Archive for November, 2005

Halftone custom photoshop shape

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

This tutorial is going to show you a way to create halftone custom adobe Photoshop shapes. These shapes can be used in many design projects like logo design, flyer design or even as a background for another design element. They are very versatile because of their vector nature which means that they can be used [...]

Sharpening images using the high pass filter

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Most people when they want to sharpen their images with photoshop they use the USM (Unsharp Mask filter), however there is another powerful photoshop filter that in my opinion does a better job.
I am going to start with a closeup of a flower that I took handheld
Here is a 100%crop of the picture before using [...]

Photoshop Brushes Resources

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Here are a few sites that offer free photoshop brushes to use for your designs. Of course this is not a complete list but just a

Vbrush
Over 160 sets of original brushes

500ml Brushes
34 sets of free (linkware) brushes
Albdesign Photoshop Brushes
About a dozen of extremely high quality sets of brushes
Finally check out Brushfind, it’s not a site [...]

Funky Text Effect

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

This tutorial will show you how to create a text style like this one, using Adobe Photoshop.

Retro Art tutorial

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

With this tutorial I am going to show you how to give a retro look to your images.
I am starting with an image bought from Dreamstime for just 1$. The image is copyrighted and that’s why I have watermarked it so noone downloads it from here. Also keep in mind that I am working on the full resolution image which is 6 MP while the images posted here are scaled down.

Copyright � Photographer: Kateryna Govorushchenko Agency: Dreamstime