Free Photoshop Tutorials,textures,film text effects

Urban Ink Photo Effect

Posted on 30. Sep, 2009 by admin.

Learn how to create this photo effect with just two layers by using all blending options instead of layer masks. This photo effect works great on photos with a simple background. Example Photoshop documents included.
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Basic Retouch and Colorization

Posted on 30. Sep, 2009 by admin.

This tutorial will show you how to do a basic retouch, change the colorcast of an image and colorize some of its elements.
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Overview of Portrait of Martha

Posted on 30. Sep, 2009 by admin.

Hi, My name is Kamil Mlcak, I am from Czech Republic and I will try to give you short overview of how I did my picture “Portrait of Martha”. This was made with ZBrush, 3ds max and Photoshop.
I wanted to create mulatto female and I decide to use Zspheres in ZBrush. I found all the [...]

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Creating Fire in a Particle Editor

Posted on 29. Sep, 2009 by admin.

Introduction – Hi, my name is Bulatov Evgeni, I’m an artist in an Extreme Developers studio (http://xdevs.ru/), we are game developers. In this lesson I’ll tell you my way of
creating fire in a
particles editor Magic
Particles (http://www.astralax.com/).
The
particles are [...]

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Making of Eastern Dragon Rider

Posted on 29. Sep, 2009 by admin.

There are  two  things that was in my
mind from start. I wanted  to bring a tension and conflict between dragon and the evil
rider as essence to push the emotional feeling in piece and second thing was the eastern look to give him more unique and special look that differentiate [...]

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Photoshop CS4: Printing

Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 by admin.

Richard Harrington shows you new printing features in Photoshop CS4 including the ability to do 16-bit printing.

Download the video file – 89.5 MB
Right-Click (PC users) or Control-Click (Mac users).

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Create a Bright Retro Grunge Vector Illustration

Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 by admin.

Follow these steps in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create a range of vector shapes and graphics that can be combined into a great looking vector collage illustration. We’ll then finish off the illustration with some subtle touches of depth and detail, giving a polished graphic with hints of a retro-grunge style.
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Design a Colorful Illustration Using Patterns and Shapes

Posted on 27. Sep, 2009 by admin.

A good friend and amazing artist Bram Vanhaeren and I decided to collaborate on an illustration to then create a tutorial for all the readers at Psdtuts+. We came up with a cool illustration that incorporates patterns, coloring, as well as 3D shapes. The most important thing about this is that it is all extremely [...]

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Dance Photo Manipulation

Posted on 27. Sep, 2009 by admin.

Introduction
This two part tutorial will be showing how to create some really cool elements for a photo-manipulation. We’ll start with an image of a person and use lots of useful techniques to transform it into a really interesting image that will stand out.
Part 1
I wanted to write a tutorial showing how to reproduce some of [...]

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Making of Compsognathus

Posted on 26. Sep, 2009 by admin.

Software Used:
Cinema 4D, Corel Photo-Paint, BodyPaint and xNormal
Introduction:
My name is Hugo Costa, I’m from Portugal and with this mini tutorial I’ll show you briefly how I created this little guy. I’ve always liked dinosaurs and Compsognathus in particular and I created this one using Cinema 4D, Corel Photo-Paint and xNormal for the Normal Map [...]

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How to Create a Golden Vector Compass in Illustrator

Posted on 26. Sep, 2009 by admin.

In this tutorial I will take you through the steps and techniques of creating a golden compass. For this tutorial I’ve used just Adobe Illustrator and a heavy dose of ingenuity. Let’s get stared!
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How to Create Eroded Metal Text with Photoshop

Posted on 25. Sep, 2009 by admin.

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create an eroded metal text effect. Throughout this tutorial we’ll make use of various drawing techniques, channels, and patterns. Let’s get started!
Step 1
First we need to define a pattern of dots. Lets start by creating a new document 100 pixels wide and 100 pixels high, with a [...]

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3D rotation with Flash CS4

Posted on 25. Sep, 2009 by admin.

Learn how to create a 3D rotation of an image by using the new rotation properties added in flash CS4 and actionscript 3. This example requires the Flash Player 10.
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The Ultimate Collection Of Maya 3D Tutorials

Posted on 24. Sep, 2009 by admin.

Ever wonder how animated films like Ice Age are made? Maya is the answer. Maya (or Autodesk Maya, having recently been acquired by Autodesk) is powerful 3D modeling, animation, texturing, rendering and visual effects software.
Maya was developed for the film industry and is now being used for design, visual effects, games, film, animation, visualization and [...]

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50 Clever Tutorials and Techniques on Traditional Drawing

Posted on 24. Sep, 2009 by admin.

Traditional drawing is certainly way harder than digital and it is true that people are able to progress much faster digitally, but one should learn the traditional type of drawing and painting before starting digital drawing, since it often lays out the foundation for screen design.
This article contains a mixture of traditional drawing tutorials, drawing [...]

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Design a creative design studio layout

Posted on 23. Sep, 2009 by admin.

This PSD layout is aimed at design studios and agencies, designers, those involved in site design and software development, as well as graphic designers. With this design studio layout you can showcase your work or products in an easy way.
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