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Lighting effects can drastically change a design and give it an element that catches attention. Photoshop makes it possible to create impressive lighting effects in a variety of different ways, and in this post we’ll feature 30 tutorials that show how it can be done. If you’re looking to improve your Photoshop skills in this area you’re sure to find something of use here.

Create an Electrifying Light Guitar

Create a Futuristic Photo Illustration with Photoshop

Give Your Art that Cosmic Look

Create a Gorgeous Light Effect Using Photoshop

How to Make a Vibrant Cosmic Light Effect in Photoshop

Create a Grungy Scene with Colorful Lights in Photoshop

Create a Scene with Retrofuturistic-Inspired Light Effects

Create an Electrifyingly Icy Composition in Photoshop

Master Stylish Lighting Effects

Design a Beautiful Cosmic Space Scene in Photoshop

The Cosmos: Create a Spiral Galaxy

The Cosmos: Create a Supernova and a Ringed Planet in Photoshop

The Cosmos: Create a Red Giant Star in Photoshop

Creating an Abstract Samurai Composition with Photoshop

Making a Color Wizard in Photoshop

Create a Speeding Car Scene with Light Effects in Photoshop

The Revolution Artwork by Aoiro Studio

Bicker with Light Effects in Photoshop

Make a Meteoric Composition with Stellar Light Effects

Use Custom Brushes in Photoshop to Create Energy and Light Effects

Combine Renders and Light Effects for Awesome Results

Make a Retro-Space Typography Poster with Colorful Lights

Add Brilliant Light Effects to Your Work with Photoshop

Create an Astonishing Nightclub Themed 3D Typography

Create a Magical Four Piece Stardust Composition

Create a Stunning Product Shot Using Professional Lighting Effects

Show Me the Light

Making a Light Dancer with Photoshop

Create a Cosmic XBOX with Custom Brushes

Achieve Brilliant Lighting Effects in Photoshop

15 Tutorials For Designing Advertisements in Photoshop

cosmos — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:59:11 +0000

The design of an advertisement can have a huge impact on the level of success of the ad campaign. Being able to design attractive and effective advertisements will lead to better results for you and your clients.

In this post we’ll showcase 15 tutorials that will lead you through the process of designing an ad in Photoshop. Most of the tutorials are for designing poster/flyer type ads.

Create a Vibrant and Eye-Catching Drink Composition Using Photoshop

Design a Space Inspired iPhone Advert

How to Make a Worn Vintage Beach Ad in Photoshop

Design an Out of This World Laptop Advertisement

Create a Vibrant Colorful Alcohol Product Ad in Photoshop

Design a Tropical iPhone Advertisement

Design a Brilliant Product Advertisement

Design a Print-Ready Promotional Ad Using Photoshop and Illustrator

How to Create a Sparkle Trend Advertisement

Create a Beautiful Frosted Fashion Advertisement

Design a Sleek Diamond Poster Advert

Design and Photomanipulate a Gorgeous Outdoor Cadillac Car Advertisement

Make a Soft Grunge Product Ad Design in Photoshop

Composite an iMac Render into an Incredible Apple Advertisement

Create a Shampoo Advertisement in Photoshop

Free Photoshop Styles

cosmos — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:37:13 +0000

Photoshop users can save time during the design process by making use of layer styles. Whether you are saving your own custom style to be used multiple times throughout your design (such as with a button), or using pre-made styles created by other designers, taking advantage of this feature in Photoshop can greatly speed up your workflow.

In this post we’ll link out to a number of useful Photoshop layer styles that can be downloaded for free. Many of them have been created especially for text, others for buttons, and some are more general. Download the styles and apply them to your layers for instant results.

Translucent Light Burst Style

Glowing Light Text Style

Grunge Layer Styles

Glass Text Styles

Glass Layer Style

Sticker Style

Sticker Layer Styles

Text Style Pack

Psdtuts Style Pack

Christmas Text Styles

Glossy Buttons Styles

Glass Orb Styles

Simply Clean

Layer Styles for Button Design

Amazing Layer Styles

Color Candy

Chameleon Style No. 1

Chameleon Style No. 2

Full Style

Vol. 1 Styles

Vol. 2 Styles

Soft Styles

Stickers

Simple Styles

Styles Serious

Styles 01

Styles 02

Styles 03

Graphicstore

Crystal Styles

Glitter Styles

Polaroid Layer Styles

Glossy Text Styles

Letterpress Style

Letterpress Styles

Textured Metallic Style

Metal Text Style

Metal Text Styles

Gel Style

Colorful Jelly Text Styles

Dark Layer Style

Chrome Layer Style

Chrome Text Style

3D Text Styles

25+ Fresh Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

cosmos — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:08:32 +0000

impress you with a collection of very high quality text effect Photoshop tutorials, we called them kick-ass tutorials.

in the following round-up we have set up 28 rare and professional Photoshop tutorials on creating extremely appealing text effects. So don’t wait anymore, master these text effects and show how kick-ass your works are to your family, colleague, client, anyone!

Create an Ice Cream Type Treatment

Here you will create a tasty text effect, yummy!

Create a 3D Arcade Text Effect Using Photoshop

In the following tutorial you will be guided to create a 3D arcade text effect using Photoshop and a little bit of Illustrator.

Design an Elegant Glassy 3D Typography in Photoshop

With a cold and elegant look, this text effect is great for a techno style project!

Text on Fire Effect in Photoshop

Make another version of the fire text with clearer look.

Make a Grungy Metal Text Effect

Great for graphics with futuristic look, this text effect may be the key in creating a perfect futuristic feeling for your graphic.

Create an Inception Poster Repousse

Such an effect may look hard at the first place to make, but it’s easy and the impact done on the viewer is greater than you would expect!

Create a Take Break 3D Text Composition

Control an amazing energy splash with this tutorial which teaches you tricks to create such a groundbreaking text effect.

Woodcut Typographic Illustration in Photoshop

Create a very unusual yet artistic text effect with this quality tutorial!

Make a Cracked 3D Stone Text Effect in Photoshop

Design this realistic text effect that will surely amazes everybody, as it looks like it’s blending with the entire world, making it more interesting and original.

Create a Revolution Artwork Text Effect

Lighten your works using this awesome text effect that draws all the attention upon it and glows like a great star in a dark sky!

Creating of a Pipe Typography in Photoshop

Create an unusual and interesting text effect using simple pipes and drains. I’m impressed by its funny yet realistic look and feeling.

Create a Harry Potter Style Text Effect

Make a Harry Potter text effect in just few steps! Here you will find out tips and tricks on making it.

Making of a Chrome Emblem

Shiny and interesting, this text effect allows you to create some beautiful car logotypes for your creation.

Design a Super Glossy 3D Typography Effect

A text effect that has an artistic look with realistic detail. Impressed by its shiny and glossy effect.

Make a Modern 3D Text Effect

Make an interesting and modern look 3D text that is worth using in different works.

Create a Retro Sci-Fi Movie Poster in Photoshop

A text effect with sci-fi feel that can create a perfect mood for sci-fi related poster.

Create a Burning Text Effect

Make a powerful and intensive burning text that will surely grab all the attention.

Create a Dawn of War Style Effect

With some intuition and knowledge, you’ll be able to create a beautiful and impressive text with a look as it was the witness of a true war.

Create Typographhy Poster Enigma

Design a text effect with mysterious air and great surroundings, probably an impressive text effect that can attract people’s attention.

Design a Skin Textured Typography Scene

It may look a little bit scary at the first glance, but this is a worthy text effect thanks to its unusual and charming look.

Making of a Cool Text Effect Puppet Warp Tool

Manipulate the ropes as you want to create amazing and realistic text effect that definitely looks awesome and attractive.

Create a Yummy Cookies Text Effect in Photoshop

Create a delicious text effect with just some simple steps and tricks!

Create an Eye Catching 3D Tech Style

Design your text in a new and techno way, making it more impressive and giving it a sophisticated look.

Create an Extremely Glossy Text Effect

Add a little glamour to your text, making it appropriate even for a glossy magazine.

Creating a Tron Legacy Text Effect

Make a ‘Tron’-like text effect that will surprise everybody and even confusing some of them.

Create an Awesome 3D Text Effect using Photoshop

Learn the basic ways of text manipulation together with this simple tutorial in which you will create an amazing 3D text.

Create a Festive Ornamental Text Effect

Create an impressive 3D effect for your text together with this amazing tutorial!

Logo Design Process and Walk Through of Design

Make a beautiful nature-inspired text effect that will look awesome and unusual.

20 Fresh Icon Design Tutorials in Photoshop

cosmos — Sun, 15 May 2011 00:13:20 +0000

Icons are an important element of an effective and attractive web design. An appropriate use of icons will help you to achieve a professional and solid website design look in your client eyes. Most of the icons are small and very detailed and often it can be challenging to create the quality ones. Designing icons by listed tutorials you will learn a lot of useful and trendy techniques and you will gain a valuable experience and skills in this field.

In this post you will find 20 newest Photoshop tutorials on creating beautiful and modern icons

New iMac Mini Icon Design Tutorial

In this detailed tutorial you will find out how to create a realistic looking new iMac mini, you’ll be able to use the iMac as an illustration or an icon.

Photoshop Tutorial: Create A HD Television Icon

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial you will learn to create a HD Television icon.

Create a Download Folder Icon in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will find how to create a download folder icon using different shapes and reflections in Photoshop.

How To Design a Realistic Takeout Coffee Icon

This tutorial will show you how to design a realistic takeout coffee cup icon in Adobe Photoshop.

How to Create a Beautiful Printer Icon in Photoshop

Learn how to create this beautiful printer icon with reflections and shadows all within Photoshop.

Speedometer Design From Scratch Tutorial

In this detailed tutorial you’ll discover how to create a speedometer from scratch, you’ll learn such things as text on a path, using the pen tool, working with shape layers and much more.

3D Glassy RSS Icon Tutorial

This tutorial will help you to create a huge, glassy 3D RSS icon in Photoshop.

Create a Photo Realistic iPhone in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to create a photo realistic image of Apple iPhone4.

How to Create a Battery Icon in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn to draw a battery icon with 3D look in Photoshop.

Create a Microchip Icon Using Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial you will see how to create an isometric microchip icon using basic drawing tools and transformations.

Blog Writing Professional Icon Tutorial

Very detailed and beautiful icon tutorial in Photoshop. Lots of useful and modern techniques used.

Create a Camera Lens Icon in Photoshop

This tutorial will demonstrate you how to create a camera lens icon using Photoshop.

Create a Realistic iMac Icon in Photoshop

In this tutorial you’ll discover how to create a realistic iMac icon in Photoshop that includes a 27-inch screen, a keyboard, and a mouse.

Radar Icon in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to create a Mac style radar icon in Photoshop.

Draw a Roll of Camera Film in Photoshop

Icon design can be a lot of fun. In this tutorial you will learn how to create a roll of camera film using Photoshop.

Create an Open Book Icon In Photoshop

This very detailed tutorial demonstrates you how to create an open book icon in Photoshop.

How to Draw a Classic Electric Guitar in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will see how to draw an electric guitar in Photoshop (with a bit of help from Illustrator). You will learn how to draw perfect highlights and shadows manually using the Brush Tool and the Stroke command.

Industrial Folder Style Icon

In this tutorial you will be guided through the process of creating an industrial style folder icon.

Create a Cute Twitter Bird Icon in Photoshop

This tutorial will demonstrate you how to create a cute Twitter bird icon in Photoshop.

Learn To Create A Safe Illustration

In this tutorial you’ll see all the process of creating a Safe Illustration. Number of tools used in this tutorial so there’s plenty to be learned.

60+Useful Photoshop Brush Sets

cosmos — Fri, 13 May 2011 00:55:51 +0000

Having a quality set of Photoshop brush pack in place is like the icing on the cake for the designer when he is up to creating a new design. Graphic designers use different types of brush sets to give their design an edge that sets it apart from others’ work.

High quality Adobe Photoshop brush set without a doubt is an inevitable tool for the designers and artists. Therefore, we have assembled this post where we are showcasing huge remarkable and striking light effects Photoshop brush packs. We hope that this collection will come in handy in particular when you are running out of the time.

Unreal Brushes v.4 (9 Brushes)

LIGHT STORM 3 (14 brushes)

Light Lines (13 Brushes)

Crystalline

Unreal Brushes v.2 (8 brushes)

Life Brushes

Unreal Brushes v.1

Winter Breeze (12 Brushes)

Serenity (15 Brushes)

Phobia Brushes

Energy (14 Brushes)

Light Streak (14 Brushes)

Lightning Bolt Brushes (40 Brushes)

Fantasy Lighting Brush Kit (19 Brushes)

Sparkling Light Effects (24 brushes)

Abstract brush pack vol. 8 (4 brushes)

Revnart Smoke (30 brushes)

PETALS ADRIFT (13 brushes)

Motion

Ultimate Brush Pack No.3

Life Brushes

Sui Generis 3

CS4 V2 Brush

Abstract 12

Lighting Set 4

Fractal Brush

Nova Equinox Brushes

Light Brush Set

LIGHT III

Genisis Brushes

MistyLight Brushes (5 Brushes)

ExtremelyABSTRACT (20 Brushes)

Galactic Brushes (10 brushes)

Abstract Brushes Vol 8

Silicon Brushes (7 brushes)

Christmas Brushes

Quantum Brushes

High-Res Glowing Light Stream (6 Brushes)

Sui Generis Brushes Volume 1 (10 brushes)

Beser Brushes (8 brushes)

High Res Photoshop Lens Flare (20 Brushes)

Evasion Brush Set (18 brushes)

Space Light Brushes for Photos (13 Brushes)

Light Rays (10 Brushes)

Abstract Light Brushes (25 brushes)

Descent Brushes

Light Brushes (9 Brushes)

Light Strangs (6 Brushes)

Mystical Light Effects (20 Brushes)

Lighting Effects Brushes

Abstract Light Swirl Brushes (8 Brushes)

Lighting Brushes (10 Brushes)

Light Swirls Brushes (22 Brushes)

Light Streaks Brushes (30 Brushes)

Glow Brushes (11 brushes)

Abstract (10 Brushes)

Party Brush

Raging Dawn Brushes (8 brushes)

Ecol Brushes (5 brushes)

High Res Light Effect Brushes (46 brushes)

Sharp Abstract (1 brush)

Abstraction (8 brushes)

Abstract Brushes (6 brushes)

Vander90 (14 brushes)

Abstract Curves Brushes (28 brushes)

Abstract brush pack vol. 7 (4 brushes)

30+ Tutorials About Design Your Own Business Cards

cosmos — Thu, 12 May 2011 04:28:21 +0000

Business cards are an important marketing tool for many designers, and a lot of web designers also design business cards for their clients. If you’re interested in learning more about business card design take a look at the tutorials presented here. Some of the tutorials cover the process of designing the card in Photoshop and others use Illustrator.

How to Create a Nebula Background Business Card

How to Create a Sweet Bokeh Business Card in Photoshop

Design a Clean Striped Business Card in Illustrator

Making a Print-Ready Business Card Using Only Photoshop

Design a Print Ready Business Card

How to Create Print Ready Standard Size Business Cards

How to Create Old Grunge Style Print Ready Business Card

Stylish Print-Ready Business Card Design

Designing a Professional Business Card in Photoshop

Create a Molten Chocolate Business Card in Photoshop

Make a Swiss Design Inspired Business Card in 30 Minutes

How to Design a Business Card

How to Create a Stylish Business Card Template in Adobe Photoshop

How to Make a Space-Themed Business Card in Photoshop

Business Card Design Walkthrough

Create a Slick Business Card with Stunning Typography

Creating a Colorful Vibrant Business Card

Create a Fun Print-Ready Doodled Business Card Design

How to Make a Great Print-Ready Business Card in Photoshop

Creating a Cartoony Print-Ready Business Card in Photoshop

How to Create a Sophisticated Business Card Design

Create a Print-Ready Business Card Design in Illustrator

How to Create a Colorful Business Card Template in Illustrator CS4

Create a Business Card in Illustrator and Print it with UPrinting

How to Design an Abstract Business Card in Photoshop

Design a Slick Print Ready Business Card Design Using Photoshop

Create a Grunge Print-Ready Business Card

Design a Cool and Original Jeans Style Business Card in Photoshop

Design a Print-Ready Business Card for Designers

Business Card Design Project Walkthrough

Making a Grungy Business Card

Cardboard and Torn Paper Business Card

Design a Dirty Business Card

Free Texture Packs For Designers

cosmos — Wed, 11 May 2011 04:27:53 +0000

Textures are very popular with our site. If you are just getting started with graphic design you may not be familiar with how textures are used. In Photoshop using a texture means you are placing an image on top of your image or design and creating a texture. The texture is created by using blend modes or the opacity feature to adjust the levels. You can use the feature as subtle or as prevalent as you see fit. Hope you enjoy our great collection of free texture packs.

20 simple subtle grunge textures

25 subtle and light grunge textures

Aqueous Sun Presents Rust v.02 – 33 Free Textures

5 colored grungy bokeh textures

Grungy Lamp Post: Texture Pack

Rocky Pavement: Texture Pack

Pavement: Texture Pack

Aqueous Sun Texture Pack | Volume 1 – 50 Free Images

rust and stardust textures

High resolution grunge texture pack

30 Stone Wall and Rock Textures

Denim textures pack

Cracked wall textures pack

Free Hi-Res Plain Fabric Textures

Creased Fabric Set: 14 Free Hi-Res Textures

Rusty Metal Texture Pack

11 Crack & Rust Decals

High resolution texture pack

Texture grab bag

Desolate Texture Pack

Six free dirty paper textures

9 High Resolution Metal Surface Textures

5 High Resolution Grungy Paper Textures

Paper Bag Texture Pack

Marble Textures – Peperino

14 High-Res Paper & Canvas Textures

12 High Resolution Denim Textures

WG Old Dirty Paper Textures

HQ Wood Texture Pack

Nine vignetted vintage paper textures

31 High-Res Grunge Remodeling Textures

Colorful grunge textures vol-2

12 old grungy tile textures

10 free high-res watercolor textures

25 Apocalyptic High Resolution Rust Textures

Eight vintage book textures

42 free vintage paper textures

Moldy Paper Textures: 5 Free High Resolution Texture

17 scratched and scraped textures

14 free high-res slate textures

80+ Color Altering Photoshop Actions

cosmos — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:16:03 +0000

Color plays a major role in photography. It helps set the mood and tone of an image, but it is determined by the type of light present during a shoot. Photographers don’t always have control over this. This is one of many areas where Photoshop can be a valuable tool for photographers. It offers plenty of settings to alter the color of an image, but there are also actions that you can apply with the click of a button. They can be a huge time saver if you find the right one. Here we’ve rounded up over eighty Photoshop actions that you can use to alter the color of your photos.

Sun Kissed (7 Actions)

Ghost Stories (9 actions)

LT’s Portrait Effect (4 actions)

Photoshop Actions Pack (8 actions)

photoshop actions – 66 (8 actions)

photoshop actions – 148 (4 actions)

Photoshop Actions 7 (20 actions)

Photoshop Actions – Set 13 (8 actions)

Toasted Photoshop Actions (6 actions)

photoshop actions – 4 (5 actions)

fairytale actions (3 actions)

20 High Quality Photoshop Web Design Tutorials

cosmos — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:02:29 +0000

Photoshop is the tool of choice for web designers. With that in mind, we’ve rounded up 20 of the latest Photoshop tutorials for designing websites. The end results produced by these tutorials are great looking designs, but keep in mind that it’s not meant for you to reproduce an exact copy and use it as your own. Instead, follow the tutorials and learn new techniques to incorporate into your own designs.

How to Make a Vibrant Portfolio Web Design in Photoshop

Create a Professional Web 2.0 Layout

Create a Grungy, Translucent Web Portfolio Design

How to Create a Unique Colorful Site Layout

Web Design Process: Zee Site

Create a Clean Modern Website Design in Photoshop

How to Make a Highly-Textured Site Layout in Photoshop

How to Make a Creative Blog Layout

Create a Watercolor-Themed Website Design with Photoshop

Create a Promotional iPhone App Site in Photoshop

Create a Clean and Classy Web Design in Photoshop

Create a Gnarly Snowboarding Themed Web Design

Awesome Portfolio Design

RocknRolla Blog Design

How to Create a Unique WordPress Theme

Web Design Layout 11

Web Design Layout 14

How to Create a Clean Web 2.0 Style Web Design in Photoshop

Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch

How To Create a Clean and Colorful Web Layout

400+ Free Acrylic And Paint Photoshop Brushes

cosmos — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:33:26 +0000

In this roundup we collected some awesome free acrylic and paint photoshop brushes. Enjoy!

100 brush strokes

Free Hi-Resolution Paint Stroke Photoshop Brushes

Free Hi-Res Acrylic Texture Brushes Set 1 (15)

Sponge Prints and swirls Set (16)

Paint Killer (6)

20 high quality Photoshop brushes

Paint brush work (5)

Paint Stroke Brushes (20)

High Quality Rough and Grungy Photoshop Brushes (13)

Wet Paint Acrylic Photoshop Brushes (16)

40 Free High-Res Acrylic Paint Photoshop Brushes

Hi-Res “Acrylic” Photoshop Brushes (25)

Free Hi-Res Photoshop Brushes: Acrylic Textures (9)

Acrylic Brush Strokes: 57 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

28 HIGH RESOLUTION ACRYLIC BRUSHES

18 HIGH RESOLUTION ACRYLIC SPONGE BRUSHES

Acrylic brushes set (14)

Free High Resolution Photoshop Brushes – Acrylic Paint Brush Strokes (12)

Splatter Brushes (5)

15 Acrylic Paint PS Brushes

Acrylic Brushes (20)

50 Sets For Free Photoshop Actions

cosmos — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:22:35 +0000

Photoshop Actions can be an incredible time saving tool for designers and photographers. Whether you are creating your own custom actions or using those that have been created by others, actions help by saving time through elimination of repetitive tasks.

today we’d like to follow that up with 50 new and fresh sets of free actions that have been released since our original post last May. If you see something you like, click on the image or the text and you will be led to the source where it can be downloaded.

Action.Shines

Heavy in Your Arms

Hard Lomo Action

Soft Lomo Action

Keep it Cool Action

Loving Black Action

Sunshine Dream

A Year Without Rain

Remembering Sunday Action

Love Me Action

Looking the Pride Action

Action Shine

Vintage Action

Vanilla Tones II Action

Action Ohlala

Shimmer Action

Photoshop Action 3

Action Before Due

Action 46

Peace Action

I am Feeling Retro Action

Sun Rose Action

Vintage Style Action

Antique Action

Alibi

Summer Heat Action

Action Lollipop

Photoshop Action 25

Fairytale Actions

Photoshop Actions 16

Never Grow Up Action

Action “Orange”

Soft Lavender Action

Purple Sunrise Action

Photoshop Action 14

Tell Me… Action

Not Like the Movies Action

Nature Action

Say My Name Action

Vanilla Sky Actions

Remember Me Action

Natural Warmth Action

Almost Exclusive Action

Look Me in the Eyes Action

Action “Robot”

Action “Latin Girl”

Pink

Stay Action

Loud Scheme Photoshop Action

Action “Smile”

Photoshop Tutorials:35 Amazing Photo Effect

cosmos — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:57:04 +0000

Create a Nature Inspired Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Create a Vampire Portrait in Photoshop

Design an Indie Rock cd cover in Photoshop

Create a Greek Sculpture Using Stock Photography and Photoshop

How to Simulate X-Ray Photography in Photoshop

Combine Stock Photography to Create a Sleepy Japanese Village in Photoshop

Give a Yellow Lamborghini a Paint Job in Photoshop

Create an Eerie Underwater Composition in Photoshop

Design a spectral photo-manipulation

The creation of “A Life Of Aquatic Sounds”

Playing with custom brushes to create magical scenes

Create a Moonlit Night Scene in Photoshop

Create a Dark and Rainy Crime Scene in Photoshop

Playing with Displace Filter in Photoshop

Create a Magical Flaming Heart Illustration in Photoshop

Remove a Person From a Photo With Photoshop CS5’s Content Aware Feature

Create a Magical Four Piece Stardust Composition

How to Smooth Skin Without Losing Texture in Photoshop

Money Style Illustration in Photoshop

Create a Refreshing Beer Themed Poster Design in Photoshop

How to Mix Hand Drawing Sketch With Photo

Apply a Vintage Effect to Several Images Using Actions

Create Beautiful Mystery Grunge Effect in Photoshop

Fashion Watercolor Artwork

How to create a melancholy model photo manipulation

Creating a Nature Inspired Digital Piece in Photoshop

How To Give Your Photos a Dark Processed Lomo Effect

Create a Vibrant Conceptual Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Turning Photos into Oil Paintings

Unusual Photo Stylizing Effect by Fragments

Create an Armored Fantasy Dragon from a Jewelry Box Image

How to create a mysterious poster design with 3d text

How to change simple face into an old one

Turn a Flawless Blonde Beauty Into a Sword-Wielding Fantasy Action Hero

Create a Street Fighter Inspired Composition in Photoshop

Free Photoshop Brushes Collection

cosmos — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:31:37 +0000

Watercolor Brushes Vol 1 (20)

Infinity Brush Set (17)

Dried Blood Splatters Photoshop Brushes (117)

50 Deadly Tron Grids

20 high quality Photoshop brushes

Fortune Brushes (25)

21 smoke brush set

25 Ink Brushes

15 Wicked Wings

Sponge Brushes: 10 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

10 High Resolution Grunge Brushes for Photoshop

Spray Paint: 50 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

Human Skin Brushes

Skullribbles (54)

Paint Lines brushes (24)

Fluffy Clouds: 25 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

More Stunning Smoke: 30 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

Ink Drips: 35 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

Blood Marks brushes (20)

42 More Subtle Grunge Textured Photoshop Brushes

Free Hi-Resolution Paint Stroke Photoshop Brushes (14)

Danger Close Brushes (15)

Particle Smoke Photoshop Brushes (148)

40 HQ Lightning Bolt brushes

SMOKEY Fire Brushes (50)

Cosmic Lights (30)

23 Brushes for Photoshop

The Ultimate Grass Brush Set (50)

Glossy Blood Splatter (50)

Skin Texture Photoshop Brushes (6)

More Lens Flares: 25 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

Streaks of Light: 40 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

Cup Stains Photoshop Brushes (105)

Velvetcat’s Brush Set (45)

Vintage hands (14)

Architectual ornaments (17)

3D Halftone (16)

Photoshop Audio Lines Brushes (20)

Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes (18)

Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes Set II (20)

Plain Fabric Textures: Free Hi-Res Photoshop Brush Set 1 (12)

Free Hi-Res Splatter Photoshop Brush Set (17)

Watercolor Brush Pack #1 (10)

Wet Paint Acrylic Photoshop Brushes (16)

Free Hi-Res Photoshop Brushes: Assorted Texture Set (15)

Skin and Cosmetic Brushes 3 in 1 (30)

Subtle Grunge Textures and Effects (33)

Scratches: 25 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

Coffee Stains: 25 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

Mystical Light Effects: 20 Stunning High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

Tape: 57 Fantastic Photoshop Brushes

Acrylic Brush Strokes: 57 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

Burned Paper Edges: 46 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

Torn Paper Edges: 38 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

30 Photoshop Brushes: ‘Drippy Sprays’

15 High-Res Dirty Grid Photoshop Brushes

20 Free Tape Photoshop Brushes

22 High-Res Leaf & Twig Photoshop Brushes

40 Free High-Res Acrylic Paint Photoshop Brushes

Retro Abstract Circles: Photoshop Brush Pack (15)

Paint Blobs: Photoshop Brush Pack (9)

Free High Res Mixed Brushes Pack for Photoshop (14)

5 High Resolution Abstract Brushes

16 Hi-Res Splatter Brushes

Music Brushes (24)

17 Cloud Vector Brushes

15 Weathered Wood Photoshop Brushes

Unique Borders (39)

30+ Amazing Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

cosmos — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:52:55 +0000

Creating amazing text effects in Photoshop can help to take your work to the next level. Fortunately, there are a lot of great tutorials out there that show a wide variety of techniques for working with text in Photoshop. In this post we’ll feature 35 Photoshop text effect tutorials.

Create a Dark Grunge 3D Text Scene in Photoshop

How to Create Remarkable 3D Text in Photoshop

Elegant 3D Text Effect in Photoshop

Create Glossy 3D Text Using Xara 3D and Photoshop

Moon Shine Text Effect

Create Metallic Text on a Concrete Background

Create Awesome Splashing Water Text Effect in Photoshop

Clash of the Titans Text Effect in Photoshop

Recreate the Epic 80′s Metal Text Effect in Photoshop

Create Smokey Typography in 12 Steps

Create Gold Ornamental Text in Photoshop

Create an Extruded Glossy 3D Text Effect in Photoshop

How to Create an Ice Text Effect with Photoshop

Create Detailed Letters of Gold and Diamond

Create Colorful 3D Text Effect in Photoshop

How to Create Eroded Metal Text with Photoshop

Shiny Calligraphy Text Effect in Photoshop

Create an Atmospheric Underwater Text Effect

How to Create Inset Typography in Photoshop

How to Create Stunning and Bold 3D Text

Create a New Retro Text Effect in Photoshop

Smashing Your Creative Block: Photoshop Tutorial

Create a Unique Burning Text Effect

Create a Retro Metal Text Poster in Photoshop

Create a Cool Wet Ink Typography Effect in Photoshop

Grungy Rusted Carbon Fiber Text Effect

3D Text in Clouds Tutorial

How to Create High-Quality Metal 3D Text in Photoshop

How to Create an Impressive Looking Text Effect

Create a Cool Typography Effect in Photoshop

Creating Retro Folded Typography Using Photoshop

Great Gooey Photoshop Text Tutorial

Bubble Text

How to Create a Gorgeous Glassy Text Effect

Creating the Sky Logo

20+ Photoshop Tutorials : Spice Up Your Photography!

cosmos — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:58:16 +0000

Adobe Photoshop is the imaging software that has indisputably taken the world by storm. Whether you’re a photographer, a graphic designer, or just someone who enjoys tuning up their photos, you’ll be well aware of the revolution in digital imaging mastered by Photoshop. There are several tricks and techniques you can adopt and apply via Photoshop, to make your pictures stand up to the mark of professional imaging. From changing colour schemes, textures, lighting and the very form and figure of your subject, Photoshop sets out a field wide open for you to explore and experiment with.

Below is a compilation of interesting Photoshop tutorials that really make the difference between sub-standard pictures and spectacular images. Enjoy!

1. Add Your Face to a Movie Poster

Wanna see your face on a movie poster next to a superstar? Well, this a unique and surprisingly easy tutorial for how you can paste your face strategically on a movie poster, or any other print multimedia for that matter. This tutorial guides each element from placement to lighting and is one shouldn’t miss!

2. Separating Complex Images from the Background

This is a simple step by step process by which the foreground can be relieved from the background, allowing your object/subject to be in focus regardless of how complex it may be.

3. Evening Eye Make-up Effect in Photoshop

Learn how to create evening eye make-up from scratch. All you need is a girl’s photography, plain and simple, and this tutorial will guide you in creating digital eye make-up to realistic perfection. This tutorial may prove to be essentially useful to photographers interested in the field of Fashion and Commercial Photography.

4. Changing Hair Colour

Give your hair a digital do over by changing your hair colour on photoshop. Experiment your new looks as a blond, brunette, redhead or black locks!

5. Realistic View Tears on Face

Whether you want to work up a print design or simply play around with your photograph, here’s how to cry – or at least effectively look like it. This tutorial is a simple fool-proof guide to creating realistic fake tears on your face.

6. Retro Comic Book Effect

Most of us loved comic books growing up, whether it was the Archies or Batman, you know it made your childhood worthwhile. This cool tutorial teaches you just that! Learn how to have fun with your pictures by adding retro comic book effects to your face.

7. Lighting Effects

Lighting effects can make all the difference to your images. Here’s how to jazz up your photos significantly.

8. Grunge Photo Edges

This easy and quick tutorial teaches you how to make cool edge effects with a grunge theme to add that extra spazz to your images.

9. Professional Hair Processing

If you want to achieve a professional tune up in your model photography by adding photogenic shine and shade to perfect hair processing, here’s how the professionals do it.

10. Adding Body Art

Here’s a simple way to add and experiment with applying body art on your models. Realistic and effective.

11. Expressive Lighting Effects

Expressive lighting effects are a great way to add a magical illustrated look to any kind of image. This tutorial will guide you exactly how to do so.

12. Add Cool Fireworks to Your Photos

If you’re interested in pyrotechnics then this is the tutorial for you. Add stunning, lifelike fireworks to your images.

13. Create Fantasy Art

An easy and innovational way to make your picture look like something out of a universe of fantasy and mystics.

14. Dusk Lighting Effects

This can transform your scenic landscape into magical dusky landscapes. Utilization of vectors and lighting effects go a long way in this innovative tutorial.

15. Cool Explosion Effect

Transform your images by adding stunning explosion effects to static photographs and designs.

16. Good and Evil Photo Effect

Create your image and then split it into two different personalities.

17. Sin City Photo Effect

This great tutorial will guide you in how to electrify your image and bringing some energy to your subject.

18. Compositing with Adjustment Layers

Use several different layers and scenes to create a unique image made exclusively from different subjects, backgrounds and effects.

19. Applying Texture to Uneven Surfaces

Simple applying texture is simple, but this tutorial realistically applies texture to an uneven surface, which is more hands-on. This tutorial should teach you how.

20. Basic Retouch and Colorization

This tutorial will show you how to do a basic retouch, change the colorcast of an image and colorize some of its elements.

21. Professional Photo Retouching Bikini Model

This tutorial will show you how to do a basic retouch, change the colorcast of an image and colorize some of its elements.

22. Quick and Effective Facial Photo Retouching

In this tutorial, designer will lay down the basics of retouching and take you through the entire process, layer by layer.

23. Reducing Wrinkles With The Healing Brush

In this tutorial, we’ll look at the Healing Brush, by far the best photo retouching tool in all of Photoshop, and how we can use it to easily reduce distracting skin wrinkles in an image.

24. Perspective Correction In Photoshop

This tutorial will help you to correct the keystoning.

25. Enhancing The Sky In A Photo

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to look at how to enhance the sky in a photo, bringing out details in the clouds, improving the contrast and increasing color saturation, and we can do all these things at once using a very simple technique.

26. How To Whiten And Brighten Teeth

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn how to make teeth whiter and brighter using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, a brush and a layer mask.

Photoshop Brushes:30 Sets of Free Tech Interface

cosmos — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:17:15 +0000

Tech interface brushes can save you a lot of time from creating every single futuristic-looking detail on your own. Whether you’re making the blueprint of a hi-tech alien citadel or simply want to add a cool, techy feel to your design, these tech brushes often have the basics of what you need, from various machine-like shapes and lines to piles of Matrix-inspired code.

If you manage to create your own techie design out of these brushes, we’d love for you to share them with us in the comments!