Today I have a beautiful new set of vintage textures/overlays in shades of brown. These look lovely layered over your images in soft light and overlay blending mode. You can also use them directly as digital paper on your own designs. And they come with free commercial TOU! This is my favorite texture in the […]
What You’ll Be Creating This tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop’s 3D tools and settings, as well as some filters and adjustment layers, to create a simple, flat, faded 3D text effect. Let’s get started! This text effect was inspired by the many Layer Styles available on GraphicRiver. Tutorial Assets The following assets […]
I love everything Pretty Presets (a sponsor on my site) creates and they make the only presets I use other than my own. So imagine how thrilled I was when I was sent this post about their newest preset set. Rainbow halos, lens flares, and sun glows in Lightroom? How in the world do they […]
On Friday I like to post recent snapshots that make me happy. I was so excited when I saw this snail on the mailbox flag and I told the kids I would caption this photo “Snail Mail”. They looked at me blankly. I guess they are too young to know that we old geezers call […]
Not great with a needle and thread? No problem! Apparel design is no longer just for the fashionistas. And one of the best ways to get into fashion is to make your start as a t-shirt designer. An effective t-shirt commands attention. It can be used for marketing, fan merchandise, or just creative expression. Now […]
What You’ll Be Creating In this Quick Tip, I’ll show you how to use Adobe Photoshop to add your own custom imagery to a product mock-up purchased from Envato Market. Envato Market is an excellent resource for stock photos, graphic templates and product mock-ups. These resources are a great way to produce high quality marketing shots in a […]
Comic books and graphic novels combine two things every designer aspires to meld: real meaning and pure, unadulterated eye candy. Here we introduce 30 of the best ever tuts on using Photoshop to create stunning comic-book style art, along with 20 insane comic-book style effects. Although, if you’re looking for premium quality Photoshop Photo Effects, […]
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial we will combine different Photoshop tools to create a grunge-punk style poster. What You Will Need You will need the following resources in order to complete this project: Download the images and install the font, and you are ready to start! 1. How to Create a New Photoshop File […]
I am so excited I finally finished this post for you!!! I want to post more fine art editing tutorials, textures, and actions, and this week I figured out a way to add gorgeous sun rays and golden light to images WITHOUT using overlays. I call this Photoshop/PSE action “Golden Sun Rays” and it is […]
What You’ll Be Creating Affinity Photo isn’t the first photo-editing program to claim it can stand toe to toe with Adobe’s Photoshop for a fraction of the price, but it may be the first to actually back up that claim with pure, uncompromising photo-editing power! And with a one-time fee of $50 USD, it can be much […]