11 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials to Boost Creativity

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration. Sometimes, you may find it difficult to look for some of the highest quality Photoshop tutorials using search engines. There’s so many tutorials available, but only a handful offer inspiration along with valuable tips and techniques. So here are the some cool, creative tutorials collected by us, we hope these tutorials should help sharpen your Photoshop skill-set. Don’t forget to comment and share your favorite tutorial. Design a Slick 3D Ice Text Effect Smokin’ Woman Cyborg 3D Text On Fire Dragons Flaming Photo Manipulation Bright Floral Text Effect Milk Typography Effect Making a grungy business card Hell Smashing Your Creative Block Advertisement Related: Adobe Photoshop

The Top 30 Text Effect Tutorials for Awesome Results Text effects are one of the most common tutorial subjects for Photoshop. Since text is used in all forms of design and advertising, it makes sense to not use simple plain colored text for every application. However, a lot of the text tutorials for Photoshop yield substandard results, and it can be hard to find high quality tutorials. We’ve collected up the top 30 text effect tutorials that yield awesome results in Photoshop. Enjoy, and if you have any other tutorials that you think deserve a mention, leave a link in the comments! Create an Awesome Funky Text Effect Smashing Your Creative Block – Broken Glass Text Effect Create a Steam Powered Typographic Treatment Amazing Exploding 3D Words in Photoshop Create a Beautiful 3D Text Composition Add Fantastic Color to 3D Text Create a Cool 3D Graffiti Text Effect in Photoshop using Line Art Realistic Scorching Fire Effect Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect Create an Elegant Glassy Text Effect Awesome Milk Typography Effect Wood Inlay Text Effect

50 Photoshop Tricks for a Fast-Paced Work Environment Are you a designer on a deadline? If you are, then I’m sure you can recall the last time you thought to yourself, “if I had a little more time, I could…” what? Polish that button? Find a better hero image? Reevaluate that color palette? The truth is, however, that we designers will always be looking for more time to polish the one pixel that got away. Of course, since our go-to design tool in the office is Photoshop, we thought we’d share with you 50 simple Photoshop tricks and shortcuts we love using that can help trim excess spent time in your workflows. Important Note: The following require Photoshop CS5 and a Mac OS X. The Usual Keyboard Shortcut Suspects Memorize these shortcuts. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.Keyboard shortcuts for flipping foreground and background (X): Use this to switch between your current foreground and background colors located in your toolbar. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Customized Must-Have Keyboard Shortcuts 11. 12. 13. Photoshop, the Word Processor 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.

5000+ Free Photoshop Gradients Photoshop gradients are one of the many presets that can be use to create some really creative designs and effects in your photographs or any other graphics. Before you go ahead and dive into these colorful Photoshop gradients please pop your eyes into some other nice posts on Photoshop tutorials and Photoshop resources that we have here: Have a great day, and enjoy the SuperBowl! If you get a chance to help promote this post, we’d really appreciate it. Thanks for reading! Ultimate Web2.0 Photoshop Gradients Realistic Sky Gradients Vintage Gradients by IceChicken Faded Gradient Pack Web2.0 Gradient Pack Adobe Gradients Pack The Ultimate Gradients Pack 1 Clean Gradients Set iPhone Gradation Set Smoshing Free Gradient Set Modern Photoshop Gradients Pastel Gradients Tango Gradients 156 Photoshop Gradients New Gradients 1000 Free Web 2.0 Gradients Dooffy Gradients Set PSP Gradients 3 Dark Light Styles and Gradients 400 Gradient Varities Advertisement

Photoshop Brushes By ygt42876 June 16, 2005 11,788 Downloads More goofing off with photoshop brush capabilities. Some fun brushes on paths and others. Set includes; a spiney brush, footstep brush, train track brush, a plastic coil brush, a 1/2 shaded square brush, and 2 brush brushes. Additional extension information Reviews Amalia Martinez 05-Nov-08 Rating = 5 This is AWESOME! J Thivierge 09-Nov-07 Rating = 5 Love these ... have used them over and over thank you!!! tbgclc 11-Jun-07 Rating = 5 I love these!!! SondraG 11-Jun-06 Rating = 0 Love these...why didn't I notice them a year ago! PanosFX 15-Feb-06 Rating = 0 Bravo Douglas, for this excellent submission. Add a review

Pimp My Text: Bling Bling With Photoshop » Web Design » SitePoint Blogs Last week I was watching the opening credits of “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here” and I noticed the titles consist of bling bling text getting dropped into the jungle. I’ve also noticed quite a few ads on TV using bling text as Christmas approaches. So today we’ll have a look at how to produce some sparkling silver and diamonds (or diamante) text in Photoshop using layer effects, blending modes and filters. 1. 2. 3. 4. Double click on the Gradient to open the Gradient Editor, then choose Silver from the list of gradients. So that’s our silver text in place. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Click OK and your new fancy diamonds will be added to the layer. 11. 12. (Optional). This is one way to produce the bling effect.

Free-brushes.com - Free Photoshop, GIMP & Paint Shop Pro Brushes Rap Diamonds, bling in Photoshop Begin with the text you want to turn into the gold and Diamond "Iced Out" effect. Right click on the layer palette and choose Rasterize layer. This will make the text editable. Make a selection around the text (Hold down Ctrl/CMD and click on the layer thumbnail) Press "D" to reset to default colors Filter>render>clouds If the render menu is not available make sure you are in RGB mode. Now this is where we create the diamond effect. Filter>Distort>glass Choose the tiny lens texture and scale it down. Use the settings as shown here. Click OK to apply Please note, in CS3 the diamonds look gray and not silver. Choose Curves (Crtl/Cmd+M) Grab the top right point (or the white triangle at the bottom) and drag it across to the left until your diamonds look like the bright ones here. We now have the diamond covered look to the text. Apply a layer style to the layer, choose stroke. The important things here are: Position = Center Fill type: Gradient, choose the default copper setting Make the size 10

WebTreats ETC 1000 Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Sets - Noupe Design Blog Oct 15 2008 Hundreds of thousands of incredible Adobe Photoshop brush sets are all over the web. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of Photoshop brushes available, you can now add patches of dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any look you want. Without further ado, we present 1000+ high-Resolution Adobe Photoshop brush sets that will be perfect for any project you may happen to be working on. Important: Licenses of every brush set varies, so be sure to check that information before using them. 1. 1.1 Sidewalk Series Vol. 2 Oil Stains 10 high resolution grungy concrete stains inspired by all the cracks, stains, and spots on the sidewalk and in the street. 1.2 Sidewalk Series Vol. 1 Cracks 6 Excellent high resolution sidewalk cracks to give you a nice grungy texture. 1.3 Cracks Part III 15 brushes made with Photoshop 7.0. 1.4 Urban Decay Photoshop Brushes 1.5 QuadGrunged 1.6 Cracked Brush Set 2. 2.4 Autumn Glory