This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create a realistic playing or poker card using premade vector shapes and the rounded rectangle tool in PS. Also, we will be creating a popular Marvel mutant skill of the pinkish flaming cards of Gambit.
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An attractive and compelling background adds depth to your graphics, banners or ads; and for this reason is of great importance. Sure there are some people who might not notice backgrounds, but the role they play in making the entire artwork look more interesting and visually alluring is paramount. They really do help to tie the entire piece together, no matter how simply or aggressively they are employed.
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Brushes for Adobe Photoshop are known to be one of the most used add-ons since they don’t just enhance your designs, but also help give your works a new, fresh and stunning look. Those of you who have a love for brushes may probably know a number of them listed in this post. Nevertheless, new brushes are being designed for Photoshop and hence, you will surely find ones you’d like to try out without any delay! Enjoy!
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Brushes for Adobe Photoshop are probably one of the most used addons because they don’t just enhance your designs, they also improve them and give your work a new, fresh look. Sometimes, the use of brushes not just in Photoshop, but also in Illustrator is a must, as the brushes can uplift your designs to a new level. For this reason we have gathered and compiled a round up of 25+ beautiful, elegant and stunning photoshop brushes you may love.
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Photoshop has given new pinnacles to creativity of designers all around the globe. They are free to create astounding effects that can accomplish almost anything one can imagine. Many artists have shared their creation process through quite a number of tutorials and articles. Today we present to you the best Photoshop tutorials from categories of abstract, animatation, automation, photo retouching, digital painting, poster design, brushes and buttons (and the list goes on!) to help you increase your knowledge and skills.
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“Music for my eyes”
In From up North’s inspiration galleries we present the latest of our findings from the wonderful world of design. Amazing high quality artworks in various categories from great designers all over the globe.
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Every designer aims for high quality resources to use for their work. Usually, this takes a lot of time to search for and collecting the best ones isn’t always easy. In today’s post we’ve prepared a roundup of a showcase of over fifty different Photoshop brushes as well as a couple of actions and styles.
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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 the web from the month of September 2010. You’ll find everything from Creating an Airport Time Table Type Effect, to Designing a sexy mechanical pinup in Photoshop. So what are you waiting for…why not try one out?
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As web designers, we always have something new to learn. Over the last decade our workflow has changed dramatically — it’s become more sophisticated and highly diversified. Not only do we have a much larger variety of improved tools to use; there’s also an endless stream of new techniques emerging and spreading within the web design community via social networks.
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Use of patterns are really helpful in web design for creating some awesome web backgrounds using repeating patterns. Patterns helps to fill-up large area easily & adds details to the design. I have shared various sets of patterns that will help you with make your design look more beautiful.
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Photoshop PSD files can be very useful and save you lots of time with your design projects, as I previously stated in my other post about PSD files titled: Photoshop PSD files: Free files for you to download. In this post you will find an amazing collection of free high quality PSD files such as Smart phones, iPhone 4, iPad, Video game consoles, and icons for you to download. This article is a two part series on Photoshop PSD files. Enjoy this post, and come back soon to check out the second installment of high quality PSD files.
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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 tutorials from around the web from the month of July 2010. You’ll find everything from creating awesome text made of 3D blocks in photoshop, to designing a beautiful cosmic space scene. So what are you waiting for…why not try one out?
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Web layouts are crucial for every web design. Whether it is a simple design or an advanced one, Photoshop can often come handy in creating such layouts. We have collected some really creative and helpful recent tutorials that display the process behind creating web layouts in Photoshop.
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Photoshop needs no introduction; everyone knows it — even those who do not have any design background. Knowing your tools inside out really counts. If you really know Photoshop, you can do almost everything with it — be it photo retouching, photo manipulation, creating fantasy scenes or creating wild and wicked text effects. And in this post we have collected some fresh Photoshop tutorials that will help you learning it inside out. Browse through this collection and polish your Photoshop skills!
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So in this tutorial I will show you how to create the effect of one of the Inception posters, the one with the word Inception made of buildings on an aerial photo of a city. To create this effect we will use the new 3D tool in Photoshop CS 5 called Repousse and an aerial photo from Pixelcase.
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 is a new, but experienced kid on the block. With its new powerful features, it provides designers with a flexible tool for printing, making a video or designing for the Web. Some of the features added in Photoshop CS5 are Puppet Warp, 3D extrusions with Adobe Repoussé, smart radius feature, Content-Aware Fill and Raw Image Processing, to name a few. In this post we showcase Adobe Photoshop CS5 tutorials from which you will learn a lot about different features of Adobe Photoshop CS5.
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If you are a seasoned designer, for sure you are quite familiar of the term fractal. Otherwise, to give you an idea of the term, fractal is generally defined as a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,” a property called self-similarity. On some designers, Fractals are also used as photoshop brushes for designs and images.
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With our unwavering imagination, we are able to create fantastic scenes that corresponds to our moods and feelings… As designers, of course, we are gifted with large amounts of imagination that helps us create cool and unique images. We tend to formulate meaningful images that expresses conscious and sub-conscious desires and wants. Equipped with useful gadgets, softwares,proper techniques and creativity, amazing results are created.
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With the several hi-tech gadgets that has been released by Apple, no wonder several designers are into creating a replica or an image inspired and themed around Apple products such iPhones, iPod and the latest gadget today, the iPad… Due to the growing number of designers who are into Apple, Some are inspired in creating or practicing apple related designs. In this matter, we have decided to come up with a list of tutorial that you may find useful.
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You could of course create your own lighting effects – but for those of us that are a little more time restricted, there are hundreds of free brushes out there. This post compiles a whopping collection of over 600 light effect Photoshop brushes!
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