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Halloween Design – 35 Last-Minute Resources for Graphic Designers Halloween Design – 35 Last-Minute Resources for Graphic Designers

So October 31st is coming closer and so are the yearly obligations for graphic designers. Ah yes, Halloween design - how much we love this time of the year! Friends call and ask for Halloween invitations. Your client remembers that it's only 10 days until he has to throw that ...


77 Essential Photoshop Techniques for creating photo-realistic Textures 77 Essential Photoshop Techniques for creating photo-realistic Textures

It is well known in graphic design that texture is a necessity in many types of artwork. In our previous post about textures, where we featured 47 free textures - packs, kits and websites for textures of all types and colors (do take a look if you haven't seen that ...


Photoshop Tutorial: How to paint a photorealistic Image from Scratch Photoshop Tutorial: How to paint a photorealistic Image from Scratch

We have an amazing Photoshop tutorial for you today. Take a look at this picture: You think it's a photograph, right? Well, it's not! The above artwork has been created from scratch, using Adobe Photoshop only. The designer and author of this great tutorial, Daniel "Wade" Hammonds, started with a ...


Photoshop Tutorial: How to make the Flare Effect Photoshop Tutorial: How to make the Flare Effect

Take a look at this quick Photoshop tutorial on creating a beautiful flare effect, using, of course, Adobe Photoshop. The tutorial includes a free download of the WordPress logo (Hi-res). This effect comes in handy, not only for the example with the WordPress logo. You can use it in your ...


Photoshop Tutorial: How to Create Smoke from scratch Photoshop Tutorial: How to Create Smoke from scratch

In this fantastic Photoshop tutorial from Abuzeedo, you learn how to create realistic smoke from scratch. In 7 easy-to-follow steps, you go from creating your own custom shapes, over blurring them, to making this great effect you can see in the above screenshot. This is one of the better Photoshop ...