15.01.2010
POSTED IN Blog, Pics and Pixels, Tutorials, Web Tech/Design | NO COMMENTS TAGS : Adobe Photoshop, Design, FAQs Help and Tutorials, Graphics, Image editing, Photoshop, Tutorials, Web design, Web Design and Development
60+ Fresh Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web
January 5, 2010
Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of December. You’ll find everything from a Minimalistic Poster Designed in Photoshop, to creating a Clean 3D Notepad. So what are you waiting for…why not try one out?
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60+ Fresh Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web | designrfix.com.
A Collection of Free Design Resources
Designers can never get enough resources. Fonts, tutorials, source files, plugins, stock images, icons… you name it we love them. Especially when they are free!
Thankfully within the design community there are no shortage of designers willing to offer free stuff, it just about finding them. That is where we can help.

In today’s news round-up we have collected exactly what you want, some fresh and free design resources.
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A Collection of Free Design Resources | Design Reviver.
Daily Inspiration #404
January 12, 2010
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users.
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Daily Inspiration #404 | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials.
200+ Textures, Brushes, and Fonts: Ultimate Grunge Roundup

Grunge style is rough, rugged, torn, worn, and tattered. To most, these adjectives would describe something less than appealing, but in the hands of a talented web designer, elements possessing these qualities can be used to turn a web site into a work of art. So, if you are just getting started in grunge design or if you are already a pro, you should find the grunge freebies in this article to be very useful.
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200+ Textures, Brushes, and Fonts: Ultimate Grunge Roundup | Design Reviver.
28.12.2009
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50 Amazing and Useful
Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials
arshad | Dec 23, 2009
In this post i’ve collected amazing tutorials created by Photoshop.You can see how Photoshop is powerful and if you can imagine,you all can do these kind of photo manipulations.These 50 amazing tutorials are a little bit for advanced users but i’m sure if you start working you cannot believe what you can do with Photoshop.
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Creating a Vintage Ski
Poster Design with Illustrator® CS4 –
Vector Plus Tutorial
Dec 23rd in News, Plus by Neal McCullough
We have another great Vector Plus tutorial available exclusively for Plus members today. If you want to learn how to create retro illustrative designs, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. This one will have you adding those subtle touches that will take your work to the next level!
Author: Neal McCullough
Hi there Vector Enthusiasts! I just started out this year as a Freelance
Illustrator under the name of Hand Drawn Creative. I’ve worked for over a decade as a Graphic Designer/Illustrator throughout the UK and over the years have gained a lot of experience in creating eye-catching vector illustrations for the advertising industry.
This Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques
I'd describe this as an intermediate level tutorial and throughout the process I'll show how you how to add a little
Art Deco glamour to your illustrations by making subtle use of the Gradient and Transparency palettes in Illustrator CS4, as well as introducing an aged paper feel with clever use of texture resource files.
Tutorial Details
* Program: Illustrator CS4
* Difficulty: Intermediate
* Estimated Completion Time: 4 hours
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How to Use Retro Colors in Your Designs
November 16th, 2009 by Tyler Denis
Retro colors are a great way to give your website an older/vintage feel; it can give your design a little something different from the regular fully saturated colors that you see often in modern-themed designs.
This article is both a showcase of retro-colored themes in existing web designs, as well as a tutorial on how to achieve retro colors using Adobe Photoshop (you’ll learn about five different techniques).
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Design a Minimal and Modern Portfolio Layout with
Photoshop
October 29th, 2009 by
Richard Carpenter
In this Photoshop
web design tutorial, we’re going to create a mock-up of a clean and modern-looking
website. This is Part 1 of a tutorial series that will show you how to create the design, and then convert it to an HTML/CSS template.
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25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design
March 26, 2009
Photoshop, Tutorial
All of these tutorials cover the process of designing a modern and highend web page within
Adobe Photoshop, as with any great
web design it is initially designed with a graphic editor, beginning with a blank canvas building up towards the complete page.
Below you will find 25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design. Download or Buy Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended »
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25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design : Speckyboy Design Magazine.

50 Must-Have
Photoshop Brushes
* By Daved Brosche
* November 10th, 2008
* Graphics
by Daved Brosche
Having a good collection of Photoshop brushes is essential for any designer. There is certainly no shortage of Photoshop brushes on the Web these days. The problem with Photoshop brushes isn’t in finding brushes, but in finding quality brushes. Below you’ll find a collection of quality brushes that every designer should find handy.
These 50 Photoshop brush sets are ones I find myself using over and over in a variety of projects. This collection is the result of years’ worth of downloads, trials and experiments. I hope this list helps you find some new Photoshop brushes that improve your collection.
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50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes - Smashing Magazine.