20 Shiny and Glossy Cool Gadgets Photoshop Tutorials

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.

Cool Gadgets Creation Tutorials

Create a sleek looking iPad in Photoshop

Create an iPhone from scratch in Photoshop

Create a sleek and stylish mp3 player in Photoshop

Create a photo realistic camera in Photoshop

Create an HTC diamond phone

Create a Sony Ericsson S500i phone in Photoshop

Design a vintage radio in Photoshop

Create a glossy boom box in Photoshop

Create a detailed vintage TV in Photoshop

Design a vector based Zune in Photoshop

Create a realistic LCD HDTV in Photoshop

Create a sleek Wii controller

Create a realistic XBox 360 in Photoshop

Create a Playstation 3 in Photoshop

Create a realistic Game Boy in Photoshop

Create an iMac in Photoshop

Create a MacBook Pro from scratch in Photoshop

Create a stylish media player in Photoshop

Design a Canon digital camera in Photoshop

Create a digital tablet in Photoshop

Photoshop Effects Books

Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: a professional image editor’s guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC

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Adobe Photoshop CS5 Bible

Photoshop is the gold standard for image-editing programs and is used by professional photographers, graphic designers, and Web designers as well as hobbyists. More than 300,000 copies of this comprehensive reference have been sold in previous editions; this edition is fully updated to cover Photoshop CS5’s newest features and includes a 16-page full-color insert. Read More…

Adobe Photoshop CS5: Professional Portrait Retouching

For the first time, Scott Kelby has assembled all of his best Photoshop techniques for professionally retouching portraits and collected them here in this groundbreaking new volume. Beginning with the essentials, Scott starts with the eyes–in many portraits, the most important part of the picture. Scott shows how to brighten the eyes, create and enhance catchlights, and remove dark circles from under the eyes. He then moves on to such techniques as softening and smoothing skin, removing blemishes, touching up clothing and backgrounds, retouching the nose, removing wrinkles, removing stray hairs, and retouching and whitening teeth. All of these are truly professional techniques that Scott has simplified into an exact, step-by-step process in Photoshop CS5 that yields great results fast. Toward the end of the book, Scott takes the reader through his entire portrait retouching workflow from beginning to end. Read More…