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Take Your Photos Back in Time With an Authentic Vintage Effect
In this tutorial I'll show you how to convert your regular photos into an authentic vintage outcome. We'll look at a variety of aging effects, from texture application, to the necessary adjustments you'll need to age your photos in a realistic way.
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Create a Nature Inspired Painted Background in Photoshop
When I first saw the Viget Inspire Blog, I was very impressed. The background just grabs and pulls the reader right in. After studying it for a while, I still couldn’t determine if it was made from an actual painting or if it was all created from scratch in Photoshop. Regardless of how it was created, it makes for a great looking design. In this tutorial, I ... Read More
How To: Make the Viget Inspire Background
A few of you have been asking, so here it is: An overview of how we put the Viget Inspire background together. The driving philosophy behind real-texture stuff like this is to fake as little as possible. No matter how many brushes you have or how good you are in Illustrator, there's a quality of unpredictability in real photographs and real, physical el ... Read More
Create an awesome background using patterns
This tutorial will show you how to create some flawless patterns, which we will use to create some amazing backgrounds that you can use for your desktop, websites, posters…whatever you want. The great thing about patterns is that once you get comfortable with them, they can be an important part of your Photoshop arsenal. Enjoy! ... Read More
Creating an Abstract Background for Poster
This tutorial is suggested by a reader, FlashFreak, with the reference to a wallpaper of Windows Live Messenger from Microsoft. It mainly covers editing in Quick Mask Mode along with some other basic tools. ... Read More
Create a Retro Photo and Background
In this tutorial we are going to take a regular, boring photo and liven it up using with some effects to give it more of a retro feel to it. We are then going to take the photo and create a background for it to lie on. ... Read More
Create a grungy background using patterns: Part 2
I’ve been asked to do a tutorial on how to do my end result for the previous tutorial, so the end of the week article will be a continuation of the pattern tutorial. There is a lot of different ways you can play with this to make it grungy and dirty, this tutorial shows you what I did. ... Read More
Create a wood background in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, we are going to create a wood background. We are going to create the wood from scratch and turn it into a pattern. Then we will finish it off by adding some lighting and texture effects. ... Read More
Design an Awesome Geometric Shaped Typography with Grungy Background in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show the processes involved in designing and creating this really cool, Geometric Shaped Typography with Grungy Background in Photoshop. This is a simple tutorial yet the effect looks awesome, have a try! Along the way, I will also give you some tricks that you can use for creating awesome lighting and smoky effect to spice up you ... Read More
Abstract Glowing Background
Following this tutorial, you will learn how to draw different shapes, apply gradient, blend different shapes in the background, and more – all to create an abstract glowing background. So, let’s start! ... Read More
Creating Your Own Organic Textured Backgrounds
So two of the questions that I received most are, how I created the background texture on alifelski.com and also if people could outright take elements from my site and simply place them on theirs. With that, I would like to show everyone how I created my background in hopes that people will get inspired and create textured backgrounds of their own. ... Read More
Design an Awesome Splashing Ocean Text Effect with Lightning Background in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this really cool-looking, Splashing Ocean Text Effect with Lightning Background in Photoshop. Have a try :) Along the way, we will be using lots of textures, image adjustments, blending options and various filters. The purpose is to show you how you can use multiple texture images and combine th ... Read More
How to create abstract colorful rainbow background
In this tutorial, you’ll go through easy steps for creating a nice abstract rainbow background in Photoshop. We’ll use Photoshop’s simple shapes, layer styles and gradients to create a colorful background. Let’s get started! ... Read More
How to create abstract colorful background with bokeh effect in Photoshop
In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to create an abstract colorful background with bokeh effect using Photoshop's drawing tools, blending modes, and lighting techniques. Layered PSD file included. Let's get started! ... Read More
MSNBC New Background Design in Photoshop
In 2007 I wrote a Photoshop tutorial for PSDTUTS that was a user request, actually it was a request from not one but quite a few readers, they wanted to know how to create the MSNBC header effect. Back in those days it was a brand new design with a very colorful background image on the header. Now in 2010, they have a new website design and I was invited to ... Read More
How to turn wooden textures in awesome grunge backgrounds
After worked in the market of stock resources for a while, I’ve noticed that people love grunge textures. So In this brief tutorial I’ll show you some tricks that will allow you to transform a wooden texture in a unique grunge background. ... Read More
How to Create Colorful Christmas Background with Christmas Tree and Glossy Balls
In this tutorial I will give you some tips on how to create colorful Christmas background with Christmas tree and glossy balls in Adobe Photoshop CS6. You will learn how to add a Layer Style, draw Christmas decoration with Ellipse Tool, apply brushes, use Custom Shapes etc. Layered PSD file included.
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Shiny heart on the dark background. Valentines Day ideas.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to design a creative and unusual Valentine's heart with the shiny effects and splatter texture. ... Read More
Create a Unique Rock Text with Space Background in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create this Unique Rock Text with Space Background in Photoshop. I will show you an interesting way to place the rocks and join them together with simple line-drawing techniques. This is a beginner to intermediate level tutorial, have a try! Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 . ... Read More
Create a Custom iOS 7 Style Blur Background in Photoshop
Learn how to create a iOS 7 Style Blur Background from a photo or image using a few basic steps to upgrade and add a nice blurry feel on all your devices backgrounds.
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