Most people don’t realize how much time and effort goes into creating something like an icon. Icons can take many hours to complete and the techniques used can take a long time to perfect. In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to create an open book icon in Photoshop.

Tutorial Details

* Program: Adobe Photoshop CS+
* Difficulty: Intermediate
* Estimated Completion Time: 2 Hours

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Album covers are always fun projects to work on. In today’s tutorial we will take a look at the step-by-step process of creating a conceptual album cover in Photoshop.

Tutorial Details

* Program: Adobe Photoshop
* Difficulty: Intermediate
* Estimated Completion Time: 3 Hours

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Our universe is vast. So vast, in fact, that astronomers don’t measure its size in meters or miles but by explaining how long it would take to travel a certain distance at the speed of light. Light travels approximately 186,282 miles per second. This means that in a one year a person traveling at the speed of light would travel about 6 trillion miles. In today’s tutorial, we will be concluding our cosmos series by demonstrating how to create a green planet, a setting sun, and a space ship which has traveled several million light years in Photoshop.

In this tutorial, we will explore the cosmos from the perspective of this fictional civilization making their way through the universe and will demonstrate the techniques that you can use in Photoshop to depict your own cosmic scenery. In addition to written content, this tutorial also includes about 90 minutes of video instruction to help you along the way.

So what are you waiting for? Let’s get started!

Tutorial Details

* Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
* Difficulty: Advanced
* Estimated Completion Time: 7 Hours



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In this walkthrough, we would like to share with you the process for creating an original character portrait, “Forever”.

We'll be using Photoshop CS4, but the methods used here can be adapted to other painting programs as well. We hope that you may find it useful!

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In this tutorial, we will show you the steps needed to design this Abstract Human Manipulation with Milk Texture and Custom Brushes in Photoshop.

You will learn how you use a range of photo techniques to manipulate textures in order to form certain effect, mixing with some basic photo retouch skills. Using what you learned here can help your layouts for printed brochures, websites and more.

This is an intermediate to advance level Photoshop tutorial.

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Today we are proud to bring you an awesome business card design tutorial that, when you are finished, will be 100% print ready.

The techniques and styles displayed in this tutorial can be adjusted to fit different colors and textures with little effort. Well, we think it’s about time to walk you through how to create these amazing business cards.

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Learn how to combine brushes, shapes and blur effects in Photoshop CS5 to create a futuristic photo illustration in this step-by-step guide.

Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started!

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There are many creative individuals who are wanting to become graphic designers everyday. Well today is your lucky day! In this tutorial we will be creating a very simple but creative typography wallpaper using Photoshop.

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Hi there. Today we'll show you some Photoshop techniques, how easy with few basics steps you can create awesome typography poster. With this technique you can create interesting flayer for dace club or you can use in advertisements. To create this typography poster we will use some paint splashes, custom fonts and few stocks from Deviantart and of course your knowledge. Indeed in this tutorial will be used basic Photoshop tools, so do not be afraid and start to learn these techniques.


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If you use Photoshop® extensively, you should be familiar with Channels. Channels are used to masks areas of an image, cut specific areas from an image or apply adjustment or effects to specific areas of an image. Channels are one of the most powerful tools used to achieve simple or complex results in our work. We will use this tutorial to show how to apply two spot channels to a poster design. One spot channel will be used to print a 5th color to the piece, a spot color (pre-mixed ink) and the other will be used to apply a spot UV Coating to the statue on the finished printed work.

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