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!
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.
Photoshop artists and masters have been using videos to transmit their expertise to students for a long time. But with all the new video hosting services that have been showing up during the last few years, video has become an extremely popular and effective free training method.
This is a list of 20 high quality Photoshop tutorials videos created by very popular Photoshop masters. These videos have very detailed explanations that are easy to follow.
After you are done with these videos, you can visit the new Photoshop videos section at this site with more than 800 videos available for free.
There are a number of times where you need a specific special effect for a job, and you are on a deadline and on a tight budget (as usual). If you are lucky, a free Photoshop plugin that can create that special effect you need may be available, but chances are that it is not compatible with your Photoshop version or operating system.
Outsourcing the job or buying a commercial plugin could be the solution, but when you are out of time or money, those are not options.
Here’s a list of awesome commercial plugins, some of the best available, that offer fully functional demos usually for 30 days or so. Keep this list handy, you won’t regret it.
If you are an average Photoshop user, you may wonder if you could ever create one of those complex scenes you frequently see while browsing the web or reading design books. One of the new trends Photoshop effects is destruction and apocalyptical scenes creation. This selection of tutorials featuring explosions, debris, chaos, infernal creatures and general mayhem, will keep you very busy for a while in you way to become a Photoshop master. If you find some of these tutorials difficult to follow, you may want to check the 64 essential guides, tips and tutorials to definitely master Photoshop like a pro to become more familiar with Photoshop basic, intermediate and advanced tools and commands.
During the last years I’ve been compiling resources for Photoshoppers. Since I’m the Editor of Photoshop Roadmap, I have to check for new tutorials every day and so I have a good knowledge about Photoshop resources being produced continuously.
That’s why I decided to gather all the compilations of Photoshop Resources I created for this blog. The most popular subjects are present in this collection: Photo effects, Photoshop brushes, text effect, lighting and grunge effects, etc. But also you will find other very specific topics covered such as: Videogames related tutorials, superheroes themed tutorials, complex lettering, movie posters and horror photo makeover.
Take a look at these more than 800 Photoshop tutorials, plugins and brushes. I’m sure you will definitely bookmark this page as a future reference.
I’ve been compiling Photoshop resources for about nine years for this site, always focusing on specific subjects. Some of these compilations became very popular, such as The best 80 text effects on the web, 100 wonderful Photoshop photo effects tutorials, or 40 Extravagant Surreal and Fantasy Scenes Photoshop Tutorials, to mention just a few of them. But all of them turned out to be constrained to a single subject, be it a very general one or to something more specific such as 30 Fascinating Video Game Inspired Photoshop Tutorials and Brushes, or Spectacular Superheroes Themed Photoshop Tutorials.
What about learn how to actually use Photoshop? There are hundreds of resources that teach you how to master the different Photoshop tools or commands. You probably never noticed many of those just because they look boring and have no flashy images to capture your attention. But believe me that these tutorials can teach you some unbelievable tricks that will ease your way to become a Photoshop pro.
Superheroes illustrations and posters are always related to cool special effects, fast and explosive action scenes and artistic illustration techniques. It is a surprise that not many Photoshop artists decided to create tutorials about this topic. Yes, you can find a lot of superheroes signatures tutorials that rely on an image created by another artist or speed painting demonstrations that have little or no value other than making us villain green with envy.
Despite of that, here’s a list of spectacular superheroes themed Photoshop tutorials that don’t require superpowers to complete.
I’m sure we all share the frustration of trying to get some acceptable results from the Watercolor Photoshop Plugin that is bundled with the default Photoshop installation.
As with most of those plugins, to achieve reasonable results you have to go farther than applying a single plugin. These 15 watercolor effects Photoshop tutorials will show you how to create beautiful watercolor paintings from your photos.
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