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30 Plugins to Supercharge Photoshop

Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by bmackler.

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It is well known that straight out of the box Photoshop is capable of an amazing amount of things, but mastering some effects are considerably harder than others. These days you do not have to be a Photoshop pro in order to complete some of the harder projects and achieve the more elaborate effects. While [...]

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17 Best Tutorials for 3D Text in Photoshop

Posted on 02. Nov, 2009 by bmackler.

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As we have seen, there are some amazing 3D text effects you can create with Photoshop. 3D Typographic design is extremely popular and not as hard as it looks to develop. Here we have collected 17 really cool 3D typographic tutorials for you to learn from. While some of them use Xara 3D or Illustrator [...]

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Essential Cheat Sheets and Reference Cards For Web Designers and Developers

Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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Its impossible to remember all of the functions and keyboard shortcuts for all of your favorite web design and development applications. The one way to master your frequently used applications and increase productivity significantly is to use reference guides. No one will accuse you of “cheating” or doing something wrong…being able to perform a function [...]

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20 Amazing Photo Enhancement and Editing Tutorials

Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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Previously we discussed the top 15 digital photo effects and all the amazing special effects you can create in Photoshop. Now, I would like to get back to the roots of Photoshop and what it was originally built to do, before it became the ultimate design and layout program. Photoshop was created to help photographers [...]

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Photoshop Layer Effects Explained

Posted on 08. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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Layer effects are one of the most commonly used features used in Photoshop. When you use them separately or together you can create some wonderful effects. It is important to get to know each of the styles and what each does along with the available options. This tutorial will go though every default layer style [...]

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Top 15 Photoshop Photo Effects

Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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We forget all too often that first and foremost Photoshop is an image editing and manipulation program. Yes it is also the best program to develop your websites but the power that it has to alter and manipulate imagery is astounding. And the added bonus is that much of these examples of course can be [...]

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Learning Photoshop Layers and Effects – Lesson Three

Posted on 02. Oct, 2009 by bmackler.

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In Photoshop, layers are used to work on individual parts of an image while not affecting other parts. It’s hard to believe there was ever a time when layers didn’t exist inside Photoshop. Yet prior to Photoshop 3, they didn’t. Thankfully we have come a long way since Photoshop 3. There is no question in [...]

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15 Best Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials

Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 by bmackler.

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The web is home to hundreds of Photoshop text effects and tutorials, but I have made a list of what could be considered the best tutorials on the web. Its a great way to improve your Photoshop skills and to stay up to date with what is going on. In just a few steps you [...]

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Photoshop Type Tools and Vector Drawing – Lesson Two

Posted on 24. Sep, 2009 by bmackler.

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So we have learned all about raster and bitmap images and what they can and can’t do but the question remains, can we create images in Photoshop that can be made larger and smaller without losing their quality? The answer used to be no, but in recent versions of Photoshop that has changed. While somewhat [...]

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Getting Started with Photoshop – Toolbar Overview and Selection Tools – Lesson One

Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by bmackler.

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Time to dive in, head first. To most people Photoshop seems very intimidating and overwhelming, especially if you don’t even know where to begin. In this multi part series we are going to discuss the tool bar, what they do and the overall functionality of Photoshop in relation to Web Design. There will be certain [...]