Having a blog is the last trend on the web. Your blog to be popular is even trendier. Therefore with this tutorial you will learn how to make a unique, colorful and at the same simple blog layout using Adobe Photoshop. Simple and clean are the two most valuable characteristics of a template. The picture I use is this.
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DVD Cover Design
Lots of times if you can’t find your favorite DVD’s at the store, you choose judging by the cover. Some covers are simple, some are too fancy. With this tutorial you will learn how to make a colorful, full of live design with Adove Photoshop. Be careful what picture you will choose for the support. For me this one looks good.
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Add digital lipstick with Photoshop
Introduction
The following tutorial will show you how to edit a photo by adding some lipstick to a pair of lips using Adobe Photoshop. The tutorial is intermediate level and assumes you know how to make a path, transform it into selection or stroke it, making new layers and applying filters.
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Search Icon Design
Step 1
Open new 300×300 pixels document in Adobe Photoshop. Now with your Polygonal Lasso Tool draw the shape of a closed folder. Just like this.
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Making Realistic Cast Shadows
Introduction
In this tutorial we will integrate an object (a girl) into a new environment, and make a realistic cast shadow to properly integrate it. The objective of this tutorial isn’t to teach you how to make realistic self-shadowing, so the object’s self-shadow will be made pretty quick because they are not important on this step. This is an intermediate tutorial, the user must know how to use layers, layer blending and transform tools.
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Paper Lamp Box Design
Step 1
The theme of the tutorial will be a box design for a paper lamp. You can use any picture with a lamp, I picked this one.
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China Web Layout
Step 1
Make a new document 700×200 pixel. This will be the header. I chose this picture for the header.
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Green Leaf Content Box
Step 1
Open a new document, with transparent background. 300×300 pixels should be enough and color the background with #cccccc (a light grey). After you have this ready, open a new layer (Layer-> New Layer) and with your Rectangle Tool (U) draw a rectangle. Be sure to make it in the center of the document.
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Integrating a Creature into a New Environment
Introduction
What we see around us is because of the light rays bouncing off objects. Taking objects from a specific environment and integrating/blending them into another environment is a very difficult task, because the color/lighting of the object is coming from it’s original environment. It is also difficult because it requires both image editing and digital painting knowledge. This tutorial will take you, step by step, on how to integrate a creature (a lion) into a new environment, totally different from the original one. This tutorial assumes that you master the basic Adobe Photoshop techniques and tools, like selecting, layering, painting, dodging and filtering.
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Transparent Letter Effect with Photoshop
Step 1
Create a new document in Adobe Photoshop with a blue background (#336699). Select the Horizontal Type Tool in the Tools Tab and type an “O” like in the next picture:
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