Creating a crazy cool logo I’m a huge fan of typography and logo design, even though I havent worked on too many logo design projects I had the opportunity to express my love on a few, but at the same time, very pleasant ID projects. One of them was in 2005 for a company called Zagora. When they hired us to create their ID design they said that they wanted something very unique and modern. Besides of that we spent like 4 hours talking about ideas and concepts in order to know exactly what we would have to do. In this post I will show you how we created the logo. I will skip the drawing parts, yes there were tons of drawings before going to the computer, because when they stole my computer and backups in 2006 they took all my photos of the drawings. This logo is pretty much a bunch of circles, I used a circle for the module and deleted some segments in order to create the characters. Step 1 In Illustrator, using the Ellipse Tool (U) create a circle. Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Change the stroke colors. Step 7 Step 8
35 Creative Portrait Effects Photoshop Tutorials Portrait effects are no longer constrained to vignettes or simple stencil effects. This area has vertiginously evolved to an unbelievable level of creativity and complexity. So, don’t expect to find your average two step special effect. Many of these require a lot of work, which in the end will result in a lot of Photoshop techniques learned. As usual, don’t try this with your average bad quality family photos. Turn a photo into a pencil sketch Two color technicolor effect Dreamy mystical effect Complete beauty retouching Andy Warhol pop effect Natural skin smoothing Photo to Illustration effect Give your photos a color ink sketch effect Give your photos a retro comic look effect Creating an unique profile image Snow queen Underwater portrait effect High contrast artistic portrait Abstract lighting effect Pop portrait effect Turn a face into a stone statue Creating a smoke fading effect Color effects with alpha channel Retro pop art in Photoshop Good and evil photo effect Create a vexel image in Photoshop
How To Create 3D Ball in Photoshop In this tutorial we’re going to learn how to create a 3D ball with photoshop in 8 steps. We also included a PSD file as source files. We’ll use of a few fundamental tools in Photoshop such as circle tool, brush tool, and layer styles — combining them with easy and creative techniques to come up with a graphic that you can adapt into icons, infographics, and other design projects. Final Image Preview Once you have finished the tutorial, you should have something like this. Lets get started! Step 0 We start with creating a new file. I use the color #363636, you are free to choose the background color, but my advice is better if you wear a darker color than the color of the object that we will create And the result will be like the image below. Step 1 Create a circle with using ellipse tool, in order to produce a perfect circle, press the shift key when making a circle. Step 2 Now we are going to apply some Layer Styles. You should end up with this Step 3 And you should end up with this Step 4 Step 5
49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009 What a year it has been for Photoshop… so many new techniques, so many fresh ideas and so many new and creative web sites offering free tutorials. In this post we have collected the best of them, focusing on photo manipulation, design and drawing, poster design, caricature design and finally, illustration within Photoshop. We have purposely omitted icon design, text effects and GUI tutorials, these will be following in the coming weeks, keep an eye out for them. Photo Manipulation Tutorials Create Frozen Liquid Effects In this tutorial they show you some techniques for giving almost anything a liquid or frozen fluid effect. Create a Happy Girl Wallpaper In this tutorial, you will be taught how to create a wallpaper of a very happy girl, who enjoys life. Create a Funky Perspective of a Model Riding This is a tutorial illustrating perspective techniques and how you can achieve the feeling of depth and motion. The Making of “Constant Slip” Fantastic Tree Photo Manipulations Craft a Caricature
25+ Designs of Movie Posters - Photoshop Tutorials Every movie lover always attract from movie poster and most of the media houses create an objective movie poster with maximum possibilities to catch viewers interest as movie lover I am always find their story and poster where I can idea about movie ingredients and one amazing resource is IMDB to get complete details with all history of any upcoming or ongoing blockbuster movie. Let’s turn into topic which we have as “25+ Designs of Movie Posters – Photoshop Tutorials” this is an creative dose for web and graphic designers to make a movie poster to represent packed action though metaphor impressions. Al movie posters show a masala of movie and their cast which is also provoke viewers interest toward further movie story and movie poster design tutorials will help an special community which become graphic designers with maximum design inspirations, why not we try to scroll down to find modern techniques of Adobe Photoshop and their latest techniques. X-MEN movie poster View Tutorial
35 Tutorials for Mastering Photoshop Brushes For Photoshop users, downloading free brushes and creating your own custom brushes can quickly help you to achieve more effective results and improve productivity and efficiency at the same time. There are essentially unlimited options when working with brushes, so it’s a skill that can always be further developed. Regardless of your skill level in working with brushes you should find some tutorials here for you. Some cover the basic uses and functionality of brushes, some will teach you various ways to create your own custom brushes, and some will help you to develop your skills by using them as an integral part of a design. You may also be interested in the following collections of Photoshop tutorials: Rotating Brushes A simple way to rotate any brush to fit your needs. Managing Your Brushes and Brush Libraries in Photoshop Once you’ve downloaded and created a number of brushes, managing and organizing them will become more important. Photoshop Brush Tutorial: Shape Dynamics – Size Controls
Ghosting An Image With Photoshop Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop effects tutorial, we’re going to look at a way to give a photo a more “ghostly” appearance. I’m a fan of horror films, but I admit I’m a bit shallow in that I usually just watch them for the special effects. Of course, as with most photo effects, it helps if you start with the right type of image. Using Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud)? Here’s the photo I’ll be starting with: The original image. And here’s the “ghosting” effect we’re after: The final effect. Let’s get started! Step 1: Copy The Background Layer As always, we never want to work directly on our Background layer, since it contains our original pixel information, so the first thing I’m going to do is copy it. Photoshop’s New Layer dialog box. This gives me a copy of my Background layer in the Layers palette, which Photoshop has named “desaturated”: Photoshop’s Layers palette now showing my Background layer and the copy above it. Step 2: Desaturate The Background Copy Layer
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials from Beginner to Advanced | Psdtuts+ Melting Girl in Photoshop One of the best things in Photoshop, in my opinion, is that we can create all sorts of effects and photo manipulations mixing regular stock photos. A few weeks ago I used a few images to come up with a sort of surrealist design of a melting girl face over a metal skull. It's still a working in progress, but I decided to share with you how I did it. So in this tutorial I will show you how you can mix stock photos with blend modes, basic filters and tools to create a really cool design. The whole process is very simple and won't take you more than 1 hour to finish the tutorial. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document, the size I used for my is 3500x6000 pixels. Step 2 Select the paper texture and go to Image>Adjustment>Hue and Saturation. Step 3 Here I used a stock photo of a skull. Step 4 Now let's import a photo of a girl, again the image I used was courtesy of Shutterstock and can be downloaded at Step 5
60+ Amazing Poster and Advertisment Tutorials Advertisement Everyone in the business world knows the importance of posters and ads in advertising for specific products. Posters are an integral part of advertising. An eye-catching, attractive poster that conveys a professional, compelling message about a product, service or event will invariably hold the user’s attention. In this article, we have collected a mixture of Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials related to posters and advertisements. Poster Tutorials Creating an Old-Collage Effect PosterThis one’s a favorite because it helps you put images and text together really easily. Create an Awesome Music PosterA comprehensive step-by-step tutorial that shows you a variety of techniques to create a beautiful music poster! Create an Event Poster with C4D and Photoshop – PSD Plus TutorialA very exciting tutorial: take a rendered scene, add props and then finalize it in Photoshop. PS Quickie! Create a Mock-Retro Poster ConceptThis tutorial teaches you how to design a mock-retro poster.
Create an Amazing A.I. Robot Woman in Photoshop » Design Reviver Hi everyone, I’m Alvaro Guzman and this time I’ll show you some photo manipulation techniques to design a dramatic image depicting a “Artificial intelligence” concept. Let’s get it started! Preview This is a preview of the final effect. Step 1 Open this image as is and double click on “background” layer to make it editable, rename the layer to “girl” then adjust Levels and auto adjust Curves to lighten the image a little bit. Step 2 Extract the girl from the black background, and add a new Fill layer below “girl” layer. Step 3 Paste this picture by hotblack as a background into a new layer named “forest”, go to Layer > Layer Mask > Hide All and using the Gradient Tool, paint a Radial Gradient White – Black on the layer mask. Step 4 Create a new layer above all the other, name it “Light” and fill it with a Reflected Gradient White – Black and adjust the curves as shows the image below to add more light stripes. Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Duplicate “Girl” layer and hide the original. Step 8 Step 9 Step 10
30 Poster Design Tutorials for Photoshop Photoshop allows designers to create amazing posters that can be used for a variety or purposes like movie promos, product promos, event promos, as well as just for fun and practice. There are a lot of quality tutorials out there that teach the process of designing a poster in Photoshop. In this post we’ll feature 30 poster tutorials from a variety of different designers. In this collection you should find at least a few tutorials that teach something that could be helpful in your own work. Looking for hosting?