This selection consists of several texture techniques, creating texture for background, incorporating textures into your works, etc,. Adding textured elements to modern web designs is a current trend. Grasping this technique will take your fantasy works to the next level.
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1. Create a Steam Powered Typographic Treatment – Part II
We’re back with the second half of our Steampunk style type experiment! In this Part II, we’ll generate realistic textures and create a fitting scene for our text. Let’s get right to it!
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2. How to Create a Rusty Texture in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how simple it is to texturize objects using different fusion mode layers, adjustment layers, color tweaks and some very simple filters in Photoshop. You can use this simple technique in more complex illustrations of your own creation. Let’s get started with learning these techniques!
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3. Render a Cereal Box Cover from Scratch Using Photoshop’s 3D Tools
Hi everyone! This time I’ve got for you a fun tutorial, we’ll create a cereal box design from scratch, using only Photoshop. We will render several fruit flavored cereal loops using the Photoshop’s CS4 Extended 3D tools, apply textures to the loops, bump the surfaces and mock-up them into a real 2D image. Are you ready?
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4. How to Use Texture and Lighting to Create Rounded Artwork
Using stock photography is not always necessary or desired, but we can reference images of real objects to learn techniques for perspective and lighting. In this tutorial, we will be creating an abstract orb. In order to get the highlights, shadows, and perspective as accurate as possible we will study real images to create our own interpretation.
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5. How to Create a 3D Leaf from a Texture Photograph
In this beginners level tutorial, you will learn how to create a vibrant 3D leaf compilation from a single 2D photograph. You will be able to manipulate the object however you prefer. Let’s have fun with this display of greenery.!
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6. How to Make a Menu Interface for a Fantasy Themed iPhone Game
First off, props to Dan Wiersema (my friend and Creative Director at Guifx) for being the brains behind this tutorial. Concept and wireframe were both developed by him. He also helped me iron out the creases in terms of rating my work from beginning to end. In this tutorial, we’ll create a main menu interface for a fictional iPhone game. We’ll go through setting up Photoshop to accurately display target screen size, setting up a wire frame for the project, creating a background, making a logo, creating rock texture for the sidebar, and wood texture for the saved games-box and buttons. We’ll also add creating greenery for detail and good measure. This is gonna be a long one, so patience is a virtue. Also, coffee helps!
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7. How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces
Applying texture to a flat surface, or flatly applying a texture across a whole image (as a means to age it or degrade it) is simple stuff. Realistically applying a texture to an uneven surface is much more hands-on (more so than simply overlaying a texture and changing the Blending mode).
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8. GraphicRiver – A Graphic Art Department At Your Fingertips
Today I’m very excited to announce that we’re taking the lid off our newest Envato Marketplace: GraphicRiver, a marketplace for premium design components like Layered Photoshop Graphics, Vector Illustrations, Icons, and Adobe Add-ons like Brushes, Patterns and Textures at very affordable prices. You could almost say it’s like having a graphic art department at your fingertips!
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9. 20+ Sources of Inspiration from Stone, Dirt, and Rust
Design inspiration can come from all kinds of sources. Dirt, stones and rust can be excellent sources of inspiration for textured and grunge-style designs. Many websites are now using textured background images to replicate these items, and these techniques can be used in a variety of ways in graphic design. In this post, we’ll look at some photographs and websites for inspiration, tutorials to show some techniques for incorporating these textures into your work, and some Photoshop brushes to make it easier.
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10. New PLUS Tutorial – Create Fantasy Mannequins Moving Through Infinite Space
We have another great PSDTUTS PLUS tutorial exclusively available to members today. If you want to take your fantasy Photoshop illustration to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn the details of shading, adding texture, and composing a scene with tremendous motion. Learn more about this informative and stylish tut at the jump!
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11. How to Design a Rockin’ 80’s Party Poster
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to design a poster for an 80’s anthem party. Throughout this tutorial, we’ll create some textures for background, manipulate a photo to give it a stylish look, and make some color variations. Let’s jump into this super rad tutorial.
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12. How to Turn a Texture into a Seamlessly Tiled Background
Tiled backgrounds are great for both website backgrounds and in all kinds of Photoshop work. They are particularly useful when working with textures where you need a larger overall background than the small image you have to work with. In this quick tutorial I’ll take you through taking a texture and turning it into a background image ready for seamless tiling. It’s a useful little technique that’s been around forever. We need this technique for today’s other tutorial – How a Simple Layout Can Be Mixed ‘n’ Matched with Patterns, Photos and Backgrounds.
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13. How to Create a Grunge Web Design in Photoshop
Photoshop is often the right tool for web design, especially if you’re creating a design using numerous images and brush effects. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a complete grunge home page design. We’ll design the header, sidebar, body, footer, and style everything to work together in a heavily textured and worn design.
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14. How to Make a Bangin’ Woofer Embedded in Wood
In this tutorial, we’ll illustrate a woofer and make a simple wood texture for the background. We’ll place the speaker so that it appears to be inside the wood texture. Also, we’ll create screws that appear to hold it in place. Put some good music on and lets get working!
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15. How To Render a Dramatic 3D Wood Cup in Photoshop
In this basic tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a 3D cup from scratch in Illustrator, how to apply some texture to it in Photoshop, and also how to use the Vanishing Point filter to mock-up a scenario and apply realistic shadows.
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16. Rendering a Striking Matchbox in Photoshop
This tutorial consists of creating a digital illustration in Photoshop of a box of matches. We’ll be creating the matchbox cover design, the striker on the matchbox from a pattern, and placing the cardboard texture on the box. We’ll also create the matches and align everything into a 3D perspective.
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17. Design a Photo Manipulation from Sketch to Color
This tutorial will describe how to make a colorful photo manipulation using only four stock photos and a texture background. We’ll look at using the Pen Tool, making colorful rainbow designs, and showing the correct way to pick out stocks to use in our photo manipulation.
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18. Create a Basic Vexel Image
This time we’ll create a simple vexel image from a picture. Also, we’ll use some pattern effects to give the image some interesting texture. This is a basic way to create a vexel image using predominately Photoshop’s vector based tools. After completing this tutorial, you’ll become a master of the Pen Tool.
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19. Create a Magic Crystal Ball
Last week I was working on a project where I needed to create a sort of lightning effect like that Tesla Coil. I spent a couple of hours in Photoshop playing around with some filters to create the effect. So In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a Magic Crystal Ball with some nice light effects and textures happening.
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20. Digitally Collage a Camouflage Paper Jacket
This tutorial demonstrates how to control the placement of patterns to blend an image into the background, as camouflage. It also shows how to make that same pattern pop out and mold into realistic texture in other areas of the design. Let’s take a look at a workflow to achieve this effect.
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21. Use a 3D Model to Create a Dramatic Scene in Photoshop
For this tutorial you’ll need Photoshop CS3 Extended, as the tutorial utilizes that version’s unique 3D Tools. You will import a three-dimensional object of an airplane and use it to create a dramatic scene. Use the Vanishing Point filter to create realistic shadows, add texture to the model, and use brush Tools to get awesome results.
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22. Create a Constructivist Inspired Poster
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a poster design inspired by an art movement called Russian Constructivism. We will cut up some images and paste them together to create a stylized revolutionary design. We’ll then tie it all together by overlaying some texture to give it a vintage feel.
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23. Create A Textured Tag For Your Website
In this tutorial, we are going to create a textured tag that you can use in your website designs. Adding textured elements to modern web designs is a current trend. Learn how to create your own texture and then apply it to your design element. In this tutorial, we are going to create a textured tag that you can use in your website designs. Adding textured elements to modern Web designs is a current trend. Learn how to create your own texture and then apply it to your design element.
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24. The Ultimate Wood Texture Tutorial
Sure, you could take a photo of some wood and use that for a texture. But the real way to separate the Photoshop men from the boys is to make your own. In this tutorial, we are going to create a wood texture and apply some artwork on top of it that has an aged paint feel. To begin, make a new document as shown below.
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25. Wooden Text Effect in Photoshop
This tutorial will show how to create wooden text effect with some texture images and Photoshop Blending Options.
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26. Leopard Texture in Photoshop
Here is one more interesting Photoshop tutorial how to create leopard texture. This not so difficult tutorial will be useful both for beginners as well as professionals.
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27. An Old Texture from Ancient Times
A quick Photoshop tutorial on the making and ancient old times texture.
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28. Best of the Web – October 2009
This month was filled with awesome content like a very cool 3D text tutorial that incorporated C4D, Illustrator, and of course Photoshop. We feature a few great texture packs that everyone should check out, and also stylish wallpapers for iPhone users. As usual, we have some informative articles, and inspirational pieces to check out. So lets get into this October wrap up!
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29. Best of the Web – July 2009
The month of July had a lot of interesting articles on furthering one’s self as a designer. Whether you are looking to become famous, or more proficient and informed, we got you covered. Also, did you know that marketing tips from a
children’s lemonade stand can help you market yourself as a designer? Well all that is included in this month’s web roundup.
We also have a set of great tutorials including two very different ones on digital painting, and our usual set of amazing freebies that include a set of seasonal RSS icons, as well as a great array of textures. So lets get into this month’s roundup!
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30. Best of the Web – November 2008
November was a month filled with tons of good material worth featuring in this wrap up. I narrowed down the best tutorials, free downloads, and articles on the web for this month. We have an article featuring our editor Sean, a interesting tutorial on a planet scene, and some cool free brushes and textures. Lets get into the content.
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