Photoshop Tutorials

Eight Original “Advertise Here” 125×125 Graphics

One of the most popular formats for online advertisements, especially amongst blogs, is the 125px by 125px square ad. Who knows why. Perhaps the size makes it easy to use in both narrow sidebars in a single column and wider sidebars as well in two columns. Whatever the reason, it’s popularity is nice for both designers as well as advertisers. Designers because we can design around this block size when creating new designs. Advertisers because having a unified size means having to create less... learn more

Photoshop: Working with CMYK Ink Density

If you design for print, and specifically for materials that will be printed on traditional offset lithography presses, you either already know about Total Ink, or really should know. In offset lithography, your designs are replicated on paper by little dots of ink of various colors (typically, Cyan / Magenta / Yellow / Black, or “CMYK”, and “spot” colors). These little dots of ink hit the paper in what is known as a halftone pattern. If you bust out your loupe and take a... learn more

Photoshop: Which Anti-Alias Setting is Best?

Without going into too much gory detail, anti-aliasing is the term used to describe how the edges of shapes get rendered with pixels. With anti-aliasing turned off, pixels are either just “on” or “off” and you see jagged edges. As we will see later, in some scenarios turning off anti-aliasing is the best option. With anti-aliasing on, the edges of shapes have semi-transparent pixels applied to give a smoother appearance. But as you can see in Photoshop, anti-aliasing isn’t... learn more

How To Use Layer Comps in Photoshop

Ever since CS, Photoshop has had a feature called “Layer Comps”, which is largely underutilized by designers. The concept of the Layer Comps is very simple, it’s just a quick way to take a “snapshot” of which layers are turned on and which layers are turned off in your document. Think “compositions”. Some Adobe Photoshop files get to be VERY complicated in terms of number of layers, and it can be useful and efficient to be able to jump back and forth between... learn more

Make Repeating Seamless Tile Backgrounds with Photoshop

This tutorial is a guest post by Pixblix.com Not every image will lend itself well to a repeating background. I like to select a portion of an image that already has a bit of a pattern to it and also has similar colors, say for example a group of flowers. For this tutorial, I’ve chosen an 800×600 portion from a picture of spring fruit tree blossoms. For now it is much easier to work with a larger image than a tiny one; you can resize the tile when it is finished. The objective... learn more

Christmas Photoshop Brushes

In our previous Christmas Photoshop tutorials roundup we learned a few simple techniques, lets take it a step further so you can create your own designs and list some Photoshop brushes you can download for free … learn more  Read More →

Christmas Photoshop Tutorials

As Christmas approaches us, there are lots of things that designers are required for; Christmas Cards, E-Cards, Wrapping Paper – why not make your own for that custom Christmas feel. Today lets take a look at some tutorials to help you with Photoshop … learn more  Read More →

Free Photoshop Plugins

Plugins and filters extend Photoshop by providing new functionality and effects that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to achieve or by simplifying a process. There are lots of plugins that you can buy but in the TutorialBlog way we are going to be taking a look at the best of the free plugins … learn more  Read More →

Pixel Art Tutorials

Pixel art is a technique that appeared when the early 2d computer games first appeared, the technique then seemed to disappear when 3d games became popular. Now with mobile gaming and a thirst for retro-cool, pixels are coming back. In this article we will take a look at some examples of great pixel art and then learn some of the techniques involved – all you need is any graphics program from MS Paint to Photoshop and lots of patience. Lets get cracking … learn more  Read More →

Grunge Photoshop Tutorials

Grunge is an effective technique when used properly to add some texture to a design to make it stand out from all those clean web2.0 designs. Here we dug out the best techniques and resources to help you master this style.. learn more  Read More →

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