15 Advanced Photoshop Video Tutorials

Posted on 22. Dec, 2010 by Anna Cruz .

Most of the time, it is easier to learn a new skill when you can watch someone in action. That is why it may seem so much easier to learn from Photoshop video tutorials. No fumbling around trying to find the tool the tutorial requires; instead, you see exactly where the tool is located and also exactly how best to use it. Video tutorials are a great way to learn valuable techniques while having a good time, so check out the following below and learn some new advanced Photoshop skills.

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Designing a Dynamic Delicious Bookmark Widget for your Blog

Posted on 17. Nov, 2010 by Jake Rocheleau .

Anybody into the realm of social bookmarking knows about Delicious, formerly branded del.icio.us. It’s a powerful tool for bookmarking your favorite webpages and sharing them with your online network. The site has grown over time into one of the most commonly-used social bookmarking tools to-date.

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20 PSD Tuts That Will Turn You Into A Photoshop Guru

Posted on 03. Sep, 2010 by Andy Boyd .

Many people can use Photoshop, but only a select few can call themselves gurus. Learn all the methods in the 20 tutorials below and you’ll be well on your way to joining this elite. Rather than focus on tuts for beginners, intermediates or advanced users, we’ve simply chosen ones which produce jaw-dropping effects. All of them are easy to follow, although most do require at least some prior knowledge and experience. From 3D pixel stretching to vintage colorizing, photo manipulation, age progression and portraiture, we’ve covered all the bases- so get educated and greatly improve your skills!

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How To Draw Ferb Step By Step

Posted on 12. Jul, 2010 by Ilie Ciorba .

Phineas and Ferb is an animated television comedy series. They are also known as “Disney’s Phineas and Ferb“. This tutorial is about only Ferb where we will guide you how to draw Ferb step by step in Illustrator. It’s a very basic tutorial where beginners can also practice this easily. You can also download the source file of Ferb at the end of this tutorial.

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Ultimate Roundup Of Photoshop Web Layouts Tutorials

Posted on 01. Jun, 2010 by Ibrahim Cheurfa .

Photoshop is an excellent tool for creating attractive and professional website designs. In this collection, you’ll find 60 Very Detailed Tutorials on Creating High Quality Web Layouts Using Photoshop. These website design tutorials would help you to improve your photoshop skills and techniques.

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Pareto Principle – The 80-20 Rule

Posted on 05. May, 2010 by Roman Leinwather .

The Pareto Principle has been applied to so many areas and industries with a big success. I would like to show you how you can apply this rule into your design work.

We can apply the Pareto Principle in design the following way. 80% of all design work can be produced with only 20% of the Photoshops functionality. I will show you on a real example as to how you can produce professional, realistically looking icons using only a few of the Photoshop effects.

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Implementing A Good Redesign: Advice And Examples

Posted on 31. Mar, 2010 by Sara Presenti .

Redesigning a website can be very satisfying and very stimulating for a web designer. A redesign consists of objectively improving the aesthetics or the structure of a website and, with the use of new elements or content, giving a new form or a new identity to the site.

Getting our hands on an out-of-date and roughly-done website, with the complete freedom to modify, add to, subtract from, and overhaul what we please, is extremely exciting. Unfortunately, this enthusiasm can often result in an incorrect work process, with a negative impact on the end result and on the eventual success of the redesign.

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How To Draw A Funny Cop Illustration From A Sketch

Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by Ilie Ciorba .

Cops or Police Officers, their mission is to keep the peace and order around us. No one can escape from their batons. In this tutorial I will show you how to draw a funny cop illustration from a sketch. This tutorial requires intermediate knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and advanced pen drawing skills.

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Design Inspiration, Tutorials and Resources – Best Of 2009

Posted on 01. Jan, 2010 by SmashingShare .

2009 was a great year and we hope every body have enjoyed this year. Different topics were discussed in this year but “Design Inspiration” and “Tutorials” were the two hot topics around different websites in 2009. Throughout year there were great articles posted related to design inspiration and tutorials. We learned a lot of new stuff from these resources and expecting much more amazing stuff in 2010.

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30+ Professional Business Website Design Tutorials In Photoshop

Posted on 21. Nov, 2009 by Andy Boyd .

With more and more businesses needing an online presence, it’s no surprise to see there’s a lot of photoshop tutorials out there about creating a professional business website design layout. We have collected some of the very best 30+ professional website design tutorials mostly done in photoshop. These website design tutorials would help to improve your photoshop skills.

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Best Collection of CSS Rounded Corners Tutorials

Posted on 10. Nov, 2009 by SmashingShare .

Creating CSS Rounded Corners for the HTML or markup is a big challenge for most of the designers. Many designers end up with a design where they don’t use Rounded Corners to have an ease in creating markup or HTML pages. Rounded Corners have always been an issue in HTML/ CSS for the web designers. It’s not like there is no solution for this but which solution to pick.

There are thousands of tutorials for “Rounded Corners” and hundreds of different ways (with CSS, with images, using JavaScript etc.) to create “Rounded Corners” and this has been always very difficult to find the best and effective way to create a box with rounded corners.

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