Photoshop Tutorials
Tutorial: Sonic Battle Style CG Tutorial
Author: Tom “CK” Forsey
Link: Idigitalemotion.com
This tutorial is meant for advanced Photoshop users. If you’re unfamiliar with Photoshop’s interface, own an earlier version of Photoshop (This doesn’t automatically discount you, but the tutorial was written for Photoshop 7.0.), or are new to CGing, I’d suggest you save this for some other time. First off, you gotta draw your pic.
Tutorial: Creating 3d Objects using Photoshop
Author: Pure Photoshop
Link: Purephotoshop.com
3D objects, namely icons, the little graphics that grace the interface of almost every conceivable GUI application you can possibly think of. Icons give us a visual representation of the functions, tools, and processes they represent. In this article, we’ll step through the process of creating a very nice 3d icon using reference material.
Tutorial: Masking Basics
Author: Silky
Link: Pixeladdiction.com
Layer Masks
A layer mask, in a nutshell, is a way to hide (temporarily if necessary) parts of a picture. In Photoshop, when using more than one layer for an image, using layer masks is a way to remove portions of the layers to “hide” them behind other portions of the image.
Tutorial: Pixel Art Tutorial
Author: Alan Hettinge
Link: Newtutorials.com
Learn how to create pixel art in Photoshop.
Pixel drawings come in handy when you need clear, small graphics. They also have a great retro style to them, so graphic artists should know how to make them.
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to make pixel drawings using a reference image.
Tutorial: iTunes Button
Author: Steve-Unlimit-3d
Link: Unlimit-3d.com
iTunes Button
Make professional looking buttons that are amazingly like the buttons in iTunes.
1. Open up your document, with the elliptical marquee tool (M), hold Shift and drag out a selection about 75px tall and wide; fill it with #BBBBBB…
Tutorial: Stylish Link Box
Author: Steve-Unlimit-3d
Link: unlimit-3d.com
Stylish Link Box
Make a stylish box to put your links for your site.
1. Open a new document, using the rectangular marquee tool (M) that is about 120px in width, and 20px in height. Using paint bucket (G) fill it with any color you want.
Tutorial: Crystal Apple
Author: WebDogPro
Link: Webdogpro.com
Learn how to create a fantastic looking crystal apple.
1) Create a new
500×500, fill the background with black, use lighting effect to make it
like this picture is shown below.
Tutorial: Interface tutorial
Author: Nina Indset Andersen
Link: Eyesondesign.net
Finally!
The Interface tutorial you have been nagging about is here!
So roll up those shirtsleeves and flex those PS muscles – it’s Interface time!
PS! By clicking the small thumbnails you will be able to see a big screenshot…
Tutorial: How to make a Stone Wall
Author: mrrokie
Link: idigitalemotion.com
How to make a Stone Wall.
Important note: Try with different values of the border thickness parameter when you apply the stained glass filter, use a value of 5 or some thing like that and I think it would look better (im too lazy to change the tutorial because I would have to change the sample pics too)
Tutorial: Playing with Fire
Author: Greg
Link: PhotoshopTechniques.com
Over the years I have seen a number of Photoshop fire effects. Unfortunately, they were not very flexible or realistic, so I decided to develop my own. The technique I came up with was more realistic than I had hoped for. It can be used to start a fire on almost any image.
Tutorial: Beauty Retouching
Author: Suzette Troche-Stapp a.k.a.
Link: Photoshop 911
take a slightly different approach to retouching beauty. People I have taught in the past have found it difficult to distinguish where to start with the clone tool when retouching someone’s face.
Tutorial: Color Masking
Author: Bvibe
Link: Bvibe.net
I’m sure you’ve seen photos with color masking like this in advertisements or similar. There are many ways of achieving this kind of effect, I’ll show you one of them.
Tutorial: Remote Control Interface
Author: Absolutecross
Link: Absolutecross.com
This tutorial will teach you how to create a simple “Remote Control” which you can use as an interface or navigational tool for your site.
1. Start by creating a new document about 200×350. Refer to the Rounded Edges Tutorial if you don’t know how to make rounded inteface edges (see below example)…
Tutorial: Retouching Tips: Enhancing Eyes, Eyelashes, and More!
Author: Scott Kelby
Link: Adobe.com
Here are some amazingly quick tips using Adobe® Photoshop® CS for quickly enhancing what are perhaps the most important facial features: a person’s eyes, and their smile. What’s great about these techniques is they’re so easy to perform, anyone can do them…
Tutorial: 100% Layout Tutorial
Author: Zymic
Link: Zymic.com
Create an effective 3 column web layout using Photoshop and Macromedia Dreamweaver. Learn how to create the main header in Photoshop and the code the rest of the layout manually without the use of slicing in Dreamweaver.
Slicing a web page usually isn’t a great idea unless it’s really simple. Slicing produces far too much code and images you do not need… and not to mention it can get pretty hard to work with.