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Perplexing Plasmids

Photoshop has a wealth of tools available to design funky and downright outlandish effects.This tutorial definitely belongs in the latter camp, and the results apparently resemble a plasmid under an electron microscope... or so I've been told!

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Animated Fire

Ever since we first learned how to make it in the stone age, mankind has had a profound fascination with fire. Now you too can set Photoshop ablaze with the power and beauty of fire by following this animated 9 step tutorial. Just remember to play safely, and not singe your fingers!

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Stray Energy

Textures are created for a wide variety of different reasons - sometimes to add detail to 3D rendered scenes, and other times just to look cool & impress your friends. This texture definitely belongs in the latter category!

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Realistic Metal

Finding metal tutorials on the internet has never been a problem. Almost all of them, however, lack the worn and dented look present in real life metals. This tutorial provides a very simple way to create more realistic metals using only a few default plug-ins and the dodge/burn tools.

Visits: 1522

Simple Camouflage

From murky forests to desolate wilderness, camouflage is invaluable for breaking up the human silhouette. It is, however, also deceptively simple to make in Photoshop using only a couple of filters and a basic sense of style...

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Simple Tiling Patterns

Arguments may persist over whether scanlines are trendwhore or not, but you can't argue that they are effective and look classy. The aim of this tutorial is to detail my method for creating quick scanlines, funky dots, and othersimple overlays.

Visits: 2604

Rock Textures

In the world of 2D/3D design, rock texture creation is often seen as a particularly onerous task.With some Photoshop wizardry at our disposal, though, we can reproduce extremely detailed rock textures with nothing more than a few standard filters.

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Brushed Metal

Brushed metal effects are, without a shadow of a doubt, extremely popular amongst all Photoshop users. The reasons behind this are simple - no other single effect is as useful, or as simple to create.

Visits: 2017

Seamless Textures

Once used almost entirely for desktop backgrounds, seamlessly tiling textures are now valuable for webpages, 3D object mapping, and many other professional applications. This is my technique for making them from vitually any image.

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Rust Tutorial Part Two: The Rust.

Learn how to create rust for your newly created metal with this unique tutorial.

Visits: 502

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