It's 2008, and we're off to a big start! I browsed through the PSDTUTS Flickr group and saw some fantastic work. Its so cool to see the community putting the skills they learn here to such great use. Rumor has it that this last month of January there were a few things to learn elsewhere on the net as well. Let's check them out...
Tutorial Wrap
Amazing Photoshop Light Effect in 10 Steps
From our very own Fabio, this really cool tutorial covers detailed lighting effects. It shows us how to make a coffee cup glow. This one is a must-read.
Filter-free Art in Photoshop
This tutorial has a concept of creating great artwork in Photoshop without using any filters. Of course they use lots of other effects. Learn to create a photomontage of a city scene.
Photoshop Vintage Effect
Veerle always has high-quality tutorials. This one is as well. If you've ever wanted to make a photograph look vintage with just a few tricks, this is the tutorial to check out.
Pixels and Vectors
Learn how to use smart objects to drop vector illustrations into Photoshop and merge detailed texture and the clear sharp beauty of vector style.
Virtual Murals
If you've ever wanted to do some graffiti, then this the tutorial to check out. It covers planning a grafitti mural with the use of Photoshop.
Cartoonish/Juicy Text
This is an easy-to-complete little tutorial with a really cute text effect.
*Bling Bling* Simple Gold Text Effect
A while back, we had a gold text tutorial right here on PSDTUTS. Photoshopstar has a tutorial on creating gold text with the use of layer styles placed on a unique background.
Tutorial: Electrifying Energy Beams
Glowing lines look great. One of PSDTUTS's most popular articles covers advanced glow effects. Luxa.org shows us how to unite a glowing line with a photograph. The look of the final image in the energy beam tute is polished and cool.
Create an iPod Shuffle
This short tutorial covers putting together gradient shapes to form an Ipod shuffle. The results look professional and it's easy to do.
(FREE!) Download Picks
FONT: aaaiight!
This font has a limited character set, though it's a lot of fun. If you're in need of a legible graffiti-style font, then check it out.
Free Vector Pack 9 Sampler
Go Media is at it again, hammering out another high-quality vector graphic pack. To announce the release, they are giving away a sampler pack.
24 Free High-Res Textures
Who can't use some more texture. This is something you just can't have enough of.
Speakers
I haven't tried these out yet, but they look really cool. If anyone downloads them and tries them out, let me know how they worked for you.
20 Vector Lines Swirls and Patterns
These vector patterns look great. You don't need Illustrator to work with them—you can open them in Photoshop.
Article Wrap
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
Smashing Magazine has a thorough roundup of great Photoshop tutorials, just in case you've missed it.
Vintage Web Design
A quality collection of vintage-style Web site designs. While none of these break any new design ground, they are each a departure from the main current of Web site design today. I like seeing how a designer will carry through a theme like this in a design.
32 Amazing Inspirational Pieces of Graphic Artwork
Some great selections from Design Flavor, a user-submitted artwork community that allows for ratings of each submitted piece.
The Rising Stars of Design
This is a detailed roundup of a handful of rising designers. There is a diversity of styles represented here, and the artists answer questions about their inspirations and some of their methodologies.
Branding Yourself with Gravatars
On to some shameless self-promotion—literally images of myself! There are a lot of sites set up with gravatars. PSDTUTS has gravatars enabled. It's a great way to brand your comments on blogs. This article reviews how to promote multiple blogs this way. For an explanation of how the self-portrait was made, visit AiBURN.
Think Different: Buy a Bigger Envelope!
This is a fun post that makes good points about not needing to upgrade to the next Mac, the MacBook Air.
Design a Logo, the Ultimate Guide
A compact bit of solid advice on logo design. For a relatively short article, it covers a lot of useful information about the process of logo design.
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )Eli February 4th
Thank you for the link love! Appreciate it
( )Aloke Pillai February 4th
As usual, Great stuff, guys! I am absolutely loving it!
Keep Rocking!
Aloke Pillai
( )JBL February 4th
Finally a roundup. Nice work folks.
( )collis February 4th
hehe yeah I missed last month’s one, as I was off at a resort … my bad!
( )Nick | Put Things Off February 4th
Great stuff! Thanks for the mention.
( )Jeii February 4th
this is what i’m waitin’ for!!
( )ElTioFabi February 4th
Awesome links! Thnx for the post.
( )Shane February 4th
Many thanks for this great list – I’m definitely interested in the logo link – I’m currently in the process of designing something for my site.
Cheers, and keep up the good work!
( )Markus February 4th
The tutorial Cartoonish/Juicy Text looks pretty cool, i have to try
Thanks! :b
I am not a great speller, because i am from Denmark.. Sorry
( )lucas, el de wydblog February 5th
great! really cool!
( )Constantin Potorac February 5th
Thank you Collis for these.
( )kuldeep February 5th
A very good wrap! Thanks!
( )Collis February 5th
@Constantin, you’re welcome but actually this time it was our new super blogger Sean who’s resposible! Thanks Sean!
( )Nick February 5th
thanx for this, i love it
( )Constantin Potorac February 5th
Great
Thank you Sean.
( )craZed February 5th
thanx!!!
( )Michael February 5th
Thank you for the feature!
( )Zach February 5th
Hey Collis,
Feedburner is incredibly slow with your site. I get updates of new posts days after you have made them. i would think it’s Feedburner’s problem, but I subscribe to all my feeds through them (when available) and they are always sent out right when a new post is made. Do you know what’s up? If not, it doesn’t matter. I just thought you might like to know.
Thanks,
( )Zach
Sean Hodge February 5th
I’m glad the links are useful to the community. For you web designers out there Sitepoint has recently released a CSS reference you might find useful. Check it out: CSS Reference.
( )Morpheu5 February 5th
There are some nice tutorials here, I’m glad to see this so nicely crafted collection
( )Topaz February 6th
Thanks for the nice list of tutorials.
( )Arun February 6th
Hey Guys,
Fabulous list as usual!
I too face the same Feedburner problem that Zach is talking about.
Cheers,
( )Arun
Alain February 6th
Great stuff here! Thanks!
( )B-Ren February 6th
Wow, best best round up yet.
( )not in question February 8th
This is awesome. Thanks.
( )Livingston Samuel February 12th
Wonderful roundup! Keep the working going on
( )Katalog Stron February 20th
Great links! Thanks.
( )insane-z February 21st
КлаÑÑные ÑÑылки, ÑпаÑибо.
( )Good links!!! Big thanks!
miracle March 1st
it’s so amazing.. thanks a lot for the great tutorial
( )Bible Verses July 29th
The link for the magic coffee cup seems to have changed. It’s now at:
( )http://abduzeedo.com/amazing-photoshop-light-effect-10-steps
on the same website.
Greg Althoff October 18th
Cool Stuff.
( )Kelvin November 6th
thanks for the many great links provided
( )it’s simply cool