Photoshop Tutorial: Create Photo Curves

We publish photos on blog, websites so often that sometimes they just don’t look special anymore. Here is a simple Photoshop tutorials on how to add curves to photos, making them more interesting on views.

How to Create Your Own Photoshop Action

Photoshop action is a very useful build-in function to create customized program to repeat tedious and time consuming Photoshop task. In this post, we are going to look at how to create a simple Photoshop action with a scenario as example.

Here’s a scenario: You need to resize (to smaller) an image, and in Photoshop here’s how we do it:

Powerful Photoshop: 30+ Mind Blowing Skills and Video Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop is perhaps one of the most important applications to handle graphics. It is not only an essential tool for webmasters and graphics designers but for photographers, artistes as well. Its capability is beyond imagination. Here’s some Photoshop drawing skills that will certainly blow your mind of.
How about viewing 3 YouTube video on a screen? If you came across any good Photoshop video suitable for the list, I’d like a heads up. Necessary credits will be given.

Design Web 2.0 Label/Badges In Photoshop

Lots of Web 2.0 websites like to use labels (or badges) like this to deliver status of current website/service, either the version or whether they are still in beta. Creating these labels are quite easy, especially with the use of Photoshop. Tutorial after jump.

Create Carbon Fibre Pattern in Photoshop

I’m pretty sure you know what carbon fibres are. Here’s how you can create a carbon fibre pattern and use them in any designs, all with Photoshop.

Draw Transformers in Photoshop

Transformers the movie is by far the best movie ever created this year. Here’s something for the transformers fans – Creating Transformers and autobots & decepticons icons in Photoshop.

Create a Polaroid Effect of your Photo

Photos are often much more interesting when they are displayed like a Polaroid photo. Learn how you can turn your normal photo into something livelier, by adding a realistic Polaroid effect to it.

Drawing Spiderman Logo in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to create the logo of one of the most anticipated movie coming to screen this season – Spiderman 3.

First and foremost, download the 1979 font and have it installed in your font folder.
Create a new canvas with White Background, say about 400×300 pixels. Choose Font Type 1979, type in "3", set font size to 250pt, set horizontally scale of 130% and enable Faux Italic.

Concept of Photoshop Custom Pattern

I’ve decided to write a more in-depth explanation for Creating Custom Pattern, hope this will clear some clouds for those who want to create their own custom pattern.
Custom patterns are all about creativity. Once you’ve got the logic of out it, it’s up to you to experiment and create your very own custom pattern and use it whenever applicable.

5 Free Fonts for Web 2.0 Logo

Simplicity is probably the main factor determining if a Web 2.0 logo is nice. To contribute to simplicity combination of font colors and style plays a major role. Fonts need to be blatantly big with smooth gradients and its utmost important to get the right font style, else it’ll just don’t look right. In a nutshell, good font style with the combination of the right colors made up a good Web 2.0 logo.

I hope most of you agree with me so far. Few readers has been asking me which particular fonts were used in other Web 2.0 logo (including my logo) after this entry but see, the point is some of these Web 2.0 out there are using pay fonts. Even if you know you’ll need to buy them; and if you buy them you just ending up having something similar to their Web 2.0 logo.

Amazing Photoshop Skills: 27 images 1 video

Adobe Photoshop is no doubt a powerful tool to create graphics (raster or vector) for printing or web but they are a greater image editing tool. You might have seen some of the images below but not all.

Here are some professionally cropped, precisely morphed photos created by few of the best Photoshop users out there. Full content after jump.

Photoshop: Create Web 2.0 Button

Buttons Photoshop tutorials are probably one of the hottest categories in any Photoshop tutorials site and since Web 2.0 is such hot topics now, lets go about doing a simple button suitable for any Web 2.0 application of websites. Tutorial after jump.

How Web 2.0 Logos are drawn (Photoshop)

Ever wonder how these guys draw their Web 2.0 Logos? Sometimes its nice to learn from others, build up the basic skills and start your own creativity from there. In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to reveal you some of the nice Web 2.0 logos, how you can draw their logo exactly the same (well, not really 100% though) with Photoshop.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Photoshop Toolbox

Fastest way of moving around any applications/games quite unachievable unless there is a combination of keyboard and mouse. In Photoshop, to move around quicker that your fellow colleagues or friends, how about starting with mastering the Tools; the most important element in Photoshop, from my point of view.

Point your mouse over the image to see a change. The alphabets indicates the shortcut for each of the tools. For a more complete coverage of the tools shortcut, refer the table of Photoshop CS 2 tools shortcut below.

Design Web 2.0 Interface in Photoshop

Understanding the tutorial below is understanding it’s technique, with it you can draw yourself some graphical user interface for a website. Side navigation, buttons, headers, for instance. All Web 2.0 style.



Launch a new canvas; any size. Something bigger than 450x300px would be good. Select the Rounded Rectangular Tool and draw a rectangular as big as shown in the image above.

Brusheezy – Free Photoshop brushes and patterns

We know Adobe Photoshop comes with a lot of brushes and patterns by default to play with, but will soon get bored easily. For me, I’m all over the net looking for new brushes and patterns, better if they are free.

And if you are also looking for some breakthrough from the default Photoshop pattern and brushes , here’s a website where you can download Photoshop pattern and brushes for free – Brusheezy.com

Design a Web 2.0 tab with Photoshop

The follow guide below attempts to give you an idea how to design a nice sleek tab menu in Photoshop, Web 2.0 style.

Photoshop Tutorial: Gold & Silver Metallic text

Here’s two font style for Photoshop Design. Cheers. Full tutorial after jump.


Open a new #ffffff (white) background color canvas, enter some text and toggle the Blending Options with the following settings.

Photoshop Tutorial: How To Paint A Car

Changing the color of your favourite car (in a photo) is extremly easy. Here’s a simple tutorial that will guide you through changing them on the fly. Complete tutorial after jump.



The blue color Subaru WRX above may not appeal to all tastes. I kindda like it but I’m sure other colors will be nice too so let’s try changing them or proposed it to Subaru. Choose Image/Adjust/Replace Color to get started.

Design Glossy Web 2.0 Button in Photoshop

Looking to design some glossy looking Web 2.0 button? Here’s a simple Photoshop tutorial that gives you step by step how to get a nice looking red glossy button.