AREA1.info » Featured http://www.area1.info AREA 1 is mostly related to graphic/web design, Wordpress, blogging tutorials & articles. Wed, 25 May 2011 08:56:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 20 Best Photoshop Video Tutorials http://www.area1.info/tutorials/20-best-photoshop-video-tutorials/ http://www.area1.info/tutorials/20-best-photoshop-video-tutorials/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:15:47 +0000 James Adams http://www.area1.info/?p=2507 20 of the best video tutorials covering Photoshop tools, tricks, and technique.

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]]> Sometimes words just don’t cut it, especially when it comes to learning how to manipulate imagery. Thankfully, a world of video has descended on the web in recent years, helping us get up to speed on software more quickly. Here we will highlight 20 of the best video tutorials covering Photoshop tools, tricks, and technique.

1. Cutting out People

Everyone who has used Photoshop for any length of time has needed to cut someone out of a photo. However, most people struggle to find a method that doesn’t take an enormous amount of time. Here, Gavin shows you how to do it with the extract filter.

2. Adding Reflections

On the web these days, it is getting hard to find a logo that doesn’t use reflection. Since there is such demand for that Web 2.0 look, here is an easy method to add a reflection to a word or phrase in Photoshop.

3. Removing Objects

What if you have a great photo of you and your girlfriend, but her ex-boyfriend in standing there in the background? Easy, you delete him. Using the clone tool, you can remove just about anything as long as the image around it isn’t too complex. Here’s how.

4. Creating the iTunes Grunge Background

Apple’s style has influenced so many other products, and almost everything on the web. This tutorial shows how to create the grunge background from the recent iPod commercials from scratch. It’s a very good tutorial on basic illustration in Photoshop.

5. Eye Color Adjustment

Have you ever wanted to enhance someone’s eye color, or change it altogether? What about making them red to get that Twilight Vampire look? Here’s a good tutorial on adjusting eye color.

6. Making it Rain

It’s difficult to shoot quality images in the rain, so why not add it after the fact? Here is a solid tutorial on adding rain to any photo using only Photoshop.

7. Removing Stray Hairs

Have you ever shot the perfect image of a girl, only to spend hours removing stray hair? Here’s how to do it the right way.

8. Create a Photo Montage

This tutorial illustrates how to create a montage of images, which look like Polaroid photos scattered about. You can apply the principles learned here to create scrapbook pages or more complex collages.

9. Get the Sin City look

An Excellent tutorial on how to apply the look from the movie to any photo with a good light source.

10. Taping things up

The trend these days is to create virtual art that looks as if it is a photo of a real object. Thus, many graphical layouts are starting to use Photoshop-created scotch tape to add depth to an image, and evoke an illusion of tangibility. Here’s how to tape up an image in Photoshop.

11. Fantasy Photo Manipulation

Here is an awesome tutorial on how to create digital art using a combination of photo elements. It is a good overview on photo manipulation in general, but highlights how to get that fantasy look many crave.

12. Ornate Typography

Text doesn’t have to be boring. If you are creating art for print media or logos for a blog, there needs to be something special added to the text. This video illustrates how to beef up your plain old text, and add some flair.

13. Dramatizing a Photo

Truly great photographers can shoot the perfect image, without any tweaking after the fact. For the rest of us, we usually need some Photoshop help to make the image pop. This tutorial shows how to burn and tone an image to create a more dramatic mood.

14. Product Creation

Create an iPhone in Photoshop from Howard on Vimeo.

The secret to many ad campaigns is that the products in the ad are not photographed. Rather, they are created from scratch in Photoshop. Here’s how to create an iPhone from thin air.

15. Selective Colorization

Have you ever seen those cool wedding shots where the image is black and white, but all of the flowers are in color? Levels, curves, and layers in Photoshop – here’s how to do it.

16. 3D Text

CS5 added some powerful new tools, one of which allows you to add 3D effects to text. It’s been requested for years, and now it’s here. Check it out.

17. Applying Textures

Here’s the situation. You have an awesome object, but it looks a bit plain. You wish it had more texture to it. Enter this excellent tutorial on applying textures to any surface, even if the surface isn’t smooth or geometric.

18. Puppet Warp

The puppet warp tool in CS5 is super cool. It is better shown, rather than described. Here you go.

19. HDR Imaging

If you are trying to create high-dynamic range images in anything other than CS5, you know how hard it is. Now, Photoshop makes it simple. Lynda shows you how.

20. Starburst Diffusion Effect

Mood is everything. An average image can be transformed into something inspiring, if the right mood can be achieved through photo manipulation. Check out this video to see how to add a diffusion filter effect which creates the feeling of a bright, summer day.

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]]> Hello to all of you!

It’s time for a new Adobe Photoshop tutorial, here on AREA 1.

Last time, we’ve created a surreal scene, Holy Mountain – watch the video tutorial.

This time, we’ll gonna create a burning city landscape among with a survivor.

What you’ll need for this tutorial:

Result of this tutorial:

Now, we have our images. It’s time to open Adobe Photoshop and create a new 800x600px project.

First, import the Jumping Man stock image to your Adobe Photoshop project.

Now, using the Magic Wand or the Quick Selection Tool, cut all except the man himself.

It’s time to import the second image used in this tutorial: Tightrope.
Take this image, scale it down until it looks okay for you and position it above the hands of the man.

Take that small piece of rope and duplicate it, until you make a big rope, which length covers all area, from left to right.

Now, rotate (go to Edit > Transform > Rotate) the rope a little and using the Eraser Tool, select the Soft Round 9px Brush and erase the rope above the hands so it looks like the man has grabbed that rope.

It’s time to import our 3rd and 4th images: City Skyline & Beach.
Scale the images down and put the City Skyline layer above the Beach layer.
Now, using the Eraser Tool, delete the clouds from the City Skyline and the bottom part, until you see the water from the Beach layer.

Select the City Skyline layer and go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast; check Use Legacy and set the Brightness to -50 and the Contrast to +25.

Select the Beach layer and go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast; check Use Legacy and set the Brightness to -40 and the Contrast to +30.

Now, import the 5th image: Car Fire. Scale it down and position it above all layers. Change its blending mode to Lighten. Now, using the Eraser Tool, delete some parts that you don’t like from the fire. Set its opacity to 80%.

It’s time to import our last image: Air Show. Put this layer above the Beach layer. Scale it down and position it in the top left corner. Change it’s blending mode to Color Dodge. Now, using the Eraser Tool, delete the blue clouds.

It’s time for our final adjustments. Create a Brightness/Contrast Adjustment layer and position it above all layers; check Use Legacy box and set the Brightness to -30 and the Contrast to +15.

Now, create another adjustment layer, but this time Hue/Saturation and position it under the Brightness/Contrast Adjustment layer; check the Colorize box and set the Hue to 10/Saturation to 40/Lightness to 9.

That’s all! Hope you’ve enjoyed this tutorial. Stay tuned, there are more to come!

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]]> http://www.area1.info/tutorials/burning-city-in-adobe-photoshop-2/feed/ 10 Over 100 Blogs Which You Should Follow http://www.area1.info/articles/over-100-blogs-which-you-should-follow/ http://www.area1.info/articles/over-100-blogs-which-you-should-follow/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:43:11 +0000 Mihai Opariuc http://www.area1.info/?p=1786 Read more web/graphic design, SEO, blogging tutorials & articles on AREA 1.
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]]> Today’s generation is “hungry” for new information, each one of us wants to find out and learn new things.

I thought to gather in one article a part of the blogs that I read, so you can be able to find more new things everyday.

Here’s a list of Over 100 Blogs Which You Should Follow, among with their RSS Feed address and Twitter Account.

You know another great blog? Great! Just share it with us by leaving a comment!

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]]> http://www.area1.info/articles/over-100-blogs-which-you-should-follow/feed/ 76 The Success Of Your Business On The Web http://www.area1.info/articles/the-success-of-your-business-on-the-web/ http://www.area1.info/articles/the-success-of-your-business-on-the-web/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:29:04 +0000 Comunicarte http://www.area1.info/?p=1787 But how your company can take advantage of Web 2.0 to boost its visibility and reputation? We will “travel” by the basic concepts, strengths and weaknesses of e-marketing. Web 2.0 is the introduction of a new P to the four that already exist on the so-called marketing mix – to the product, price, placement and promotion, joins the P Participation.

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]]> Never before as now the “Global Village” (Marshal McLuhan), the “Big Brother” (George Orwell) and the “Butterfly Effect” (Edward Lorenz) theories made so much sense. Indeed, Web 2.0, a term coined by O’Reilly Media, more precisely by Tim O’Reilly, in 2004, has contributed to the world shrink to the size of a small village, where all its inhabitants are constantly “monitored” and controlled and that any of their movement causes effects on the other side of the planet.

A “Brave New World” or “Chaos”? It’s too early for predictions, because, on the web, everything changes on the minute and we are still trying to understand the phenomenon. Remember when sending a simple e-mail was a novelty? Today, e-mail is the most used tool of communication in businesses! What about tools that favour the collective intelligence? In a very simple definition, we will say that Web 2.0 includes the full set of websites that grow in value through the actions of its users.

But how your company can take advantage of this phenomenon to boost its visibility and reputation? We will “travel” by the basic concepts, strengths and weaknesses of e-marketing.

This achieves more space in the marketing plans of the organizations and can be seen as a transposition of the traditional concept of marketing to a virtual plane. The e-marketing has enabled a greater interaction between businesses and customers, faster and cheaper, resulting in efficiency and profitability in its action.

Strengths:

Global Reach – many brands now use the web to internationalize, something that, using the traditional means, would be slower and more expensive;


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Reduced Costs;

Measurable Results (Tracking) – one of the key issues of e-marketing, because the Web provides mechanisms to assess directly the reaction of customers, with the use of statistical software and CRM (Costumer Relationship Marketing), which give the owner of the website; data on visitors and their navigation on the site and on the needs of consumers – the millions of forms on the Internet are used to this;

Marketing 24 hours – the information is available 24 hours/day;

Personalization – the perception of the preferences and needs (through statistics purposes, a time to visit a website, number of times you accessed a particular site, etc..), which enables campaigns one-to-one;

Creativity;

Interactivity and Immediate Response of Audience.

Weaknesses:

Global Competition;

Impersonal communication;


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Price competitiveness – the easy dissemination and transparency of prices, giving an increased competition in the price of goods or services to market;

Demanding consumers – access to a greater flow of information makes consumers more informed about the products or services they wish to acquire. The provision of feedback from other customers and the tools to compare products and offerings available are resources that influence the time of purchase, as consumers tend to believe more in the opinion of other consumers than the brand that is always ready.

It is thus that, as in a traditional marketing plan, the strengths and weaknesses of the various platforms available on the Web should be considered in drawing up a strategy for e-marketing. But is that all brands can be “sold” on the Internet? At the outset, no! Everything depends on the target audience and objectives to be achieved? Do the target customers of the Louis Vuitton are on Facebook or Twitter? And customers of a company of detergents to the floor? Before, the web has provided, to small and medium-sized businesses, tools to compete in markets where before it would be very difficult to compete. First, it reduces the barriers at the outset of his appearance, then it is an accessible means for transmitting messages of a commercial nature, fostering creativity with low financial and logistical resources.

We are interested in, therefore, address some of the concepts that the online medium brought to marketing:

Technical one-to-one

One of the criticisms that usually points to the digital medium is the impersonal relations. If we lost, a long time ago the personal treatment we received from the person at the counter in the grocery store, this feeling deepens when we doesn’t see who is even at the checkout. It was called this technique one-to-one, that is, the unique dialogue (because everyone is different) that happens between a company and a consumer, or, more properly, a group of consumers with similar tastes. To overcome this weak point, companies must create tools to mitigate the likely impersonality. Filipe Carrera, in his book “Marketing Digital 2.0 – What can not ignore,” argues that, on the web, the relationship “may even be stronger if we create tools and spaces for interactive communication” as assistant online, click to call and business virtual assistant (avatar).

Micro-segments

In the online environment, the promotion should be well targeted and more suited to the target market. With the volume of information that you can get over consumers (using databases and forms), the notion of segment shrank. Thus, the company can communicate with their consumers in a massed way, but, at the same time, in a personalize way calling the same custom needs of each group. Consumers feel that their preferences are known by the brand.

Virtual Communities

In web 2.0 you can engage customers in virtual communities. There are brands that involve their customers in designing their own products, making them joining groups where ideas are exchanged and where the brand is inspired to their further development of them. Software engeneers, for example, are lavish in creating virtual communities to develop open source software.

Permission Marketing

By SMS, e-mail, Internet and traditional media (newspapers, radio, television, billboards and many others) comes to us every day thousands of advertising messages that we do not want and automatically ignore, forgot or erase. The remote control television came exactly to avoid the publicity. Now comes the new concept of “Permission Marketing”, who appeals to permit the recipient to receive promotional messages, with greater success because if the campaign is well organized may have another effect – it also associated with web 2.0 – the viral marketing.

Viral Marketing

Viral Marketing in addition to spread like a virus, the most valuable asset of a viral marketing campaign is the potential low cost, because its success depends more of the creativity than the budget. Basically, based on the design of a message that motivates others to forward it to your network and that their contacts and so on until it causes an “epidemic”.

In conclusion, we can say that what essentially changed in marketing with the Web 2.0 is the introduction of a new P to the four that already exist on the so-called marketing mix – to the product, price, placement and promotion, joins the P Participation. In digital media, the consumer is a word increasingly important in the product, making it a Prosumer (producer and consumer).

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]]> http://www.area1.info/articles/the-success-of-your-business-on-the-web/feed/ 11 Create A Holy Mountain Scene In Photoshop http://www.area1.info/tutorials/create-a-holy-mountain-scene-in-photoshop/ http://www.area1.info/tutorials/create-a-holy-mountain-scene-in-photoshop/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:47:48 +0000 Mihai Opariuc http://www.area1.info/?p=1730 video tutorial here on AREA 1! I'll show you how to create a surreal holy mountain scene.

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]]> As I’ve told you, 2 new articles are on their way. First was Why everyone goes blogging? and now it’s time for the second one, a tutorial.

What you’ll need for this tutorial:

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]]> First of all, let’s see what is a blog:
A blog (a contraction of the term “web log”) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. – Wikipedia

More and more people are starting to have a blog. But I have a question, what is the main cause which determines them to make a blog? I’ve asked a few people and here are their answers.

  • @bkmacdaddy

    @bkmacdaddy

    My answer: lots of reasons. To drive traffic to their site. To have a creative outlet. To share their opinion & knowledge. To influence.

    Follow @bkmacdaddy

  • @JThompsondesign

    @JThompsondesign

    I began my blog as a form of personal expression and to showcase my thoughts and feelings in design. I find new things to inspire me each day and so I’ve wanted a forum to express that, I also think blogs are set out to promote a person as an online presence in there opinions and design work to show off to potential employers. Blogs are a great way to keep busy and inspired.

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  • @designblend

    @designblend

    There are a number of reasons why people start blogging. Whether it be for extra income, promoting a site or product, connecting with people to gain business contacts and/or work, demonstrating to people what they can do and most of all I think people just like to get their personal thoughts and opinions out there to likeminded people.

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  • @designussion

    @designussion

    Many on the web start a blog to earn money though the real reason behind it should be because you have a general interest in the subject.

    Follow @designussion

  • @visualswirl

    @visualswirl

    I started my blog because I was inspired by reading others and wanted to give back to the design community.

    Follow @visualswirl

  • @TheWebBlend

    @TheWebBlend

    The main reasons to start a blog are to CONNECT and SHARE experiences and creativity with others.

    Follow @TheWebBlend

  • @FAQPAL

    @FAQPAL

    Most bloggers start thinking they will make easy money, they soon realize they won’t.

    Follow @FAQPAL

  • @inspirebit

    @inspirebit

    I started a Blog, because I was fascinated with the Design Community. I wanted to be a part of it and share my thoughts and ideas with other creative people all over the world. So I started Inspirebit.com although being honest, I had only a small knowledge of WordPress, HTML and Blogging generally. I said to myself, just give it a try. Y’ know, the ‘no risk, no fun’ approach! And since I started, I have learned so much about Blogging, Design, Coding, WordPress and so on and made lots and lots of great contacts around the world. It is actually sort of crazy, how having your own Blog can help you grow as a Graphic Designer and importantly in “real” live way. I absolutely recommend everybody to start a Blog.

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  • tomaslau

    @tomaslau

    Nowadays you can see more and more new blogs. I think there are 3 main blog categories: Business Blog, Sharing knowledge blog and Blogging for money.

    In my opinion blogging is an excellent way to make new friends and useful connections. If you have a business, it is also a very good way to promote yourself, get acquainted with your clients to open a debate.

    Second type – share knowledge. The desire to share their experiences, teach others. I am in this blog‘s category. I love design, graphics, blogging. I am a dedicated and every day I learn something new and I try to share my interests with my readers.

    And the third type of course is writing for the money. You can easily identify such blogs from the copied, low quality content and tons of ads. Yes you can earn from blogging, but not in one day or month, as I mentioned you have to dedicate for blogging to be successful.

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Blogging: for passion or just for money?

There are different type of “bloggers”: some of them are starting a blog just because they think that money can be won very fast & easy, without much work and the others which are starting a blog to share their knowledge, to help others, to promote themselves, to get in touch with new people, to write about what they like and, why not, win some money from this.

The “problem” is that the majority starts a blog just because they want to be successful with it and win lots of money really fast and they think that it’s easy and doesn’t need any involvement. Let me tell you that it is NOT easy and it involves a lot of work!

There are lots of blogs started every day, but many of them die after a few months from lack of interest, not being original, copy/pasting from other blogs and so on.

Why everyone goes blogging?
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There are many blogs with 100.000 RSS subscribers or 100.000 Twitter followers and I bet that you are asking how did they manage to do that. It’s simple: you need to like what you’re writing about, you need to know what you’re writing about, you need to post constantly and, most important, you need to BE ORIGINAL if you want to have a successful blog!

Why everyone goes blogging?
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If you want to be successful and win money from blogging, you need to be patient and you need to involve in your own project. You’ll see that first few months you’ll get almost nothing from your blog; that’s the moment when you need to invest your knowledge the most, that’s the moment when you need to write good and constant.

You can’t win lots of money when you’re not known, because you don’t have traffic. Money in blogging depends on the visitors; more visitors mean more money. The number of visitors on your blog only depends on you! So, it’s your choice how your blog can progress.

Other Articles

If you want to read more about blogging, check out these great articles:

  • How to have success with a niche blog

    I will tell you a few things about what is a niche blog, how to choose the right niche, a few basic things that you need to know about niche blogs and what you need to do to have success with your niche blog.

  • How to Blog Effectively

    A blog is a great tool with which to express your opinions, build a community, network with others and drive traffic to your website.

  • Great Blogs are Fueled by Passion and Power

    While most people are working to figure out how to develop their blogs, I focus on developing the bloggers. While others may focus on the best tactics for building dynamite bragging rights, I focus on building dynamite relationships. While others focus on pumping their stats, I focus on entertaining, informing, educating and connecting.

  • The Benefits of Running a Blog as a Freelancer (Tips Included)

    Blogging is a great way to advance your career and business, even if your only willing to blog part-time. Starting a blog is a fun way to compliment your portfolio, share what you know, get into the community, and overall upgrade your freelancing career quite a bit. Here are a few of the benefits, and 20 tips to get you started.

  • Bloggers: How Often Should You Really Post?

    It’s a controversy that goes on with many bloggers. The topic seems to come out in every conversation. How often should I post? It’s a valid question that needs a little clearing up. However, this article will not tell you how many times you should post because every blogger’s situation is different. Instead, it will guide you to make the decision for yourself.

  • Internet Famous: Becoming an Online Celebrity

    Some people dream of being famous from the time they’re quite young. They crave the spotlight, and will do anything to be the center of attention.

    They want nothing more than to become a celebrity, to have legions of adoring fans, and to have their name recognized the world over.

  • Top Ten Blog Tips

    A simple concept that provides exactly what it says – lists of blogging tips. But it’s more than that. The tips are entertaining as well as informative, sometimes frank, but always useful (well, hopefully).

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    100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

    So, here’s my contribution to all the Photoshop brushes starving hordes of designers and artists, including myself: 100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes.

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  • 50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes

    50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes

    These 50 Photoshop brush sets are ones I find myself using over and over in a variety of projects. This collection is the result of years’ worth of downloads, trials and experiments. I hope this list helps you find some new Photoshop brushes that improve your collection.

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  • 1000+ Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Sets

    1000+ Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Sets

    Without further ado, we present 1000+ high-Resolution Adobe Photoshop brush sets that will be perfect for any project you may happen to be working on.

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  • 300+ Excellent Photoshop Brushes for Creating Painted Effects

    300+ Excellent Photoshop Brushes for Creating Painted Effects

    Here I’ve collected over 300 excellent Adobe Photoshop brushes to save you time in creating painted style designs.

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  • 300+ Vintage Style Textures and Photoshop Brushes

    300+ Vintage Style Textures and Photoshop Brushes

    If you have a project coming up that requires this type of design, here is a big roundup of textures and Photoshop brushes, all found at deviantArt.

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  • 200+ Free Grunge Photoshop Brushes

    200+ Free Grunge Photoshop Brushes

    Below is a collection of some of the hottest and newest free grunge Photoshop brushes from a variety of brush sites. Many of these grunge brush sets come with several different styles of brushes and tend to vary in resolution.

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  • 50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets for Modern Design Trends

    50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets for Modern Design Trends

    In this collection, you’ll find over 50 free Photoshop brush sets for current design trends and styles such as vintage, retro, grunge, hand-drawn, swirls, and nature-inspired.

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  • 40+ Halloween and Gore Themed Photoshop Brushes

    40+ Halloween and Gore Themed Photoshop Brushes

    PSDFAN have compiled over 40 of the absolute best Halloween themed Photoshop brush sets to help you create some spooky graphics this holiday!

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  • 45 High Quality Photoshop Brushes, Resources and Tutorials

    45 High Quality Photoshop Brushes, Resources and Tutorials

    Today we’ve got you marvelous set of more than 45 high quality Photoshop brushes along with some great tutorials to offer an assortment of techniques for making your next brush set, how to use brush tool and a list of top resources where you an get your favorite brush set.

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  • 64 Beautiful And Free Nature Brush Sets And Vectors – Giant Design Pack

    64 Beautiful And Free Nature Brush Sets And Vectors – Giant Design Pack

    We all use nature images like trees, clouds, flowers, sun & many other objects in our designs. This is a resource pack of beautiful & free nature brushes & vector images.

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    55 Free Human Brush Sets And Vector Images – Giant Design Pack

    Using silhouettes & people illustrations in websites & print is what designers need in many situations. This is a giant design pack of human-related brush sets & vector images like faces, full illustrations, fingerprints, hairs, beards, skulls & more.

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  • 200+ Photoshop Brushes for Light, Sparkles, Glows and Glitter

    200+ Photoshop Brushes for Light, Sparkles, Glows and Glitter

    A number of designers have created custom brushes especially for various sparkles, glows and glitter. In this post you’ll find links to over 200 free brushes that you can download to reduce the amount of time spent on your designs and to produce some excellent results.

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  • 75 Insane High Res Photoshop Brushes

    75 Insane High Res Photoshop Brushes

    Ah, the beautiful world of Photoshop brushes. With thousands of incredible sets floating around the web, and thousands more being made all the time, it can become quite a daunting task to find the perfect ones for your projects. Let me show you 75 insane high resolution Photoshop brushes that will be perfect for any project you may happen to be working on.

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  • 1000+ great Photoshop free brushes by PaulW

    1000+ great Photoshop free brushes by PaulW

    PaulW is an awesome graphic designer from the UK who made great brushes like abstract, grunge or vector brushes for you. Here you can download his whole collection.

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  • 35 FREE abstract and cool Photoshop brushes hand-picked from Deviantart

    35 FREE abstract and cool Photoshop brushes hand-picked from Deviantart

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  • 400+ Floral Brushes for Photoshop

    400+ Floral Brushes for Photoshop

    With the popularity of last week’s collection of Photoshop brushes for creating textures, I thought it would be appropriate to put together another collection of brushes. This time we’ll focus on florals and foliage. There is no shortage of high quality (and free) brushes in this style. Here are some of the better sets.

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  • 250 Hi Res Splatter, Spray, & Watercolor Photoshop Brushes

    250 Hi Res Splatter, Spray, & Watercolor Photoshop Brushes

    Don’t have the time to buy the right materials and create your own traditional-style-painting Photoshop Brushes? Maybe you just don’t know where to start? No worries – we’ve found nearly 250 of the best Splatter, Paint, Spray, and Watercolor brushes that we think you’ll love!

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    500+ Photoshop Textures Brushes: Creating Textures in Photoshop

    Textured graphics are obviously very popular right now, and fortunately there are tons of free Photoshop brushes that will help you to quickly and easily get the textured look you want. This post is a showcase of some of the best sets of brushes available anywhere for creating textures.

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    270+ High-Res Rough and Grungey Photoshop Brushes

    Photoshop brushes are an excellent resource for roughing up your designs for that distressed and weathered look, unfortunately many brush sets on the web are a little small in size, making them useless for large format designs. This collection of hand picked brushes feature various spraypaint, splatters, watercolour brushes and grungey textures all of which are of exceptionally high resolution, making them crucial additions to any designer’s toolbox.

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  • Grungy Borders: 10 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

    Grungy Borders: 10 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

    This set includes 10 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes that can be used to create Grungy Borders. Give this set a download and try them out for yourself!

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  • 40 Free High-Res Acrylic Paint Photoshop Brushes

    40 Free High-Res Acrylic Paint Photoshop Brushes

    Happy Saturday all! This weekend I’m bringing you some high-resolution photoshop acrylic paint brushes. They vary in size a bit, but are mostly all on the very large side. I wanted these to be a little different from your average paint brushes, so I made them sort of blob-ish. They are all different sizes and brush strokes, and the pack includes 40 brushes total. I’m posting a preview below with some of the brushes. Hope yall enjoy!

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  • 50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets You Should Bookmark

    50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets You Should Bookmark

    In today’s post, we attempt to present you some of the high quality and good ones, those we thought would be generally useful in many occasion and definitely worth checking out and bookmark. Here’s our hand-picked of 50 Free and High Quality Photoshop Brush Sets You Should Bookmark. Full list after jump.

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    60 Layout Design Tutorials

    In this post I gathered 60 layout design tutorials, from which you can learn how to make your own website design.

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    30+ Easy To Follow Photoshop Layout Design Tutorials

    Here, I had collected 30+ easy to follow Photoshop layout design tutorials. You can follow them step by step to learn how to create a website layout design by using Photoshop.

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  • 15 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials

    15 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials

    Hey, I thought I’d compile a list of some of the best web design photoshop web layout tutorials. Following these tutorials can be very help you improve your photoshop and web design skills. Hope you like them and find them helpful.

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    25+ Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials

    For Newbies web designers – design tutorials in fact help to understand the basic knowledge about web design! Here is a compilation of 25+ layout design tutorials that will help you with designing a professional looking website. Some of them are really good!

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    44 Must Learn Web Design Layout Tutorials in Photoshop

    Here is a collection of 44 Web Design Layout Tutorials in Photoshop to teach you create your own layout for your website. Check them out, learn and enjoy the tutorials.

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    33 Newly Fresh Web Design Layout Tutorials

    And here it is, a showcase of 33 Newly Fresh Web Design Layout Tutorials for you to learn.

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    150 Useful Adobe Photoshp Web Design Layout Tutorials and Techniques

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    27 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials to Design Decent Web Layouts

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    35 Tutorials for Creating Website Layouts in Photoshop

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    45 Awesome Photoshop Website Template/Layout Tutorials

    These are all great to follow as a beginner, and learning to use Photoshop is a huge part of being a sucessful web designer. So here is a list of 45 awesome Adobe Photoshop website template/layout tutorials that can help learning some basic, intermediate and advanced techniques too.

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    Ultimate Round Ups Of Photoshop Interface Design Tutorials

    Starting an Interface design? Power up your design by these best photoshop interface design tutorials found over the web! This is the best place to get inspired and instructed step by step! Go ahead and find out the right design! Enjoy!

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