Category: Photoshop

50 Useful Cartoon Character Design Tutorials

February 24th, 2010 in Photoshop, Resources | 21 Comments

Cartoon character designs is really interesting. Today, we have a lot of powerful graphic design software such as Photopsop, Illustrator and Corel Draw to help graphic designers create cartoon characters.

With the advance technologies, designers now can sketch the cartoon characters on paper first, and then use software to convert and edit them on PC. If you are using Photoshop or Illustrator, then they are powerful enough to create cartoon character. But if you don’t want to pay for them, there are still a lot of Free Photoshop alternatives where you can use.

Today, we are going to look into 50 cartoon character design tutorials where you can learn from basic to the advance skills to create and edit cartoon characters. We hope you enjoy reading them.

Create your own monster

Yet another monster character tutorial. You can download the source files to get started immediately.
Create your own monster

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23 Professional Facial Photoshop Retouching Tutorials

January 4th, 2010 in Photoshop | 20 Comments

Editing and retouching images is now made easy with the use of Adobe Photoshop. If there are fine lines, wrinkles, freckles, and other not pleasing to the eyes which you want to eliminate in your picture, Photoshop can make you look stunning and perfect. It makes the pictures look more beautiful.

If there are fine lines, wrinkles, freckles, and other not pleasing to the eyes which you want to eliminate in your picture, Photoshop can make you look stunning and perfect. Photoshop can also add, reduce or transform parts of your face. If you have no make up and you want to have a make-up on your picture, or if you want to look like a celebrity, or make yourself look like you aged in your picture, then Photoshop is the answer to your concerns!

We had shared a lot of Photoshop tutorials and resources which including Photoshop Text Effect, Layout Design Tutorials, Icon Design Tutorials and even some great alternatives for Photoshop. We hope you like our Photoshop series. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and Subscribe to us too.

Below are several Facial Photoshop Retouching Tutorials. Take a look at these pictures and be mesmerized by the amazing transformations.

Super Fast and Easy Retouching

This tutorial will help you repair low quality shots and smooth out the person’s face.
Super Fast and Easy Retouching
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50+ Awesome Photoshop Poster Design Tutorials

November 30th, 2009 in Photoshop, Tutorial | 24 Comments

We use posters at a lot of places. For example, we have posters for movies, games, events and books. Photoshop is a great application for poster design. With the help of Photoshop actions, filters, powerful features and tutorials from community, we can easily create beautiful poster.

If you are looking for tutorial to design your poster, then you had came to the right place. Today, we are going to share 50+ awesome Photoshop tutorials for designing and creating poster.

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60+ Creative And Mind-blowing Examples Of Photo Manipulation Art

November 23rd, 2009 in Insipiration, Photoshop | 20 Comments

Photo manipulation is an image editing technique that alters the original image/photo by adding certain elements into it. Photo manipulation normally requires extremely creative and unique design skills.

Creative photo manipulation can serve as our source of inspiration. Today, we are going to look into 60+ Creative And Mind-blowing Examples Photo Manipulation Art related to object, illustrative elements, artistic and painterly effects, natural images and fantasy effects. We hope this collection will help you to open your mind and enhance your creativity.

migration

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60+ Photoshop Tutorials For Icon Design

November 17th, 2009 in Photoshop, Resources | 36 Comments

Icon design is an essential skill for every web designer. A website or blog with beautiful icons will definitely attract visitors’ attention.

Although we may download free icons or purchase stock icons from the web, but learning the skill of icon design will definitely brings you a lot of benefits. Besides brush up your Photoshop/icon design skills, you will also have custom made icons that suit your website’s design. Some of the free icons are only for non-commercial products or websites. So having your unique icons, you can get rid of these restrictions.

If you are looking for Photoshop Tutorials for Icon Designs, then you had reached to the right place. Here, we collected 60+ Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials for Icon Design. I am sure you will become a good icon designer after reading these tutorials.

If you are looking for simple icon editors which do not require advance Photoshop skills, then you may want to refer to our previous post about 6 free icon editors.

1. How to Create a Planet Icon Set in Photoshop
How to Create a Planet Icon Set in Photoshop

2. Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial
Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial
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140+ Sets Free Floral and Flower Textures

September 23rd, 2009 in Photoshop, Resources | 6 Comments

Do you use Photoshop textures? I like to collect Photoshop textures as these textures can help me to add unique effects and speed up my design works.

We had shared about Watercolor Textures before, and now let’s look into some free floral and flower textures. Flower textures can always add splash of color and realism to your renderings.

10 floral textures by mystique87

Textures: 10 sets
10 floral textures by mystique87

Floral Carpet Texture by stocks-for-you

Textures: 1 set
Floral Carpet Texture by stocks-for-you

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270+ Sets Free And Beautiful Watercolor Textures

August 23rd, 2009 in Photoshop, Resources | 30 Comments

Both grunge and watercolor effects are really cool and hot in web design industrial. There are a lot of website backgrounds using watercolor effect. Some people may think watercolor and grunge effects are “dirty”, but if you are able to mix the design with these effects, then you will have a beautiful layout which able to give visitors an impressive appearance.

So, we decided to share 270+ sets free and beautiful watercolor textures that we had collected from various sources from the internet.

Water Color Textures II

Textures: 25 sets
Water Color Textures II

25 Free, High-Res Watercolor Textures

Textures: 25 sets
25 Free, High-Res Watercolor Textures

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40 Really Useful Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

July 31st, 2009 in Photoshop, Resources | 72 Comments

No matter you want to design a banner or logo, text effect is very important. Why? It is because a beautiful text effect on the banner or logo will attracts the visitor and also delivers a better message.

There are tons of Photoshop text tutorials around us, but today we are going to pick the most 40 beautiful Photoshop text effect tutorials for our readers.

You may or may not seen them before, but believe me, they are really useful, cool, beautiful and easy to follow tutorials.

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1. How to Create a Gorgeous Glassy Text Effect

gorgeous glassy text effect

2. Wooden text effect in Photoshop

A very nice wooden text effect tutorial in Photoshop presented by 10steps.sg.
wooden text effect in photoshop

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30+ Easy To Follow Photoshop Layout Design Tutorials

July 13th, 2009 in Photoshop, Resources, Web Design | 38 Comments

Photoshop is an excellent application for web designers. No matter you are beginner of expert of Photoshop, you can easily get tutorials and resources by using the search engine.

Most of the theme developers/designers will done their website design using Photoshop, and then slice and convert them into CSS/HTML template. Here, i had collected 30+ easy to follow Photoshop layout design tutorials. You can follow them step by step to learn how to create a website layout design by using Photoshop.

1. Carbon Fiber Layout

Carbon Fiber Layout

2. Business Wordpress PSD Layout

Business Wordpress PSD

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