Advanced Glow Effects In this tutorial, we're going to create some really sharp-looking glow effects using a combination of layer styles, the Pen Tool and Color Blending. The end effect is quite stunning and hopefully you'll pick up some tips you didn't know before. As with pretty much every tutorial I've ever written, we begin with a radial gradient. Foreground color - #922f00 Background color - #000000 In this tutorial, we actually need a pretty intense center, so what we'll do is duplicate the layer we just made and set the one above to a blending mode of Color Dodge. Now in our glow effect, it helps to have a nice textured background. Then go to Filter > Render > Clouds. Now set the opacity of your layer to Overlay and 30% transparency. So go to Filter > Sketch > Chrome and use default settings of 4 and 7 for detail and smoothness respectively. When you're done, the result should look a lot smokier (once its overlayed at 30% transparency that is). In fact all we want to achieve are some nice curves.
Dynamic Recessed Watercolor Typography in Photoshop In this tutorial, I'll show you how to mix vector elements and watercolor effects with text to create a stunning design. It's a quick process that depends heavily on good choices of images and colors. Final Image Preview Before we get started, let's take a look at the image we'll be creating. As always, the layered Photoshop file is available via our Psdtuts+ Plus membership. You can view the final image preview below or view a larger version here. Step 1 The first step here is actually the first step in all my projects. Step 2 Create a new document in Photoshop, I used a wallpaper size of 1920 pixels by 1200 pixels. Step 3 Download the Bleeding Dragon Oldpapers textures, and place the Paper 2.jpg in your document. Step 4 Now let's use some brushes, in this case the fantastic Bitbox set of watercolor brushes. So, let's select the Brush Tool (B) and blue for the color. Step 5 Create a new layer, select a different brush and use red for the color. Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12
Create a Citrus Fruit Design From Scratch in Photoshop This ain't your mama's glossy web 2.0 orange. Learn how being deliberately "sloppy" and imperfect can add organic charm to a creation. Pick up some great uses for everyday filters. Then integrate it all into a large design. Second Place Tutorial Winner This is the second place winning tutorial form the Psdtuts+ First Tutorial Writing Contest. Final Image Preview Before we get started, let's take a look at the image we'll be creating. Step 1 Start with a black canvas for the sake of simplicity. Step 2 Lock transparency on the orange layer and pick two natural orange colors, one lighter and one darker. Step 3 Now create another new layer called "core." Step 4 Run the clouds through the Sponge Filter (Filter > Artistic > Sponge), and use the following settings. Step 5 Finally, use the Plastic Wrap filter (Filter > Artistic > Plastic Wrap). Step 6 Clip the "core" layer to the "orange" layer by pressing Alt + Command + G in CS3, or by clicking Create Clipping Mask from the Layers palette. Step 7 Step 8
Create Light Painted Typography From Scratch in Photoshop This tutorial was originally published in April 2011 as a Tuts+ Premium tutorial. It is now available free to view. Although this tutorial does not use the latest version of Adobe Photoshop, its techniques and process are still relevant. If you’ve ever attempted to write words using traditional light painting photography techniques, you probably know how challenging it can be to create words that are easy to read. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how you can create a similar look without a camera and tripod. Let’s start in Photoshop. We want the overall shape to form a heart, so draw a heart really quickly. Use the guideline to draw in your text with a tablet. For this single step, I’m going to switch to Illustrator. Paste it in Photoshop as a Path (Command/Control-V, select Path in the pop-up dialog). Select the Brush Tool (B) and change your brush to a 100% soft edged, 10 px diameter brush. Go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur. Reduce the Opacity by approx. 50% and duplicate it.
Free Texture - food, fruits, nature, strawberries Categories Colors Bookmark Photo Details Image size: 3920x2668 pixels Camera: Canon EOS 450D Exposure: 1/100s Aperture: f/5.6 Published: Jun 14th 2009 Keywords: food fruits nature strawberries download (7.9 MB) Terms of use FreeStockTextures.com are the authors of all the photos available on this site. More textures from category: nature If you liked this photo, you might also enjoy these images: Drunken Monkey Photoshop Tutorial - Smashing Magazine Advertisement This Adobe Photoshop tutorial is a guest article written by Sergio Ordóñez, 29 years old Spanish designer and illustrator who is working as a freelancer in SOSFactory since 2004. The article focuses on creating a visually appealing mascot and a logo and provides insights in the designer’s workflow and the design process itself. You might want to take a look at our post Adobe Photoshop Tutorials: Best Of for further references. by Sergio Ordóñez In this article I will explain step-by-step how I’ve designed an attractive character in one of our recent projects, namely for the company “Drunken Monkey Collectibles”. To provide you with a profound understanding of the process from scratch, let me provide you with a brief outline of the article first. Outline 1. The briefing is a common instrument which is used in the beginning of the design process to obtain information about the results the company is expecting from us. 2. 3. LinesWe plan the pose starting with the typical dummy.
PSGallery :: Metal Text 1: We're going to try to get a really metallic chrome effect on our text, using curves and other features in Photoshop. Start off with a large canvas, the larger the better - I'm using 800x800. Make some text and have it a light-medium grey, in the example I'll use #B3B3B3. Start off by using a nice big bevel and emboss with settings similar to these . As usual, the size should be suitable for the size of the image; try to make it look like the example. 2: Now we need to rasterize our layer. Now we need to adjust the image using curves - press ctrl/cmd + M to open the curves menu, then enter a nice even zig zag, as shown here . 3: Go , set the slider at the top to one notch from the bottom, and then click once on the 'Current Pick' box, once on the 'More Blue' box, and then once on the 'More Green' box - now click OK. Now add a drop shadow using the default settings by going and clicking OK. 4: Now use the layer styles again ( ) to add an inner glow using these settings.
Point d'ironie #45: Robert Crumb It’s the Wednesday before Thanksgiving here in SOHO and the Selectism staff is taking it easy. Though the busiest shopping day of the year is around the corner, the hood is slow at the moment. We took the opportunity to visit the agnès b store right across the street from our office and discovered the latest issue of Point d’ironie, the in-house magazine from the legendary fashion house. Issue #45 of Point D’ironie features one of our favorite comic artists, Robert Crumb. Select pages from Point D’ironie #45: Robert Crumb after the jump.
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Rusty Silver and Gold Text Effect - Photoshop tutorial This is our 9th tutorial for text effects so if you like it you might also be interested in taking a look at the text effects category. If my tutorials are not enough, I can only do so much, you can also take a look at my list of great tutorials on how to create different text styes. Here is the list: the best text tutorials on the internet. First I will create a pattern in Photshop to use it in the next steps, to create a bumped text effect. Our canvas is 100 px width and 100 px height. Ok, now let's return to our gray rectangle. Click the Vector Mask Thumbnail of the Circle layer and press CTRL + C. Now move the Circle Layer in the top right corner of the rectangle so that a 1/4 slice of the circle remains in the visible area. Now move the circle 3 more times so that we cover all the remaining corners. The next step is to extract the circle vector shapes from the rectangle and obtain a new vector shape. Now press Substract from shape area, like shown in the image:
Rafaël Rozendaal – Official Website Create Super Glossy 3D Type In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to create super glossy 3D typography using Illustrator and Photoshop. Let’s get started! Open Illustrator and create a new RGB document, 1000px by 800px, 72 DPI, and write your text in a nice big font. I've used Marketing Script size 234pt. Next, with you text selected, go to Object > Expand, and hit ok on the pop up window. Our text is no longer editable as text, instead it's a series of paths that we can edit with the direct selection tool. Currently, our letters are separate objects grouped together, we want them to be one single compound path. With the Pen Tool (P) selected, draw a new path starting from the last flick of the last letter s, and swirling its way down underneath our type. Change the Stroke Weight of our new path to a size that matches the width of the text path that it will be joining. Duplicate this path by dragging the Group's thumbnail (in the layers palette) to the New Layer button. You should now have six groups -
Realistic Renderings Of Cereal Mascots This is a series called Breakfast Time by graphic designer and illustrator Guillermo Fajardo. He’s recreated our favorite sugary breakfast cereal mascots to make them look real. Which, turns out, is like an 11 on the creepy scale. Right up there with finding a condom wrapper in your grandmother’s bathroom trash can. Via: laughingsquid.com Create a Colorful Cake Illustration in Photoshop Photoshop is a very powerful illustration tool and today we will make a wonderful, tasty, and colorful cake without having to do the dishes afterwards. I had based this tutorial on the cake from my set of icons that I created earlier and which enjoys great popularity. This illustration was created using Photoshop shapes and a bit of painting. If you don’t know how to work with Pen Tool you can first get acquainted with this lesson that fully explains all the functions of this tool. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following materials were used during the production of this tutorial. Step 1 Create 1000x1000px document in Photoshop (Cmd/Ctrl + N). Step 2 I made a quick sketch in Photoshop and choose the color palette. Set sketch layer opacity to 10%, blending mode to Multiply, put it above all other layers and lock it. Step 3 Create an ellipse on the top of the cake using Ellipse Tool (U) and color #2. Duplicate the ellipse to the bottom of the cake, scale it and set color #3. Step 4 Step 5