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How to Create a Sparkling Fantasy Photo Manipulation

2009-05-10T19:21:00.000-07:00

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Final Preview :-

Step 1

The first step is to create a background for our image. This time we'll use a simple combination of different textures using the blending modes. Just open the first texture and the second one over the first. Now change the mode of this last one to Multiply and the Opacity to about 40%, then Merge them.

Step 2

Now duplicate your layer, Desaturate the upper one and use the Eraser Tool (E) to delete parts from the upper left zone. Use the Motion Blur in this layer like in the sample image below, merge the layers, and finally add some magenta and blue using Image > Adjustments > Color Balance.

Step 3

Now grab this image of a woman. Cut her out from the original picture and paste in the center of the new image. We are going to modify her color and light using the blending modes again.

From the beginning we have in mind that we want the light falling from the upper-left corner of the image, so we have to show this in the girl and her lights and shadows. First, let’s go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation and add some more saturation to the image.

Now duplicate our layer with the girl, and with the upper layer selected go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast and add more brightness. Change the mode of this layer to Screen and the Opacity to 58%. Finally, you can delete (using a blurred brush and a Layer Mask or the Eraser Tool) the darker parts (under her arms and hair).

Duplicate our first layer with the girl again and move it over the other. Go to Image > Adjustments > Levels and make it darker. Pay attention to the shadows in her dress, don’t be worried by her face or others zones at this point.

When you have some good details in the shadows of the dress change the Layer Mode to Linear Burn and use the Layer Mask or the Eraser Tool again to delete the zones that you don’t need to be dark, like her face, the light zones in her arms, etc. Now merge the Layers of the girl.

Finally, use the Burn Tool (O) to make the zones darker than you need. I retouched her hair and some details in her face.

Step 4

The face in our image doesn’t look too big, but it still seems a little pixelated, we can fix this using the Smudge Tool (R). Select it with a small brush (about 16 px) and the strength set to about 30%, and use it on her skin with small strokes in the direction of her features. You can use the Blur Tool (R) to help with this process, but use it carefully because we don’t want the face out of focus.

Step 5

Now let’s duplicate our girl layer and add some Cyan, Green and Blue to the lower one. Go to Image > Adjustments > Color Balance and change the settings to those shown below.

Change the Layer Mode in the one on the top to Hard Light, the Opacity to 40% and use the Layer Mask or the Eraser Tool to delete most of the image, just leave some of its warm tones on the left side, where the light is falling over our model. Merge the layers with the girl and finally go to Image > Brightness/Contrast and add a little more of brightness.

Step 6

We’re going to create the shadow of the girl in the easiest way. Just create a new layer over the girl and use the Brush Tool (B) with black selected to draw some uneven horizontal lines under her feet and her back.

Go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur and use a horizontal blur with about 760 px. If you need some more shadows over the girl just supplicate the layer, erase the shadows that you don’t need, and merge the layers.

Now let’s add a transparent shadow falling over the background. Just duplicate the "girl" layer, fill it with black (for example, go to Levels and make it dark) and move it to the position shown below. Then make it a little smaller using Free Transform (Command + T) and add a Gaussian Blur (Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur) of about 21 px.

Change the Layer Mode of the shadow to Soft Light, the Opacity to 75%, and finally erase the lower part of the shadow.

Step 7

Now create a new layer, select the Brush Tool (B) again with black selected and a blurred blush, then draw some dark zones, as shown below.

Go to Filter > Motion Blur and add the settings shown below. You can use the filter twice or more if you prefer.

Change the Opacity to about 70%, erase some parts if you consider it necessary and change the Blending Mode to Multiply. If you want to add more shadows in some parts just repeat the process painting in other places.

Step 8

Now, in a new layer use a smoke brush with a white color selected and put it behind the girl. You can use Gaussian Blur to make it out of focus.

Step 9

Now we’re going to create some subtle rays of light in the corner of our image. You can draw some lines and use the Motion Blur, but we can do it with the same brush that we´ve used for the smoke. Just duplicate some of these layers and apply the Motion Blur (Filters > Blur > Motion Blur) with the settings shown below.

Now move the layer to the corner and repeat the previous step with another brush. Use Free Transform (Command + T) to change the angle of the rays. I used three different layer for the light to get a good result.

Step 10

Now grab an image with ribbons in it. Open the new image and select the ribbons, as shown below.

Copy and paste them into our image and go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. Modify the settings as shown below.

Finally, use the Burn Tool (O) to make darker the zones in the ribbon that are not touched by light. You can adjust levels or other settings to get a perfect color and light.

Grab some more ribbons from another similar image. Select them and paste them into our image, then change the color/saturation, and use the Burn Tool (O) in a similar way as in the previous step.

Add the shadow for this last ribbon falling over the girl's dress. There are a lot of ways to make it. For example, draw a black stripe, use Gaussian Blur, change the opacity and the blending mode to Multiply, much like we did in previous steps.

For the shadow of the second ribbon, duplicate this layer, fill it with black and apply a Gaussian Blur.

Change the blending mode to Soft Light and erase the parts that you don’t need.

Finally, I add a new ribbon and a new layer of shadow under the model.

Step 11

Now let’s add some flower imagery. This is a simple cut and paste process. The only important thing is that you change the levels or colors little in the images as needed.

Use some stock images of flowers to add behind the girl. You can download these images: 1, 2, and 3.

The only remarkable details are some shadows added using the brush and some Gaussian Blur, then change the color in one of the images. To make this just go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation, select yellow colors, and change the Hue bar as shown.

Add a flower image in the hand of the girl. To integrate it in the image select the layer of the flower and draw a black shadow in the upper part, then use the Gaussian Blur again (Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur). Now change the opacity of the layer if it's needs. Create a new layer under the flower and paint two little shadows, use blur again using a subtle Gaussian Blur, and change the opacity as needed.

The system to add the other flowers are always the same. It’s easy and it only requires that you choose good stock images. For example, it’s important that the light in the flowers is logical and respects the light source of our image. If light come from left, don’t use images with the shadow in the right. It’s really simple, you just need cut them, and correct them a little with Levels as needed.

Step 12

Now let’s add some rays of lights flowing from the hand of the girl. To make this, select the Brush Tool, select a hard brush with a size about 8 px and white as the foreground color. Now select the Pen Tool (P) and select in the upper part the option of Paths.

Now draw a curve similar to the one in the image and press the right button on your mouse, then select Stroke Path. In this new menu select Brush and check the Simulate Pressure box.

Press OK. Now press the red button on your mouse again, and select Delete Path. In this layer, select Layer > Layer Style > Gradient Overlay. Add a gradient from black to blue as shown below. Then select Outer Glow and add a blue glow.

Now add a Gaussian Blur to the layer. Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and add 2,5 px.

Now duplicate the layer and change the position of the new one.

Select the Brush Tool again and use the smoke brush with a white color. Draw some of smoke and select Edit > Transform > Warp to adjust the curve of the smoke as needed.

For the other ray of light I’ve used the same steps as those above.

Step 13

Now create a new layer, use a brush with a white color to draw a stripe, and then use a blur on it. Finally, change the blending mode of this layer to Overlay. Then you can move it over the ribbons to simulate shine.

For the rays behind the girl use the same system. After you’ve created one of them, duplicate it and move until you’ve done something similar to the sample below. Finally, add the smoke as you’ve done previously.

With these simple ideas I’ve created different points of lights marked in red in the next below. With a mark in blue you can see another ray of light that I’ve drawn using the previous steps.

Step 14

Now that we’re finishing the image, we just need to add details to make it more attractive. For example, let’s use some petals to decorate the image here and there. Use some flowers too and put them in our image as if they’re flying. To make the movement effect just go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.

Cut another ribbon, paste it in the right corner of our image and add a Motion Blur. Then go to Layer > New Adjustments Layer > Drop Shadow and add the setting shown below.

Add another ribbon in the bottom of the image and repeat the Motion Blur.

Step 15

Finally, let’s add some Adjustments Layers. Go to your upper layer and then to Layer > New Adjustments Layer > Levels. Modify the settings as shown and repeat the process with Color Balance and a Gradient Map. Then change the opacity in the Gradient Map layer to 9% and in the Levels layer to 75%.

Conclusion

The final image is below and I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! Have fun applying these techniques in your own work!

40 Excellent 3D Effects Photoshop Tutorial

2009-05-10T18:29:00.000-07:00

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Design Macbook Air in Photoshop

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Fantasy Photo Manipulation

2008-12-17T03:03:00.000-08:00

Step 1

The first step is to choose the right pictures for your work. I chose just three stock images to keep it simple: Background, Tree, and you can look at through the following site for a suitable image of a Model.

Step 2

The second step is to create a proper background. Use your imagination; don't just use the background picture ast is. Click on the background layer and then Command + J to duplicate it. Next flip the background you just duplicated Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal, and then overlap them covering just a bit of the picture with the other.

Step 3

Now Command-click on both layers and then press Command + E to merge them together. It looks strange, like in a mirror, but by using a brush and a clone stamp it will look quite natural. Select the Clone Stamp Tool (S) and start cloning the trees and the grass until it looks natural, use the Brush Tool (B) and paint with black at the trees roots. Then crop it so it won't look symmetrical.

Step 4

Next you need to add some clouds. You will create these clouds using a cloud brush; also you need to make the clouds yellow. Yellow and orange clouds look good in a fantasy picture, and here are some Free Cloud Brushes.

Step 5

Next you need to add some birds on the sky. Again create the birds using brushes, and here are some Free Bird Brushes.

Step 6

For this step you will add a moon or maybe you will add two, after all this is a fantasy illustration, and here are some Free Moon Brushes.

Step 7

Last element you need to add is a tree in the right side of the composition. We do this just to get rid of the symmetry. Look for a tree that matches your background, and here are some Free Tree Brushes.

Step 8

You have just finished with the background. Now you need to work on your model. Use the Pen Tool (P) and cut out the model, then place it into a single layer called "model."

Step 9

Every fairy has long hair, right? Just use the Lasso Tool (L) and cut out her hair. Make the selection and then press Command + J to copy it to another layer.

Step 10

Next you need to move the part of the hair you just created lower then the "model" layer and using the Smudge Tool (R) and Transform Tool (T) you need to make the piece of hair look like it belongs there. The final result might not look great, but we will go back to the hair later.

Step 11

Now you need to create some shadows and lights on her skin. Go to Create a new fill or adjustment layer and select Curves. Use my settings or just make the skin look darker.

Fill the layer mask with black. Next, pick a basic brush and with white draw on the layer mask over all the darker areas of the models skin. Make sure to use a 0% Hardness for the brush, also you can use a lower Opacity for the brush. This will help you build the effect gradually.

Step 12

Repeat Step 11, but this time you need to use different settings for the curves. Also, when you draw over the mask this time draw over the lighter parts on the model's skin.

Step 13

You are almost done with the model. You just need to create a bit of makeup and make the fairy look better. Create a new layer, pick a basic brush with smooth edges, use a black color and start drawing just a bit above her eyes. When you have finished set the Opacity to 60% or 70%.

Step 14

So far so good. You have finished preparing the model, now move it into your document.

Step 15

Next you need to add the wings. The wings I used are free brushes you can find anywhere, here are some free wing brushes. I will make the wings yellow, same as the sky and place them each in different layers to move them later if necessary.

Step 16

Back to the hair. Chose the Smudge Tool (R) and set the Mode to normal, strength to 100, use a basic brush with smooth edges and Diameter of 1px or 2px. Now start smudging the edges of her hair so the model will look like she belongs in the background.

Step 17

Next you need to bring in the tree. Before you do this you need to remove the background. The tree can be cut using the Pen Tool (P), but at some point you will need to use the Quick Selection Tool (W). It does not have to be perfect, for the moment we can use it as it is.

When you are finished cutting you need to use the Smudge Tool (R) again and smudge the edges of the tree. Finally, move the tree on the document you are working.

Step 18

In this step we will create a flower in her hair. Make a new layer and chose the Brush Tool (B). Start drawing the flower like the one in the image. Use these for the colors #989ba2 and #a58532 and then start adding some shadows and highlights, just like you did with her skin. The flower does not need to be perfect as it will not be very visible.

Step 19

Place the flower over her hair. Also, using the brush you need to make create some hair and place it over the flower.

Step 20

Next you need to use the Smudge Tool (R) on the grass. Now it is visible that the model has been cut and placed on this background so to hide this we need to create some grass over her dress.

Step 21

Now you need to change the colors a bit for the atmosphere. Go to Create New Adjustment Layers, chose Gradient Map and make the settings as in the image below.

Step 22

Now set the Opacity to 60%. Go to the layer mask, pick a basic brush with Hardness set to 0, set the Opacity of the brush to 40%, pick the black color and paint all the grass. The result should look like the image below.

Step 23

Go to Create New Adjustment Layer again and chose Photo Filter. Chose #ec8a00 for the color and 25% for Density, also make sure the Preserve Luminosity is checked. The difference is not very visible but there is one.

Step 24

Next go to the Create new adjustment layer and chose Curves, make the settings as in the image. Then pick a brush with smooth edges and paint the layer mask as shown, so the curves wonâ€™t be visible in the middle.

Step 25

Go to Create New Adjustment Layer and pick Curves again, then make the settings as shown below. Now pick the same brush, and paint with black on the mask, as you see in the small image. This will give a nice effect to the moon and it will look like it is shining on the girl.

Step 26

Apply another Photo Filter as you did in step 23.

Step 27

Now apply another gradient map. Make the settings as shown, and set the Opacity of the layer to 30%.

Step 28

Next you need to press Command + A to select the entire work, then go to Edit > Copy Merged. Now that you have made a copy, go to Edit > Paste. This will paste the entire work you have done so far into a single layer with all the effects merged.

Step 29

With the new layer selected you need to go to Filter > Render > Lens Flare. Position the lens as I did. It must look like the girl is looking at it. After you position it you must create a mask for the layer and try to mask the entire image except the middle part of the flare.

Step 30

Now we'll add a dreamy effect. Go to the adjustment layers and select Channel Mixer, then set the Channel to Blue. Next, set each as I did: Red at +7, Green at -13, and Blue at +94.

Step 31

Go to Create New Adjustment Layer and go to Hue/Saturation and set the Lightness to -22 and press OK. Next, using a black to transparent Radial Gradient (G), make a black spot in the middle of the layer mask.

Conclusion

In the end you can apply more blur and lights on the sky and girl. You can view the final image below or view a larger version here.

Ship in illustration design

2008-12-13T07:35:00.000-08:00

Hi my dear gentle reader,

i found somethin cool here..
here i show tutorial how to create ship using illustrator from khusley.com , i take this tutorial from there :-

Illustration Stats - Size: 36" @ 350 dpi, 640 mb CMYK File with 35 Layers / Illustration Time: 720 hrs.

Software: Line Art - Adobe Illustrator CS CS2, Color - Adobe Photoshop CS CS2

Hardware: Apple Power Mac G5, Drawing Tablet: Wacom Intuos3 6x8

All of the initial line artwork was done in vector based Adobe Illustrator CS. Most of the final color work was done in Adobe Photoshop. The techniques used in this demonstration tutorial are applicable to any 3 dimensional perspective drawing, regardless of scale or complexity.

This project presented many unique challenges. The actual ship (Radiance of the Seas) was still in Germany being completed for Royal Caribbean when I started the project. There was no photography or CAD reference to work from, only the paper blueprint you see below. In order to have the brochures completed by the time the ship went into service, the final illustration had to be finished in under two months.

The first step was to map out the physical space that the ship would occupy (below) by creating a perspective grid. By establishing a horizon line and vanishing points, an angle was developed that showed the maximum amount of features on the ship.

Technical Note: This type of angle is generally referred to as a 3/4 perspective view. For more information on perspective drawing techniques used in mechanical drafting and architectural drawing, go to: 2 Point Perspective Drawing Tutorial.

The next step was to lay out the deck elevations, deck levels and cross section views using a pre-defined scale of measurements within the master perspective grid.

After the layout was complete, work began on the individual decks. Working from the blueprint (A), each deck had to be indivdually redrawn in overhead plan view (B) using Adobe Illustrator CS. To speed up the process, only the details that would show in the finished cutaway illustration were duplicated. Items such as walls, railings, furniture, floor patterns, and measurement scales where grouped together based on their shared attributes.

When all 14 decks had been completed at the same scale, they were distorted into the master perspective grid using Adobe Illustrator's "Free Transform" tool. Once distorted into the perspective grid, they provide an "in perspective" floor plan. Common objects and furnishings that are linked or grouped together are raised to their correct height. All vertical and 3 dimensional objects are then re-drawn using the distorted floor plans as a template.

Technical Note: Adobe Illustrator CS (or any other Illustrator version's) "Free Transform" tool leaves much to be desired. Before distorting a grouping of objects, make sure to highlight (activate) all of them and go to: Object>Transform>Reset Bounding Box. This will keep multiple objects from confusing the orientation of the Bounding Box once you start moving and distorting it.

The next step was to decide where to cutaway both the outside of the ship and each individual deck surface to best show the important interior details in each public space.

Using the distorted floor plan (above) as a guide, interior elements such as wall surfaces, stairways, columns, and railings are now given vertical dimension using Adobe Illustrator's keyboard "nudge" feature. Vertical height is determined by a vertical measurement scale used in the master perspective grid.

All of the common furnishing and interior elements that would ultimately be at the same elevation height (i.e. chair backs, chair arms, and seat bottoms) were linked together with Adobe Illustrator's "Group/Ungroup" feature so that they could be raised at the same time using Illustrator's keyboard nudge command.

Linked furnishing elements (via Adobe Illustrator's "Group" command) in perspective view after insertion into the master perspective grid and before each separate element is moved to it's correct vertical position (via Illustrator's "Nudge" command.

After each furnishing element is moved to it's correct verticle position, there is a perspective "framework" to trace over. Each item must now be drawn or re-drawn to create the finished line art.

When possible, identical room details and furnishings are cloned by using the Adobe Illustrator "cloning/copying" feature. This is done by using Illustrator's "Move" tool (solid arrow in the Illustrator toolbar). Once the move tool is active, hold down the Command and Option keys while using the incremental Nudge (arrow) keys. You can also use the Command and Option keys and drag the copied object to its new location using your trackball, drawing tablet or mouse.

Technical Note: When you mouse-over an active object while holding down the Command and Option keys, the solid "Move" arrow will turn into a double arrow (black arrow and white arrow).

Now that all of the line work was complete, the vector file was converted to a rasterized Adobe Photshop layered file. It was converted as a grey scale file to speed the exporting process, yet it still took 9 hours for a G4 to export the file. Samples of the final line art are shown below. The final Illustrator file had 22 individual layers.

Technical Note: There is a known software bug in Adobe Illustrator CS/10 and Adobe Illustrator CS2 that will not allow you to export a file to Photoshop that is larger than 28 inches/300 dpi. Because of this bug, you must boot to Mac OS9 (or earlier) so that you can use Adobe Illustrator 9 (or earlier) to do the exporting (very annoying). Additionally, the rasterizing/export function in Adobe Illustrator CS & CS2 creates very rough line quality with a noticeable stair-stepping effect when converting a vector file to a Photoshop raster file.

The example shown below is an approximation of the scale that most of the line work was done at. At this scale, the "physical" size of the illustration would be 12 feet! Why not use a CAD drawing program to create an illustration such as this, you ask? Continue to Page 2 "Adobe Photoshop Color Work" to find the answer.

With all of the line art complete, it was time to move on to the color phase. The line art was exported from Adobe Illustrator CS into Adobe Photoshop CS. At this point in the project, photo reference started to come in.

The first step was to duplicate all of the floor coverings in "plan" view using repetitive patterns in Illustrator Vector. The following image is the tile floor of the ship's Solarium. All of the hard floor surfaces and most of the carpeting was created in Illustrator vector - then converted to Photoshop.

These Adobe Illustrator vector files were distorted into the correct perspective of the main illustration using Illustrator's "Free Transform" tool, then they were exported into Adobe Photoshop.

The carpet patterns were created in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop working from client supplied carpet samples. Carpet texture was created with the Photoshop CS "Noise" and "Blur" filters.

The carpet patterns were scaled to a "plan view" template and laid out in their correct positions. Then the entire deck flooring was distorted into perspective using Adobe Photoshop's "Free Transform" tool.

Plan view of deck 6 with all of the carpet patterns located into the template in their correct positions (below, top). Final perspective view of deck 6.

The final painting phase resulted in a Photoshop file with 29 paint layers and 6 line layers with a file size of 988 mb. This was merged down to a more manageable 14 layers for delivery to the client. For more information on mechanical and technical drawing techniques, please visit the Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials section".

This is a close-up detail of the atrium area at 100 percent of the final artwork's native resolution. As stated in the previous lesson, at this scale, the "physical" size of the illustration would be 12 feet.

Many people will ask: why not use a CAD program to create an illustration such as this? Although CAD is a powerful tool to create and render 3 dimensional objects, it has inherent limitations that would make it impractical to use on an illustration of this scale and complexity.

Word Press Themes

2008-11-03T22:21:00.000-08:00

Wordpress is one of the most used CMS around the world. In this list, you will find Blog, Gallery and Portfolio Themes. All this designs are unique, creative and attractive. This list is a good way to find inspiration for your next blog :).

Note : This isn't a simple news about web design trends, this page will be automatically updated with the new entries in the gallery. So don't hesitate to bookmark it and to come back later

Smoothing & Softening Edition for Image

2008-07-08T08:36:00.000-07:00

Cartoon Paint In Photoshop

2008-07-08T08:34:00.001-07:00

Find out what Photoshop techniques were used to create this painting. In this Photoshop tutorial, we will walk you through several painting techniques to get you started with painting.

Exotic Fashion Photoshop Tutorial

Setting the canvas

The first step is to create a new canvas; most important and overlooked. Choose what you want your output size to be. The larger the canvas dimensions, the more time and effort will be required to complete the painting. If you're not entering the width and height in pixels, make sure that you set the resolution to 300 pixels/inch. If you plan on printing this, make sure that you have the color mode set to CMYK color. You should also choose to use 16 bit color if you will not be using many filters and if your computer can handle it.

Creating the layers

Before you paint anything, you'll need to create two additional layers with the blending mode on Multiply. One of the layer will be used to hold the drawing or sketch and the other will be used for the color and painting. This is the most basic layer setup and is recommended for beginners who just want to get started with painting in Photoshop. More advance users will have groups of layers for each part of the painting.

Painting

When painting, it is very helpful to have a pen tablet such as the Wacom Bamboo. A pen tablet will allow you to create brush strokes that are pressure sensitive.

Enable Pen Pressure

First, select the Brush tool and click on the "Enable Airbrush Capabilities" button in the option bar near the top of your Photoshop window. In the Brush palette, set the control to Pen Pressure or Pen Tilt (if you have a tilt sensitive pen tablet). If you're using a mouse, set the control to Fade. Fade will simulate natural brush strokes by making the brush size smaller as according to the stroke length.

Face

Painting the face is a simple process using the brush, dodge, and burn tool.

First, use the brush tool to paint a base color. Then, use the burn tool to burn the edges. Finally, select the dodge tool to dodge the highlights.

When you're done, you can use the Smudge tool to refine the edges between the highlights and shadows. In the option bar, you can specify if you only want to smudge the shadows, midtones, or highlights.

Hair

The hair can be created with almost the same technique as the one used for the face. Except this time, you'll be using the smudge tool to create the texture of the hair.

Feathers

Creating the feathers is more complicated. Begin by choosing a base color for the feather. Then, draw the shape of the feather. Using the Smudge tool at 80% strength, smudge from the center out to create the individual feathers. Finish it with the Dodge and Burn tool to create shadows and highlights.

Dress pattern

To create the pattern for the dress, draw a design on a separate layer. Then, duplicate and rotate the pattern to form other shapes.

Twigs

Creating the twigs is simple. Draw the twigs with the brush tool then apply bevel and drop shadow layer styles make it look three dimensional.

Final Results

cool effect for text in photoshop

2008-07-08T08:22:00.000-07:00

For some unknown reason, each time we try a new graphics application, we feel the uncontrollable desire to apply the most cheesy effects to beautifully designed typefaces. These so called text effects or type effects are carefully hidden guilty pleasures that most designers enjoy to try, but would never dare to apply in real life work.

For those like me that love text effects and have the courage to admit it, here’s a thorough guide to the best 80 text effects available on the web.

To some these may be not the best tutorials on the web, but certainly they are some of the best around. I had to eliminate those that looked nice but had very little preview images. This guide includes 78 Photoshop tutorials and 2 impressive collections of Photoshop Actions, plus 3 books on the subject.

If you have created a cool text effect and you believe it should be mentioned in this list, just leave a comment with the link to your tutorial or resource in the comments section.

Text Effects Tutorials for Photoshop

Click on each image to read the tutorials

Digital Art

2008-06-05T21:34:00.000-07:00

Its Awesome!! Let get some rest and try...so cool

Tutorial No. 1

Making of "Atlas"

Tutorial No. 2

Making of "The Walking Haus"

Tutorial No. 3

Making of "Shipyard"

Tutorial No. 4

Making of "Feeding the Dragon"

Tutorial No. 5

Making of "Inside the Puppet's Soul"

Hollywood Spotlight

2008-06-05T21:25:00.000-07:00

Begin with a new document. You can either use a photo, or create one yourself. In this case it's just a blue gradient.

2

Choose the polygon lasso tool. Hold down your mouse on the lasso tool to reveal the polygon one.

3

This tool doesn't work with dragging. To work the Polygon Lasso, you click at the origin. As you move your cursor, a line will follow it (Kind of like gum on the sole of your shoe.). Click again to create a line.

Tip: To quit dragging gum press the esc key.

4

Keep clicking in the shape of a triangle (sort of). To complete the selection, hover your mouse over the origin (The first place you clicked). You will see little circle. This circle means that you will complete the selection if you click on the start point. Do it!

5

As soon as you click on the start point, you will notice the marching ants selection (and the gum isn't stuck to your shoe anymore).

Now, we are ready to fill with color. Press the D key to reset the Foreground/Background colors.

Press the x key to swap the color. White is now the foreground color.

(You could just choose white as the foreground color and avoid all the shortcuts, but it's good to learn them right?)

6

Choose the Gradient tool. Go to the options bar at the top and choose 2 things.

1. Click the gradient to open the options, select the foreground to transparent option as shown.

2. Make sure that you choose the linear gradient option.

Finally, make sure that the transparent option is turned on in the options bar at the top and reverse is off.

7

Wait! One more thing. Create a new layer and select it, so we don't add pixels to the background.

8

Click at the bottom of the selection. Drag the gradient along the selection, but not past the selection.

9

Release the mouse and you now have a gradient. Turn off the selection by pressing ctrl/cmd+D or clicking away with the selection tool.

To change the shape, press Ctrl/Cmd+T for the free transform tool. Right click for additional options such as perspective. Change the shape to suit your needs by dragging any of the little squares (adjustment handles).

10

We now have a spotlight, but it lacks realism because the beams have hard edges. To soften the beams, choose Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Enter a setting o suit your needs and click OK.

11

To add more beams, Duplicate the layers and use free transform to change the angles.

12

Here I added the word Hollywood, so that you can see the transparency effects.

13

Try adding the effect to different backgrounds. In this picture I made some stars and added the spotlight. This shows the gradients off really well. You can drop the opacity if you want to lesson the effect.

Best Software For Web Developer

2008-06-03T20:26:00.000-07:00

Here’s a quick link of recent software to be used by web designer or web developer (Windows Only) :

1) Xampp
XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.

2) Sothink
Sothink SWF Decompiler is a professional tool to convert SWF to FLA and extract elements from SWF into variable formats. Compatible with all Flash versions including Flash 6, Flash 7, Flash 8 and Flash CS3 (9.0). Supports both ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0. After the converting, you can get the completed FLA file including linkages, components, *.as, etc.

3) Notepad+++
Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

4) Joomla
Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Best Of The Best Tutorial Photoshop

2008-06-03T11:32:00.000-07:00

MP3 Player Design
In this tutorial you will learn how to design a product in Photoshop. The product is a RCA Lyra X3030 portable media player. Although the chances are, you are thinking "why would I need to make it?", the reason for this tutorial is to teach people the techniques used for mocking up a product design.
Magic Lighting Effect
How to create a nice light and magic effect.
Beautiful Lady Effect
Learn how to combine some brushes and color adjustment to make a beautiful lady effect.
Selecting & Extracting Hair - Masking Tutorial - Extraction Tips
One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. When the model has long flowing hair and the subject needs to change location many post-production artists call in sick.
Add a Dreamy or Misty Effect To Your Photos
This quick tutorial will show how to add a really cool dreamy or misty effect to your photos. This tutorial works best with nature related images.
Improving the Quality of Photos
Improve the look of your photos by playing with some simple Photoshop techniques.
Fake Model Photography
With a very little effort, you can take existing photographs of everyday scenes and make it look like they’re actually of miniature models.
Displacement Water
Creating a realistic water surface in Photoshop is quite a challenge because it is the distorted reflection of the surroundings that makes the water look liquid. The displace filter is an excellent tool for making this distortion.
Making Skin Beautiful
Not everyone has a beautiful skin. This tutorial will help the photographer put their models in the best light so to speak.
Photoshop tutorial and Post-producted glasses
To save your time think to photo retouch especially frosted glasses.
Professional "glamour style" photo retouch
This is the first chapter of a main tutorial divided in six parts. In this one you will learn how to photo retouch the skin of a model in a few steps. Better results can be obtained by using a graphic tablet instead of a mouse.
iMouse — creating Apple mouse
Simple and elegant. Apple mouse. Is there anyone, who doesn’t want graphic like that? Let’s have a look at creating this mouse in Adobe Photoshop. 3 pages.
Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect
How about a fun effect for your incredibly boring photo albums? Creating a old comic book effect for your photos is easy and the results are visually appealing. More fun is achieved when adding captions to your photos using comic book fonts and design elements.
Space and Planet Tutorial
The techniques below will show you how to create an image similar to the final result I have obtained below although the image below took 3 hours to paint with alot of fine detail work, you will still get the idea.
Faking HDR in Adobe Photoshop
This HDR tutorial shows quite easy way to fake HDR foto in Photoshop. You don’t need to shoot into RAW or take photos with different exposure - one JPEG is enough. If you can work with masks in Photoshop, you have an advantage. Part of tutorial is HDR action for download.
11 Super Awesome Photoshop Movie Effects
11 most-favorite movie-effect tutorials. From Scarface to Sin City to Pirates of the Carribean to 300, we’ve got 11 great ways to go Hollywood on your photos.
A movie-effect with Photoshop
This tutorial explains how to turn your photo into the movie-like image using Adobe Photoshop.
Visual effects in the style of 300
Here’s a little Photoshop guide to mimic the 300 style. The effects could also be applied to video in After Effects with a similar setup.
Reflective Bubbles
For my most recent work I wanted to create bubbles that would reflect my subject in a believable yet magical way.
Bringing a Stone Statue to Life
Learn how to take a stone statue and alter it to look life-like.
4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop
“In this tutorial I will be demonstrating some quick, easy methods for adding drama and/or interest to your shots. As far as I know, these methods should work for both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.”
Devil’s Eye
Some eyes are just too pretty, but I bet some of you would change that if you could. I am going to try to explain how to make eyes look more sinister, And remember this is coming from a begginer,so bare with me. Photoshop CS2.
Beautiful lighting FX effect in Photoshop
This tutorial will show you how to make a beautiful lighting effect on scatters by using Photoshop. Keep in mind that I only provide the basic guidelines to creating this type of effect. There are tons of possibilities if you spend time to play with the settings and keep your creativity wide open.
Water Drops
So simple, and realistic, these water drops (and optional ice drops) are also simple to do anywhere, anytime.
Creating a glass ball
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a glass ball in photoshop using some simple tools and techniques. Any version of photoshop can be used.
3D Ice Cube
In this tutorial we’ll try to build a realistic 3D ice cube. Usually this kind of stuff is done with the help of some 3D software like Maya or 3DMax, still we’ll try to use Photoshop tools to do the work.
Alienize: Transform a person into an alien
In this tutorial is written how to create a very cool looking alien using Adobe Photoshop. Grab a picture of someone and get ready to alienize it.
Water Spirit - Drawing Fire
This tutorial will show You how to place a fire on someone’s hands.
Creating a 3D effect with image editing software
Here’s how to make a neat effect to make it look like the subject of a photo is popping out of the background. This can be done with GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) or Photoshop.
How to use Photoshop to create Product Box?
How many times you wanted to create cool product box for some of your products? Sure, there are many ways, and with new Photoshop you have even more options to create boxes.
Super Fly Box Maker
These boxes can be used to advertise almost anything (not just software). This is great if you want to catch a viewers attention, and it also gives your product display a more professional look and feel.
Flaming Hair
Tutorial with some simple brushing techniques, and a bit of color tweaking, you can spice up your photo.
Create a Realistic Torn Paper Effect
Torn paper is one of the key elements to achieving the distressed / collage look. This tutorial covers a few simple steps in Adobe Photoshop to create a realistic looking torn paper effect taking you on your way to Destroying the Web 2.0 Look.
Creating a Mac-Type Background in Photoshop
This tutorial is about making a “mac” style background. You can use these in all sorts of situations, including the obvious – your desktop as well as part of your designs or for corporate work (powerpoint presentations, flash work etc). Naturally you wouldn’t want to use this exact set of steps, but following them will give you a good idea of the technique. Good luck!

Drawings, Paintings, Cartoons

Sexy Girl Comic With Photoshop
This tutorial describes a way to create a sexy comic girl from a paper sketch.
Skin Painting Tutorial
Learn how to paint a realistically looking skin with Photoshop.
Making of The Blues Singer Leaves Town
This picture was done in a hot summer day, in the memory of an old anime series I used to watch as a kid, about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Historically, it’s off from that period, but it’s the feeling of summer, childhood fascination and nature that I wanted to re-create. It’s also a tribute to music. 4 pages.
Fox Fire Tutorial
Converting from hand-sketched picture to a digital masterpiece.
Easy Watercolor Painting Effect
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn how to easily make a photo look more like a watercolor painting. This photo effect works best on images where maintaining rich colors and strong contrast is more important than keeping any fine details, since you’ll be losing a lot of detail with this effect.
Soft Cell Shading
Learn how to paint softlry, as a variation of cell shading, eventually going through a total of seven stages.
Sketch to Paint
Digital artist David Cousens reveals how to develop a sci-fi art sketch in Adobe Photoshop using the airbrush and a few nifty tricks.
Portrait Painting
Learn how to draw a portrait from a hand-drawn sketch.
Drawing a Cute Boy
Drawing from a reference photo
The original photo: I locate it on the bottom layer to use for some initial tracing, primarily to save time and get the perspective correct. Some people prefer not to trace.
Comic art style
This is a method that you can use to produce abstract art using Adobe Photoshop. Randomness, detail, colors and contrast plays of course important roles now.

Texteffects

3D typographic effects
Photoshop is an astounding post-production tool – and here Nik Ainley of Shiny Binary shows you how to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools.
Slow shutter text effect
Learn how to create this stunning slow shutter text effect using just Photoshop.
Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text
Take typography one step further by having text falling from the sky in a burning inferno. Yes, this is the text-on-fire tutorial to end all tutorials. It uses a little Illustrator for the text and a lot of Photoshop to burn up the screen!
Smooth Glass Type
Here’s a quick way to create some nice looking translucent glass type that’ll work great on any background, made completely with layer styles.
Recreate the ‘Bee Movie’ Text Effect
In this quick Photoshop tutorial we’ll be recreating the ‘Bee movie’ text effect, you know, the one you’ve seen all over the place over the last few months?
Plastic Jelly Style
In this tutorial we’ll be using layer styles to make a plastic-gel type style that you can easily apply to text and shapes. You can download the PSD file from the link at the bottom of the tutorial to just copy+paste the styles.
Combine 2 text layer styles
Learn how to apply a combination of multiple text effects.

Buttons, Logos & Menus

Create A Leopard ‘X’ in Photoshop
With the recent release of Mac OS X Leopard, I’ve decided to create a tutorial where you can create your own ‘X’. This tutorial is a great exercise in using the dodge and burn tool as well as working with selections.
Orb Button Effect
This set of tutorial will show on how to create a very basic mouse over effect in html/css. Therefore this tutorial will spilt into 2 parts:
Interface Orbs
Shiny glass orbs have been popular fixtures for web interfaces and application skins for quite some time. In this tutorial, we will be going over a technique for making a standard interface orb.
Creating Logos on Glass Surfaces
In this mini tutorial you will learn how to create a convincing logo that is embossed in the surface of a beer glass.
Photoshop Button Maker
In this simple tutorial we’re going to create a clever little way of making little buttons using a couple of layers and one interchangeable image layer. As always you can download the sample PSD at the bottom of the tutorial to follow along and copy layer styles out of.
Design Watercolor Effect Menu
This is a two-part tutorial on how to create an artistic and un-typical CSS list menu as seen on Web Designer Wall.
100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Seal/Badge Photoshop Tutorial
In this quick Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to design a sweet-lookin’ a golden badge, pretty much like this one I’ve designed below. For this tutorial I’ve used the example ‘100% satisfaction guaranteed seal/badge.
A Little Window…
Glossy-Style Carbon Fibre Navigation Set
This is a kind of glossy, carbon fiber navigation set.
How to Design Mini Icons
Numbers of people have asked me how to design my popular Mini Pixel Icon pack. In fact, they are relatively easy. All you need is just some basic Photoshop skills.
Designing a Safety Icon
Eye-Popping Banner Ad Tutorial
Nobody clicks on them, but they still exist. This tutorials shows how you can create iPod nano Ads with Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop Techniques

Color adjustment tutorial
This tutorial shows how to get more mood into your pictures via Adjustment Layers and some other effects.
Vector Polishing Techniques
This tutorial includes 9 Photoshop techniques that will show you how to add more depth, color, contrast, and texture into your vector art.

Advanced Black and White Conversion
In this tutorial, we will convert an RGB image to Black and White using Photoshop CS3’s new improved Black and White features.

Actions Tutorial
Toning With Duotones, Tritones And Quadtones
101 Hidden Tips & Secrets
An overview of professional suggestions, tips and tricks for Adobe Photoshop users.
Using Actions to Automate Tasks
While Adobe Photoshop has a host of automation tools, one of the most versatile and powerful of them is called an action. In fact, some of the other automation commands, such as batches and droplets, derive their functionality from actions.

Best Web This Month

2008-06-03T04:58:00.000-07:00

Ahoi human!!

For this month, i want to choose 3 web the best from my eyes.Take a look and judge it by yourself.Designer make its for reference and brush up on your skills!

1) Volll website... This website just use a css n little flash to make their website look so cool & unique take a look

2)Jamie Oliver website... Just simple like a blog but so nice

3)Spectra Website - Use a Full of Flash and interactive button who made you crazy when your surfing their website...hurry up click this picture

How web 2.0 logos are drawn in photoshop

2008-06-03T01:08:00.000-07:00

Ever wonder how these guys draw their Web 2.0 Logos? Sometimes its nice to learn from others, build up the basic skills and start your own creativity from there. In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to reveal you some of the nice Web 2.0 logos, how you can draw their logo exactly the same (well, not really 100% though) with Photoshop.

1. Download and Install style file

First of all, you will need to download a style I’ve created and load it into Photoshop.

Download Photoshop style here. (Right-click -> Save as)
For Photoshop CS2 users, put this style file into
“C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Presets\Styles”
Photoshop of other versions, put the file inside Presets\Styles

2. Load style

Call up your Style Dialog box in Photoshop

Windows -> Styles
Notice a small arrow button on the top right corner. Click on it and select Load Styles from the drop down
Find web20 from the list and click Load. If you don’t find web20, try close Photoshop, re-open it repeat Step 1.
Click on the arrow button again and select Large List from drop down

Your result should look something similar to the image on the right.

3. The six Web 2.0 Logos

Here’s six Web 2.0 Logo; MyBlogLog, Imified, mixd, skype, Linked In and Go2Web20. The style you’ve just installed is going to reveal how to draw them. I’ll go through “mixd” and “Go2Web20” logos, the rest is just reusing the same technique.

4. How to draw

The reason I use Style here is because once they are saved in to a .asl file (the file you downloaded) they are convenient to apply. Let’s go about drawing some of these logos.

Drawing mixd Logo

Initial observation, mixd logo consist of

“mixd” text
rounded rectangular
small dot
smaller dot

We will roughly draw them out in Photoshop, each elements in a different layer as illustrated in the image below.

Now here’s the the trick. Look for “mixd-label” in the Style Dialog. Drag them directly to background layer, small dot layer and smaller dot layer respectively. If you drag them correctly you will noticed that the layer will now inherits the colors and blending of the style. Find “mixd-font” in Style Dialog, drag it to the text layer and your mixd logo is complete, 90% like the original I’ll say.

Drawing Go2Web20 Logo

Have 4 new layers created, each for “GO“, “2“, “WEB” and “2.0“

Drag “go2web20-purple” from Style Dialog into “GO” & “WEB”, drag “go2web20-green” into “2″ & “2.0″ and you will get this final output.

As for the rest (MyBlogLog, imified, skype and Linked In), it’s all about dragging their respective style in and match with the correct font.

5. Conclusion

If you look into the Blending Options of each style, you will noticed that most Web 2.0 logos are matter of playing with gradients, strokes with the combination of the right fonts. This may not the “exact” way how these guys had done their logo, but its at least a way to achieve it. I’m not encouraging you to fake their style and redraw your logo, but try understand it and hopefully you can come out with a nice sleek Web 2.0 logo. I love putting my designs in Style (.asl), I can reuse them whenever I want.

Free Photoshop Brush

2008-06-03T00:39:00.001-07:00

Every good designer needs an arsenal of brushes to use within photoshop, whether its a grunge effect or some tehno swirls that are required there is sure to be a brush that fits your needs. Here we have dugg out the very best we could find. If there isn’t a suitable brush, we have also included some links on how to create your own.

Foliage Brushes - These brushes are big, and meant for print. You can use them for Web stuff as well, but you might need to size them down. Most of them are around 1800 pixels wide.

Gabriele Magurno - Excellent collect of high quality brushes.

VPDesigns Omega Brush Set 200+ - Inside you will find grunge sets, vector/tech sets, cloud brushes, fractals, abstract sets, all in all there are some 200+ brushes within 9 collections.

Anodyne Light Brushes - A beautiful collection of magical light brushes for Photoshop.

Jenn B’s Hair Brushes - Small yet splendid set of human hair brushes based on her own scanned locks/curls and they look great.

Typographic Grunge Brushes - A random collection of grungy, decayed typographic brushes.

Misprinted Type - Excellent collection of grunge brushes

Angryblue - A collection of grunge brushes and bloodspots etc.

Veerle’s Blog - Tutorial on how to create yourown grunge brushes.

Photoshop Brush List - From photoshop support, large collection of links to brush downloads.
Brushfind - Brush search engine.
Miss M - Photoshop brushes, loads of different categories.

Worn Photoshop Brushes For High Resolution - If you are new to the brushes that I make, you should know that they are mainly for working with materials meant for print. You can use them for Web stuff as well, but you might need to size them down.

Tasty Tattoo™ Photoshop Brushes - Tattoos, Tatoos, Tattos, Body Art, Super Cool Body Paint For Your Mom, whatever you want to call it.

Graffiti Photoshop Brushes - Graffiti styled brushes in high resolution for print.

Massive list of Photoshop Brushes - tutorialtomb forum presents a list of brushes.
PSBrushes - 368 photoshop brushes listed in categories.
Brusheezy - Stupid Name. Cool Brushes! Categorised photoshop brushes.

Make your own brushes - Good tutorial on how to make brushes.
Coffee Stain Brushes - Photoshop brushes, at one point in your life you’ll probably have a need for a good old fashioned coffee stain and this collection is just the right thing.

Desert Cracks Brushes - Large scale, high quality texture brushes of desert and dry ground cracks.

Abstract8 Brush Set - A beautiful, energetic abstract collection of Photoshop brushes.

Deviant Art Brushes - Thousands of user-created brushed at Deviant Art community.

Hazard Brushes - Warning ahead! This is an interesting brush set, showing a bunch of warning signs, exit signs, biohazard signs and so on.

VBrush - Large collection of photoshop brushes

5 Useful Photoshop Tutorials

2008-06-02T21:35:00.000-07:00

It’s the weekend. Time to leave off ‘work’ and brush up on your skills!

Here are some of the best Photoshop tutorials I’ve come across lately. Not all of them produce a great end product, or something which you could actually use. However, replicating them will help you to develop your skills, and execute what you need to do, better.