Chris Haines is an extraordinary designer currently residing in Australia, at first glance his style will blow away any viewer. Once you are drawn in by his amazing imagery, you will be surprised by his knack for detail in his art. Overall Chris is one of the best designers around and his work will prove that. In this interview we discuss Chris’s signature style of mixing 3D with Photography, and more.

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In this tutorial, we’ll make a creative blog layout using mostly simple shapes, a few brush techniques, some images, and a dose of Photoshop ingenuity. Creating web design layouts is easier than you may think. You can learn to build attractive designs rapidly. Creating this design will take less than two hours and you’ll learn some professional tips along the way. Let’s get started!

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I’ve put together a wallpaper design free for all to download free. It illustrates various environments blended together in inside the 3D text “Actions,” and serves to remind us that it’s time to start Changing our Actions to avoid continued climate and environmental issues our world faces. This download is part of Blog Action Day, which this year is focused on “Climate Change.” Learn more at the jump, and download this wallpaper!

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We have another Psd Plus tutorial exclusively available to Plus members today. If you want to take your Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign integration skills to the next level, then we have an exciting promotional mailer for you. It’s also focused on making a creative print project come to life on a budget. Learn more at the jump!

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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an ice effect completely from scratch using special Photoshop Brushes. Some time ago playing with Photoshop and trying to make an ice effect I discovered that “dead trees” can simulate very well the ice’s “veins” giving a cool feeling to an image. I’m not going for realism here, but I do like the final effect for this tutorial. I used some text as reference, but this effect can be applied to any shape you want and can add some great style. Let’s get started!

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In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a 3D Blocks text effect. You need to have Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended to practice this tutorial. This will be fun and I’m sure you can do lots of cool things using this technique. Let’s get started!

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Try a breath of ancient Chinese art and culture! With these simple intuitive steps of manipulations, you will learn how to create an original traditional style Chinese painting, which has an archaic charm just beyond your photo. Even with these basic Photoshop skills, you can quickly find a path to make a beautiful fairyland. So let’s hit it!

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In this tutorial, we’ll learn how simple it is to texturize objects using different fusion mode layers, adjustment layers, color tweaks and some very simple filters in Photoshop. You can use this simple technique in more complex illustrations of your own creation. Let’s get started with learning these techniques!

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Now that we’ve added Aetuts+ to our Plus family, Plus members will begin to receive weekly bonus tutorials and AE project files for Aetuts+. We hope you’ve also been enjoying your access to exclusive tutorials, video lessons, source files, brushes, audio samples and vector packs from Nettuts+, Psdtuts+, Audiotuts+ and Vectortuts+. Thank you so much for supporting the sites and helping us to cover costs – with mounting bandwidth, content and management expenses, these sites would not exist without their Plus members!

With 5 sites now offering Plus content, $9 a month gives you universal access to each – a little under $2 per month for each site. This moves us closer to our goal of offering the best possible low-cost, high-quality education to creatives. If you’re not a Plus member, don’t miss-out: you can join now.

If you’ve ever been interested in learning more about motion graphics, now is a great time to start. Plus members can log-in and immediately download a collection of AE project files and a two-part tutorial from AE legend Lloyd Alvarez. To read more about Ae Plus, click here. Not a Plus member yet? You can learn more or join now.

This is a new pack of Photoshop brushes available exclusively from Psdtuts+ for Psd Plus Members. We have a new set of Scratch Brushes for you. They are great for adding an artistic touch to your next project. This set of high quality brushes is available for Psd Plus members to download today!

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