This collection will show you how to create a clean and professional web design, a Dali-esque photo montage, a nifty glass text effect, a stylish and sleek play-station portable icon, a typographic, make glowing rods, music icons, network logo, realistic view tears on face, wavy and rippled circle, wallpaper, etc,. Do you like Avatar? You can “avatar” any characters you want after you learn the tutorial wrapped in this collection.
Avatar’s main character Jake Sully, paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet called Pandora. Pandora is inhabited by a primitive race …
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2. How to Embarrass a Friend Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial can help you if you want to transform your pictures, make them look cool, interesting, or just have fun with it like I did. This is …
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3. Animal Photo Manipulation Tutorial
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a new species of birds. The idea came to me after watching my cat trying to catch little birds and …
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4. Playing with Vectors in Illustrator
Last week I decided to spend some time playing with Illustrator and trying to come up with a cool black and white artwork. My inspiration came from some skateboard deck designs which have this sort of 3D effect without using gradients or anything, and not exactly a woodcut effect either. After a few hours I was able to come up with a really nice design, but the most important thing, the whole process was an excellent way to improve my Illustrator techniques.
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5. Playing with Watercolor Brushes and Masks in Pixelmator
I have already created some tutorials about watercolor effects; however, I also want to create a workflow that is extremely simple but that produces a beautiful result. Therefore, I invented this tutorial, which uses only basic watercolor brushes, a photo, and a layer mask.This tutorial is part of a series of tutorials I have been writing for Pixelmator and posting over at http://www.pixelmator.com/learn/
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6. Super Easy Neon Style in Photoshop – Screencast
Last year I wrote a tutorial showing how to create a neon effect, it was the Super Easy Neon Style in Photoshop and it was inspired by a neon sign I saw outside of a pub. So in this post we have a screencast of that tutorial provided by our friedn Ash Davies from Photoguides.net
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7. Creating a Typographic Portrait in Pixelmator
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a typographic portrait using only Pixelmator. But what does that mean? A typographic portrait is a portrait composed of text. The technique is pretty simple. We will also play with Blending and basic filters.Step 1Open Pixelmator and create a new document (The size I used was 1440×900 pixels). Then fill the background layer with black.
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8. Photoshop Quick Tips: Neon with Layer Styles
I have posted about how to create the neon effect in Photoshop a couple of times, however I still get emails from readers asking me how I did the light effect I use on the Abduzeedo logo. So I decided to simplify the process and show you how to create the this effect in very simple steps using basically Layer Styles and a few brushes.Step 1Open Photoshop and create a new document. I’m using 1920×1200 pixels. Fill the background with black.
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9. Super Easy Typographic Portrait in Photoshop
Last year we posted on Abduzeedo a very cool post about typographic portraits, the 45 Amazing Type Faces – Typographic Portraits became one of the most popular posts on Abduzeedo, and a lot of people asked me how to create that effect in Photoshop.
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10. Create a Clean and Professional Web Design in Photoshop
In this Photoshop web design tutorial we are going to design a smashing, clean, and professional website layout in Photoshop. The layout we are doing in this tutorial can be used as personal or corporate website design.
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11. Create a nifty glass text effect
Learn to create a nice transparent glass text effect that can be used for banners, logos and for compositions.
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12. Draw a concept car in Illustrator
Today we will show you how to render a car in Illustrator starting with a rough sketch. On a scale of 1 to 5, the level of difficulty of this tutorial is about 2.
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13. Create a Dali-esque photo montage
Creating a successful photo montage may not be as easy as it might seem at first. Follow this tutorial that is going to explain the subtleties and tricks you have at your disposal in Photoshop to learn how to do it.
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14. Color Correction Basics in Photoshop
The focus of this tutorial is to help you delve deeper into color correcting to up the production value of your images.
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15. Dodge and Burn
The dodge and burn tools in Photoshop are perfect for changing areas of light and shadow to give a more dramatic effect and make features look less flat. What these 2 tools do is darken or lighten the shadows, highlights or midtones of an image using a brush tool. Just some of these tools uses are to lighten harsh shadows, darken areas that are to light, create dramatic images by increasing the shadow areas, alter exposure problems and add depth a textured surface.
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16. Space Design
Hallo and welcome into the space design wallpaper tutorial. In this tutorial we’ll use basic forms and custom brushes to create a beautiful rendering in Photoshop.
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17. Making of nine and venue wallpaper
In this tutorial we will make nine and venue wallpaper. About the name- well I really don’t know where it came from but this naming justpopped into my mind then – so here we go. I will use Photoshop as mymain App for creating this one.
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18. Photo retouching
So hallo again and I welcome you in Photo retouching tutorial. In this one we will take a photo and apply some effects. Moreover we will change levels of the photos and even the look of the objects (this time portraits).
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19. Make Network Logo in Photoshop Video Tutorial
First of all Open New Document of Custom size,Height & Width 300×300 pixels,Resolution 72 & Mode RGB Color. Now select Rounded Rectangle Tool. Now [...]
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20. Make realistic view tears on face in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial I would like to invite your attention to the unique technique how to make realistic view tears effect. So, in the beginning you should find a good picture to work with. You can try to find it on stock photo web sites or also can use mine. Open up the picture. Then [...]
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21. Make glowing rods in Photoshop
Open a new document in Photoshop. Make sure the new document is the right size for the button that you plan to make. I would recommend choosing 300×300 width/height.
Select the Rounded Rectangle Shape Tool and make sure the radius settings for the corners are around 15. Draw [...]
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22. Make music icons in photoshop video tutorial
Take a new file of 300 pixels, 300 pixels, of resolution 72 dpi in the RGB mode. Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool apply the following settings. Create a shape like shown image below.
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23. Make wavy and rippled circle in photoshop
First of we will need the ring shape, so with the ellipse tool draw a ellipse on the stage with white color, then draw one smaller in black and place it in center of the white one as shown below. (remember in two different layers). In the layers panel right click both layers and choose rasterize [...]
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24. The Background Eraser Tool In Photoshop
In this tutorial, we look at Photoshop’s Background Eraser and how this powerful and popular image editing tool uses differences in color to easily erase unwanted background areas of a photo!
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25. Flip, Rotate And Mirror Designs And Patterns
Learn how to create fun and interesting designs and patterns from a single image in Photoshop by repeatedly flipping, rotating and mirroring it, and experimenting with different layer blend modes!
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26. Using Colors Effectively in Digital Photography
Whenever I go out on a photo shoot I love to include as much color and as bold as possible. Color is more important to our worlds than we think and is often taken for granted. Although monochrome photos are great, there is more to color photography than we think. A few techniques mentioned in this article will add a dramatic dimension to your images.
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27. Understanding Exposure Compensation in Photography
I always had a problem when taking images that had a lot of white in them or where they were quite dark. They came out grey or with the dark images, too light. What I hadn’t realized was that my camera was doing its own thing. That is, the light meter was being fooled by the conditions and making its own decisions. Most times they are great but there are times when they just don’t get it right. This is when exposure compensation can be used.
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28. Using Natural Light For Great Wildlife Photography
To get the best light for a wildlife photo, you are really looking to minimize contrast, and to eliminate shadows from important areas; most importantly across the face of the animal. If you take your photos in the middle of a sunny day, you are bound to encounter shadows in all the wrong places. Bright light is likely to overexpose parts of the subject, while the face and the underside of the animal could be lost in heavy shadow.
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29. Perspective in Photography
Perspective in photography can be defined as the sense of depth or spatial relationships between objects in the photo, along with their dimensions with respect to the viewpoint (camera lens or the viewer). This is one of the tricky areas of photography which if a photographer is not consciously aware of, can produce unwanted “distortions” or “flat” uninteresting images. The human eye judges distance by the way lines and planes converge at an angle. This is known as linear perspective.
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30. Group Portrait Photography Tips and Techniques
Pulling the group together will allow you to step closer and assure that faces can be seen. Having the group stand shoulder to shoulder, all facing the camera can look very stiff and also makes it difficult to get close enough to see any detail. It is better to curve the rows and use various heights to bring the group in to a narrower range and allow faces to be seen in the photograph as you get closer to the group.
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31. HDR Photography – The Facts
High Dynamic Range (HDR), as the name suggests attempts to extend the light and tonal range of images taken under normal conditions, and once a balanced HDR image is compared with the original shot the results are often outstanding. Ever hear the expression, “You just had to be there’, when someone is showing off photographs? What they are really saying is that their camera just cannot compete with the human eye when capturing the total range of light and dark areas in an image.
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32. Digital SLR Cameras and Hyperfocal Distance Focus
Hyperfocal distance is that special focus condition in which clear focus is obtained from ½ the hyperfocal focus point to infinity. Put another way, if you know what the HFD is for the given lens focal length and f-stop and focus on it, then everything from ½ of that distance to infinity is in focus. Maximum depth of focus allows you to use relative subject scale as a creative aspect in your compositions while still keeping everything tack sharp.
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33. Tips For Photographing Flowers
Flower shots always look their best when taken from the side. Shot from above they don’t have same appeal as when taken from the side. Use the rule of thirds placing them in a slightly off centred position and never right in the middle of the image. Getting in closer will always add to the composition. Here are some simple tips that will help you shoot better flower photos.
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34. Sports Photography – How Most Pros Work
In sports photography, you have to be able to anticipate and concentrate for long periods. Being knowledgeable and following a variety of sports, not just the popular ones, is crucial. And finally a good ounce of luck doesn’t hurt either. What exactly should you be looking for besides shooting great action?
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35. Repetition and Patterns in Photography
The root word of repetition is “repeat? When you repeat a certain size, or shape or color you add strength to the overall image. Repetition is a basic concept in the world of art. If you want to make a statement, you repeat certain elements again and again. If you repeat something once or twice it becomes more interesting. If you repeat something many times it becomes a pattern and takes on a life of its own. Patterns give us order in an otherwise chaotic world.
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36. Create A Stylish And Sleek Play-Station Portable Icon
In this Photoshop tutorial we’ll learn how to create a stylish and sleek-looking play station portable. This is very detailed, but advanced tutorial, so if you have basic knowledge and understanding about Photoshop you should be able to easily keep up and let me guide you through this PSP creation process. Each step is followed by screenshots
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37. How to Create a Nifty Dynamic Shadow with jQuery
First I want to welcome you to my very first article for 1stwebdesigner. Today I’ll show you how to create a very nifty looking dynamic shadow with a few teaspoons of jQuery, a pinch of CSS and some transparent PNG’s as Base. I’ll explain every line of used code, so you can easily follow along
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38. 7 Very Useful Websites to Get Practical Fireworks Tutorials
Fireworks is the best software around for editing vector and bitmap and vector graphic. It helps you to rapidly prototype websites and application interfaces. Compared to Photoshop, there aren’t any decent online alternatives for Fireworks. There are a lot of new features in fireworks like CSS export and style effects and you should must give it
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39. Integrate SexyBookmarks into any HTML page with JavaScript
SexyBookmarks is a handy plugin for sharing the useful & helpful links on the famous social bookmark services just like AddThis Wordpress plugin. (if you still don’t know about it or you want to learn more, please go to its homepage). This tutorial and article will teach you how to actually use this plugin in
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40. How to Add Inscription to the Stone Wall
One more interesting tutorial about how to put some text on the stone and bring it volume form.
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