• Envato Meetup Live Video Stream Tonight!
    Tonight at 7pm CST we will be streaming a live video feed from our Envato Community Night here in Chicago. This will give you a chance to “hang out” with the Envato staff as we have an informal meet and greet with those who use the sites. Each site editor/manager, including myself, will make a [...]
  • Create an Eerie Underwater Composition in Photoshop
    Sometimes certain scenes are too expensive, dangerous, or even impossible to photograph. This is when people often turn to Photoshop. In only a little bit of time, you can create a very realistic looking image. Today we will be learning how to create an eerie underwater scene. So, get your scuba gear on and let’s [...]
  • Captivating and Amazing Out of Bounds Photo Effects
    Out of Bounds (OOB) is an interesting photo effect where the object or scene in the image seems to jump right out of the photo or its borders. It is a photo manipulation technique to add an illusion of 3-dimsnsionality to a flat photo. Getting an interesting OOB effect depends largely on the photo angle [...]
  • Create a Motorola Droid Style Phone in Photoshop
    Recreating electronic devices in Photoshop is a great way to learn. Today, we will demonstrate how to create a Motorola Droid style phone in Photoshop. Let’s get started! Step 1 Start by creating a new 2000 x 2000 px canvas and save it as "phone.psd." Use the Pen Tool to the outer silhouette of the [...]
  • Garry Milne: Skating His Way to the Top
    Like his creations, there are many layers to Garry Milne. While some of his images may have dark undertones, Milne is anything but. Here he talks about his inspirations, skateboarding and the importance of being nice to people. Mark Twain once said, “Clothes make the man.” If such a statement is true then we’re in [...]
  • Psdtuts Presents Exclusive Wallpapers by Jennifer Cirpici
    Another extremely talented designer by the name of Jennifer Cirpici has volunteered to create two exclusive wallpapers for the readers of PsdTuts+. This months exclusive wallpapers feature something for everyone, on one hand we have a beautiful scenery shot with lots of bright colors, and on the other we have something more textured and rough [...]
  • Create a Graffiti-Inspired Illustration Using Photoshop and Illustrator
    Photoshop and Illustrator compliment each other in many ways. Today we will demonstrate how you can use them in tandem to draw and color a graffiti-inspired illustration. Let’s get started! Before You Begin Before you begin, it’s always good to do a bit of planning. For graffiti art, do some research and keep it in [...]
  • Quick Tip: Create a Realistic Credit Card in Photoshop
    In today’s quick tip tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a realistic-looking credit card using Photoshop and Illustrator in just a few short steps. Let’s get started! Step 1 To speed up the process, we will begin by putting together some basic graphics in Illustrator. Make a 3.5in by 1.9in rounded rectangle, then fill [...]
  • Dried Ink Stains: 20 High Resolution Brushes – Premium Psdpack
    Today, we have a new set of Premium Brushes available for Psd Premium Members. This set was crafted by Grant Friedman of Colorburned and includes 20 High Resolution Photoshop Ink Stain Brushes. If your next project calls for a grungy, stained look, then this set is perfect for you. Learn more at the jump! High [...]
  • Create a Realistic iMac Icon in Photoshop
    There is a lot that you can do in Photoshop with just a few select tools. Today, we will demonstrate how to create a realistic iMac icon in Photoshop that includes a 27-inch screen, a keyboard, and a mouse. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets Photo of iMac box (for reference) Black & Blue Icons Wallpaper [...]
  • Create a Futuristic Abstract Wallpaper
    On this tutorial i am going to show how you can use filters to create wallpaper with abstraction in futuristic style. Final Image Preview Step 1 Create a new document with size of 1920 x 1200 pixels and 72 dpi with white background. Press D to set up foreground and background colors black and white. Go to Layer [...]
  • Photoshopstar.com needs your input
    My name is Luis and i am the new owner of Photoshopstar.com. Site was bought last month and was transferred to my servers after purchase. I am already working on Photoshopstar.com fixing small bugs, removing unnecessary code and preparing site for changes. I have many plans to Photoshopstar.com including fixing older tutorials and update several of them to [...]
  • How to Separate Green Plant from Background in One Minute
    Sometimes we need to separate quickly the image of a tree or shrub from background, this tutorial can achieve acceptable results in a few steps. If you want to get high quality result, then it is better to use classical methods for separating complex objects from the background. So let’s start by finding photography of tree [...]
  • How to Put Lightning inside the Bottle
    This Photoshop tutorial can make everyone who wants to know how to create lightning in a bottle and you will be very surprised to learn how it is quickly and easy. Before starting this tutorial go thru Google Images to find some appropriate picture of bottle to work with. Open up the picture and start with [...]
  • How to create bullets in Photoshop
    In this easy tutorial I’m going to show you how to create bullets in Photoshop. You can see my result image below, which you’re going to be making something very similar to! Step 1 First thing’s first, create a new document with a size of about 500 x 300 pixels with a black background. Step 2 In [...]
  • Creating Northern Sky in Photoshop
    Now I’m planning to provide a tutorial to you how to create the effect of the Northern Sky step by step. This is not so difficult but very interesting tutorial. Start with finding appropriate pictures which we can use for creating effect in this tutorial. You can use Google Images to find the pictures or can [...]
  • Creating Football Fan from Orc
    This simple tutorial is dedicated to the event that is happening in the world now — 2010 FIFA World Cup. I’d like to show you how to turn any character into a football fan. To begin with we should select the appropriate image to make our tutorial on. You can try search in Google Images, or [...]
  • The Effect of Music Notes on Flowers
    This tutorial shows how to apply any design on flower petals in Photoshop. As an example we can use the design of a stave for applying it on the tulip-petals. At first we should find an appropriate photo to work with. You can use search in Google Images or feel free to use my picture with [...]
  • Create a Dream World in Reality
    To design your dream world, you have to prepare different pictures and know how to use combination effect properly. It is very common to do this, since the techniques are not difficult.
  • Beautiful 3D Text Art Background
    Most of you may prefer natural environment or colorful background for your image. You may not even think of using text for your background. You can have a try to use the different style text effect for your image.
  • Image Transformation into Cartoon
    If you would like to turn your image into some kinds of cartoons, it is not necessary to ask an artist to do that. What you need to do is to use your photoshop to transform it. Process is simple and not complicate.
  • Design a Liquefied Traditional Car
    To specified and beautify your car, except changing the car color or adding some shining effect, you can add some special effects such as liquefy it with simple background.
  • Develop your Dream Paradise
    Clouds, green and fog are some common elements for design of paradise. You can put your house in your develop paradise. To do this, not many skills are required as all of these are photo combination techniques.
  • Create an Imaginative Art Text
    Text effect can enhance your overall design when it matches to your background or topic. If you spend sometimes on the text, it can be another piece of main object. You may try to apply some images or animal shapes to your text.
  • Apply 3D Effect on Movie Poster
    Nowadays, 3D movies spread the world. Many cartoons and nice movies are in 3D. However, technically, designer has not applied such effect to poster before. This tutorial will show you to apply such effect using Photoshop.
  • Photo Combination – Green Tree under Cloudy Sky
    Photo combination allows you to combine different sorts of picture together to form a nice scene. However, to do this, color mixture and lighting effect are the essential elements which allow them mixing together naturally. Here will present you some skills.
  • Apply a Fantastic Sunset Scene on your Object
    Different natural scenes require sort of techniques to be applied on your image. If you would like to try the sunset scene, here the tutorial will explain you how to adjust the light and color to match with the sunset environment.
  • Create a Paradise Lighting and Photo Combination Effect
    No photo is perfect. Somehow, through photo editing using photoshop, you can mix different photos and adding some special effects. Here will show you the tricks on color and lighting adjustments.
  • Tame out-of-gamut colors
    Next, choose Select>Color Range, and in the Select menu, choose Out of Gamut, and Click OK to load a selection of the out-of-gamut colors. Then, choose Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation and move the Saturation value to ~10, and click OK. You should see the gray areas get smaller. Deselect and repeat this procedure using the same ~10 Saturation [...]
  • Want to Win an iPad? Of course you do…
    The National Association of Photoshop Professionals is hosting a new iPad giveaway. All you have to do is go here and fill out the form to enter your chance to win. It couldn’t be simpler. Oh and you must enter by September 20, 2010 so don’t wait. It will just take a couple of minutes [...]
  • Identify out-of-gamut colors
    If you’re prepping a flattened copy of an image for press reproduction and need to tame out-of-gamut colors prior to converting to CMYK, choose Gamut Warning from the View menu. Flat gray will appear over colors that are out of gamut.
  • Transfer selections or alpha channels
    If you have different images open that share the same pixel dimension, you can load a selection from any of the other images, or save a selection to any of the other open files. Choose Select>Load Selection or Save Selection and in the Document menu at the top of the dialog, choose the file where [...]
  • Select with color channels
    Sometimes, targeting a specific color chan-nel can help create a much better selection, especially if there are distinct color differences you can take advantage of. In this example, the same diagonal move with the Quick Selection tool resulted in a much better selection of the heart when it was applied only to the Red channel [...]
  • Zoom in the Color Range preview
    The preview in the Color Range dialog shows the entire image by default, which can make it hard to judge the potential selection mask if you’re trying to select only small areas. The solution is to first create a selection around the area on which you want to work before you choose Select>Color Range. Once [...]
  • Remove Lasso tools: control points
    When using either the Polygonal Lasso or the Magnetic Lasso tools (both nested under the Lasso tool [L]), you can remove control points in the order in which they were put down by backtracking along the selection path and pressing the Delete (PC: Backspace) key for each point. The Magnetic Lasso tool may try to [...]
  • Fine-tuning with the Quick Selection tool
    When adding or subtracting small areas with the Quick Selection tool (W), your results will be more accurate if you use the Zoom tool (Z) for a close view and then use a smaller brush tip combined with shorter strokes.
  • Change the default Eye-dropper sample setting
    The sample size of the Eyedropper tool (I), found in the Options Bar, controls the size of the area that’s evaluated when it provides color and tonal feedback, but it can also affect how certain selection tools work,e.g., the Magic Wand or the Color Range command. The default Sample Size value is Point Sample, which [...]
  • Where are my palettes?
    They are still there only their name has changed. Palettes no longer exist in Photoshop CS4. Officially, they are now called panels.
  • Aqua Text Effect
    In this tutorial, we ll go over how to create a special text effect using different layer styles and filters with Photoshop. The results are very easy to make and looks absolutely fantastic.
  • Create a Cool Stitched Tag in Photoshop
    In this tutorial we will learn how to make a tag. We will also learn some advanced steps in brush settings.
  • How to Create a Dark, Emotional Photo Manipulation
    How to Create a Dark, Emotional Photo Manipulation
  • Torture a Man and Stitch Him Up
    Transform a man into a torture victim with a couple tricks and some basic tools.
  • Composite All
    This is a tutorial where we will combine hand painted elements with design done with Photoshop means.
  • Starcraft 2 Logo
    Follow the steps to recreate the starcraft 2 logo. Alot of play and fun with layer styles and other tricks..
  • Melting Apple Effect
    In this simple and easy tutorial we will learn how to add a melting effect to the apple image. We have mostly used blending options to create the melting effect.
  • How to Protect Your Photos with a Watermark
    If you need to share your images online or with a client you might want to consider adding a copyright watermark. This tutorial shows how Photoshop can make a watermark action that can be used again and again.
  • Create a grunge photographer layout
    Learn how to create a grunge photographer layout using vector ornaments, and grunge textures.
  • The Maiden and Hummingbird Photo Manipulation
    Learn how to create this photo manipulation by Oliver Cereto. Some of the techniques you will learn in this Photoshop tutorial are how to give a person a cute doll-like face, how to extend backgrounds, and how to apply a moody photo effect.
  • New Batch of Free Video Photoshop Tutorials
    The guys from Watchandlearnphotoshop have been busy during January releasing free video tutorials. They have released a total of 6 video tutorials that you can watch below. Bicubic Sharper When resizing an image in Photoshop, if you use all the default settings, the image will end up with a little bit of a blur to it–hardly distinguishable, [...]
  • Brusheezy Free Photoshop Brushes
    Brusheezy is a new site offering large collection of free photoshop brushes. Currently there are a total of 148 free brush sets under 15 categories such as abstract, nature, space, splatters etc. What I like about the site is that users can comment on the brushes and contribute their own brush sets. There is also [...]
  • Photoshop Video Tutorials
    Here is another batch of free Photoshop video tutorials by WatchanLearnPhotoshop Open Type Font Embellishments Description: Photoshop trainer Geoff Riggs shows you how to add embellishments and alter the appearance of specific letter pairings for open type fonts. Tricky Selections Description: It’s not always easy to make complex selections in your Photoshop images, but in this tutorial, trainer Geoff Riggs will [...]
  • Adobe Photoshop CS3
    Adobe has released a beta of the upcoming Photoshop CS3 which is available for download from Photoshop Labs. You will however need a valid serial number of Photoshop CS2, Adobe Creative Suite 2, Adobe Production Studio, Adobe Video Bundle or Adobe Web Bundle. Macworld has an interesting first look article about this beta and PhotoshopSupport has [...]
  • 2 Free Video Tutorials
    Another update with free video photoshop tutorials. These tutorials cover two totally different subjects. The first tutorial will show you how to fix the sky in photos and the second one how to warp text with smart objects. Both tutorials as always are courtesy of Watch and Learn Photoshop. Taming the Skies: Ever have one of those [...]
  • Photoshop Elements 5 Review
    Sue Chastain, from Graphicsoft has posted a review of Photoshop Elements 5 for windows. To be honest I have been thinking of upgrading a rather ancient copy that I own (version 2 lol) and this review have convinced me to do so. As you probably figure the review is generally positive. You can read the [...]
  • Rainy Day Photoshop Action
    PanosFX is the creator of some of the best Photoshop actions available. I have posted about some of his actions before and his site is definitely one to watch out for if you are a fun of photoshop actions. Rainy Day is another great action by Panos that works with Photoshop CS and CS2 [...]
  • Glowing Lights Photoshop Tutorial
    Watch and Learn Photoshop has released another excellent tutorial. This time the tutorial shows how you can make a light bulb look like it’s illuminated. An effect that is quite common in concept stock photography. I am sure everyone has seen pictures of business men holding a lit light bulb. This tutorial explains how you [...]
  • 7 Photoshop Video Tips
    Our friends over at Watch And Learn Photoshop are releasing a few new products and have also released not one, not two, not three but seven free photoshop video tutorials/tips. Here they are: Levels Adjustment You may already know the basics of the levels adjustment tool, but in this video, Geoff Riggs will show you a neat [...]
  • Three new Photoshop Video Tutorials
    Three new short, free Photoshop Tutorials have been released by Watch and Learn Photoshop. The first tutorial shows you how you can turn a photo into a Polaroid. In my opinion these tutorials are really nice, not because you learn a step by step method to create an effect but because you see techniques that you [...]
  • 3D Valentine’s Day Typography
    Love requires depth … and it can be reached with 3D. Learn how to create a romantic illustration worth a thousand words.
  • St. Valentine’s Photo Manipulation
    Indulge your beloved by creating a digital piece of art with urban style motifs out of her image.
  • Na’vi Avatar Photo Manipulation
    If you have been inspired by James Cameron’s movie “Avatar”, you should certainly see this stunning exclusive tutorial showing you all the steps you need to take in order to photo-manipulate yourself into a Na’vi.
  • Thanksgiving Wallpapers
    These wallpapers will do it for you. No need to make a vegetable mess out of your workplace to celebrate the harvest festival. Sill life styled images with saturated colors give you that festive mood thats so vital during these dull autumn days. Let your desktop positive energy of fertility and [...]
  • Google Text
    The Google logo looks very cool and easily sticks to memory. In this tutorial I’ll try to describe how to create this logo. Create a new 400×400 document. Select Text tool (T) and type Google in the center of a page. I used Catull font. This is a commercial font [...]
  • Jack-O-Lantern Drawing Tutorials
    The monstrous face of your carved pumpkin may be horrifying, amuzing, humerous or just unique by all means. Behold a set of Jack-O-Lantern drawing tutorials that’ll give you the basic idea of how to do all the celebration preparations in the digital world and come up with your own wallpaper, icon or [...]
  • Create a Comic Art Style Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
    Here is a rather quick tutorial on how you can create a very nifty comic art style photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop. We will show you all steps you need to know in order to create cool comic book styled art pieces out of your photographs!
  • Create a dark and clean wordpress layout
    Learn how to create a clean dark wordpress theme. Download FREE PSD layout.
  • 3D Lenticular Prining using Photoshop
    This tutorial teaches you how to use Photoshop by itself to create 3D lenticular prints. Unlike the 3D features found in CS4/CS5 Extended which deal with converting 2D pictures to 3D, this tutorial teaches how to create real 3D by taking pictures along a straight line. The tutorial also addresses the algorithmic side of interlacing images.
  • Roman House Part II - The Drawing
    This the second part of a three-part Roman House tutorial. Roman House Painting Part I - The Drawing describes how to draw the scene and this part shows how to finish the background. Roman House Part III – Finishing how to add a woman to the scene.
  • Create a Mystical Text Effect with Smoke and Ocean Texture in Photoshop
    In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create a Mystical Text Effect with Smoke and Ocean Texture in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be a little tricky, but why not have a try!
  • Create a Futuristic Portrait Poster in Photoshop
    Super sweet tutorial that explains in detail how to create a futuristic looking portrait poster. Learn how to combine a good set of techniques to create a crisp piece of art ready to be printed!
  • Put a cutting edge spin on the lens flare effect using Adobe Photoshop
    In this tutorial you’ll learn how to present exciting variations on an old theme through changing the position of the lens flares and creative use of the blending modes, brush tools and colour. So get ready to become reacquainted with one of digital imaging software’s strongest effects. Just stay away from those default settings...
  • Roman House Painting Part I - The Drawing
    In this tutorial you will be taken through the steps to create a roman courtyard. Part I describes the drawing, Roman House Part II – The Drawing describes the coloring, and Roman House Part III – Finishing describes how to draw a roman woman and finish the drawing.
  • Create a Graffiti-Inspired Illustration Using Photoshop and Illustrator
    Photoshop and Illustrator compliment each other in many ways. Today we will demonstrate how you can use them in tandem to draw and color a graffiti-inspired illustration.
  • Create a Realistic iMac Icon in Photoshop
    Today, we will demonstrate how to create a realistic iMac icon in Photoshop that includes a 27-inch screen, a keyboard, and a mouse. Let’s get started!
  • Transparent Desktop
    Focus directly on creating the illusion of a transparent desktop. This is probably of the easiest and better image background transparency Photoshup tutorial available on the Internet for beginners and alike.

  • Magical Snowfall
    Learn to create an animated gift with a magical snowfall effect.

  • Sticky Tape Effect
    Learn to tape down the corners of your content.

  • Artistic Abstract Shape
    A shape that is something a bit left of center.

  • Scanned Lines - 2 Methods
    Learn to add a scanned line effect on images using two methods.

  • Metallic Photo Frame
    Design a curvy metallic photo frame in less than 10 minutes.

  • Eye Color Change
    Manipulating the color of people's eyes in images and photos.
  • Bubbles Background
    Create a soft bubbles effect to any of your work. Fantastic for Wallpapers.

  • Animate DVD Tray
    A little gem to show you how to animate the closing and opening of the DVD tray on a notebook.
  • Swiss Watch Postcard
    Designing a promotional postcard for a watch company.
  • Greeting Card
    A card beautifully crafted for any number of occasion. In our case, we make a seasons greetings one.

  • Giveaway: iPhone Stickers
    First, I would like to thank everybody for reading Web Designer Wall and following me (@nickla) on Twitter. Today, I have iPhone stickers to give out to my followers only. I will be giving out 20 iPhone stickers (sponsored by Sticker Mule) with my illustration printed on it . All you have to do is [...]
  • Flashloaded Component Giveaways
    Flashloaded offers Flash components that help you to build cool Flash stuffs without having to code any Actionscript. The components are very easy to use and customize. Just drop the component on the stage, customize it via the parameter palette, and you are all set. In this contest, Flashloaded will be giving out 5 components. [...]
  • CSS3 Media Queries
    CSS2 allows you to specify stylesheet for specific media type such as screen or print. Now CSS3 makes it even more efficient by adding media queries. You can add expressions to media type to check for certain conditions and apply different stylesheets. For example, you can have one stylesheet for large displays and a different [...]
  • Free Ticket to Frontend 2010 Norway
    I will be speaking at Frontend 2010 conference along with a big list of famous designers. The event will take place in Oslo, Norway on September 1st & 2nd, 2010. I have a last minute free conference ticket to give away. Enter a comment in this post before Aug 24, 2010 for your chance [...]
  • Themify Launched
    You may probably notice that I haven’t been updating Web Designer Wall for a while. I’ve been working very hard on a new project called Themify, a premium WordPress theme shop. It is a collaboration with Darcy Clarke, who is an amazing developer. Each theme is packed a framework and bunch of custom widgets. With [...]
  • Free Ticket to FITC San Francisco
    I have a free FITC San Francisco to give away. To get it: you just need to enter a comment in this post before August 6, 2010 and the winner will be selected randomly. The event will take place in San Francisco between Aug 17th to 19th. If you are getting the tickets, use coupon [...]
  • Interview With ZURB
    For those of you who been reading my blog should be familiar with ZURB. They are the guys who created those fantastic web apps — Bounce, Notable, and Verify. If you read online tutorials a lot, you may have probably stumbled upon their Playground before where they post various CSS and Javascript tutorials. Today, I’m [...]
  • What Do You Think About Flash Now? Comment and Win
    Some people hate it, some people love it, but undoubtedly it is preferred in a wide variety of situations, from banners and online videos to rich internet applications. I’m talking about Flash of course. Take the comic strip below as an example. It was animated with BannerSnack and output as a SWF file. Click to [...]
  • CSS3 Rounded Image With jQuery
    The other day I was trying to style CSS3 border-radius to image element and I realized that Firefox doesn’t display border-radius on images. Then I figured a way to work around it — wrap a span tag around with the original image as a background-image. Thanks to Darcy Clarke for the jQuery code which does [...]
  • ScrollTo Posts With jQuery
    Inspired by the CargoCollective and David DeSandro’s site, I asked my Twitter followers (@nickla) on how to do the scrollto posts with jQuery. Within a day, Ben Bodien of Neutron Creations sent back a quick demo on how to replicate the similar result with the ScrollTo plugin. The script finds your current view position and [...]

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