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70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials

From Dirk Metzmacher
July 15th, 2008
196 Comments

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 tools to smooth out skin and hair, optimize body proportions and emphasize some beautiful details. And second, if ...

Icon Design Tutorial: Drawing A Pencil Icon

From Min Tran
June 6th, 2008
87 Comments

Nowadays we can see icons everywhere, from a game console to web applications. Icons are getting more and more popular and play an important role, maybe the most important role in user interfaces. However, the resources about icon design are not that popular which is why when we have done ...

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Rainbows, Glows and Light Effects

From Sean Hodge
April 3rd, 2008
133 Comments

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, or an assortment of other lighting effects, give your images ambiance and depth. Now it’s time for a sparkling dose of related ...

Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials – Best Of

From Dirk Metzmacher
March 28th, 2008
63 Comments

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 step-by-step how buttons, collages or even paintings are created. Instead of reading through books describing what needs to be ...

Drunken Monkey Photoshop Tutorial

From Sergio Ordonez Suanez
February 13th, 2008
76 Comments

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 design process, from the first sketches and drafts to the final touches with Adobe Photoshop. In the post you’ll ...

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – Best Of

From Sven Lennartz
February 5th, 2008
135 Comments

Over years Adobe Illustrator has become the standard application when it comes to illustration design. Artists, illustrators and graphic designers use Illustrator to create vector-based graphics which — contrary to raster-based editors such as Adobe Photoshop — can be easily rescaled without the loss of quality. E.g., Illustrator is often ...

Adobe Flash Tutorials – Best of

From Sven Lennartz
January 17th, 2008
120 Comments

Although usability evangelists often consider Flash to be a usability nightmare, used properly, Flash can provide users with a rich and interactive interface which would be impossible otherwise. Today Flash is the de-facto standard for interactive elements on the Web as most users install Flash plug-in by default. And in ...

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Best Of

From Sven Lennartz
January 10th, 2008
239 Comments

When it comes to graphic design, Adobe Photoshop is usually the first option to consider. However, the software itself is a quite tough nut to crack — and definitely extremely hard to master. For instance, the concepts are not always intuitive and it’s not always clear when to use what ...

Corporate Identity Manuals & Guides

From Sven Lennartz
August 28th, 2007
4 Comments

The protection of visual identity is probably one of the most important issues when it comes to developing concepts in which corporate identity (CI) is used. Both in web design and in print – corporate identity manuals are supposed to give designers precise guidelines on how logotypes, colors and typography ...

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