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Fabio

I am a Brazilian designer living in Porto Alegre (south of Brazil). In 2003, I founded a web design studio called ZEE, with Fabiano Meneghetti, an architect and friend of mine. It's a small studio now, with 4 people working basically with web.
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How To Create a Gold Text Effect in Photoshop

How To Create a Gold Text Effect in Photoshop

Layer styles are one of Photoshop’s most powerful and fun features. You can create all sorts of plastic, glass, water, ice, or metal styles. In this tutorial we will show you how to create a nice gold text effect using this powerful tool. Once you are done, you’ll be able to save this style and apply it wherever you like. Let’s get started!


This entry is part 3 of 19 in the Text Effects Session
Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect

Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect

In this tutorial I will show you an easy, and very fast way, to create a light painting in Photoshop.

Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect

Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect

Have you ever wanted to use your mind to move an object? Use the Force to fling things out of your way? Unfortunately, we all know those types of abilities are impossible but using the power of Photoshop anything can be accomplished. In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a powerful mental wave effect using Photoshop. Let’s get started!

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Dynamic Recessed Watercolor Typography in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to mix vector elements and watercolor effects with text to create a stunning design. It’s a quick process that depends heavily on good choices of images and colors.

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Design a Sin City Style Poster

Sin City was a really cool movie, at least visually. I really liked the stylish scenes and colors. A few months ago I saw a poster of another Frank Miller movie called "The Spirit." The poster is titled "My City Screams." It really caught my attention because of the way the design played with typography to recreate buildings. Also, the perspective was really well done.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create that effect in Photoshop, but this time we’ll use Illustrator to create the perspectives and text. I’ll walk through the process of creating the effect; However, it’s always good if you play around and test different settings to see how it works. That for me is the best way to learn.

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Create a Magic Crystal Ball

Last week I was working on a project where I needed to create a sort of lightning effect like that Tesla Coil. I spent a couple of hours in Photoshop playing around with some filters to create the effect. So In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a Magic Crystal Ball with some nice light effects and textures happening.

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Make an Apple Coldplay Style Ad in Photoshop

Recently, Apple released a new iTunes video advertisement featuring the band Coldplay and the song, "Viva la Vida." As is usual with Apple ads, this commercial is very beautiful. The coolest thing is that this time they chose to use light effects with glows and sparks. As I’m a really big fan of this style, I thought it would be nice to have a tutorial showing how to create that effect.

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Create Cool Watercolor Effects in Photoshop

Some time ago I wrote an article on my blog listing some fashion-style illustrations from really amazing designers such as Bruno Fujii, Margot Mace, Raphaël of My Dead Pony, Stina Person, and others. The coolest thing in their design work is their use of watercolor effects. So in this tutorial I will show a quick way to simulate that effect using only Photoshop and some brushes.


This entry is part 10 of 16 in the Photoshop Tutorials for Beginners Session

Create a Wavy Blackberry Style Wallpaper Design

In this tutorial I will show you how to create an abstract background image using Photoshop only. The design has a cool wavy pattern with interesting lighting effects, like the Blackberry 9000 wallpaper. This is a tutorial you can sit down and complete in less than an hour. Let’s get started.


This entry is part 13 of 16 in the Photoshop Tutorials for Beginners Session
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New Premium Tutorial – Create an Atomic Explosion

Premium members, get excited. We have an incredible tutorial for you today. It’s a new Premium tutorial from the talented Fabio Sasso that will blow you away. The tutorial has step-by-step instruction on how to create an awesome atomic explosion from scratch in Photoshop. Jump over to your PLUS account and download it today.

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