Style Zombie Movie Poster

How To Create a Vintage Style Zombie Movie Poster

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20 Latest Useful CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Tools

20 Latest Useful CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Tools

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50 Beautiful Light Effects Photoshop Brush Packs (740 Brushes)

There is no better method for bringing a design to life and emphasizing design elements than using an effective and high quality light effect. Everybody loves a little bit of razzmatazz!
And there is no greater time saver for any designer than a having a selection of these light effects… read more

Design a Grungy, Rock & Roll Gig Poster

Design a Grungy, Rock & Roll Gig Poster

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Create a Stylized Photo Montage from Scratch

Create a Stylized Photo Montage from Scratch

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How to Use Open Water to Create a Great Abstract

This is a guest post by Saul Molloy. You can read more on Saul’s blog, add him to twitter or catch up with what he’s been shooting on Flickr.

Capturing light reflected from water is a time-tested technique for creating great photographic compositions and one utilised by photographers… read more

Reader Tutorial: Planet X Matte Painting in Photoshop

In today’s feature film industry, productions are in constant need of digital set extensions or matte painting, the correct term for this type of work. If you don’t know exactly what it is, a matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows… read more

6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Comics

In the days of cold, hard newsprint, only people who could draw were successful comic strip authors. In some cases, this resulted in comic strips that had very nice pictures, but weren’t all that funny (cough, Blondie). Thankfully, the Internet has taught us not to accept an inferior form of… read more

38 New Social Media Resources You May Have Missed

Another busy week at Mashable HQ has yielded another mega list of tools and resources for your reading pleasure.

Check out our Social Media section for tips on how turn any video viral, find out why the web loves cats so much, or simply determine what kind of geek you are…. read more

Switching From Windows to OS X: Just Let It Go

I’ve been a Mac user now for about a year and a half, give or take. As is common, I’m completely happy I took the plunge and will never look back. There is very little I dislike about my MacBook and OS X. If you’re looking to convert yourself I’ll… read more

WordPress Comment Design: Tutorials, Considerations, Plugins and Design Inspiration

WordPress Comment Design: Tutorials, Considerations, Plugins and Design Inspiration

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Stylish Light Effect in Pixelmator

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a really nice light effect using basic filters and tools in Pixelmator. The idea is to create an image with that 80s feeling in it but modern as well.
Step 1

Open Pixelmator and create a new document. The size I am… read more

Do You Make This Classic Mistake in Black and White Post Processing?

When processing your photo as a black and white image, it can be a bit confusing as to what the next step is. Do you dodge and burn, add a lens vignette, or adjust your contrast? While all these steps can greatly improve your image, there is… read more

10 Great Portrait Effect Photoshop Tutorials

10 Great Portrait Effect Photoshop Tutorials

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How to Create a Mobile Version of your Website

How to Create a Mobile Version of your Website

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10 Great PSD to HTML Tutorials to Make Your Awesome Design a Reality

10 Great PSD to HTML Tutorials to Make Your Awesome Design a Reality

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Nicereply: Five Account Giveaway

We recently took a look at Nicereply and how easy it is to obtain customer satisfaction and feedback directly regarding email communication, with nothing more than a simple link in your emails. The Nicereply team has been generous enough to offer five lucky Web.AppStorm readers free Beautiful accounts for one… read more

Daily Inspiration #647

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

Propaganda Design: Inspiration, Tools, Resources, and Techniques

By Cameron Chapman

Propaganda is often thought of in negative terms. It evokes thoughts of wartime and misinformation campaigns by governments trying to deceive people or bolster support for what might otherwise be unpopular policies. But propaganda and the techniques it uses are prominent throughout our modern lives.

Every time you see… read more

10 Fresh jQuery Plugins and Tutorials

The popularity of jQuery continues to grow. This means that we’re seeing it used on more websites these days, and there are more developers coming up with new ways to use it. The great thing about that is many of these developers are sharing what they learn though tutorials and… read more

Redesign: 11 Cool Things You Can Do On the New Light Stalking!

As you may have noticed, we have had a bit of a face-lift here at Light Stalking! Our designer and code monkey, Melody has been on the case and we’re extremely happy with how it’s all turned out! The design is awesome and lets us feature images… read more

Create a Night Landscape Using Vector Texture – Vector Premium Tutorial

We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available for Premium members today. If you want to learn how to utilize vector texture in your scenes to enhance mood, then this tutorial is for you. The ability to create and apply texture is one of the fundamental steps of building a… read more

Business Icon Set (Contains 20 High Quality Icons In PNG Format) Giveaway

WebIconSet.com is running a contest, where 15 winners will get the premium business icon set and each set being with 20 high quality Business icons in PNG format. Well, you guys know what WebIconSet.com. Lets say it once again for n00bs.

Web Icon Set aims to provide you the best professional… read more

How Using Strong ND Filters Can Create Awesome Results

This is a guest post from Chris Gin – you can see more from Chris at his Website, Flickr and Facebook.

As a landscape photographer I rely heavily on filters. The ones I use most often are my graduated neutral density (GND) filters which help balance the intensity… read more

Design a creative portfolio in Photoshop

Design a creative portfolio in Photoshop

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15 Highly Useful HTML5 Tutorials For Web Designers

15 Highly Useful HTML5 Tutorials For Web Designers

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A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Zend Framework: First Steps

A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Zend Framework: First Steps

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Top 10 Icon Design Tutorials in Photoshop

Top 10 Icon Design Tutorials in Photoshop

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Learn How To Create A Wedding Website In Photoshop

Learn How To Create A Wedding Website In Photoshop

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The Wild Beauty of Canada: 25 Photos of the Great Outdoors

Canada has been referred to as one of the last great wilderness frontiers, with much of the northern part of the country uninhabited.  There is striking beauty in the country though, which is one of the most desirable locations for landscape and scenic photographers to travel to. … read more

Creepy Halloween Photoshop Tutorials You Should Try

When Halloween approaches, most of us feel like creating horrific and terrifying designs to make the season even more spookier. We tend to look for ways to increase our sense of fright and to truly experience fear. Designing such artwork is easy if you have the acquired skills… read more

Photoshop Marvel: Transforming the Image of a Girl into a Milk Figure

Photoshop Marvel: Transforming the Image of a Girl into a Milk Figure

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