Free Photoshop resources and files can accelerate your design process, whether you’re a web designer or graphic and print designer.  From PSD icons to 3D renders, free PSD files can save you valuable time (and sometimes can be better than you could ordinarily create on your own). For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com In our continuing series of places where you can download free stuff, we’ve gathered up the top 20 places [...]

A while back I saw a still life photo of a loaf of bread sitting on a table. That photo inspired me to attempt to recreate this still life photo using Photoshop. In today’s tutorial, I will demonstrate how to create a realistic looking loaf of bread in Photoshop. Let’s get started! Step 1 Begin by creating a 1000 x 550 px document. Create a new group called “BG”. Inside this new group, create a [...]

Here is a collection of 50 Japanese town logos that incorporate stylized kanji characters into the design. Fujinomiya (Shizuoka): The kanji 宮 (miya) inside a cherry blossom with Mt Fuji petals Fukuyama (Hiroshima): Bat-shaped 山 (yama) denotes old name of Kōmoriyama (“Bat Mountain”) Ibaraki (Ōsaka): The kanji 茨 (ibara) in the shape of a pigeon Nishino-omote (Kagoshima): The kanji 西 (nishi) Ōme (Tōkyō): The kanji 青 (ao) and plum blossom (ume) signify 青梅 (Ōme) Kanazawa [...]

Free 3d models can be incredibly useful, whether you’re rushed on a project and don’t have time to develop your own models, or you’re looking to learn some techniques and see the structure of a model to help guide your own creations.  Whatever the reason, there is a huge demand for 3d models, and a large number of websites have sprung up to provide some models. However, not all are the same quality, so in [...]

Every week we try to hunt down high-quality freebies for our readers. One of our favorite freebies to find for you are fonts, because everybody knows… you can never have too many fonts in your library. In this post, we’ve rounded up 11 brand new fonts that are super high-quality. I especially love the AW Conqueror font family. You’re sure to find a use for these in your designs. Enjoy! AW Conqueror (to download, click [...]

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Photo retouching and manipulation are probably the two most important areas Photoshop is used extensively, mainly because Photoshop offers a variety of sophisticated tools and effects that you can use to smooth out skin and hair, optimize body proportions, emphasize or enhance some beautiful details, correct colors, and a whole lot more. These skills are important to learn not just for professional photographers but for anyone who simply wants to learn to edit and retouch their [...]

I know Dingbat fonts aren’t the most popular. A lot of them are, well, pretty unhelpful. But, there are also a lot of very cool Dingbat fonts out there that can be used for a variety of things. Ornaments, decoration, patterns, silhouettes and much more. The cool thing about them, is you can convert to outlines, and you’ve got yourself a very cool vector to play with. I personally use the ornament and decoration type [...]

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating This tutorial will show you how to create a photo realistic image of Apple’s newly released iPhone4. Hopefully, by the end of it you will have something extremely close to the real thing, which for the few who don’t own the iPhone4 (like me), may be as close as we’ll ever get. Before we get started it might be a good idea to pull up a reference image from [...]

Social media icons are incredibly important for web designers these days, with the large amounts of communication that take place on social networks.  It’s important to have ways to share posts from your website, and social media icons can help create a usable and intuitive way to do this. To help you with your websites, we’ve gathered up 1000+ social media icons for you to use.  Whether you’re looking for a glossy social network icon [...]