Color is one of the most difficult and most important aspects in design process. This article is a roundup of resources, articles, and tutorials for using color techniques or choosing a color scheme . Let’s dive into this collection to learn these techniques!
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1. How to Create a Basic House Icon in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you’ll go through easy steps and techniques to design a simple yet attractive house icon. It’s easy to follow and to play with. There are no intricate curves or complex brush work. Just simple shapes along with layer styles will do the complete job. The aim of the tutorial is to get familiar with the correct use of colors and efficient use of layer styles. I am sure you’ll enjoy following it. Let’s jump in!
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2. How to Get that Anime Look in Photoshop Using a Flexible Workflow
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to get that smooth shiny Anime look. We’ll start with a simple character outline and build the correct hierarchy for the base colors, tones and highlights. Also, we’ll learn how to work with this “method” for later projects in case the client or director will ask for changes, it will be easy to replace colors for a specific part of the character without redrawing all the tones and highlights again! You are about to learn one of the many techniques from the Anime industry. Let’s get started!
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3. 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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4. How to Create a Chilling Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
In this tutorial I will show you how I created a fantasy photo manipulation called "You Can Not Frost The Time" with using several Photoshop tools such as Color Range, different blending modes, and more. Let’s get started!
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5. Create a Promotional iPhone App Site in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we’ll be continuing this series on creating an iPhone app promotional site by taking our previous Fireworks constructed wireframe and adding color, texture, images, and effects to polish off this design in Photoshop. We’ll use some interesting elements, like iPhone imagery and a stylish aurora vector background illustration. We’ll finish up with a professional site design ready to get coded! Let’s get to it!
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6. Design a Colorful Illustration Using Patterns and Shapes
A good friend and amazing artist Bram Vanhaeren and I decided to collaborate on an illustration to then create a tutorial for all the readers at Psdtuts+. We came up with a cool illustration that incorporates patterns, coloring, as well as 3D shapes. The most important thing about this is that it is all extremely simple to create so it shouldn’t be that difficult for anybody. There are a lot of new techniques here that I guarantee you’ll be using, so check this one out!
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7. Add Fantastic Color to 3D Text – Part I
This is the first part of a two part series. Part two will be released tomorrow. In this piece you will learn how to bring a simple text to life and place everything in fantastic, colored and glowing 3D space. Some neat techniques covered here will allow you to bring your art to the next level. Don’t miss it!
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8. Add Fantastic Color to 3D Text – Part II
This is the this last part of this two part tutorial on adding fantastic color to 3D text. In this tutorial, you will learn how to bring a simple text to life and place everything in fantastic, colored and glowing 3D space. Some neat techniques covered here will allow you to bring your artwork to the next level. Don’t miss it!
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9. How to Create a Unique Colorful Site Layout
This tutorial will guide you through the process of designing a professional website with a funky colorful flair. The tutorial features some great colors, effects and layer styles in which you can use over and over for future projects. Let’s get started!
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10. How To Create the Photo Manipulation “Brightness Tomorrows”
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a futuristic looking photo manipulation using some special tools, such as the Background Eraser Tool and how to blend pictures properly using Match Color Adjustments and Lighting Effects. So let’s start!
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11. Quick Tip: Preparing Line Drawings for Coloring in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we’ll be learning how to take a paper line drawing and preparing it for coloring in Photoshop. Learn to take your line drawing and clean it up in Photoshop. The image we’ll be using is an original hand drawing provided by myself. The end result is left open for experimentation. Let’s jump into it!
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12. Interview with João Oliveira
As one of the members of the worlds largest design collectives The KDU, João Oliveira strives to further advance his skills in designing. With only three years of design experience João has already perfected his own style of creating art.
A lot of his work features his signature style of simple 2D shapes mixed with vivid colors. He describes this style as being very time efficient. If he only has a limited amount of time, he can still quickly make a visually stimulating design for his client. In this interview, João talks about his involvement in the KDU, as well as where he looks for inspiration. So lets dive into this great interview!
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13. It’s Time to Create a ‘Neo-Constructivist’ Poster with Photoshop
Constructivist graphic design is often associated with communist politics and propaganda, but it’s more than that, Constructivism is about using bright colors, playing with lightness, perspective, geometrical forms, besides photomontage techniques and digital collage. This time I’ll dare to name this tutorial a ‘Neo-Constructivist’ design. It’s time to get started!
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14. How to Create a Gorgeous Glassy Text Effect
I Worked on this tutorial with a good friend of mine Negreu Andreas. This text will be created using a series of shapes with different transparency and color effects. Let’s get to it!
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15. Create a Five-color Magazine Cover using a Spot Metallic
This is an advanced tutorial commissioned especially for Graphic Design Week. I’ll demonstrate how to integrate a spot-color metallic ink into your workflow using InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat Professional. Let’s get to it!
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16. Color Tools, Resources and Tutorials for Photoshopers
Choosing a color scheme for your project can be one of the most difficult and most important decisions that you make during the design process. Within the last several years there have been quite a few advances in technology and resources related to this subject. This article is a roundup of some of the best new applications, resources, articles, and tutorials for choosing a color scheme for your project.
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In this interview, Barton shares with us his humble beginnings and the story of how he landed his first clients, launched his career, built contacts, and over time became more selective with his freelance work. Barton has a tremendous amount of energy and it shows in his motion inspired colorful work. He has loads of experience and a creative, passionate spirit, which is inspirational. This is an awesome read, so lets get to it!
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18. Create an Asian Inspired Illustration with Impact
While creating things from scratch is an awesome way to showcase your style and technique, using stock photos is an easier way to add impacting detail to your work. To be able to do all that, we’ll be using various ways to separate photos from their backgrounds, manipulating them and altering the overall lighting, contrast, and color balance to finish off this complex illustration.
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19. How to Create Super-Malleable Effects with Colorful Lines
These days colorful lines are one of the most malleable effects you can easily create in Photoshop. They simply fit everywhere and can look really awesome. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create these fantastic colorful effects using only Photoshop. I’ll show you how to compose illustration with these effects. Let’s get to it!
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20. Creating a Touching Story Scene in Photoshop
I worked on this illustration especially for you with Ciursa Ionut, he is the founder of PSDBURN where he writes Photoshop tutorials. He started working in Photoshop many years ago when he began to utilize this great tool all the time. In this tutorial, you are going to create a story scene using photo manipulation and a lot of color adjustments.
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21. Using Adobe Kuler to Enhance Your Photoshop Color Workflow
Let’s look closely at a crucial and time-saving product for designers called Adobe Kuler. We’ll learn to explore, create and share color themes using the Kuler website and the built in extension of Kuler in Photoshop CS4. What’s Adobe Kuler? It’s a web-hosted application, providing free color themes that can be used by anybody, in any project you are working on. Let’s jump into this article and learn more about Adobe Kuler and how to use it with Photoshop!
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22. Splattered Vector and Photography Mash Up
Mixing Vector work with Photography is a great way to produce a fun and colorful art style. This approach is used in a variety of projects from club flyers and CD Artwork through to high-end advertising imagery. Expanding on the comprehensive guide to the Pen Tool by Ian Yates, we look at creative ways of implanting the tool. This tutorial should convince those of you lacking the confidence to draw within Photoshop to do so with style.
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Sakke is an extremely talented designer residing in Helsinki, Finland. He attributes his style to old retro movies like Tron and various images he recalls from growing up in the 80’s. His illustrations consist of vibrant colors and bizarre images that are unique and very well executed. In this interview, Sakke explains how he thinks a freelance designer should build up a client base, and a lot more. So check this one out.
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24. 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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25. Quick Tip: Color Correction in Photoshop with the Curves Adjustment Tool
One of my favorite tools that I use on regular basis is the Curves Adjustment tool, which not only helps me in creating desired contrast, but at the same time it allows me to color correct my images. I use this tool instead of widely used Color Balance Adjustment tool. This tutorial will teach you how to use this tool to color correct photos efficiently.
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26. 40 Mind-blowing Digital Space Paintings
Some of the world’s most stunning visions of space are made possible with Photoshop. The ability to combine vibrant colors, photo manipulations and ethereal effects makes the software ideal for this kind of work. Here are 40 incredible visions of space from four extremely talented Photoshop artists.
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27. 30 Super-Juicy Photoshop Illustration Tutorials
Illustrating in Photoshop is a challenging process with the potential to yield impressive results. Here we’ve collected 30 high-quality tutorials to help you master every aspect of sketching, shading and coloring with Adobe Photoshop.
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28. New PLUS Tutorial – How to Create a Moleskine Watercolor Design with Photoshop
This is a new addition to the PSDTUTS PLUS section. Learn all about how to give your images both a sketchy inked treatment and watercolor wash look. Also, the design ties this all together by placing it into a Moleskine style notebook. Learn more at the jump!
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29. New Watercolor Photoshop Brushes – PLUS Pack
This is a new pack of Photoshop brushes available exclusively from PSDTUTS for PLUS members. We have a new set of Watercolor Brushes for you. They are great for adding that touch of worn or natural media feel to your next design project. This set of high quality brushes is available for PLUS members to download today!
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30. How to Create an Ice-cold Poster with 3D Text
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to combine stock images and 3D text into a cool poster. We’ll use an icy theme for it and color it the way we want. You’ll see it’s not that hard to create a simple appealing poster with effective use of text and imagery.
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