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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.

A Cool Lighting Effect In Photoshop

on Feb 5th 2008 with 87 comments

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create that effect we saw on the screen at the Macworld San Francisco. It’s basically some lighting effects with blurs and blend modes, but the effect is awesome.

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Create A Cool Vintage Collage Design In Photoshop

on Jan 27th 2008 with 77 comments

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a retro-style design or vintage collage style. We will use images from old ads, handwritten texts, patterns, and other things to give to our design a vintage look.

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Creating A Fantastic Fantasy Night Sky In Photoshop

on Jan 23rd 2008 with 174 comments

Last month while I was selecting some images for blog post, I found an amazing design created by Nik Ainley, one of my favorite Photoshop masters. He had created some incredible clouds using Photoshop. I thought to myself, “Damn that’s really cool. I have to know how to do something like that!”

So in this tutorial, I will show you how to create cartoon-style clouds using Photoshop and a bit of Illustrator.

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Creating A Cool 3D Web Design Effect

on Jan 7th 2008 with 231 comments

In this tutorial I will show you some very easy techniques, using gradients and layer styles, that we can use to produce nice subtle 3D effects in our web designs.

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How to Create That Last-Minute Holiday e-Card in Photoshop

on Dec 21st 2007 with 140 comments

Christmas is just a few days away, so here is a tutorial showing how to create a Christmas design using Photoshop.

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Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text

on Nov 26th 2007 with 445 comments

Take typography one step further by having text falling from the sky in a burning inferno. Yes, this is the text-on-fire tutorial to end all tutorials. It uses a little Illustrator for the text and a lot of Photoshop to burn up the screen!

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This entry is part 15 of 19 in the Text Effects Session

Using the Vanishing Point Filter to Mock up a Business Card

on Nov 15th 2007 with 83 comments

There are many instances when you will want to simulate or mock up how a design would look printed out and photographed. It might be for a portfolio piece, it might be for a client to help them imagine a concept design, or it might just be for your own satisfaction at seeing how your work is going to look to the end user.

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Creating a Stunning Digital Smoke Effect

on Nov 1st 2007 with 325 comments

Some time ago I came up with a technique to create digital smoke using the Liquify filter in Photoshop. Although it was a simple and efficient way to achieve that sort of effect, people sent me emails asking how to customize it or that it wasn’t so easy to follow.

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