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June 17, 2010 in Featured, Icon Design in Photoshop, Photoshop by Rufino

Paper Icon Pack: 15 Social Media Icons

Author:Tudor-Ionel Cucu (nickname:Crimz)

Freelance graphic designer Cucu Tudor-Ionel is a student located in Bacau, Romania and currently writing tutorials based on personal projects. At the age of 13 he started working in Photoshop doing virtual-tuning, and then creating different tutorials and websites in his non-existent free time.

See my GraphicRiver portfolio

These are free to download and you can use them in any application whether it’s personal or commercial. Please just be sure to let people know where you got the icons from. We’re offering them at 256px (PNGs) and 500px (PSDs). Download, and be sure to tell your friends to come visit the site to download their icons as well, and as a courtesy, we hope you’ll link to our site. We have a lot more great things coming!

April 12, 2010 in Featured, Photoshop by Rufino

Virtual tuning body kit using brush techniques (Adobe Photoshop CS 3)

In this tutorial I`ll be using Adobe Photoshop CS3 but you can use any version of Adobe Photoshop.
There is an image for every step that will be very helpful.
After you have made all the steps you`ll be able to make an original bodykit for your car using 100% brush/dodge/burn tool techniques .

March 22, 2010 in Featured, Photoshop by Rufino

The Basics – Photoshop Tools Part 3 of 3

This tutorial is a continuation of our tutorials: “The Basics – Photoshop Tools Part 1 of 3” and “The Basics – Photoshop Tools Part 2 of 3“

For recap, these are the tools that are discussed in part 1 and 2: Move Tool, Rectangular Marquee Tool, Elliptical Marquee Tool, Single Row Marquee Tool, Single Column Marquee Tool,Lasso Tool, Polygon Lasso Tool, Magnetic Lasso Tool, Quick Selection Tool, Magic Wand Tool, Crop Tool, Slice Tool, Slice Select Tool, Eyedropper Tool, Color Sampler Tool, Ruler Tool, Note Tool, Spot Healing Brush Tool, Healing Brush Tool, Patch Tool, Red Eye Tool, Brush Tool, Pencil Tool, Color Replacement Tool, Clone Stamp Tool, Pattern Stamp Tool, History Brush Tool, Art History Brush Tool, Eraser Tool, Background Eraser Tool, Magic Eraser Tool, Gradient Tool, Paint Bucket Tool, Blur Tool, Sharpen Tool, Smudge Tool, Dodge Tool, Burn Tool, Sponge Tool, and Pen Tool. Now, lets move forward with the list and I will discuss the Part 3, the last part of the Photoshop tutorial.

March 20, 2010 in Featured, Photoshop by Rufino

The Basics – Photoshop Tools Part 2 of 3

This tutorial is a continuation of one of our tutorials: “The Basics – Photoshop Tools Part 1 of 3“.

Part 1 talks about the importance of basics in graphic designing. I point out lists of Photoshop Tools and its features. For recap, these are: Move Tool, Rectangular Marquee Tool, Elliptical Marquee Tool, Single Row Marquee Tool, Single Column Marquee Tool,Lasso Tool, Polygon Lasso Tool, Magnetic Lasso Tool, Quick Selection Tool, Magic Wand Tool, Crop Tool, Slice Tool, Slice Select Tool, Eyedropper Tool, Color Sampler Tool, Ruler Tool, Note Tool, Spot Healing Brush Tool, Healing Brush Tool and Patch Tool. Once again, these tools are just basics but they aren’t enough, there are still a lot of things to learn aside from this. So guys, lets move forward and I will discuss the Part 2 of it.

March 17, 2010 in Featured, Photoshop by Rufino

The Basics – Photoshop Tools Part 1 of 3

One of the most powerful and the leading, industry standard software on image and graphics editing or creation is the Adobe Photoshop, or merely Photoshop. If you’re just starting to learn about Photoshop, you might know some of its tools and basic editing tasks like resizing and cropping but to be able to fully understand and master all of its tools takes a lot of time. That’s the reason why the main purpose of this Photoshop Tutorial is to help you learn the basics of Photoshop (starting with Photoshop tools) for you to get started with it. People tend to skip the basics or the fundamentals and start on learning the advanced Photoshop tutorials which they thought is easier. But they’re wrong. Jacob Gube once said, “If you take the time to learn the basics, you’ll run into less trouble because you understand how things work.”

March 1, 2010 in Featured, Photoshop, Web Design by admin

Fresh website template for beginners (Adobe Photoshop CS3)

In this tutorial I`ll be using Adobe Photoshop CS3 but you can use any version of Adobe Photoshop. This website tutorial can be followed by anyone, but was meant to be extremely basic for beginners wanting to learn the basics of design while learning how to design a website. There is an image for every step that will be very helpful. In this tutorial, use your imagination and let creativity take over. Have fun!

February 1, 2010 in Featured, Photoshop, Print Design by admin

Learn How To Draw a Dose(Can) in Adobe Photoshop

by Cucu Tudor-Ionel & Chitea Viorel

Description : If you’ve ever wanted to draw a soda or beer can / dose for your print design endeavors, here’s your chance to learn how! This detailed tutorial shows us how to create a realistic looking dose. Warning: kinda makes ya thirsty!

January 29, 2010 in Featured, Icon Design in Photoshop, Photoshop by admin

Create a Recyle Bin Replacement Icon in Photoshop

Aren’t you tired of the same old Windows recycle bin icon? Let’s create a fun replacement: a nice vintage bathtub complete with foam and plastic duck!

January 13, 2010 in Featured, Freebies, Icon Packs, Photoshop by admin

Let me hear you say Free Icons!

Everyone loves free stuff, especially if it’s high quality. We’re offering this high quality set of 32 icons in 9 different colors for free. We’ve also included a bonus set of 10 social media icons in 7 different colors as well. All icons were created in Adobe Photoshop and can be downloaded in a zipped up PSD file. These icons were designed by Wendell Fernandes of Dellustrations.com.

January 11, 2010 in Featured, Photoshop, Web Design by admin

This is video 2 in a two video series on “How to Design a Website in Photoshop”

Wendell Fernandes of Dellustrations.com shows us how to create an elegant website in Adobe Photoshop starting from the ground up. He shows us step by step how to setup a template and then explains which tools to use in Photoshop, and how to use them, in order to create an awesome looking web site. This is video 2 of 2 in this video tutorial series. If you missed video 1, you might want to watch it first by clicking HERE.