November was a month filled with tons of good material worth featuring in this wrap up. I narrowed down the best tutorials, free downloads, and articles on the web for this month. We have an article featuring our editor Sean, a interesting tutorial on a planet scene, and some cool free brushes and textures. Lets get into the content.
Tutorial Wrap
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Floral Type Tutorial
Here we have a great typography tutorial that shows us how to take a normal dull font and add a nice floral vector to it to make it more ornate and decorative.
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Retro Movie Poster
I can honestly say I have never seen a movie poster like this. Its a very colorful retro poster, featuring a monkey! The tutorial here is extremely detailed and some great techniques are mentioned.
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Manipulating an Aircraft
This is a very helpful tutorial especially to new comers in the field of photo manipulation. It shows how to take a normal picture of a plane and by using Photoshop techniques turn it into an illustration of a falling plane engulfed in flames.
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Space Environment
Another interesting space scene tutorial. This takes a different route into making the whole environment of space, so if you like making space scenes this is one you should check out.
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Combining 3D Renders with Stocks
This is a unique design that utilizes 3D renders and stocks. The creator shows you how to take stocks and mix them harmoniously with 3D renders.
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In and out of Photoshop
This is a great inspirational tutorial that shows the designer who is out of ideas to get inspired by stepping away for Photoshop for a while then getting back into it.
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Slow Motion Bullet
Here we have an amazing tutorial that shows how to create the effect of a bullet breaking through a TV remote. Very creative techniques are used in this tutorial showing the reader how to break down the remote to have that shattered effect.
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Storm Effect
Another great tutorial showing how to use filters and stocks to turn a serene environment into a field in the middle of a stormy night.
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Smokin' Woman
This is a great and unique tutorial showing how to incorporate stocks into smoke fumes from a cigarette, gives off a very good effect.
(FREE!) Download Picks
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Retro Brush Set
Here we have a very nice retro brush set featuring a lot of images that can give any design a very old feel. It features 17 custom brushes, make sure to download it.
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High-Res Watercolor Brushes
This is an awesome brush set filled with 7 high resolution brushes; they are 2500px so they are the best quality. If you are into painting in Photoshop then you must download this pack.
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18 Custom Fonts
More freebies for us, here we are given 18 new fonts, and they aren't the usual generic fonts that are given out for free. These are very unique and vibrant.
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Dellifeed Icon Set
Dellifeed gives us an awesome set of icons. A pack of 8 delicious looking icons that can be used for various purposes. These are a must download for anybody.
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5 Custom Grungy Textures
Texture Tuesday is a new series started by the guys at Bittbox and lets all thank them for providing us with some high quality stocks. These are 5 great high quality stocks that can be used for a lot of things.
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95 Free Grunge Fonts
The Outlaw Design Blog has brought us 95 great grunge stocks. There are so many to choose from that you will surely find one to your liking, so everyone should really look through the selection they provide for us.
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10 Skull Brushes
These aren't your normal skull brushes, all the skulls featured in this pack are adorned with headgear or other accessories making them look even better. With an average size of 500px this is a great resource to have on hand when designing.
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25 Amazing Photoshop Downloads
This is an awesome feature because it rounds up all the great pieces of work that have been posted with the free PSD download. The files have educational only rights though, so are good to learn from. From skateboard icons, to guitars, apples, and more.
Article Wrap
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Interview with PSDTUTS Editor Sean Hodge
ColorBurned has recently interviewed PSDTUTS' great editor Sean Hodge. An informative interview where Sean talks about his background, blogging, and designing among other topics.
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Adobe Photoshop Cheat Sheets
What designer wouldn't want to know about some new shortcuts in Photoshop to increase efficiency? Definitely a must read for all.
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47 Resources for T-Shirt Designers
If you are looking to create your own clothing line or design your own t-shirts than this is a great read featuring resources that would help this process.
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Beautiful 3D Typography
A great article for inspiration in the field of typography. Look through these 45 images and you surely will be inspired.
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How Much Should I Charge?
Another informative article, this one is specifically for freelance designers. The author gives you 6 points explaining different routes of charging people for your services in design.
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79 Amazing Album Covers
Last month we featured some of the best Movie Posters, this month we feature amazing inspirational album covers.
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Brilliant Comic Book Covers
If the 79 Album covers didn't inspire you then try checking these brilliant comic book covers. A lot of amazing art is featured in this article.
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80 Creative, Smart, and Clever Advertising
This is clever designing at its finest. If you like great unique advertising then check these 80 designs out, some of them are just pure genius.
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90+ Graphic Design Blogs
This is a post every designer needs to check out. An amazing compilation of some of the best graphic design blogs out there, featuring blogs devoted to typography, logos, tutorials, and more.
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )Rydgel December 1st
Great collection. Thank you.
( )rizzy December 1st
WOW awesome, my favs were the aircraft manipulation and 90plus graphic design blogs.
( )Regards: rizzy
http://twitter.com/rizzy81
Alex Beltechi December 1st
Sweet roundup, with loads of typographic inspiration. Yumm…
( )JokR December 1st
A great roundup . . . as usual . . . a big source of inspiration for all the graphic designers out there. Great job guys.
( )Chachu Clothing December 1st
Love the space one, the icons and the articles!
( )Armando December 1st
Too Cool
( )Alaa Al-Din December 1st
perfect
( )all tutorials are awesome on this site
OpenSourceHunter December 1st
Nice roundup !!
greetz
( )http://www.opensourcehunter.com
glidingtide December 1st
Nice list, as always. lots of sites I’ve never seen before….cheers
( )Julian December 1st
Great roundup, great site, Thank you!! Always enjoy coming here and dont miss a single feed.
Keep the great work up!
( )Ariful Alam Khan December 1st
Nice wrap up.
( )insic December 1st
nice roundup as usual.
( )himangshu December 1st
nice compilation though i hv nt dn a total go-thru
( )thnks 4 da fonts,grunge an esp. da 3d tutorial
Mabuc December 1st
Great collection of tuts here, thank you for sharing
( )MiroARRR December 1st
Nice one idd. Love those pages where everythin is on
( )Jan Blažíček December 1st
The poster with a monkey – It sort of evokes 2001: space odyssey by Kubrick.
Nice one. Anyway thanks for posting.
( )Jan Blažíček December 1st
Ahh, now I see it was even mentioned there. Nevermind. You should see that movie. I really didn’t get it as most of other Kubricks movies, but it certainly is a great showcase of special effects and such things in that time it was filmed. It’s sort of cult movie. You either fall in love with it or hate it instantly. And some things in that movie are so often referenced in nowadays movies it’s not even funny anymore. For example the AI computer on that spaceship. It was used at the Simpsons, Apple commercials and I don’t remember where else. A must see anyways.
( )BogDinamita December 1st
best roundup ever
( )aMs December 2nd
Those typographic arts are absolutely AMAZING
( )Ernest Ojeh December 2nd
thanks. I’ve seen a few things here before, though & i love d album covers
( )Lubes December 2nd
himangshu — dude, vowels miss you. They are your friend.
( )WoW-Sky December 2nd
very nice list
thankx ^_^
( )felipexakal December 2nd
Thank you!! I will give a peep in all tutoriais
( )Jonathan December 3rd
Nice list. Some super-inspiring stuff here.
( )Takumi86 December 3rd
HOLY SMOKE! Thanks a lot for those list, i have save some of them in my notepad
( )Josh Drake December 4th
Yet another great roundup! Great for inspiration. Thanks!
( )Wizzard December 4th
nice…
( )cool stuff here