Now that your business card is done, how will you display it in your portfolio? A mockup is a go-to choice for many designers on a tight schedule. It helps you style your portfolio professionally and provides future clients with confidence about your workflow. Want to try one out? Create extraordinary headers, posts, and portfolios […]
What You’ll Be Creating Are you an aspiring designer with a special gift? Show off your levitation skills with a photo manipulation. Make a creative banner you can apply to all your social accounts. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to build a designer-inspired photo manipulation using a few stocks and 3D objects in Adobe […]
I am finishing up a new action and tutorial, but I do have my newest storyboard set ready to share with you. This set contains four 2000×2000 Photoshop/PSE storyboards with an optional color frame. These storyboards are perfect for printing or sharing on your social media or website. Check out hundreds of my custom-designed storyboards […]
What You’ll Be Creating This tutorial will show you how to use layer styles, with simple shapes and textures, to create an easy ice effect in Photoshop. This text effect was inspired by the many Layer Styles available on GraphicRiver, like this 3D Ice Cool, Freeze and Snow Effects Styles pack. Let’s get started! Tutorial […]
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 […]