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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )Coleslaw January 27th
Looks pretty wicked, but you’ve shot yourself in the foot by using bevel and emboss and that stroke on the text, imho. The process is good, but the text is claw-out-your-eyes worthy.
( )Ciursă Ionuţ | PSDBURN January 27th
Nice tutorial. I like it!
( )robert January 27th
like the tutorial,
but DAMN that’s some ugly ass font you used in your header. it destroyed the whol tutorial
( )chico January 27th
Nice one.
( )Chinonso Anyaehie January 27th
well u tried, but the outcome is not Amazing
( )jimizm January 27th
Wtf…
( )Glitched January 27th
Haha. The tutorial is ok but not amazing.
( )loswl January 27th
uuuum?!?
( )Tyler Osborne January 27th
I think you spent alot of time actually manipulating the motobike. but i think you got bored when it came to the navigation and the text. I think we havent seen fully what your capable of. Next time, please dont get bored!
( )kudosgiver January 27th
overcomplicating a very simple procedure. image is a bit pants too but the idea is good so kudos
( )Anthony January 27th
Hahahahahahaha
( )d13design January 27th
A disappointing tutorial given the standard we’ve come to expect. There’s some nice techniques in there but the overall output isn’t inspiring and I can’t imagine people *wanting* to undertake the tutorial.
( )thevoyager January 27th
Great tutorial.. although I didn’t like the final result..
( )MiroARRR January 27th
wtf is the word.
( )What is this supposed to be ?
If ur purpose was to make me laugh, u’ve just done it. :O
EdpeppeRs January 27th
come on, guys. relax.. give us a chance.. don’t make fun of it, please. hehe
it’s not so perfect for the most of u, but it’s good for someone..
seriously, i didn’t like it at all, but, it must to work for someone.. i hope so.
( )neill cartlidge January 27th
best tutorial ever! (sarcasm)
( )marcs frest January 27th
That one really sucked.
( )marciobda January 27th
dear author, sorry, but WTF?!
( )Simon Page January 27th
The quality of the tutorials on PSDTUTS have definitely fallen in standards a bit recently – this isn’t the worst. But certainly not one of the best.
On the plus side there are some nice beginner tips in here albeit they could of been used for a better / simpler outcome.
( )Isis January 27th
I don’t know, is not that bad, but is a little immature, old fashioned…it seems the 90’s-GIF-web-things…
And the typography doesn’t help.
=P
( )Justafa January 27th
PSDTUTS just jumped the Shark!
( )therealpanse January 27th
errr… what?
( )This mess looks pretty cheap. Lighting sucks and there is no explanation of the techniques you use…
How can this be a tut when you don’t learn anything new from it?
Zoltan Sebestyen January 27th
This tutorial is NOT for psdtuts.com…
( )AoK January 27th
Seems like a lot of work for an outcome that bad
( )Erik January 27th
I guess everybody can post tuts here nowadays…
( )aMs January 27th
who would like to have something like this as a banner? very poor outcome
( )Baudi January 27th
well, this suck!
from this time, good tutorials well be post only on psd tuts plus?
( )Kevin January 27th
“The goggles they do nothing”
( )Thomas January 27th
pen tool beginners tutorial…?
( )Nico January 27th
ummm…….
( )very cool tutorial
ruadolt January 27th
this seems alot like this tutorial
http://10steps.sg/photoshop/web-interface-with-car-images/
( )Sergio Ordonez January 27th
I agree not the best tuto I have ever seen.
( )simon January 27th
I got up this morning and checked PSDTUTS as per usual. I’m going back to bed now coz this tut has ruined my day! soooooo bad!
( )Nameless January 27th
Ouch!
( )tomasz January 27th
great work, very nice
( )http://afrix99.deviantart.com/
Pavel January 27th
A cheesy Rock poster yesterday…now a….a….humm…..wtf it is supposed to be called anyway? Come one guys its not 1993 anymore
( )pm January 27th
Sorry, but did somebody got paid doing this crap?
( )Mike January 27th
I think its not fair to make fun of someone that tries to share knowledge. Even if for some (or the most as it looks like) of you here this tutorial is not interesting, im sure there are people out there who can learn something of it.
Actually the final graphic doesnt really count, its more the technique how to get there. What you make out of it, is your own creativity. Its just for learning how to use Photoshop better.
Everyone startet once as a noob and the worst thing is having people laughing at you just because they are more advanced and have more knowledge… There is nothing to feel superior just because you learned longer.
( )Josh January 27th
No need to make fun of the tut. He spent time on this. May help someone.
( )R January 27th
+1 for Mike’s comment
( )Jane January 27th
so much effort to make that … crappy banner… at least you made tuourial..
( )Miked January 27th
I agree, some nice techniques in there but the outcome is just weird…
( )Timothy January 27th
@ Mike, I agree, the outcome doesn’t matter. It really is about the knowledge and technique. This technique could be applied to make something that works well. But, I still have to agree with everyone else regardless that it looks awkward.
( )Lauren January 27th
This is really really bad. I am no expert, which explains why I visit this site, but seriously, this tut is nothing but trace, cut, paste; how does something this bad end up on a site as a tutorial?
( )DKumar M. January 27th
Well, I expect more then this from PSDtuts.
( )BroOf January 27th
This is a nice technik. Nice tutorial!
( )Mr.Burns January 27th
Please relax…
It is not the best tut, but the idea is not bad.
( )Bryan Le January 27th
I think it’s time that PSDTuts upped the ante on the money they pay for tuts. They need quality ones.
I’m assuming they put this sub-par tutorial up for lack of submissions. If this one made it up, I can only imagine the others that are being submitted.
$150 a tutorial? Try upping it to $200 – $250 and I guarantee someone will start submitting quality tutorials. It takes about 15 hours to write a great one, and at $10/hr, I’d rather not waste my time.
( )Ozy January 27th
is it april fool’s already?
( )Snorri 3D January 27th
not a menu that i would use but still a nice tut
( )Shade January 27th
Yeah seriously? The quality of tuts on here are dropping significantly, this post alone shows that pretty blatantly.
I have a PLUS account on here, and if the quality continues at this pace or even further drops (though from this post it’s not far from rock bottom) i’m going to cancel my subscription.
( )NGP January 27th
Maybe they should up the price to view the site that you guys are all complaining about?
Someone took their time to make a tutorial and share their knowledge and experience with the rest of us, and we all get it for FREE. This tutorial, while the outcome is maybe not the best, shows excellent techniques for taking various parts from photos and arranging them in a seamless way.
Learn the techniques then apply them to whatever you want! The lighting is off? So use your expert knowledge to fix it, it looks bad in your eyes? Then improve it yourself! And please share your deep knowledge with the rest of us so we can partake in it by writing a tutorial yourself!
Finally, PSD Tuts ALWAYS shows you a preview of the final result. Don’t like it? Don’t read the tut. That simple
Thanks PSD Tuts you guys rock as always
( )Snorri 3D January 27th
humm… when i read trhoug it its not that nice after all it needs more details on the techniques used in the tut
( )Wes D. January 27th
I agree with ISIS…it reminds me of something you would have seen on a some teenage amateur’s motorcycle club website in the early to mid 90’s.
Good attempt, but not the best I’ve seen by any means…
( )Jamie January 27th
no offense but the tutorial sucks and the outcome is horribe
( )MiroARRR January 27th
@Mike : Dude, wtf again. Do u know me or us so well to criticize ?
I’ve passed through this. Being a noob is part of life. It’s a point. BUT that a site like PSDTUTS upload smthg like this is like Bryan Lee said just before, lack of submissions lets toss smthg out of what we got. I’m laughing at the fact that PSDTUTS tries to keep the ONE DAY ONE GREAT TUT frequency. Lads, if nothing climbs up the hill this day, then post nthg instead of things like this.
Thx.
( )Miki January 27th
NEXT TUT:
CREATE AMAZING FIRE TEXT EFFECT?
( )Manuel January 27th
Nothing learned and the result doesn’t look good.
( )Peter January 27th
Well, the final result is a bit strange….. It’s not in the PSd tuts quality
( )Shade January 27th
The point is that PSD tuts is suppose to be GOOD tutorials. I’ve been a designer for over 16 years and before i found PSD tuts i had come across very many crappy tutorial websites and very few good ones.
When my wife wanted to brush up on her photoshop knowledge i recommended her to come to PSD Tuts, i bought her a subscription to PLUS for both PSD tuts and Vector Tuts.
I don’t want her or anybody else i would refer to a tutorial site to see tutorials like these and accept them as good because the fact is, they are not.
I also won’t continue to pay for a Plus Membership for my wife if this is the kind of stuff that is posted, it’s not worth it.
So in summary, in order for me personally to continue referring people to this site as well as maintaining my monthly PLUS subscription, the quality is going to HAVE to turn back around because recently it’s been dropping steadily.
I’m sure i’m not the only one with this opinion, and yes, it is worth it to increase the pay for a tutorial if it keeps the readers happy because if the readers are not happy, hype slows down on it, reputation flips, and advertisers stop advertising. The site only makes money as long as the readers are happy.
( )Adam January 27th
Well, you bunch of ladies, what you dont understand, this person has done actually a good job to show the novices how to do image manipulation.
Taking a image of a bike, cutting various sections and blending it together quickly and easily. Not everyone knows how to do this.
The outcome good have been much better, I agree. However, he’s gone and spent some time to show people how it can be done.
And if you pull your head out of your backside for just a moment and think, “wait a minute, i could actually use a different photo, and create something different, using this technique”.
PSDTuts having beginner tutorials, is not a problem at all. For you more advanced users, stop complaining, your pathetic!
( )Dan January 27th
I would have stopped at the beginning of the navigation part. This tutorial could have followed some of the basic principles talked about here.
( )BogDinamita January 27th
@Mike, it’s not that there’s something wrong about the tutorial or who posted it, it’s how it got posted on PSDTuts. 2 in a row!!
( )Chris January 27th
What bothers me is, the techniques used are worth being in a tutorial, but the final render is just not artistic nor eye candy. PSDtuts recently lack of tutorial with a great outcome, and with great techniques.
( )Mike M January 27th
The point of the complaints is that the quality of the tutorial and the end result is nowhere near on par with the standard we have all come to expect from PSDTuts. Not that the author is useless, just that what he has submitted belongs somewhere other than this site.
And for all of you who are harping on with stuff like “it’s mean to criticize someone who has taken the time to share their knowledge” – sure, it is, but don’t forget this guy was PAID for this tutorial – you can’t champion someone giving their time freely when they’ve pocketed $150 for putting this together.
I do agree that some of the methods he’s used are beneficial for newcomers, and I do not believe PSDTuts should focus solely on more experienced users, however the end result still has to count for something – it’s like teaching someone a recipe for jelly( jello) and haggis crumble – sure, they’ll learn a few cooking tips, but you wouldn’t want to eat it!
( )Diogo January 27th
Like some effects, only!
[sarcasm mode on]
omg….greatest tuts ever ! This tuto rlz !
[sarcasm mode off]
pffff…
( )shae January 27th
wow.. up next; we’ll get a tutorial on how to use the bevel and glow filters to make SWEET text!
( )Ian January 27th
Honestly, the end result looks cheap and nasty, and the techniques used have been done to death.
( )Zepho January 27th
Yo, 1998 called and they want their banner back
( )puffgirl January 27th
Well, this may not be the best judging from the final outcome. I agree with Mike, the final graphic doesnt really count, its more the technique how to get there. Techniques used may be simple for those who are regular on psdtuts or photoshop. But someone should find this handy, i believe.
There are people who seek help on photoshop and i always redirect dhem to psdtuts, after a while i get a reply as ‘darn.. dont they have some cool tuts for beginners? or some simple stuff?’
( )Ebbern January 27th
wow this is by far the worst designed top navigation ive never seen.
please erase it..
( )puffgirl January 27th
btw i did not know psdtuts is only for the PRO.. can anyone proove it?
( )chris January 27th
and then wat is the meaning of this tutorial if anyone who visit in this site is professional
i love this site and i want to learn more about photoshop no matter how simple is it
great tutorial thank’s man
( )Thomas January 27th
I think the worst part of psdtuts is all the complainers. I’m starting to wish they’d moderate the comments to get rid of all these people who whine…
If you don’t like it, do one better and get your own $150. Either that or keep quiet. Just because you don’t find something useful in the tutorial doesn’t mean someone else won’t. Like a beginner. And frankly I suspect that if you’re complaining about the quality of the final image it’s because you’re looking for a great design to COPY rather than learn from.
To the psdtuts team, maybe it would help deter these types of comments if you categorize your posts by skill levels Beginner, Intermediate, and Pro? They all have their place. Maybe you can even have different pay scales for each.
( )Shaw January 27th
Why would PSD TUTS pay someone for this sort of tutorial?
( )PSD Noob January 27th
I want to download PSD of this one!
( )If this author posts more tuts, I might as well buy PSD Tuts Plus membership!
design24and7 January 27th
@Shaw
Because all of the people who complain like you haven’t subimtted something so amazing and so much better than this one, but spent the time complaining about it instead because you have nothing better to do.
( )Tom H. January 27th
Amazing.
A bike, put on another bike, then duplicated and flipped!
This is truly amazing!11!!!1!
Thanks for sharing, erhm, nice try.
( )Justice January 27th
Oh cmon guys…i mean its not awesome but its good! not everybody is a pro like u seem to be (at least u call urself).
he spend time to show some techniques…before talking rubbish…YOU should do some ‘pro tutorials’! if not…stfu and give what he deserves…and
( )thats respect…but i know…not everybody knows the meaning of it!
starlight86 January 27th
disappointed with the result but nice try..
( )Eveeeeeen January 27th
I`m a n00b in photshop, but i learned some small things… Stop complaining!!
( )Dsgnr January 27th
the problem with this site is not the quality of tutorials. It is the quality of the users is obviously going downhill–fast. These comments aimed at this guy are absolutely rediculous. He spent the time to show some BASIC photo-manipulation techniques and is getting slaughtered for his efforts. Showing BASIC techniques to other people is kind of what a tutorial site is all about, isn’t it? I am a professional designer, have been for 12 years now and i still use this site just to see the interviews with other artists and download the occasional good brush pack, and yes, even after 12 years in this industry, i still see a tut on here every once in a while that i read from start to finish and apply the techniques in my shop. I am a paying member to PSDTUTS and VECTORTUTS, but if there is not going to be some sort of moderation on these types of bonehead comments, i will be cancelling my subscriptions immediately. Is there a PSDTUTS moderator out there that can respond to my post??
( )Gino January 27th
i Thoughtit was made with mesh tool !! but it’s a basic photo manipulation , a basic tut.
( )Spade January 27th
I agree with Simon Page, I’m scared that the quality of tutorials here on psdtuts is getting a bit poor, or let’s say “less good”
( )/j January 27th
There are valid points on both sides, but this seems to indicate there is a fundamental breakdown in the organization structure on this site. Perhaps a solution to ease problems like this would be to tag tutorials according to skill level. If there is a following for beginner articles like this, then tag it beginner so that the higher level people won’t become frustrated with the articles. Also consider setting up the feed so that intermediate or advanced users won’t see beginner postings.
( )Remuz January 27th
Lousy art direction, type use is awful… i dont know… one of the worst tutorials
( )Luca January 27th
April Fools’?
( )Antonio January 27th
IMAO I dont like this one…
( )geir b nystad January 27th
i don’t think this is great, but overall it is really cool how you used different parts of an image to make some abstract image. this you can do on other images so i think this is handy, but i don’t think the outcome that you did is great.
@ everyone:
( )anyway, stop making fun and grow up. fair if you don’t like it, but no need to make bad remarks.
xuforia January 27th
Well.. the comments so far explains it all…
( )THE DAYS OF PSDTUTS are over.. Guys responsible doesn’t seem to be dedicated to quality anymore.. First impression is the last.. ppl who visit the site for the first time and see this tutorial.. they’ll never return back..
Awful tutorial..
Lee January 27th
i guess you all missed the blurb where the author mentioned that he’s a STUDENT! jeez louis…
( )Alex Beltechi January 27th
Hi guys.
Soon after the first competition organized here, I wanted to have a go at writing tuts. I started putting together a few ideas, worked a lot on trying to make something top notch for the site based on what I knew. Granted, my first tut had some pretty bad mistakes, and Sean knew it. But he published it anyway. If he hadn’t, I probably wouldn’t be typing this right now, nor writing for PSDTUTS on a regular basis.
Yes, this is not the best of tutorials, but the only way for a tutorial writer to grow is to write tutorials, accept the very important feedback, ignore the mockery, and get back at it. A little encouragement helps, so “Lucky”, keep trying.
Rather than dissing the writer, readers should try leaving some feedback. I know I learned my lesson when the community pointed out my mistakes, and I still do today.
( )Chris January 27th
It’s not bad until about step 20. It would have looked much better if it had just stopped there and not gone for the “extreme clipart” look.
( )Mike January 27th
I like the idea of using different parts of the bike, it would be interesting trying this technique with other objects cars, clothes.
Cool tutorial Lucky!
( )Jonny January 27th
Not that I like the outcome, and personally I didn’t learn anything new here, but I still think it’s a reasonably interesting tutorial. Thanks for posting.
( )DC January 27th
Come on, this just isn’t PSDTUTS quality. Ok, the guy tried. But I’d rather you didn’t publish a new tutorial this week than publish this. It kind of taints the sites quality.
To the author:
Sorry for the negativity, but I think you should take notice. One tip I would give is this – Show people how to make something practical. This just isn’t. The audience that would want to create this is very small. Try and reach a larger general audience.
This tutorial is good for beginners, agreed. But this just isn’t the site for that. I go to this site for high quality, more professional tutorials, something which not many sites bring to the table. And when I see this on here, it makes me want to find another site.
/rant over
( )Thomas January 27th
Guys get ready for the next tutorial :
( )How to Create an Amazing shadow and on you text !!!
Josh January 27th
true
( )Skunkie January 27th
Horrible. How can u guys post that here. I thought you have your good reputation at stake.
This is very low teenage my-first-day-with photoshop tutorial level.
( )liam January 27th
WOrds wOrds…! i cant find the words to describe it.. not without cursing and blaspheming.
( )cookie January 27th
Outcome doesn’t matter??!! How can you be motivated to do the tutorial when the outcome is not very good? Actually, very bad. Nothing personal to the author of the tut. Agree with many, if there is no good material to post then don’t post just to keep your hits up. Maybe you guys should slow down on the expanding tuts sites and keep the quality up on the existing sites you have.
( )Joey January 27th
The only “cool” tutorials are PLUS tutorials… C’mon PSDTuts! The quality really starts to fall…
( )C January 27th
Te quality of the photo manipulation is not that good … it could have been better!!
( )John January 27th
“the outcome doesn’t matter”
?!?!?!
The outcome is the most important thing!
( )You can spend a hundred hours on something, but if the outcome is poor than all that work goes to waste.
kamel January 27th
this sucks my big dick man
( )Erick January 27th
I agree this is not for inter/advanced users.
PSD Tuts: you should screen all the Insults that were commented on this poor guy.
( )Bryan Le January 27th
Wow, there are some nasty comments here.
Just wanted to make it clear that while my comment was negative, it was more intended as criticism for PSDtuts then for the author.
( )Seraphim Collective January 27th
Great techniques, although I don’t particularly like the outcome. The Noobs can take a few tips from this tut. though.
( )Simona January 27th
I agree with Alex Beltechi
( )mirshand January 27th
I was thinking to sign for a PLUS account, but after read all those comments I realize that maybe is not a good idea, what if my tuts aren’t so special for the perfect designers around..
( )mike January 27th
hahaha oh god.. this is horrible.. almost worse then the demon montage..
( )VertigoSFX January 27th
Wow…this tutorial got bashed to pieces. I think it is a pretty cool outcome for a beginner designer but really it is pushing them in the wrong direction…a banner like this would not match up to the quality of sites you normally get in today’s day and age…this is something we would’ve seen about 2-3 years ago at least because it is extremely graphic heavy and the little photo collage in the background is kinda…ehh…The idea behind surrounding the header with that bike is a really cool idea but the speedometer/tachometer and the two bikes faded in the background are very poorly done…and the text isn’t anything to be excited about either…if it didn’t have that the tutorial would be fantastic but i’m not liking the main area of the header at all.
( )Sergio Ordonez January 27th
I agreed that the tuto was below the average quality of PSDTuts but Im surprised for the amount of comments, so a tutorial scored as poor receive much more attentionfrom the users thank others scored as excellent.
Its the proof, people like complaining better than doing compliments.
( )Jarod Taylor January 27th
I think the techniques utilized in this tutorial are great, but the content and the final image reminds me of Geocities’ “under construction” animated gifs from back in ‘nam.
No offense.
( )Agabel January 27th
Most of you need to rethink your poor comments and attitudes!!
At least Lucky has tried to enrich other peoples lives instead of just being mean and unhelpful.
This site isn’t just for the ‘experts’ out there who think they know it all already, it’s for people who want to learn and if even one person learnt something new then it’s well worth being posted.
Negative comments won’t help anyone grow or learn, so why continue the circle.
( )Pinoy January 27th
-1 for Manila designers
( )Volkov January 27th
@mirshand
( )PLUS has nothing to do with submitting tuts (as far as i know) – the bottom line of all of this is that there is no practical application for a design like this in 2009. The techniques used are basic and useful but the product is not something that anyone here really wants to re-create. Scrutiny comes hand in hand with being in the public eye.
Seb January 27th
Why do you set your resolution to 100dpi? If this is intended for the web, shouldn’t you have it set to 72?
But either way, I really can’t think of a reason do create something like this. It seems like a lot of work for something this amateur.
The concept is alright. It would probably have been more successful if you just created a collage image and not a cheesy navigation/banner.
p.s. I don’t care if this is intended for beginners, there is no excuse for that poor of typography. It is horrible. If you are a beginner and want to do something like this for use in the real world, don’t.
( )bigdog January 27th
just terrible…… please don’t let this be a warning sign of tutorials to come on psdtuts? hope not…. you guys still rock though!
( )aleso January 27th
if you dont like the tutorial just go to other article, he takes his time of doing this everyone have to respect that! a professional artist do not make a joke the works of other person. be professional guys!
( )chris January 27th
NAg aaway na sila hahalol
Well for me this wil be totally helpful for the one like us who haven’t experience some photoshop manipulation…
ok keep it up and thanks for posting
Sugoiii
( )zack January 27th
i think the idea is great. its just the end result is not so great.
( )insic January 28th
This is helpful in some ways of course. Some dont like it but majority does.
( )acadterror January 28th
ok tuts but not excellent
( )ROD January 28th
Hey guys… We all have to start somewhere.
Nice concept here Lucky. Just keep on practicing and thanks for the Tutorial. Use other people’s criticism as your lesson. Marami na talaga ngayun dito kasi ang mahihilig mambara kesa makatulong e… Tiyagaan lang bro!
.. from your fellow MMA
( )rap January 28th
well.. the outcome is not that good but, some pips can get something from it
( )JO January 28th
Can someone STOP these IMMATURE so-called PRO and perfect people?
If you guys are so wonderful and all, then why do you read tutorials?
Reading the stupid comments kinda remind me of a bully back in high school…
IMMATURE… that’s the word there.
( )Sjoap ~ January 28th
insinc the majority says it somesort of well to put it simple, say the tutorial sucks. It definately isn’t psdtuts worthy. This is something a new photoshopper would post on his/her blog when he/she is photoshopping for a bit over 2 weeks,… Come on!
( )B January 28th
Good idea, not the finest outcome ever but who cares. Tutorials are about learning new technique’s, so take what you can get out of this and move on.
Your a good sport Lucky, keep at it.
( )Tyler January 28th
Blatantly the worst tutorial I’ve ever seen on here. Step your game up please.
( )DRIKS January 28th
good way to make a new shape out something to get the same style and everything.. but I don’t know about the final result tho’… sorry =\
( )nmx January 28th
Somebody knows 3darena.de? – they have 3 seperat departments:
1. is the socalled “workshop”. Beginners can show there work and ask for more ideas how to improve there skills.
2. The “gallerie”, good maded work came in to it.
3 “Vernissage”, the best work from the galerie are battle for
“work of the month” by voting.
I know this is a turorial site (one of the best- btw), maybe further PSDtuts can extend this sites…
@lucky – keep´s your had up n’ go on!! sometimes i see my old work and thinking what a crap i did. i guess most of us feel like this.
( )Spade January 28th
@ insic: did you make an opinion poll to make that statement?
@ Sergio Ordonez: I think the reason why this tut gets a lot of comments is because all the psdtuts fans are scared of “losing” the site or that its average quality reduces, consequently they react to it so that the message gets to the admins. Of course there are some lame ass comments like the “this sucks my big dick” dude, but hey some people are just stupid (I sounds like I’m so smart hehe but you know what I mean). Personnally, I have not seen as much positive comments on all the other tutorials here!
I’m a psdtut fan and I also don’t understand how this tutorial got through.. And that doesn’t mean I don’t wish good luck to the writer to get better.
Peace y’all
( )moataz January 28th
i’m totally agree with mike and josh comments
( )steiniii January 28th
poor tut….i expectet more from psdtuts….who needs that crap???
( )davy January 28th
psdtuts standards are really going down lately, I support Spade’s comment:
”
( )I think the reason why this tut gets a lot of comments is because all the psdtuts fans are scared of “losing” the site or that its average quality reduces, consequently they react to it so that the message gets to the admins. Of course there are some lame ass comments like the “this sucks my big dick” dude, but hey some people are just stupid (I sounds like I’m so smart hehe but you know what I mean). Personnally, I have not seen as much positive comments on all the other tutorials here!
I’m a psdtut fan and I also don’t understand how this tutorial got through..
“
kudosgiver January 28th
IM BLINDDDDDDDD
( )Daagen January 28th
I thought there were some very interesting things in this tutorial.
( )Good job Lucky, don’t let the haters get you down.
Josh January 28th
If i knew a tutorial of this quality would get accepted onto the best photoshop site in the world, and got paid for it, then i would of attempted to do a tutorial along time ago.
Where’s FABIO!
( )Isis January 28th
As I said before, I don’t think this is a bad tutorial. Is a basic tutorial. But, we can do better things just coping, pasting and rotating. The outcome is the problem. Isn’t the technique. Is because there no design-composing-color studies here.
A hint for you: use http://www.adobe.kuler.com to help you with the pallete, and read more about nowadays design. The interviews published here are a good way to start.
My design is not perfect, and I remember when I was just starting and recolorize an eye was an amazing things, so, don’t worry about be a basic tutorial, with basic techniques! But, let’s do the better with the basics!!!
=)
And finally, nowadays we are using a lot of vintage things. Maybe the 90’s design could become the new fashion for 2010, who knows?
^^
( )dissapointed dave January 28th
so long PSDTUTS, and thanks for all the fish.
it’s been going downhill for a while, but the shark has well and truly been jumped this time.
( )Martin January 28th
It’s like something you would knock up in photoshop 4! My eyes are burning! What next I think I’ll bounce over to nettuts to look up a great tutorial on how to use Frontpage!
( )Patrick Andronicus January 28th
@Isis
( )The correct address for your hint is http://kuler.adobe.com
Lucky January 28th
Hello everyone,
Thank you for all the comments, I’ll try to improve myself.
( )Henne January 28th
Oh my god – You created a monster!
( )Justin January 28th
What kills me about PSD Tuts is, they interview very inspiring people with great works of art. So I come back ritually to hopefully find a tutorial on par with their interviewee’s work. However, I scroll through this kind of drudge of a tutorial and it just bugs the crap out of me. The techniques are novice and the outcome is lame. No self respecting designer would ever create such a masthead.
And if you’re telling me that you bought this account for your wifey to learn photoshop (sorry I found that rather funny), there are much more novice sites out there other than psdtuts.com.
Lets keep this site for the professionals. Publish worthwhile tutorials
( )wildwise January 28th
I won’t add anything new that has already said. I just think that Lucky wasn’t ready yet to write a tutorial, but at least he tried.
( )I know PSD Tuts wants to show something everyday, but sometimes they should say “sorry this isn’t good enough to be shown” and show nothing for 1 day. I don’t come here to see something everyday, I come here to see quality and learn some cool things.
Dan January 28th
Sorry, I have to agree with most of the above comments.
I used to visit psdtuts.com a few times a day, as the content was cutting-edge and exciting – I also bought a PLUS membership.
I have long since cancelled the membership and only check back a couple times a week – the quality of tutorials & content has dropped that sharply
As others have said, the author has presented the tutorial well, it’s just that the design he is creating looks aesthetically appalling (and was never going to look nice). If this is aimed towards beginners, then it should be on a bog-standard photoshop tutorial site – we have come to expect much better here.
PSDTuts need to post/respond/comment on this – remarks about the quality of tutorials have been growing exponentially of late, and loyal readers (and the source of all the ad income) will move away…
( )Johnson Koh January 28th
This does resemble greatly on a tutorial I wrote over at http://10steps.sg/photoshop/web-interface-with-car-images/
Will appreciate if there can be a credit for me somewhere
Also, I think in general is fine but the font for MotoWorkz is not suitable.
( )pm January 28th
Thanks Johnson Koh! Now this tuts is a ripoff + a fail for PSDtuts! It’s getting nicer every day! As anybody have something more to add to the fiasco?
( )Ariful Alam Khan January 28th
Thanks for the tut anyway. I appreciate you have really tried your best. The idea and inspiration was nice though at the end it didn’t pop. I think the redish dashboard did not match at the border it touched with the yellow body. And the white to black gradient below ‘MotorWorkz’ was not appropriate. I will not complain about the link font selection. But I think they should have some subtle effects to pop.
( )Nevertheless nice try
Marcus January 28th
This tutorial…………………. sucks……..
Have PSDTUTS completely neglected their non-paying users? What a shame.
By the way, as Johnson Koh points out, this tutorial sure looks a lot like the one he links to.
PSDTUTS. You’ve f**ked up this is time, but everyone f**ks up once in a while, so i forgive you. I just hope this isn’t the new standard, that PSDTUTS gives it userbase.
If you want people to pay, this isn’t the way to do it!
( )vincent January 28th
Come on guys, it’s been a long time with good tuts and although the end result of this one is weird it doesn’t mean all is falling apart… Try to be less negative, and as Alex said, try to leave some REAL feedback.
( )Erik Draven January 28th
Please Collis, come back!!
BTW, this tutorial don’t learn me anything new… sorry!!
( )zrap January 28th
This tutorial was obviously ripped from http://10steps.sg/photoshop/web-interface-with-car-images/
( )von January 28th
Your Message…This, to me, is an inspiration.
( )At least now i’ll have the courage to send some tuts here.
If this kind of crap can be published here, then i might as well scour the web for shop tutorials and call it mine, submit here and get paid.
Skunkie January 29th
Yeah, it´s also a rip! How bad is that?
( )peixeladdict January 29th
from the “about” page on this website:
“PSDTUTS is a blog/Photoshop site made to house and showcase some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. We publish tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain in a friendly, approachable manner.”
so that resume why people are unhappy with this tutorial, we expect high-end tutorials and results, as the website itself claims.
( )There’s nothing wrong with this tutorial, it just doesnt reach the usual standards here.
it’s disapointing , as we obviously ALL love this website – otherwise we wouldnt care reading/leaving comments, right?
noam January 29th
buuuuuuuuuuuuu COPYRIGHT!!! copying is for noobs!! shame! smahe no you PSDtuts!!
and its a sucky tut :/
( )Jarryd January 29th
Ahhhhhhhhh the PAIN, THE PAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( )Phil January 29th
C’mon guys, why the flames. Dont like it, dont use/read it.
( )Author, thanks for your contribution and keep on going m8.
Where’s the love?
jbcarey January 29th
Seriously…. he got paid for this???
Dude, get out of here and don’t come back….
( )Que January 29th
@ Johnson Koth -
What bothers me is you mention this tutorial possibly ripping yours… but taking a look through your site, I couldn’t help but notice the similarity between this 3d type tutorial you posted ( http://10steps.sg/photoshop/create-a-3d-flowery-text-effect/ ) and the original Nik Ainley tutorial that spawned many copycats ( http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/index.cfm?featureid=1617&pn=1 ). So please consider not posting a complaint next time if you do the same thing (not that it’s bad to get “inspired”… it’s the biggest form of flattery in some cases… but being hypocritical about it is not cool). Thanks!
( )wayno007 January 29th
@aleso:
( )If you’re writing a tutorial or technical article for consumption among your peers, you need to check your ego at the door and wear a cup. I’m a professional developer, and if I took criticism personally, I’d be fetal in the corner. You glean from your feedback and learn what not to do next time. Like, maybe, not write another tutorial.
remmac January 29th
everyone makes mistakes, i think in retrospect psdtuts wouldn’t have posted this tut, but it fires up the discussion about quality. so in the end, psdtuts knows what their readers expect, and weighs the quality against a higher level of experience, creativity and originality.
I often think about writing a tut, but these comments make me humble again…
a good discussion is also a kind of tut right?
( )Kris January 29th
WTH??
Vrooom Vrooom.
( )james January 29th
That is a crap.. was it made from “paint”
( )lars January 29th
Thx really a nice tut! Gonna use it at my site
( )Anthony January 30th
Great Tutorial kabayan lucky!
Thanks for your effort. I appreciate this.
Mabuhay!
( )Arun.P.S January 30th
Nice tutorial. I like it!
( )dantes January 30th
omg, is the end!
( )Rob January 30th
I’m surprised that this tutorial is still accessible. In the past when PSDTuts has been made aware of a non-original piece they’ve taken it down rather quickly.
It’s obvious that this tutorial is copied heavily from another (whether that tutorial is also a copy is a pointless debate), and as such it has no place on this site.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the quality (or lack of quality) of this tutorial – it’s not ‘Lucky’s’ work; he shouldn’t be paid for it or get credit for developing this tutorial.
( )Listoric January 30th
Hmm… dissappointing. The outcome looks totally random. You can clearly see that the parts do not fit together. Worst tutorial in weeks. :/
( )Princeton January 30th
YES, it definately is based on THIS tutorial:
http://10steps.sg/photoshop/web-interface-with-car-images/
( )Ali January 30th
could i have your mail Mr.
( )Greg January 30th
I feel sickened that I’ve submitted tutorials that have been denied, and this one some how makes the cut. This is more worthy of one of those GFX boards where all the ’signature kiddies’ run around.
( )Bryan Le January 30th
What really worries me though is no one from the Envato team has said a word.
Unless I missed it.
( )Moksha Solutions January 30th
really wonderful thanks for it,
( )wYh0iUt January 30th
I’am not impressed.
( )espi January 31st
um… if you’re still studying Multimedia Design and Web Development, better change your prof
this is not good for psdtuts… sorry, but try again and don’t rip off other designs
( )Aperfectme January 31st
This is horrible!!! bad tutorial, bad for psdtuts.
( )himangshu February 1st
well the outcome is messy and font is not classy,
( )bt its a honest effort and don wanna ruin it……..
DopySloth February 2nd
What happened?
( )Jari February 2nd
I’ve heard psdtuts.com is for quality. This really makes me wonder…
( )Harvey February 2nd
Yes it’s really a pity that nobody from the envato team gives us a statement on this rip-off tutorial.
( )…
Funkfish February 3rd
Damn, people are mean. i checked the tut out when it was up. But damn, So many hard headed and NOT open minded people. A piece of advice for those who mock a fellow designer, either good or bad. Shut up and do not attack regardless of skill level. And regardless of tut level, This is psdtuts. We all are here to learn. Iv been doing professional design since i was at the age of 14(i am turning 22) and never have i seen so much hard headed people who cannot comprehend that some of the most basic stuff actually is done in some of the most amazing pieces. Take whatever technique you see and put them all together in bits and pieces, use them as footprints in your style. copying others work, is a good training method. But damn.
( )Nick February 4th
It’s removed guys.
( )steven February 4th
@Funkfish before you start telling people to shut up you should consider that the people who complained actually did psdtuts a service i.e. the tutorial was removed for breaking copyright. also we are letting psdtuts know that we want this site to keep to it’s high standards. if you don’t like that maybe you should leave the site and visit one of the many crappy tuts sites where people aren’t criticised and where any old plagiarised and useless tut is tolerated.
I for one would rather see this site remain high quality and full of inspirational tuts than let it descend into rubbish for the sake of not wanting to hurt anyone’s feelings.
( )Tom H. February 5th
I’d like to say that this is a shame…but.
( )Brian February 7th
Some of you feel we should give the guy a break, that he is “cutting his teeth”. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for people starting somewhere and begininng to learn stuff, and sharing their techniques along the way.
The point is this site, psdtuts, is more geared for advanced/intermediate photoshop users. Stuff you’ll say “wow” to. This isn’t a place for amatuer postings or articles. Atleast that’s how it was in the begininng.
That’s why there’s the “outrage”. I did have a plus membership but I let it lapse, and this is one of the reasons why. While 22 bucks for 3 months isn’t a huge sum, it’s not really worth it to get crappy college tutorials.
I would really like to see more text based and effect tutorials. Stuff that the .psd files actually mean something to download. I have the quick gold and metal text .psd files that I refer to repeatedly to get the styles from. Custom brushes, shapes, gradients, styles, textures, etc is worth the money monthly. If these kinds of things were posted repeatedly I would renew my subscription in a heartbeat.
As it stands now this is the first time I’ve been here in about a month, not because it’s all bad, just because there is no “must have” reason to visit the site daily. I don’t think you need to post one mediocre tutorial a day when you could post a couple high quality tutorials per week so we don’t have to drudge though stuff like this. Again I’m not really trying to bash on the guy who posted this, we all start somewhere, it’s just when you’re paying money to join an advanced photoshop site, this isn’t advanced stuff.
I just dropped 130 bucks for Advanced Photoshop magazine. That shows I am will to pay for quality stuff. Like one poster said, up the price to 250 bucks, and then only post a 2 or 3 tuts a week. It’s the same price really, except you now have high quality stuff, and people are willing to pay for it.
( )Woman February 7th
Right. So I’ve read through a lot of the comments here and think the vast majority of you are being immature. Instead of ‘oh this sucks!’ or ‘what a crap tutorial’, give constructive criticism. Telling someone that what they’ve done sucks is not productive or helpful. I don’t know what the tutorial looks like as it has been taken down now, but I don’t actually care. If you see a tutorial that you do not think is efficient or even in the slightest bit helpful, instead of making the creator feel like trash over their efforts, say you didn’t like the tutorial and then TELL THEM WHY!!! It’s not hard okay? There really is no need for the low standard of comments and abuse left on these sorts of things.
( )IPOX studios February 10th
I agree with NGP and Adam. Take the techniques, add your own images and creativity and make something YOU like. Give the guy and PSD tuts a break. This website rules, and it’s free!!!!! Keep up the good work PSD tuts!
( )Neil February 10th
Perhaps the plagiarized tutorials should be on the PLUS account only, and let us mere mortals have the good tutorials that don’t get removed?
I agree with Woman (2 posts above). Most of the comments here are not constructive. I realize many readers/posters may be under 14, but if you’re on this site it’s a sign you’re willing to learn and improve yourself. Improving your grammar and ability to communicate with words are no less important than improving your ability to communicate with visuals.
If you’re not able to elucidate why you feel the tutorial is lacking, your comment is actually empty and pointless. Support your claim.
Oh, and words like “sucks”… leave them to the fifth graders.
( )strony internetowe February 11th
Maybe it was a mistake
( )fedup February 13th
If you ever attended an art school you know how brutal the critiques can be especially when you’ve worked hard. But in those instances, the instructor is actively teaching students how to provide CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM that will allow the artist to move forward. What I’m seeing here in these comments are nothing short of abuse. And I like the suggestion to start tagging tutorials based on skill level but I also support comment moderation as well.
Some of these so-called experts should start writing their own tutorial and maybe we’ll see subsequent tuts follow suit. Enough with the complaining.
( )Shade May 3rd
If the price per a tut was higher, i’m sure the more skilled would more often. At such a low price point for the work it takes to write an expert tutorial, the cost for the time is simply just not worth it in many peoples eyes. I’m just reiterating what has already been said several times within the comments, but i figured you needed someone to direct you to that fact with a laser pointer or something else flashy to pick up on the obvious.
( )Alexander August 25th
Please let me know. May I use your tutorials to do my own pictures (which naturaly resemble your ones) and sell them (my pictures) to other people? May I do this with the help of microstocks (Fotolia, Dreamstime, Istockphoto, Shutterstock and others)?
( )What does really mean your phrase in the end of the page (”The effects and techniques demonstrated in tutorials on the Tuts+ network can be used in whatever manner you wish without attribution”)?
Please let me know. I expect your answer. Thank you, in advance!