Andy Pipkin tells his poor duped friend Lou that he wants tickets to the opera for his birthday. Its an unusual request, as Andy has been seen to have a bit of a love affair...

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Photoshop CC tutorial showing how to design and create ancient-looking text on top of an iron shield decorated with a Viking ornamental border against a weathered, iron surface surrounded with a Viking border.

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Photoshop CC tutorial showing how to create effective watermarks for your photos and other images. Unlike others I've seen, the watermarks that I'll show you how to make are equally effective against black, white and grays.

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This tutorial will teach you how to selectively sharpen certain areas of an image like the pros do using the high pass filter in Photoshop.

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The type tool in Photoshop is more flexible than you might think. You can create everything from a single line of text, to a fully custom text box shape.This tutorial will teach you how to create a shape from scratch and insert text that conforms to the edges of that shape.

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Matte Painting Tutorials in Photoshop. This is a collection of some of the many magnificent Matte Painting Tutorials for Photoshop users. Matte painting allows you to create stupendous scenarios that cannot and do not really exist in real life. The following tutorials are great starters for those of us who are generally new to the idea of Matte Painting.

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It is that time of the week again, a chance for you to sit back and enjoy some of our favorite web and mobile designs from this past week. You may also like to browse...

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Abstract Tutorials in Photoshop. Here is an inclusive collection of some of the most useful Abstract Tutorials. These Abstract Tutorials will guide you and help you to design and demonstrate your inner creativity through the stunning world of abstract art. These tutorials have been gathered through Google search.

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Despite being free of charge, the free responsive WordPress themes we have for you today all have a premium quality to them. All are responsive, so they will adapt to various screen sizes straight out-of-the-box....

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Are you looking for a quick and easy to edit platform to speed up your web design process? Well, you have come to right place. We have collected 30 fantastic pre-built responsive HTML templates that...

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In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a 3D pop-up effect in Photoshop, where the main subjects of your image will appear as if they are popping out of a flat picture. I will be using Adobe Photoshop CS6, but you can use any other recent version too.

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In this simple photos effect tutorial, we’ll learn how to make a collage of polaroids in Photoshop from just a single photo.

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Read this tutorial to learn how to create this dramatic fallen angel scene. This tutorial will cover essential photo manipulation techniques such as painting, complex masking lighting effects, and more!

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As an experimental personal project, Brazilian graphic designer Pier Paolo has recently created what he calls ‘a timeline of classic films and characters’ entitled Cinematics. Designed in his own unique style, Cinematics is an illustrated...

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For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, spring is right around the corner and, along with it, designs bursting with flowers, butterflies, Easter Eggs, and pastel colors. Most of the holidays in the spring...

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Here are the best designer freebies from February 2014. We have free UI templates and kits, icon sets, fonts, Photoshop brushes, PSD templates, extensions… and everything else in between. Free UI & Wireframe Kits LightFlat...

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It is that time of the week again, a chance for you to sit back and enjoy some of our favorite web and mobile designs from this past week. You may also like to browse...

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No matter what type of business you are in, hearing the words ‘the client is always right’ will make you cringe. In design, those words will not only make you cringe, they can also make...

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This is our popular weekly design news post where we share our favorite design related articles, resources and freebies from the past week. You can sign-up to our awesome weekly newsletter for some more amazing...

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Through following demonstration, I will make it easier for you to understand the significant effects of Bevel Emboss and Contour.

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Modify a toast stock photo, and use a couple of Layer Styles with some useful tricks, to create a golden syrupy honey-on-toast inspired text effect.

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In this tutorial, I will show you the processes of creating this "Dark Power Unleashed" Surreal Digital Art in Photoshop. We will start from a simple city image, and combine it with cloud, model and several other objects to form this surreal effect. Have a try!

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Have you noticed that the normally seen gradient effects lack novelty? Actually, just a little bit skills can achieve unexpected effects.

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Want to land clients while building your brand and network? Here are 83 tools to help showcase your #design work on a global stage.

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I like this icon very much and have copied it. Here I would like to share the copying steps. Since they are giving only a general direction, you don’t have to follow them strictly. Besides, downloading for source files is also provided.

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I would like to share steps for drawing a pixel graphic. It is very simple, and everyone can do it.

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Today I saw a folding ruler at home, and it inspired me to make the font style with the folding ruler effect. It is quite easier, and I hope you can add your own thought to the operation.

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Today we have a great new photo manipulation tutorial for you guys. You’ll learn how to create a beautiful nature scene, featuring some crazy weather, a complex background structure and some lovely touches of detail.

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A list of 120+ of the best beautiful and elegant, free for both personal and commercial use, floral patterns.

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