• Create a Dark and Rainy Crime Scene in Photoshop
    We can all imagine what a dark and rainy crime scene looks like. We have all scene them in television and movies. Today, we will learn how to use different tools and techniques to create a scene of our own in Photoshop. Resources Used You can download the following textures from the links below. Just [...]
  • Create a Fantasy Painting With Photoshop CS5′s Mixer Brush – Psdtuts Premium Tutorial
    Today, we have another Psd Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your digital painting skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more after the jump! This Premium Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips Without a doubt, my favourite new feature in Photoshop [...]
  • Add Depth of Field to a 3D Scene with Lens Blur
    In today’s quick tip tutorial, we will demonstrate how to add depth of field to a scene that we will be creating with 3D objects to help improve a presentation to a client. Step 1 First, create a new document (Cmd/Ctrl + N) and make it 600 pixels by 400 pixels. You could of course [...]
  • Behind the Scenes of Psdtuts with Collis!
    Here at Envato we’re pretty famous for building a lot of successful blogs, like this one! We’ve done quite a few now, so last year I decided other people might find our techniques and systems useful. Today I’m really happy to announce my new book How to Build a Successful Blog Business which is a [...]
  • Over 250 of the Web’s Best Rust Textures
    Rust can often produce beautiful colors, textures and linear qualities on surfaces. Rust textures are not only inspiring but are also a great way to add an extra dimension to any project. Today, we have compiled a huge collection of over 250 free and premium rust textures from around the web for you to use [...]
  • Create Beautiful Abstract Female Art in Photoshop
    Sometimes, all it takes to create a stunning piece of art is a stock photo, a bit of creativity, a great idea, and some time. Today, I will demonstrate how to create a piece of art that I created titled, "Beauty of Gold." Let’s get started! Step 1 Let’s start by creating a new document [...]
  • Interview With Croatian Artist Ranko Blazina
    Recently, I had a chance to talk with Ranko Blazina who is a very talented and award winning digital artist from Croatia. We talked about his work, career, his techniques and style. Amazing and inspiring words came from Ranko and I welcome you to read the interview. Q Hello, welcome to the PSDTUTS! Please, introduce [...]
  • Create a Medieval Fantasy Castle Gate in Photoshop
    Photoshop’s wide variety of tools enable you to perform complex photo manipulations with relative ease. Today, we will demonstrate how to combine Photoshop’s tools with photo manipulation techniques to create a medieval fantasy castle gate. Let’s get started! Resources Used The following resources were used during the production of this tutorial. Each item is freely [...]
  • Interface Design – Creative Session Wrap
    It’s a wrap. This session has covered a mix of interface design topics. We’ve looked at quite a bit of inspirational icon and graphic user interface design articles, after reviewing theory on topics like creating user friendly interfaces. We’ve reviewed both in depth detailed tutorials and case studies. This session posted across numerous Tuts+ sites: [...]
  • Create Photoshop Stencil Art – Psd Premium Tutorial
    Today, we have another Psd Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your design skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more after the jump! This Premium Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips Urban art has fast become the de-facto graphic style for [...]
  • How to Put Lightning inside the Bottle
    This Photoshop tutorial can make everyone who wants to know how to create lightning in a bottle and you will be very surprised to learn how it is quickly and easy. Before starting this tutorial go thru Google Images to find some appropriate picture of bottle to work with. Open up the picture and start with [...]
  • How to create bullets in Photoshop
    In this easy tutorial I’m going to show you how to create bullets in Photoshop. You can see my result image below, which you’re going to be making something very similar to! 1. Creating a background First thing’s first, create a new document with a size of about 500 x 300 pixels with a black [...]
  • Creating Northern Sky in Photoshop
    Now I’m planning to provide a tutorial to you how to create the effect of the Northern Sky step by step. This is not so difficult but very interesting tutorial. Start with finding appropriate pictures which we can use for creating effect in this tutorial. You can use Google Images to find the pictures or can [...]
  • Creating Football Fan from Orc
    This simple tutorial is dedicated to the event that is happening in the world now — 2010 FIFA World Cup. I’d like to show you how to turn any character into a football fan. To begin with we should select the appropriate image to make our tutorial on. You can try search in Google Images, or [...]
  • The Effect of Music Notes on Flowers
    This tutorial shows how to apply any design on flower petals in Photoshop. As an example we can use the design of a stave for applying it on the tulip-petals. At first we should find an appropriate photo to work with. You can use search in Google Images or feel free to use my picture with [...]
  • Separating Complex Objects from Background
    You can find a lot of tutorials how to separate complex objects from the background. But I would like to invite your attention to another one unique simple tutorial how to achieve the desired effect in just a few steps. I got this method by experimenting. In the beginning you should find some appropriate picture to [...]
  • Add Your Face to Movie Poster
    You can find a lot of tutorials how to paste another face to the picture. Here I’m planning to show you my own way how to do this step by step and explain how to process every small detail in this design. You will look as a real real star! Let’s start by finding the poster [...]
  • Designing Gear Wheel in Photoshop
    Are you hungry for new tutorials how to create objects in Photoshop? Ok, I have one interesting tutorial for you. Ok, let’s start! Create a new document sized 500×500 pixels. Drag a linear gradient with colors of #eaf8fb and #d0dee1 as shown on a picture below. It will be background for putting gear wheel on it. After [...]
  • Evening Eye Make Up Effect in Photoshop
    Today I will show you how to imitate evening eye make up in Photoshop CS3. This lesson will be very useful to those who process the photos for fashion magazines. So, let’s start by finding some appropriate picture of girl’s face. You can also use your own photos to experiment with, if you’re girl of course [...]
  • Recreating Bar Code by Using Photoshop
    In this tutorial I will show you how to create such a simple thing as a bar code in a few steps. Create a new document sized 500×300 pixels and fill it with white color. Then use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to create selection similar to mine on the picture below and fill it with black [...]
  • Awesome Image Transformation to Colorful Circular Shape
    There are many ways to turn your image into something amazing. One of them is to transform the image into regular shape such as circle. Of course, you can choose other shape you like or mix them together to form a nice result.
  • Produce a Fantastically 3D Colorful Pencil
    o create 3D object, elements such as reflection and shadow effects are very substantial. Without any of these, the object would become less attractive. However, to create such elements usually take quite a while. Here are some techniques for your reference and practise.
  • Create a Dramatic Night Scenery in Green
    To create something outstanding, you have to use different sort of skill and effect. For example, night scene is not necessary to be deep blue or black. Sometimes, if you use other color such as green like this tutorial, it could achieve a very different and nice result.
  • Painting a Fantastic Animal using Photoshop
    The most time-consuming part for drawing the animal is painting the fur since they have different layers and color. It is not easy to draw it realistically. However, there are techniques which can speed up your drawing process and also can end up a better result.
  • Develop a Gloomy Scenery for your Image
    Different motions need different background to match with. Take weather as an example. Sunny could mean you are happy. Raining or gloomy sky could mean you are not in the mood.
  • Design Style Text Effect using Photoshop
    Different topic requires different photoshop text effect to match with. This text creation is particularly suitable for fashion and stylish background. The techniques mainly include lighting and adding style pattern, not much photoshop technique is required.
  • Create a Fantastic Foggy Scenery on Windows
    Lots of natural scene is not easy to create such as raining or sunny shine. More realistic, more skills are required. The scenery is mainly including rain drop and foggy which are done by Magic Wand Tool and blur effect.
  • Develop an Excellent Planet Scene
    Most of planet scene are developed based on image combination effect. It looks very complicate, however, it is not that difficult as this tutorial will cover the procedure such as adding lighting effect, stars and color mixture.
  • Painting a Dramatic Human Portrait
    To most of you, human portrait is high level of art works. You would think that you need to have advanced skills to create this. As long as you learn the tricks to use photoshop brushes, everything would be more simple.
  • Design a Stylish Poster for your Image
    If you find your image to be too blank and monotony, it is good to add some windy effect for your image. This effect is suitable to be applied on fashion image. No special technique is required, it is mainly used smudge tool.
  • Two brushes are better than one
    To rapidly change the Size, Feather, Flow, and Density of a brush, use the A and B preset brushes. To set them up, click one of the brushes (A or B) and change its settings. Make one brush large with Auto Mask off for painting areas such as back-grounds. Click the other brush and make [...]
  • Mask clean up
    If a mask appears splotchy, it’s usually because the Auto Mask checkbox is turned on and the brush didn’t apply the mask to pixels that were too different from the original sample (beginning brush stroke). Simply uncheck the Auto Mask feature and repaint the area.
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  • Adjustment Brush resize tricks
    When using the Adjustment Brush for retouching, you need to change the size of the brush quite often. You can use the Left and Right Bracket keys ([ ]) to make small incremental changes to the brush size, but the mouse scroll wheel is the quickest way to resize the brush. If you’re using a [...]
  • Adjustment Brush masks and pins
    When you paint on a photo using the Adjustment Brush (K), a mask is created that shows where the effects of the Adjustment Brush are applied. By default, the mask isn’t visible, but you can press the O key to toggle the visibility. Note that you can’t view the effects of the Adjustment Brush when [...]
  • Lightning Brush Effects
    Corey shows you how to create a lightning brush and use it to create interesting effects.
  • Change adjustment mask colors
    When the color of your subject in a photo-graph is similar to the color of the mask (the default color is red), it’s difficult to see the mask. To change the color of the mask, press Shift-O to cycle through red, green, white, and black masks.
  • Dust spot images quickly
    Choose the Spot Removal tool (N) and zoom in to the top-left of the image. Press the Page Down key to move down the left side of the image incrementally. When you reach the bottom, press Page Down again and it will go to the top of the image next to your starting point. Do [...]
  • Rotate View tool
    A long-desired feature from other leading digital painting tools is the Rotate View tool, which allows you to rotate the document canvas to make otherwise uncomfortable strokes with a digitized art tablet perfectly natural. Press the R key or click-and-hold the Hand tool at the bottom of the Toolbox and select the Rotate View tool. [...]
  • Pre-pro prep
    If my experience with develop-ing rich media in a collaborative environment has taught me anything, it’s to keep project assets as organized as possible. Even though the layers’ paradigm in Photoshop provides an inherent organizational approach, it can quickly become unwieldy and bloated. A well-structured file folder hierarchy allows for easy access to core project [...]
  • Heat Ray Vision

    Make any person look like he/she has heat ray vision! Pretty simple tutorial, awesome effect!



  • Flowers in Barbed Wire Design

    Create this stunning design using a free stock image, a free set of brushes and Photoshop's filters and blending options. This technique can be applied to different brushes and images



  • Perspective Basics: A Draw-Through Technique, With a Spaceship

    In today’s tutorial you will learn how to polish your knowledge of perspective with a simple but very useful technique widely used by concept artists and professionals in the entertainment industry. Let’s get started!



  • Remove a Section of Your Photo

    This video shows how you can remove a section right from the middle of your photo with Photoshop Elements and then seamlessly stitch it back together.



  • How to create a top quality logo for your company

    On this tutorial we will be focusing our attention on one of the main elements of any company's image, the logo. Using Adobe Photoshop we are going to show you how to design a logo that works both in communication and aesthetic levels.



  • Create a Wooden Box Icon

    Check out this exclusive Photoshop tutorial for a wooden box icon, only at Palmerston and Gisby. Share your results and any variations to the design in the comments. Enjoy!



  • Chained Text Effect

    This detailed Photoshop tutorial will show show you how to create text wrapped in chains.



  • How to make a see-through to image text effect

    This is a really simple trick to creating an ordinary photograph with some text into an engaging image.



  • The Coolest Grunge Fonts Collection

    Looking for suitable font for your grunge theme design? Take a look at this collection of free grunge fonts. Maybe you'll find something you like.



  • 5 Great sources for Free to use Pictures

    Finding and using free images for commercial projects can be sometimes tricky and if not used correctly (for example grabbing Pictures from Google search) can get you in a real problem. Here is a list of 5 places where you can get Pictures really for free.



  • Aqua Text Effect
    In this tutorial, we ll go over how to create a special text effect using different layer styles and filters with Photoshop. The results are very easy to make and looks absolutely fantastic.
  • Create a Cool Stitched Tag in Photoshop
    In this tutorial we will learn how to make a tag. We will also learn some advanced steps in brush settings.
  • How to Create a Dark, Emotional Photo Manipulation
    How to Create a Dark, Emotional Photo Manipulation
  • Torture a Man and Stitch Him Up
    Transform a man into a torture victim with a couple tricks and some basic tools.
  • Composite All
    This is a tutorial where we will combine hand painted elements with design done with Photoshop means.
  • Starcraft 2 Logo
    Follow the steps to recreate the starcraft 2 logo. Alot of play and fun with layer styles and other tricks..
  • Melting Apple Effect
    In this simple and easy tutorial we will learn how to add a melting effect to the apple image. We have mostly used blending options to create the melting effect.
  • How to Protect Your Photos with a Watermark
    If you need to share your images online or with a client you might want to consider adding a copyright watermark. This tutorial shows how Photoshop can make a watermark action that can be used again and again.
  • Create a grunge photographer layout
    Learn how to create a grunge photographer layout using vector ornaments, and grunge textures.
  • The Maiden and Hummingbird Photo Manipulation
    Learn how to create this photo manipulation by Oliver Cereto. Some of the techniques you will learn in this Photoshop tutorial are how to give a person a cute doll-like face, how to extend backgrounds, and how to apply a moody photo effect.
  • New Batch of Free Video Photoshop Tutorials
    The guys from Watchandlearnphotoshop have been busy during January releasing free video tutorials. They have released a total of 6 video tutorials that you can watch below. Bicubic Sharper When resizing an image in Photoshop, if you use all the default settings, the image will end up with a little bit of a blur to it–hardly distinguishable, [...]
  • Brusheezy Free Photoshop Brushes
    Brusheezy is a new site offering large collection of free photoshop brushes. Currently there are a total of 148 free brush sets under 15 categories such as abstract, nature, space, splatters etc. What I like about the site is that users can comment on the brushes and contribute their own brush sets. There is also [...]
  • Photoshop Video Tutorials
    Here is another batch of free Photoshop video tutorials by WatchanLearnPhotoshop Open Type Font Embellishments Description: Photoshop trainer Geoff Riggs shows you how to add embellishments and alter the appearance of specific letter pairings for open type fonts. Tricky Selections Description: It’s not always easy to make complex selections in your Photoshop images, but in this tutorial, trainer Geoff Riggs will [...]
  • Adobe Photoshop CS3
    Adobe has released a beta of the upcoming Photoshop CS3 which is available for download from Photoshop Labs. You will however need a valid serial number of Photoshop CS2, Adobe Creative Suite 2, Adobe Production Studio, Adobe Video Bundle or Adobe Web Bundle. Macworld has an interesting first look article about this beta and PhotoshopSupport has [...]
  • 2 Free Video Tutorials
    Another update with free video photoshop tutorials. These tutorials cover two totally different subjects. The first tutorial will show you how to fix the sky in photos and the second one how to warp text with smart objects. Both tutorials as always are courtesy of Watch and Learn Photoshop. Taming the Skies: Ever have one of those [...]
  • Photoshop Elements 5 Review
    Sue Chastain, from Graphicsoft has posted a review of Photoshop Elements 5 for windows. To be honest I have been thinking of upgrading a rather ancient copy that I own (version 2 lol) and this review have convinced me to do so. As you probably figure the review is generally positive. You can read the [...]
  • Rainy Day Photoshop Action
    PanosFX is the creator of some of the best Photoshop actions available. I have posted about some of his actions before and his site is definitely one to watch out for if you are a fun of photoshop actions. Rainy Day is another great action by Panos that works with Photoshop CS and CS2 [...]
  • Glowing Lights Photoshop Tutorial
    Watch and Learn Photoshop has released another excellent tutorial. This time the tutorial shows how you can make a light bulb look like it’s illuminated. An effect that is quite common in concept stock photography. I am sure everyone has seen pictures of business men holding a lit light bulb. This tutorial explains how you [...]
  • 7 Photoshop Video Tips
    Our friends over at Watch And Learn Photoshop are releasing a few new products and have also released not one, not two, not three but seven free photoshop video tutorials/tips. Here they are: Levels Adjustment You may already know the basics of the levels adjustment tool, but in this video, Geoff Riggs will show you a neat [...]
  • Three new Photoshop Video Tutorials
    Three new short, free Photoshop Tutorials have been released by Watch and Learn Photoshop. The first tutorial shows you how you can turn a photo into a Polaroid. In my opinion these tutorials are really nice, not because you learn a step by step method to create an effect but because you see techniques that you [...]
  • 3D Valentine’s Day Typography
    Love requires depth … and it can be reached with 3D. Learn how to create a romantic illustration worth a thousand words.
  • St. Valentine’s Photo Manipulation
    Indulge your beloved by creating a digital piece of art with urban style motifs out of her image.
  • Na’vi Avatar Photo Manipulation
    If you have been inspired by James Cameron’s movie “Avatar”, you should certainly see this stunning exclusive tutorial showing you all the steps you need to take in order to photo-manipulate yourself into a Na’vi.
  • Thanksgiving Wallpapers
    These wallpapers will do it for you. No need to make a vegetable mess out of your workplace to celebrate the harvest festival. Sill life styled images with saturated colors give you that festive mood thats so vital during these dull autumn days. Let your desktop positive energy of fertility and [...]
  • Google Text
    The Google logo looks very cool and easily sticks to memory. In this tutorial I’ll try to describe how to create this logo. Create a new 400×400 document. Select Text tool (T) and type Google in the center of a page. I used Catull font. This is a commercial font [...]
  • Jack-O-Lantern Drawing Tutorials
    The monstrous face of your carved pumpkin may be horrifying, amuzing, humerous or just unique by all means. Behold a set of Jack-O-Lantern drawing tutorials that’ll give you the basic idea of how to do all the celebration preparations in the digital world and come up with your own wallpaper, icon or [...]
  • Transparent Desktop
    Focus directly on creating the illusion of a transparent desktop. This is probably of the easiest and better image background transparency Photoshup tutorial available on the Internet for beginners and alike.

  • Magical Snowfall
    Learn to create an animated gift with a magical snowfall effect.

  • Sticky Tape Effect
    Learn to tape down the corners of your content.

  • Artistic Abstract Shape
    A shape that is something a bit left of center.

  • Scanned Lines - 2 Methods
    Learn to add a scanned line effect on images using two methods.

  • Metallic Photo Frame
    Design a curvy metallic photo frame in less than 10 minutes.

  • Eye Color Change
    Manipulating the color of people's eyes in images and photos.
  • Bubbles Background
    Create a soft bubbles effect to any of your work. Fantastic for Wallpapers.

  • Animate DVD Tray
    A little gem to show you how to animate the closing and opening of the DVD tray on a notebook.
  • Swiss Watch Postcard
    Designing a promotional postcard for a watch company.
  • Greeting Card
    A card beautifully crafted for any number of occasion. In our case, we make a seasons greetings one.

  • Free Ticket to FITC San Francisco
    I have a free FITC San Francisco to give away. To get it: you just need to enter a comment in this post before August 6, 2010 and the winner will be selected randomly. The event will take place in San Francisco between Aug 17th to 19th. If you are getting the tickets, use coupon [...]
  • Interview With ZURB
    For those of you who been reading my blog should be familiar with ZURB. They are the guys who created those fantastic web apps — Bounce, Notable, and Verify. If you read online tutorials a lot, you may have probably stumbled upon their Playground before where they post various CSS and Javascript tutorials. Today, I’m [...]
  • What Do You Think About Flash Now? Comment and Win
    Some people hate it, some people love it, but undoubtedly it is preferred in a wide variety of situations, from banners and online videos to rich internet applications. I’m talking about Flash of course. Take the comic strip below as an example. It was animated with BannerSnack and output as a SWF file. Click to [...]
  • CSS3 Rounded Image With jQuery
    The other day I was trying to style CSS3 border-radius to image element and I realized that Firefox doesn’t display border-radius on images. Then I figured a way to work around it — wrap a span tag around with the original image as a background-image. Thanks to Darcy Clarke for the jQuery code which does [...]
  • ScrollTo Posts With jQuery
    Inspired by the CargoCollective and David DeSandro’s site, I asked my Twitter followers (@nickla) on how to do the scrollto posts with jQuery. Within a day, Ben Bodien of Neutron Creations sent back a quick demo on how to replicate the similar result with the ScrollTo plugin. The script finds your current view position and [...]
  • Cultural Considerations for Global Websites
    Guest Post by Lingo24 Web designers are a highly creative bunch. Whilst most will probably have a natural eye for what looks good and what doesn’t, experience is everything in the world of web design, and learning is a key part of the process en-route to the top. One of the fundamentals of any design – [...]
  • Giveaway: 10 Sets of Typefaces Cards
    Typefaces are "top trumps"-style card pack contains 20 well known designers (yes, I’m included in the cards). For each designer, a typeface was selected to match their overall vibe. Each card is individually designed to reflect this vibe, supported typographically with the selected typeface. I have 10 sets to give away. For your chance to [...]
  • 60 Free Handwritten & Script Fonts
    People mostly use either serif or sans-serif fonts and often miss out the handwritten fonts. They are as important as the main font classifications. I particularly like to use handwritten fonts to highlight significant items in screen captures. They add the personal touch in my design and also provide great typographic contrast. However, not all [...]
  • 10,000 Business Cards Giveaway
    Web Designer Wall is giving away 10,000 business cards sponsored by UPrinting. Uprinting has been in the industry for over 25 years. Check them out if you need printing services. Enter a comment in this post before June 18, 2010 for your chance to win 1,000 business card printing (full color both sides on quality [...]
  • Word of Mouth Marketing
    Guest post by ChoiceVendor Graphic Designers: Grow your Business with Word of Mouth Marketing. Referrals have always been a great way for graphic designers to gain new customers. Now, B2B review websites are bringing these peer referrals and word-of-mouth recommendations online, creating new opportunities for firms and freelancers to easily promote their services.

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