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40 Photoshop Tutorials On Rain Showers and Water Drops

With fall just around the corner, designers are looking for ways to complement their work with Fall imagery like water droplets, rain on leaves and fall rain showers. Including rain or water drops in a... More... 80 Comments
Starter Kit For Web-Developers

Starter Kit For Developers is a free Photoshop-template which includes forms, grids, ad placeholders, dummy copy and other design elements (13 Mb) [via] More... Be the first to comment!
45 Beautiful Motion Blur Photos

Photos taken with a camera do not represent a single moment of time. Due to technological constraints these shots stand for some scene over a brief period of time. This time frame depends on the... More... 220 Comments
Designing Websites In ~~Photoshop~~ Illustrator?

So you have done some initial sketches for the look of your new design. Now it's time to develop these ideas. So let's jump into Photoshop. Stop! Wait just a minute. What about Illustrator? That can do... More... 189 Comments
Top 10 Killer Photoshop Combo Moves

Is time kickin' your ass? Well, learn to defend yourself! Master these killer Photoshop keyboard combos and you'll find yourself with more time for the important things (e.g. Facebook trivia... More... 112 Comments
50 Photoshop Tutorials For Sky and Space Effects

Humans have always had an infatuation with the air above us and the space around our planet. With Adobe Photoshop we can create new images or enhance existing photos to include the sky and space as a... More... 92 Comments
70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials

Beauty retouching is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively. There are two simple reasons for that. First, Photoshop offers a variety of advanced... More... 266 Comments
5 Pixel Popping Techniques

David Leggett shares 5 Pixel Popping Techniques for Adobe Photoshop. Among them the 2 pixel divide effect, the pixel shadow and the shadow highlight. More... Be the first to comment!
Showcase of Photo Manipulation

Showcase of photo manipulation presents 10 artists and studios that know what professional photo manipulation is all about. More... Be the first to comment!
Making of Fire Dragon

Tips about how the Fire Dragon Wallpaper was made. A Photoshop Tutorial. More... Be the first to comment!
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Rainbows, Glows and Light Effects

Lighting effects in Adobe Photoshop are used to add flare and polish to images. They communicate feelings of creativity, technology, magic, and fantasy. Creating beams, glows, motion trails, rainbows,... More... 124 Comments
Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials - Best Of

by Dirk Metzmacher The best thing about Photoshop video-tutorials is that they allow you to observe professionals just as if you were standing nearby and looking over their shoulders. You can see... More... 158 Comments
Drunken Monkey Photoshop Tutorial

In this article I will explain step-by-step how I've designed an attractive character in one of our recent projects, namely for the company "Drunken Monkey Collectibles". I will review the entire... More... 88 Comments
Add Stock Textures to Images

In this little Photoshop tutorial you’ll to design a quick art piece, and then add some texture to it — to demonstrate the use of some really dirty texture in artwork. More... Be the first to comment!