Professional Retouching Tutorial: Healing (Part 1) Welcome to the first in a series of tutorials on professional retouching. Ever wondered how commercial and fashion photographs have that beautifully flawless look? For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com Final Image This two part tutorial will work towards creating this professionally retouched result: It takes a while to master, but here are a few things to consider; • Keep as much texture as possible, this [...]

I’m going to show you how I used Poser, 3D Studio Max 5 and Photoshop 7 to create images for a an Art exhibition titled: “The Dark Night…” It began with obtaining a review copy of Poser 5. When I installed it, it crashed my computer the first time I tried to run it (a Pentium 4, 2.1MHz with 512MB of RAM). A reinstall fixed the problem but when I tried to use it recently, [...]

In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to use stock photography, 3d elements, and various techniques to create a cosmic-inspired dreamy scene in Photoshop. Let’s get started! Resources Used The following images were used during the production of this tutorial. Grunge Texture Clouds Portrait Crow 3D Abstract Renders Step 1 Let’s start by creating a new A4 document in Photoshop. I want to design the composition for print, so it’s best to work with large [...]

This is a collection of my favourite Photoshop text effects that look pretty sweet, I would recommend experimenting with these styles if your looking for some thing a little bit different. Candy Coated Text Smooth Glass Type Slow Shutter Effect The Original slow shutter tut is unavailiable but some one kindly uploaded it… Glassy Text Effect Text In Stitches Milk Typography Effect Create Destructive Black and White Lettering with a Dramatic Splash Effect Using Light [...]

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Tutorial Details * Program: Adobe Photoshop CS3+ * Difficulty: Beginner * Estimated Completion Time: 1.5 Hour Software applications and stock art designs often need box designs to help with the marketing. We frequently use box designs on Psdtuts to promote our exclusive freebie or premium sets. There are several ways to create this sort of design. You can use software, actions, or even do this yourself. In today’s tutorial [...]

Photoshop’s text and layer tools can be used to create some really cool effects. There are thousands of Photoshop Tutorials out there, but few that are top-notch in terms of instruction, appearance and outcomes. In this collection, you will find cool text effects, typography, creative, 3D, burning effects, ice effects etc. Here are 25 Cool Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials Create a Multi-Colored Text Effect in Photoshop Properly Multicolored 3D Text Effect Create a Desireable 3D [...]

Compositions that combine both photographic and illustrative elements are often popular among graphic designers. Today, we will demonstrate how to combine these elements to create a vintage squid illustration. Let’s get started! Resources Used The following resources were used during the production of this tutorial. Paper Texture Old Photo Bay Photograph Step 1 Alright let’s get started with this tutorial! The first thing we need is a base image to use as our background for [...]

You must be thinking – man..105 artworks, is this guy completely crazy? Well, I must admit I went crazy, but I couldn’t not feature those works here, you must see how amazing this art is if you haven’t seen something like that before! At least I have crazy inspiration now to put something like this together myself – how about you? 1. Drangue by barrena 2. Photo manipulation by GerCasey 3. Young Rocker by kybel [...]

In this web design tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create a clean-looking and modern website layout. We will take advantage of some fundamental techniques and tools — such as custom shape tools, selection tools, and clipping masks — and end up with a nice and professional web design. Ready? Let’s get started! Author: Mahmoud Khaled Mahmoud is a young web and graphic designer from Egypt. Apart from that, he also enjoys blogging and [...]

People love 3D effects. They also love the look of shiny, glossy, graphics as well. Today, we will combine those two popular styles and create an extruded 3D glossy text effect in Photoshop. Let’s get started! Step 1 Create a new document, make it 600px by 400px. Step 2 Fill the background with #011923. Now, add some noise, go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise. 2% should be ok. Step 3 Create a new [...]