Here’s a collection of 20 Photoshop tutorials about modern and retro gadgets illustration. These gadgets are simply an excuse to learn how to represent shiny metal surfaces, glossy plastics, colorful reflections, textured parts and many other industrial design rendering techniques. Don’t skip a tutorial just because it isn’t about your favorite gadget. Take a look at each one and check how the pro’s are doing it.
Here’s a collection of 10 Photoshop tutorials, 3 Photoshop brushes and 7 stock images about those splashes effects that look so cool and are so popular today. These are not easy to manage. A bit of creative manipulation is required, but the results will surely end up being sort of awesome.
It’s time for a new roundup of cool text effects. It is amazing how authors and designers are coming up with so many new and interesting effects without using third party filters.
Last month I featured the incredible Photoshop and design work of Marco Peis here at Photoshop Roadmap. Let me say that I was literally flooded with emails and comments asking for more from Marco. Well, here’s an interview and a and incredible tutorial from him. Enjoy!
Hi Marco, thanks for taking the time for an interview! Let’s start with your background. Tell us a little bit about your job.
Well, I work for an international agency called EuroRSCG Vienna. We have international clients like Vichy, Peugeot, Citroen, and some else. But my first job was in a bank as a graphic freelancer.
It was a nice time, but veryyyyy boring. No conceptual, and only two colors. After that, i started tutoring in a graphic design school in Innsbruck. I made adobe training with the students – Primary photoshop ;D
It’s Christmas time and here’s a new roundup of snowy, bright, cheerful and beautiful Christmas related tutorials filled with white trees, ornaments and all kind of colorful effects. Each year, this kind of tutorials get more and more creative, reflecting the newest design trends. Hope you enjoy these ones, and Merry Christmas!
Whenever I have to research for new Photoshop tutorials for my compilations, I always focus on stunning, complex and difficult tutorials mainly targeted for pros. But most of the time you need to perform basic tasks such as red eye removal, or changing a color in a photo.
This list is about basic photo manipulation techniques for beginners. Some of these techniques require a bit of work, but many do not. Remember that good results require good starting photos!
Marco Peis – Junior Art Director & Specialist for Graphic Arts from Austria is using Photoshop, zBrush and C4D to create such amazing and breathtaking works. His portfolio is an eternal source of inspiration and ideas. His experiments have a strong and deep impression with remarkable effect combinations besides his sense of balance.
Born in Tirol (Austria), he started as a freelancer for some little but well-known agencies. Now he is working at the EuroRSCG Vienna on international clients like Peugeot, Vichy, Telekom, and some more. He told us, that in his job there is demanded much creative conception in ideas.
Since version CS3, Photoshop has the ability of import and render 3d objects created by third party 3d modeling software. This addition is a godsend specially for those who love creating complex action and sci-fi scenes and had to rely on external 3d software to render the basic layout of the scene and then finish it in Photoshop.
This article gathers 45 impressive free Star Wars 3d models that can be opened, tweaked and rendered in Photoshop. These models are free for all projects. But to be sure, check the download page to see if the author has indicated some restrictions. Some of these models require a free subscription to download, other ask for a donation if you liked the model. But all of them are absolutely free to download and use, and no payment is requested whatsoever.
Most of these models are available in different formats. Just download the format that is compatible with your version of Photoshop.
if you are a Star Wars fan and love paper crafting, you will also like to check these16 awesome Star Wars paper models I compiled for my other blog Creative Closeup.
In each new version of Photoshop, Adobe is pushing the limits of photorealism offering new tools to create 3d images or realistic special effects. But those features don’t create anything by themselves. The power is in the ever evolving imagination of Photoshop artists. And this compilation is a demonstration that in most cases, you don’t need any fancy tools other than your creativity and imagination to achieve photorealism with certain ease.
I’ve already created other interesting text effects compilations that you may want to check: The 80 best Photoshop text effects on the web, 30 Awesome Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials, and Complex and Sophisticated Lettering Designs Photoshop Tutorials.
This tutorial will show you how to create a simple additive two color Technicolor filter for Photoshop using Filter Forge plugin. Filter Forge is a fantastic tool to create your own Photoshop filters without writing a single line of code or know how to program in any language.
You don’t need to buy FilterForge plugin to follow this article. You can download a 30 day fully functional demo here with absolutely no restrictions. If you want to know about many other Photoshop plugins that offer fully functional trials, just read my previous article: 22+ Stunning Commercial Photoshop Plugins With Fully Functional Demos.
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