Creative Adding Label to the Skin

Ever read soft toys labels? This one is sure to attract your attention as it may contain some more valuable info than just washing directions. A great idea for X-mas picture to send via e-mail.

Firstly, you should find a nice stock photo to work with. I used a photo of the young man , if you want you can download it and get to work. Open up it and press Ctrl+J to duplicate layer. After that move to the lower layer and desaturate it with Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. Then go back to the copied layer and correct the color balance using Image > Adjustments > Levels. Set up following presets:

Creating Drawing Effect on the Photo

Learn how to convert a photo into a pencil drawn image in a quite unique way. A great technique to be used in Photoshop retouching as well.

Let's start by finding the picture of beautiful girl with hairdressing. I went to Google Images and looked up the picture, you can feel free to download my picture from here. Open up the picture and desaturate it in the beginning with Image > Adjustments > Desaturate or press Ctrl+Shift+U.

How to Tidy Up and Smoothen Skin, and Do Eye Makeups in Photoshop

A Photoshop digital make up tutorial to practice esthetician's skills and experiment with a natural attractiveness of a human face. Final image can be used in cosmetics related web design.


Ok let's get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stock: Eye

Step 1

Load the "Eye" stock image into Photoshop, now let's take a look at the original image and here is the analysis I came up with:

   1. The image has a lot of black spots, and bits of hair that really disturbs me
   2. The skin is OK, but if we can make it smoother would be bettter
   3. The eye colour is perferably better in Blue, and those bloodlines in the white part of the eye can go.

Making the 'Clean Grunge' Blog Design

This tutorial will cover the steps of designing the Clean Grunge blog design from scratch. It also discusses the techniques and styles of this kind of web design.

Step 1

Open up a new document (1050x1500px). This won't be the width of our main layout, but will take into account parts of the background to the side of our main content areas. Create a new layer set called 'background' and create a new layer called 'main background color'. Select all (option+a) and fill this layer with a light cream color (ECE5D9).

Create a Stylish Club Poster

Stunning techniques to add photographic details making your work fun to scrutinize. Learn the tricks as you create an urban style poster.
Step 1
Download this image www.sxc.hu and open it up in Photoshop. Duplicate the layer and go to Filter, Sharpen, Sharpen.

Step 2

Easily Transform Your Photo into a Watercolour Painting in Photoshop

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A few-step technique to get a realistic drawing that even seems to have that odour of a paint. A great method to create your own gallery while improving your Photoshop skills.

Step 1

1. Load a photo of you choice into photoshop. You can use the above "before" image if you want to follow exactly what's in this tutorial.

Adding Texture to the Skin

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Give a man's face a stone feel and look to manipulate the message. Great trick for propaganda and social advertising as well as provoking web design.

Firstly, start by finding a stock photo that you can add the texture to. For example, you can use this one or you can of course, go to Google Images and look up some picture you are interesting in. Also you need to find some appropriate stone texture. You can do it in the same way or feel free to use mine. Ok, now open up both of your photos in Photoshop, you can either keep it at it's current size of resize it down a little bit if you want. After that bring the texture picture to the canvas with the man's face:

Design a Horror Style Text Effect with Dirt and Splatter Texture in Photoshop

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Font
Dirty Spray Brushset
Stroke and Splatter

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1200 * 800 px (in fact size doesn't really matter here, choose one you feel comfortable with), use White as background colour.

Sewing a Fabric Badge in Photoshop

Download Fabric Linen by Jaqx Textures here. Create a new document of size 500x708 pixels. Drag the texture downloaded into the working document. Name this layer as Fabric.

Quick Logos with Live Trace in Adobe Illustrator

Perhaps one of the most underutilized features in Illustrator is Live Trace, which can convert any photograph into vector art in just a few clicks. In this tutorial, we're going to use Live Trace to vectorize a photo for a logo design. Now, of course, all images are different, so depending on the final effect you want to achieve, you'll need to experiment with the settings that we'll be using here.

Design a Stunning Sneaker Advert

Learn how to design a stunning sneaker advert, using a variety of lighting effects.


Step 1

Open up a new document (600x800px) and create a new layer called 'background'. Fill your canvas with a linear gradient ranging from 3B3B3B to 595959.

Design an Awesome Urban City Photo-Montage In Photoshop

Step 1

We start off by download the following four stock images from stockvault.net and cgtexture.com:

City Image
High-rise Image
Little Girl Image
Grunge Splatter

Load the "Grunge Splatter" image into Photoshop, duplicate the Background layer once and set the blending mode to "Overlay":

Create a Face Paint Dripping Effect

Preparation:

We need a face image of Angelina Jolie here. Also we need a dark background to create a nice contrast with the face color. I'm using Dark Wood Wallpaper from zygat3r.

Download Angelina Jolie.
Download Dark Wood Wallpaper.

All rights of these resources belong to their respective owners.

Building CSS-Based Layout in Dreamweaver (Video Tutorial)

This tutorial covers the process of building a CSS-based layout from scratch using Dreamweaver.

Courtesy of Layers magazine.

Broken Dreams

Firstly, you should find a stock photo to work with. I prefer to use this one. Also you can use Google Images to find some interesting pictures you like. Ok, duplicate the background layer then press Ctrl+J and press Ctrl+Shift+U to make the image black-and-white.

Photoshop Halftone Effects

Step 1: The key to this technique is to pick a starting image with lots of light/dark contrast and a good amount of dark shadows. Depending on what use you have in mind for the final image make sure to choose a suitable size (width x height) file that is at least 200 pixels/inch (ppi).

Video Tutorial

3D Gold Logo Effect in Corel Draw

Step 1

Draw circle with ellipse tool.


Step 2

Draw two same objects with rectangle tool (just duplicate first:ctrl+D)

Adobe Illustrator Calendar from Warped Perspective (Video Tutorial)

This tutorial is part of Dave's magazine article, "Warped Perspective" from the November/December 08 issue. In this video, Dave explains how he created the calendar featured in the article.

About the Author:

Dave Cross is Senior Developer, Education and Curriculum for the NAPP. Previous to joining NAPP, Dave spend many years as a trainer and author, training thousands of users across north America. Dave is author of Illustrator CS Killer Tips and co-author of The Photoshop World Dream Team Book, and is featured on various instructional DVDs. Dave is a contributing writer to Photoshop User Magazine, Lead Instructor for the Photoshop Seminar Tour, and is an Adobe Certified Instructor for Illustrator CS and Photoshop CS.

Splat Vector

Splat
by TheVectorLab.com
Category: Spills & Splatters
Type: Encapsulated PostScript (.eps)
Added: Jan 27, 2009

Description:
This paint splat has been custom created by The Vector Lab crew. If you like this one, please feel free to check out our website for more free vectors and other amazing vector artwork for sale! Enjoy!

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