Sharpening images is one of the most fundamental elements of graphic design; however a lot of people struggle with this key process in their designs. Without proper sharpening, an image can look flat, dull and uninteresting, but if oversharpened, artifacts and grains will be introduced that will detract from the design.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn what a sharp image should look like and the many ways of sharpening one of your designs to achieve the maximum visual appeal.

Let’s get started.

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Not so long ago, typography was an art confined to a restricted group of scholars who worked on the old type foundries, demanding specific knowledge to understand its complex design procedures and a high artistic sensibility to capture the subtle way of how the letter and its spaces interact. In addition, it required from the typographer not only special skills in the handling of different fonts, sizes and text boxes, but also great patience and dedication, once the arduous process of making a piece took days, even weeks.

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To create High Dynamic Range pictures, you need at least 3 different exposures of the same photo, but in this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create HDR from a single image.

This technique will make the bright portions of the image darker, and dark portions of the image lighter. This also gives the image a lot more realistic look.

Tutorial Details:

* Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5 (CS4 compatible)
* Difficulty: Beginner
* Estimated Completion Time: 15 Minutes


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In today's Photoshop tutorial we will show you some tips useful while working with icons. In particular we will deal with layers organization and pixel simplification. At the end of the tutorial, you will be able to create your own set of icons, in a variety of dimensions, from 48×48 to 16×16 pixels.

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Today we’ll be showing you some of the techniques we use to create this kind of image, a realistic looking computer mouse. We'll take you through the creation of it. Let’s get started, shall we…?!


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Cute mascot design - Photoshop tutorial.

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In this Photoshop tutorial we will show you how the home page of the Income Diary blog was created.

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The idea for this design was to create a membership area for the software WishList Membership which is a Wordpress plugin, however the design could be used for any membership site or even a blog, if you get the right coder.

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What you will discover in this answer is how to transform images into a cool polaroid type effect that looks smokin’ hot.

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Hello and welcome to another Photoshop tutorial. For today we will create a trendy and colorful wordpress layout in Photoshop. If you’re thinking to redesign your blog, you can follow this tutorial. We will try to explain step by step how you can create a similar wordpress layout in Photoshop.

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