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Monday, November 1, 2010
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As you know, each month, we round up some of the best Photoshop-related content from around the web. This month, there were some excellent Photoshop tutorials, articles, and freebies to choose from; including some amazing photo manipulation tutorials, texture and brush packs, as well as some fantastic inspirational articles. So please take a moment to review our favorites from October 2010.
Tutorial Wrap
Create a Flowery Natural Peace and Harmony Composition
Photoshop gives us an endless number of tools to use in our designs. This tutorial from Creative Fan demonstrates how to combine, textures, brushes, stock photos, 3D elements, as well as lighting and photography to create a flower power illustration in Photoshop.
Digital Painting is often called the “Last Frontier” of graphic design. Digital artists continue to innovate in new directions. This tutorial by Ratinan Thaijareorn on Digital Arts demonstrates how to paint a surreal digital portrait using several elements including a tiger.
Squirrels are harmless, cute, and fun woodland creatures, right? Not this one. This tutorial from Psd Box demonstrates how to create a badass army squirrel that will eat you for breakfast!
One of the most exciting things to do in Photoshop is to create a new and unique composition using several different stock images. This tutorial from WeGraphics, demonstrates how to create a hard-bodied fantasy gladiator illustration in Photoshop.
Black and white compositions are often more dramatic than their color counterparts. This tutorial from Psd Deluxe will demonstrate how to use Photoshop and Poser to create a dramatic mythological Poseidon illustration.
The cosmic style is a popular technique with contemporary designers. This tutorial from Creative Fan demonstrates how to combine several elements to create a cosmic space girl illustration.
Adding fire and smoke to your designs isn’t always an easy task. This set of fire and smoke PNG files includes several fire and smoke images that include transparent backgrounds so that you can easily drop them into your designs.
Watercolors are always nice to add texture and color to a design. This set of Photoshop brushes from Design Instruct allows you to easily add a water color effect without getting your desk all messy.
Free PNG Credit Card, Debit Card and Payment Icons Set (18 Icons)
This set of icons from Smashing Magazine makes it impossible to leave your credit cards at home. It includes 18 credit card, debit card, and payment icons for you to drop into your designs.
You can find paper texture just about anywhere on the net, but good ones can be hard to find. This set from Lost and Taken includes 6 dirty paper textures for you to drop into your designs.
Got Milk? This set of free high resolution Photoshop brushes from Creative Nerds does! It includes several really nice brushes perfect for adding a splash of milk to your designs.
What could be cooler than mixing Tron and Marvel Comic Book characters? I can’t think of much. This inspirational post from Abduzeedo showcases some truly badass Marvel and Tron crossover illustrations.
Most people think of text as something that supports the artwork in some way. But what if text was the artwork? This inspirational post from Abduzeedo showcases illustrations that were made with type. Very cool!
Today, we have another Psd Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your photo manipulation skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more after the jump!
This Premium Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips
The ocean depths are the least explored of all the world’s ecosystems; and many say that the ocean is truly the last frontier on earth. Beneath the world’s oceans lie rugged mountain ranges, active volcanoes, vast plateaus and almost bottomless trenches that shroud many mysteries. Today’s tutorial will focus on creating a mythical sea creature illustration by blending stock photography and 3D renders. You’ll discover how Photoshop’s channel extraction techniques can save you hours of tedious cut-out work, how clever masking can enhance your composing skills, and finally, breath life into your illustrations by adding realistic textures.
Author Mark Mayers is a talented designer and illustrator from the UK. He has worked as a designer and creative director for several design/advertising agencies and specializes in print, branding, packaging, and exhibition graphics. Mark began his career when the tools of the trade were markers, layout pads, and most importantly, the ability to draw, but he embraced the digital revolution in the early 90′s and swapped his drawing board for a Mac. Today, Mark freelances from his studio in Cornwall for such clients as American Express, BMW, Future Publishing, IDG Communications and Imagine Publishing. Log in or Join Now to get started!
As you know, we run a premium membership system here that costs $9 a month (or $22 for 3 months!) which gives members access to the Source files for tutorials as well as periodic extra tutorials, like this one! You’ll also get access to Net Premium and Vector Premium, too. If you’re a Premium member, you can log in and download the tutorial. If you’re not a member, you can of course join today!
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