If you want to create a good scenery, a lot of photo combinations are unavoidable. Therefore, good planning for preparing your sources and background design are required. This tutorial will show you how to form a tank and arrange a soldier together. For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com   Step 1 Preparing the source All you need to do is selecting good stock pictures, doing experiment on using Free Transform Tool and [...]

A nice ice cube is not easy to create, due to its condition and surface are difficult to be copied. However, applying Photoshop setting can allow you to form the ice cube. Then, you can arrange your object to be inside the cube, such as animal or any fruits. Create a new document in Photoshop – 800 * 600px, 72 px/inch. Unlock background layer and apply following layer style effects to it. Choose Rounded Rectangle [...]

You can spend few minutes to achieve a nice silver text effect. It is mainly created using “layer style” function inside Photoshop Settings. At the end, you can design a simple dark background to match with the text. Follow this step by step tutorial to create a realistic pewter style metal text effect in Photoshop. The best part is it’s really easy! Just a couple of Photoshop layer styles is all it takes to create [...]

Here is a preview of the image that we are going to be creating: Step 1 Create a new document (600X700px). Paste in your ‘field background’ photo from the resources section for this tutorial. Resize, and position the image until it looks like the outcome below: Step 2 We want our background to be slightly out of focus, as it will be in the background after all, and we want our foreground images to appear [...]

Hello, We’re gonna talk today about transforming your own portrait into a vintage looking zombie. Maybe you’re familiar with the process of line art in photoshop, or maybe not, but after this tutorial I hope you’ll learn something new. I used a portrait of a friend of mine and my own textures. You can download them all from the required files. Also you can download this font: http://www.dafont.com/creepsville.font Enjoy!   Final Image   Choose a [...]

This example reveals how lighting style effects was controlled to make the best atmosphere for a design photoshoot. Components Needed: 2 Strobes Shoot Thru Umbrella Big Octagonal Softbox Tall Dark-colored Gobo (deflector) Round Gold Reflector Big Octagonal Softbox A Situation Research in Lighting This post in a shut look at a venture I lately proved helpful on. Together with Beautician Natalie Svikle, we joined up to make an design tale that will be based on [...]

CSS frameworks have become well-known lately, empowering developers to quickly magic size styles. The concept of CSS Frameworks is to do all the hard work of the recurring projects you do over and over again on each website, enabling you to get quicker outcomes and get to the fun products developers really like. In this publish we has a summary of the 20+ most well-known CSS Frameworks; presenting handpicked lessons for using each of them [...]

When creating icons, many designers struggle to decide how much detail to include. Should the icon be simple or complex? In this tutorial, we’ll create a detailed 3D monkey icon using a photo of a toy monkey as a reference. In the process, we’ll add texture and lighting.   Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Toy Fur Custom Brush Step 1 Create a new document with 1024×1024 pixel [...]

I know how much everyone loves tutorials, I know, I love writing them too. Well, in this post I’ve taken my time to roundup some Photoshop tutorials andPhotoshop Roundups some that I think is true, can be seen in this post. I knowquite a lot of people will love me for this, but we keep it professional. If you think that I hold the title of a joke, and then you make a mistake made​​, there really are 1000 tutorials in this post. I hope you enjoy the  resources. Design a Brilliant Product Advertisement Source Create a Stunning 3D Liquid Explosion Artwork Source Design a Slick 3D Ice Text Effect Source Logo Design Tips: Letterspacing & Typefaces Source Make a [...]

While many of us can create something that looks good in Photoshop or attractive when spliced into CSS, but do we actually understand the design theory behind what we create? Theory is the missing link for many un-trained but otherwise talented designers. Here are 50 excellent graphic design theory lessons to help you understand the ‘Whys’, not just the ‘Hows’.   Typography 1. Typography, Part 1 “Good typography depends on the visual contrast between one [...]