How to Create Create Cool Retro Graphics – Psd Premium Tutorial

Today, we have another Psd Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your retro design skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more at the jump! This Premium Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips Retro design is enjoying a huge modern day revival – and [...]

How to Create a Highly Detailed Hi-Tech Power Button – Basix

With this tutorial we will create a hi-tech style button that can be used in splash pages, applications or Powerpoint presentations. We will use Illustrator to create complex vectors and Photoshop to develop realistic effects. Step 1 Using Illustrator we create a rectangle with the size shown. With the Rectangle tool we click on the work area [...]

How to Create a Realistic Fountain Pen – Screencast

“In this tutorial, you’ll learn to design a realistic calligraphy pen from scratch. The tutorial involves a simple use of the Pen Tool and a few flexible Layer Styles. Lighting and reflection techniques are explained throughout the tutorial. This might be a quite useful for icon enthusiasts. Let’s dive in Asher Abbasi.” Here is a link [...]

Showcase of Textures in Print Design

The use of textures can dramatically improve your print design work. You can (if used sensibly) add more depth to your work, whether your work be business cards, advertisements or posters. The results of using texture in your print design projects can be completely different every time, depending on various factors such as what textures [...]

Use Photo Manipulation and 3D Layers to Design a Surreal Cover Art Illustration

My clients often ask me to create impossible scenarios, weird landscapes and surreal images for their projects; images that wouldn’t be possible in real life. It’s situations like these where photo manipulation becomes a powerful design tool. In today’s tutorial I will show you how to design a CD cover using several photo manipulation techniques, [...]

Create a Shiny Psdtuts+ Folder Icon in Photoshop

Icon design is an essential element in any designer’s tool chest. No matter how simple or how complex your design is, a nice looking icon will almost always help to spruce things up. In this Photoshop tutorial we will demonstrate some easy steps to help you to produce your own shiny Psdtuts+ icon in Photoshop. [...]

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It’s All in the Eyes: 100 Beautiful Photo Manipulations

The eyes have long been considered the windows to the soul. Photographers often try to focus on a subject’s eyes as a way to add depth and emotion to a photo. But there are still only so many ways you can emphasize the eyes in a standard photo. That’s where photo manipulations like those below enter [...]

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