Lettering design is probably the area in which artists have most noticeable pushed Photoshop to the limits. Designers such as Tony Ariawan, Alex Beltechi, or Nik Ainley have been contributing lately to the Photoshop community with tutorials explaining how they create their excellent work of art.
This is a compilation of the best of lettering design tutorials created using Photoshop with the assistance, in some cases, of other illustration and 3d software.
My first video game console was an Atari Super Pong. A brand new one, not a retro gadget purchased on Ebay. It was 1976 and I was a kid. Opening that white box with deep black strong lettering and blue stripes was an unforgettable experience.
A year later, my brother bought a Fairchild Channel F console. Colors! Higher resolution! Controls! Loads of games!
But that was it. The era of the personal computer started at home with an Apple II+ and we never bought another console after that. In fact I only played video games at the arcades when on vacations.
32 years later, I purchased the third console in my life for my kids. A Nintendo Wii with two sets of controls. Although my kids didn’t go nuts, they were incredibly happy.
I’m having so much fun playing Mario Kart and Wii Sports that I decided to compile a list of 30 Video Game Inspired Photoshop Tutorials and Brushes for this new roundup of Photoshop resources.
Yeah, real life situations are my source of inspiration. Have Fun!!
Adobe Photoshop Elements is a slimmed down version of Photoshop. As irreverent as this may sound, it is more a feature than a drawback. Photoshop Elements shines in simplicity and power at the same time. Photoshop Elements is mainly oriented to amateur designers and casual photographers and it lacks all the print production features among many other tools. On the other side, it offers a number of simplified tools aimed to the beginner or casual user but with the same professional results you can achieve with a full version of Adobe Photoshop.
This article is a compilation of some of the best Photoshop Elements tutorials around the web and some of the best Photoshop Elements web sites. If you know about any Photoshop Elements tutorials that have not been included here, please share them with us by leaving a link at the comments section.
I always stated that Photo Effects and Text Effects were the most popular Photoshop topics around. When I decided to create this list I thought that I’d have a hard time to find tutorials with a reasonable quality.
Well, that was not the case. In my way I found Mysterious woods inhabited with magical fairies, dragons and mythical creatures flying on fantasy night skies, magic crystal balls, hats and other objects hidden in strange houses. Making it short, an immense amount of imaginative scenes that filled my senses and made my work not only easier, but enjoyable too!
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.
Portrait effects are no longer constrained to vignettes or simple stencil effects. This area has vertiginously evolved to an unbelievable level of creativity and complexity. So, don’t expect to find your average two step special effect. Many of these require a lot of work, which in the end will result in a lot of Photoshop techniques learned.
As usual, don’t try this with your average bad quality family photos. These effects require good quality high resolution images to obtain optimum results.
You know what I like most about twitter? That it has the power of RSS feeds while keeping the conversational (and fun) aspect that made chat and email so popular.
Twitter has become so widely adopted that as a researcher you can find very useful info in real time. And fortunately, technology and design are two very popular subjects in Twitter. For this article, I selected a group of 20 great Twitter accounts you should follow to be up to date, and in contact, with top quality Photoshop, Photography and Design informational sources.
In this selection of Photoshop tutorials, we are going to explore the creativity behind posters creation. Blending typography with images in a creative way, the proper usage of color and the effective communication of the message are, without a doubt, some of the most important lessons we can learn from poster design. Let’s check some interesting movie, music and art posters Photoshop tutorials. Read the rest of this article…
Some time ago, I wrote this article for PSD Magazine. It was published in a special Photoshop Starter issue of this magazine on January 2007. For those who didn’t have the chance of reading it, here´s the full article:
The Color Replacement brush is a tool that lets you paint with one color over another color, keeping the brightness and contrast of the image. This way you can easily change the color of an object without using complex masking and color correction tools.
We are going to replace the color of these beach parasols from blue to red and leave the yellow part untouched. Read the rest of this article…
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