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How to Create a Somber Composition in Photoshop

Feb 8th in Drawing, Effects by Constantin Potorac

This one’s another collaboration with my good friend Toma Alin Gabriel. In this tutorial you will learn how to manipulate stock images and turn them into your puppets to express your desired feelings.

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How to Create a Stylish Media Player in Photoshop

Feb 1st in Effects by Hai

In this tutorial, we’re going to teach you how to replicate Apple’s iPod Nano. Not only will we recreate it’s signature body form, but also the headphones and put them in a unique setting that makes it pop. This an easy to follow step-by-step tutorial, and altering the final appearance should be a piece of cake, especially if you’re a Plus member! Changing the appearance is only a metter of picking a few different colors or adding your own textures as skins!

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How to Create a Realistic Fountain Pen

Jan 29th in Effects by Asher Abbasi

In this tutorial, you’ll learn to design a realistic calligraphy pen from scratch. The tutorial involves a simple use of the Pen Tool and a few flexible Layer Styles. Lighting and reflection techniques are explained throughout the tutorial. This might be a quite useful for icon enthusiasts. Let’s dive in…

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How to Create a Stylish Pair of Headphones

Jan 20th in Effects by Serban SM

In this tutorial, you’ll see how to create a sleek pair of headphones, mainly using the Pen Tool and Blending Options. The tutorial is based on teaching some simple ways of using the Layer Styles to create some great shadows and a realistic sense of 3Dimension. This tutorial also involves showing you some interesting ways of using the Gradient Overlay option to create a metal effect.

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How to Create a Simple Snowman GIF Animation

Jan 18th in Effects by Alexandro P. Hernandez

Knowing how to animate objects in Photoshop can be very useful in web design, avatars , logos and much more. Here is a simple tutorial for beginners in the spirit of winter which will explain how to create an animation in Photoshop. Anyone can do this, so let’s begin!

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How to Create a Stereoscopic Image for Crossed Eye Image Viewing

Jan 8th in Designing, Effects by George Smith

In this tutorial we will create a stereoscopic image for cross eye viewing, which means you will be able to view the final image in 3D and full color without the use of any special glasses.

I will be creating a simple piece from scratch for the sake of this tutorial but the final technique learned can be applied to existing artwork very easily, granted you are the creator and have the PSD file.

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How to Create a Realistic IES Lighting Effect in Photoshop

Nov 13th in Effects by Keith Sereby

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a realistic IES (photometric) lighting effect. We’ll be using Photoshop CS4 as well as some free plugins and software. Let’s get started!

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The Making of “Constant Slip”

Nov 9th in Effects, Illustration by Wojciech Pijecki

Today I’ll take you through the creative process of making intriguing light effects and applying them in your work. This is more a process description of making this illustration, than a detailed step by step how to. I’ll give you some good guidance on how to deal with an illustration like this and cover the overall workflow. Let’s get started!

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Top 20 Artists in the Middle East and Africa

100 Artworks from the Top 20 Designers in The Middle East and Africa

Sep 29th in Effects by Danny Outlaw

To round off our Photoshop Around the World series, we head to the Middle East and Africa – where the design skills are as hot as the weather! The artworks here represent a huge variety of styles and creative approaches. Enjoy the last leg of our trip around the world!

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Top Digital Art in Asia

100 Artworks from the Top Digital Artists in Asia

Sep 2nd in Effects by Danny Outlaw

Last time we honed in on some of the best Photoshop talent coming out of the USA and Canada. This week we turn to Asia – and since everything we learned about geography we learned from FIFA – Asia also includes Australia. Hit the jump for some sweet, sweet eye-candy!

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