Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator are the two apps at the heart of almost every designer’s workflow. If you haven’t gotten up to speed with Adobe Photoshop CS5 or the many new, powerful features the version brings, here are 40 Photoshop CS5 tutorials that’ll help you do just that in no time.
In fact, even if you’re a Photoshop pro, I bet you’ll find at least one tutorial in here that’ll teach you something you didn’t know.
I think most of people reading this blog already now what a PSD template is and why do we need it. Main purpose of this article is to help you not making mistakes when creating a PSD template. Everybody loves awesome layouts and even more if you create such ones you can get really well paid. So if you have a few minutes take look at this seven really helpful tips.
Do you have a clear step-by-step plan of what to do? Have you tried to do a sketch? You must never start a project without preparations. Try to imagine what kind of house would an architect build if he had no plan? Let’s think of what should be included in your preparation part of project. Of course you should try drawing a sketch first of all simple and less detailed and after some clarifications more detailed one. Next step you should think of color scheme and fonts which you will use, it is important to check fonts licenses and compabilities. Here are some links that may be helpfull at this stage:
If you have started creating a layout try to remain organized until the end of work on the project. Create folders, subfolders, use smart objects and so on, PS has a plenty of usefull tools for keeping your workplace organized. Why is this so important? Because if you want to change something, it will be much more easy to do if you can find and do it in several clicks, but not after an hour of searching and remebering. Also it makes you think of next step and helps a lot if you share your work with somebody, so that he shouldn’t try to guess what you were doing.
Take a quick tour to the Envato’s ThemeForest, you can see many professional works there. Why do you need this? Try to contact some of the leading designers maybe they will help with an advice. Try submiting your work, you could check out the forum if it would be rejected to find potential problems in your design. Don’t be shy everybody could make a mistake and everybody started like a newbie. And who knows maybe one day your work will be at the top! Here I attached some examples of stunning layout designs that you must see:
Abstract brushes are very appealing and suites all kinds of design work and it is one of the best and useful resource used by designers. Using a photoshop brushes saves you a lot of time when you come want to give an effect to your design work. These brushes come in very handy while you are working on online degrees for graphic design.
In this post we have collection 50 Awesome and High quality Abstract Photoshop Brushes sets. Each set contains several brushes that will be more than 270+ awesome abstract photoshop brushes!
In this tutorial our main goal is to learn how to professionally retouch our photo and keep our model from looking overly artificial. You will learn how to retouch your fashion photography, which will include removing blemishes, wrinkles, fly away hair etc, how to lighten your photo and how to enhance makeup and eye color. This tutorial is compatible with Non-Photoshop programs such as The Gimp and PAINT.NET (some tools may differ).
Those who are into photography know that it takes more than just a camera and a model to create a stunning portrait there are a lot of key factors involved. Even if you do capture that perfect photo you may find out that your photo still needs a bit of work. Most if not all photographers edit there photos to get that wonderful glamorous fashion capture and to make your fashion photography stronger.
Adobe has always been a smart player in the design and photo-editing field, always paying attention to what’s hot in these fields. Through Photoshop Elements 7, Adobe aims to take a big chunk out of the online photo-sharing market.
“Stay connected with family, friends, and memories” is the best way to describe this software especially considering the new Photoshop.com included service, which incorporates Adobe’s Photoshop Express online editing service with 2 levels of membership. To help users to get familial with the array of powerful graphic manipulation tools and the intuitive image management features Apex Web Media have just launched a beginners Photoshop Elements 7 Tutorial Video
With over 8,5 hours of quality lessons by accredited expert Phil Howkins. The CD / DVD contains 17 chapters with 118 lessons with all the work files included in the package. All 118 lessons are presented in high quality video and closed captions accompany the training CD. The first 3 chapters with 10 lessons are free and can be viewed online here.
The training videos are compatible with Vista, 98, 2000, NT, XP, Mac OS and OSX .
You will also get your own free certificate (which can be verified online) to prove your credentials.
Here are the CrazyLeaf Design Blog best Photoshop resources (tutorials, brushes and textures) of May 2009 picks.
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