Icon design is an essential element in any designer’s tool chest. No matter how simple or how complex your design is, a nice looking icon will almost always help to spruce things up. In this Photoshop tutorial we will demonstrate some easy steps to help you to produce your own shiny Psdtuts+ icon in Photoshop. These steps can be easily modified to produce a family of icons for your website.

When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

Display beautiful images is a potent element in web and graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using images in an artistic manner. Photoshop is useful for both creating and editing images to be used in print or online. Not too easy to use, but full of high-quality features, Photoshop is the best choice for any image manipulation job.

Learn How To Design a translucent 3D Frosted Glass Box based on the Safari Icon in Adobe Photoshop.

select the fill tool (G) and fill it with #626262. Now, we need to make a new adjustment layer. Make a brightness/contrast  layer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast). Put it on these parameters.

In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you a simple technique that can be used to enhance any kind of subject with stunning light effects. We will use in particular selection tools, gradients and brushes to achieve the result.

tart creating a new Photoshop document. Mine is 2000×2600 pixels. Grab the gradient tool and add a radial gradient going from a dark grey…

I know how much everyone loves tutorials, I know I love writing them too. Well in this post I have taken my time to roundup some Photoshop Tutorials and some Photoshop Roundups that I think is valid to be featured in this post. I know quite a few people are going to love me for this, but let’s keep it professional. If you think that I was kidding about the title, well then you’re making a mistake, there is really 1000 tutorials in this post. I hope you guys enjoy the post and the resources.

As a graphic designer you will never reach the point were you can say “Yep, I know everything, nothing left for me to learn!“. It doesn’t work that way, graphic design is a constant evolution of learning new techniques, knowing latest design trends and all the while staying focused on your own art integrity.

Photoshop is the tool of choice for most designers,there maybe other powerful graphic editor that offer similar functionality, but none of these are backed up by the huge support from the design community that PS enjoys. It is within this community were Photoshops real power lies.

Learning Photoshop by doing tutorials has never been this much fun now that you have a selection of the best Photoshop tutorials that were published in the last period. I dropped the weekly article because it wasn’t so weekly anymore so you have now a combo article of 44 fresh and detailed Photoshop tutorials.

In creating texts for your images- whether it be for logos or headlines- we are given the option to make it more lively or to make it plain and simple… However, nowadays, ‘too simple’ is not quite the standard in designs. Of course, as designers, we know people tend to expect too much. Following several guidelines and tips, we can create out-of-this-world images and unique designs right from our fingertips.

Creating brochures is a lot tougher than most people think. If you are new to graphic design, there are actually a number of things that you need to consider before conceptualizing a brochure design. First of all, you need to ask your client what he wants to accomplish with the brochure, know the target audience as well as the message of the brochure. Next, you need to get the specifications of the brochure such as size of paper, stock type, trimming, folding, or special cuts as  as these will depend on the budget of the client for the brochure.

In this web design tutorial, we will create a beautiful and colorful portfolio layout using Photoshop. I’ll show you many techniques for creating different things like bended paper corners, dashed lines, image carousels, 3D bars, and more! I’ll walk you through each step in exact detail so you won’t be left guessing how to do a certain technique. We will use the 960 Grid System to create this layout (which I’ll cover at the start).