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I’ve just added a new Premium Members–only tutorial to Psdtuts+Plus written by the super-talented Fabio Sasso, on creating an icon similar to the new OSX Time Machine icon, drawing the image from scratch.
The tutorial is available as a PDF download with a sample PSD file, as well, through your regular Psdtuts+ Premium membership. Here’s a full-size version of what you’ll be making in the tutorial:
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If you’re not already a member, you can join for $19 a month or $22 for three months, and you’ll get access to sample PSD files for all the tutorials on Psdtuts+ as well as occasional bonus tutorials—like this one.
And by joining the program, you’ll be helping support this awesome site and keep the tutorials flowing! If you’re not a member, don’t worry as we’ll be providing plenty more great content that’ll be freely available here on the site!
You can read about Psdtuts+ Plus and its benefits on our Join Psdtuts+ Premium page.
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We need to pay for the tutorials now???? Garbage.
Great!!!!!!
I’ve saw this in his web, huh huh!!
Woot!
Some of the more cautious/poor readers might be waiting to see the quality of the ‘Plus’ tutorials.
Looks like this one might be a good example of what’s in store! :)
This kinda makes me want to join plus, it’s just so high quality
I love the tutorials here, looks like it’s worth the $9.00 just to peek around. Thanks for the tutorials!
I just have to say how disappointed I am with PSDTuts and the whole Plus membership. This was and still is one of my favorite tutorial sites and I’ve been visiting for months. But to now charge viewers $9 per month?? Seriously, what are you thinking? No tutorials are worth over $80 a year. It’s quite a shame that you’re so greedy that you feel the need to charge for a product that was previously free. Yes, this tutorial looks amazing, but it’s not worth $9. I know you’ll probably moderate this comment out, but I had to share my feelings somewhere.
Wicked final picture, however I don’t feel that the border fits the totally real inside effect.
BTW Collis, what happened to your murder scene tutorial you said you were making?
Hey guys enjoy the sites and tuts, great all keep it up, enjoy the community as well , all the way here from jamaica. That time machine tut is cool. I have a question here, i have seen a effect on this site link below, but being tryin to get this effect done right, i use pen tool stroke path, outer glow but can seem to get the effect what he has. Anybody got a tut on this or something like this. well keep up the good work everyone, enjoy Photoshoping :P.
http://www.nopattern.com/nopattern/project.asp?project_ID=92
hey got an idea maybe we can start a community using msn messenger or sumthing or a psdtuts instant messenger, just a suggestion never really think it through.
Is there a request Tut section :P.
can you not advertise your ‘member only’ tutorials on your free rss feed? I’ve just been very dissapointed : (
I already know how to make that… I learned it for free..
Yeah! I was waiting for more PSDPlus stuff.
I have no money :S
It’s a great tutorial… I just checked it out.
One thing I really wish was available (if for no one at all, maybe for plus members) was the availability of all of the tutorials on pdf. There is a plug in that does it for you for wp, but I’m not sure how that would work with amember and all.
Great work as usual, guys :)
It really looks great
and love to make it…
BUT i don’t want to pay for it
so its sad that we can’t see how you need to do it….
@Cain: Excellent question, I decided it was ugly hehe. I got midway through and then looked at the image and was like ‘actually this sucks, i’m going to start again’ … fast forward a few weeks and I haven’t yet lol. Oh well I’ll get there eventually!
@Erika: That’s a really neat idea, I’ll go see if I can find the plugin, am always looking for ways to make the plus system cooler, thanks!
@Sheldon: There sure is a request a tut section, it’s linked to at the bottom of the sidebar, yay! :-)
Here is a link to a free pdf printer for windows (Doro pdf printer)
http://www.geocities.com/the_real_sz/misc/doro.htm
Sorry for double comment, but what is the difference between “PSDTUTS Plus Quarterly (22$)” & “PSDTUTS Plus(9$)”? :P
So. After reading the comments. I’ve noticed something. Some people are either painfully idiotic… or… they just don’t pay attention to what they are doing. At all. Also. Awesome tut. PDFs for Plus members would be awesome.
come on!! make it FREE!! :)
Wow…. I was really excited until I saw a price tag.
You let me down.
@Markus: The difference is $5 a quarter. Same membership, you can just buy 3 months at a time for a discount rate.
Maybe you should create a forum
agreed
… wait, what happened to the free downloadable source files .?
… or the step by step pictures … ?
@Collis: Lol, looking forward to it.
To whom it may concern, Collis pays a lot to those who makes tutorials for him and he has to get that money back somehow, so let those who pay get their own tutorials every once in a while.
Also, a forum sounds good, I think it’d be a great place to learn from everyone here. We could always use Gino’s forum.
@ryan what are you? 15 years old??? do you know how much effort/money is put into this site!? just because you can’t afford it! don’t to go treating people like that they owe you something because they don’t.
wake up the world was a never a free place.
you make me sick
Looks very similar to the free PSD I put out.
http://blog.hamstu.com/2008/02/22/design-challenge-2-time-machine-icon/
Not saying you copied me or anything. (Heck, the original icon is made by Apple of course) — but I have a hard time seeing this as a coincidence.
@Hamish M is right, both tuts are more then similiar…
Hey Hamish, I’m positive that is nothing more than a really weird coincidence! Meanwhiles I like the adjusted colouring effect, nice work!
The site has been great up until this point. Becoming aware that there is more and more people supporting the free distribution of technology and information is really important for anyone interested in keeping their website successful. I think the tutorials have been great but the moment you try to charge for your service is the moment you start losing support from the only people who matter, your viewers. All the musicians who are giving away free music with the option of donation are making millions, give people the opportunity to donate and they will.
Kylan,
it’s a very nice idea that musicians actually gather money from optional registration buttons. Apart from a few exceptions (i.e. reknown bands such as NiN) this doesn’t apply to the average musician on the net.
And as far as i’d like to see this tutorial in this very moment myself (not yet paying those 9$), i absolutely worship the fact that Collins wants to monetize his work. There are certainly lots of tutorial sites on the web, however psdtuts is the only site i’ve seen so far which keeps UP the very good quality. Last not least that must have something to do with the efforts spent on running it. There are still free tutorials beeing published in the same quality so don’t behave like someone’s trying to rip you off! That attitude sucks.
Tutorials are free for the masses here, people who don’t want to pay get what they’ve always gotten. People who cough up the extra get a little more.
Paying for tutorials?
NO!
There are sites enough for free!
Will delete it from my bookmarks!
You can make your business with other things, too, but not letting people pay for normal, simple tutorials!
:thumbsdown:
@Hamish: That really was a coincidence, I didn’t know about your time machine icon, I was checking it out, right now and it looks really cool too…
@gimper: The person made a valid point. I see no need to insult them by calling them sick. Up until PSDTuts all tutorial sites i’ve been around were free. So your point that the world isn’t a free place is kind of baseless. Heck the world is more free today than it ever was before. Seriously you can legally get music free from big time artists nowadays (think nine inch nails here).
Anyways seeing how high quality the tuts are on PSDTuts i understand the need to a) pay tutorial makers, b) charge for the tutorials so you can afford a. I’d just say that it’s a bad idea to throw it in the face of the non payers like this. Gives a statement of “we prefer the payers thank you” .
Keep up the good work.
That’s very silly of all the readers here.
Collis pays $125 per tutorial to the contributers here, also along with that he manages to out of his own time and curtisy to make full lenght tutorials of his own work for us to read.
Also not to mention the hosting fee’s for this site and the high demand for traffic it gathers.
Be happy PSDtuts is alive and helping us design and draw insparation from other artists.
Thanks Collis and PSDtuts staff.
Lee
No such thing as a free lunch : ~) Looks like a cool tutorial. I agree with Lee.
http://blog.hamstu.com/2008/02/22/design-challenge-2-time-machine-icon/
What a pity we can’t see this tut.
@ Mr Lee: Miiingle. It’s 3000$ / month.
Every Collis tutorial is actually a non payed one.
I mean, this site is great and everything.
Simply your point of view is incorrect.
This looks great. I think I’ll be signing up for plus once a few more tutorials are available, so I can jump right in to a sea of graphic design :)
Agree with Mr_LeE…
cheers!
Heh, charging for a tutorial you can get free elsewhere. Hilarious.
I don’t understand why people start sound negative when it comes down to money? If you want to learn the effect, you simply pay for it. Nothing wrong with a guy to make a few extra $$$$ This is the best photoshop related website I’ve seen on the web with QUALITY graphics. Other stuff is garbage. Computer Arts charges $16 or $30 per magazine too and they get tutorials from designers for free. So why not pay $$ once to see a tutorial u’d really wanna learn? Be nice now
It’s just wrong. Since eden got a new CEO, things turn heywire here. FREELANCESWITCH / FAVEUP and PSDTUTS belong to eden. They’ve all turned COMERCIAL HARDCORE. It’s just wrong. If you guys can read this, spread the word. I bet i’ll get censored.
Agree with Alex too! this is a decition from each people that visit this site, if you don’t want to pay for it then don’t do it but don’t come here saying bad words or negative things!
you people that keep saying “you can get these tutorials for free” why are you still here??
no one is forcing you to pay anything, if you can’t afford it move on.
personally i haven’t shelled out the $9 but i don’t understand how making money off quality content is out of the norm. any one of you would have done the same given the opportunity.
what planet are you on??
@Joshua, ryan, si, tom, andrew, sneev, kylan, alex, dweg85, maul, drake, … and anyone else who doesn’t understand why we have a charge system, I’ve written a post just for you :-) You can read it here – http://psdtuts.com/news/why-psdtuts-has-to-make-money-to-continue/