For many people, animation can be one difficult task to do. However in reality, if you have all necessary tools which are needed to make animation successful then you can start the work by following the mentioned steps. Once you learn the technique or mechanics of the creating process, you can improve your work. With help of Adobe Photoshop, creation is never a difficult thing. Animated logo designs, if you make it in a right way, then you will surely see positive results for the same. Following steps have proved to be helpful that can make your work simpler.

1. Make a file and design the background components of company’s trademark. You will use this as the background layer.
2. Take a new layer where you can design the first frame of animation. Alter for other frames you will have to create a new layer and then save the file in Photoshop formatting. Male sure you keep all the layers in their own places.
3. Go to the File option and then select Edit Options. This will open the file where you have to make stuff for the firm’s logo.
4. You have to make sure that Window and Animation later are clearly seen. If it is not seen then go in Widows option, select the Layers options and keep selecting it till they are visible to you.
5. In the window of animation, you will see frame by frame how the effect is made. If you want to bring some changes in the visibility, you can change them from 0 to 1 and then select on 0 seconds and changes it according your wants so that you can adjust the time frame accordingly.
6. Make a duplicate layer by clicking on the duplicate layer option which is on the tight corner. Once you click on it you will get as much frames as the number of times you click it. You have to make sure that layer with animated content is not selected.
7. On every frame, you can turn on the layers which are needed for your animation.
8. To view your final work, you can click on the animation button window. Go in the setting tab and brig changes and adjustments according to your needs.
9. Simply save the file by clicking ‘Save” button and save your creation of animated logo design.

To make your animation better, adobe after effect are commonly used. It helps to make visual effects and motion graphics. It is also helpful to alter, animate, composite media in 3 d space with different built in tools and third party plug in. This software is powerful and amazing. If you follow some tutorials and guidelines you will find it more interesting. A quality logo is necessary for business. Good logos catch attention of viewers and let them know what kind of business they are into. To make a perfect logo, dope Photoshop is the best software. You can bring many changes and make the logo look interesting. Animation is something which any viewer like the most. Adobe Photoshop can surely help you to make good logos and animations.

About the author: Alia Haley is a blogger by profession. She loves writing topics related to parenthood and beauty. Beside this these days she is busy in researching about urban design.

 The Making of the Nutty Boat Trip

Most of you probably know how hard it can be to find the perfect stock images for your designs. That means you will often have to get creative and find new ways to create the perfect composition. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to place a couple of squirrels in a coffee mug that is floating in a body of water.

Create a Devastating Tidal Wave in Photoshop

Matte painting is a technique that filmmakers use to create backgrounds for scenes that can’t or don’t exist in real life. In the early days, matte paintings were actually painted onto glass. Today, modern filmmakers use digital applications such as Photoshop to produce the backdrops that they need. We have published many matte painting tutorials on this site meant for intermediate and advanced users. This tutorial is part of a series of tutorials that we will be publishing on this meant for those of you who may be relatively new to Photoshop or matte painting in general.

In today’s tutorial, Matte Painting 101: Create a Devastating Tidal Wave in Photoshop we will give New York City a break and will destroy London with a devastating tidal wave. Let’s get started!

 Create A Mixed Media Piece Using Photoshop

In this tutorial I will be showing you how to take any drawing and turn it into a mixed media masterpiece using Photoshop. We will be combining some digital painting techniques with textures and light effects to achieve the desired result. I will be showing you how you can use these techniques for just about any type of design. If you are ready to get started then let’s go!

Create a Crystallized Water Girl Figure with Disintegration Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create a Crystallized Water Girl Figure with Disintegration Effect in Photoshop. I will introduce a few tricks with quickly combine texture with stock image to create great looking effect, plus a few lighting techniques to give your work a great finishing touch. Have a try!

How to Create a Flaming Manipulation

Learn how to create this photo manipulation of a flying man similar to Iron Man. This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to apply cinematic lighting effects and manipulate fire to create this composite.

How To Create A Grungy iPhone Application Advertisement in Photoshop

Create Quick Particle Effect on Photo via Custom Brush Options in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the way I use to Create Quick Particle Photo Effect via Custom Brush Options in Photoshop. This effect is quite simple and would be great for beginner to learn. Have a try!

Along the way, I combine this particle creation technique into this tutorial, along with some other photo manipulation techniques, such as image adjustment, painting, and lighting. The primary focus of this tutorial would be the particle effect, which you can use in a wide range of occasions to add some spice into your image.

Create a “Clock Up” Wallpaper in Photoshop

Using 3D text effect as main design element wasn’t something new. I’m pretty certain that most of us has been seen 3D text in many place like magazine, poster or in the internet. Years ago, we need 3d application and some skills to create believable 3d text. But since Adobe released Photoshop CS5 in 2010, we really can depend on it to create cool 3d text. Feeling anxious about this topic? If you really want to learn, keep on reading to find out how we’re going to make it.

Create an Abstract Rock and Roll Poster

Follow this step by step design process for my recent digital art piece, Vogue. The design combines textures and distressed elements to create a dark and beautiful theme. Learn how a range of Photoshop techniques pull together the various elements to create the final design.

Create a Wallpaper of Japan in Photoshop

In this tutorial we are going to create a princess in a fantasy world, standing in a royal garden. With this tutorial we will be covering some interesting methods of cutting an image with complex and tiny gaps, discussing the nature of the elements in the scene to to provide a natural depth to the scene, and working on the lighting and Depth of Field principles.

Create a Water Girl Photo Manipulation Mixing with Splatter Brushes in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create a Water Girl Photo Manipulation (Mixing with Splatter Brushes) in Photoshop.  This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be a bit tricky, but why not have a try

Along the way, I will show you how you can use the water splash brushes and splatter brushes on your stock photo, in order to create some nice splashing effect on it. I will also show you some basic photo retouch skills for retouching the model.

 How to Work With Vector Masks in Photoshop

In Photoshop there are several types of masks at your disposal – vector masks and pixel masks. In today’s tutorial we will focus on vector masks. First, we will explain the difference between the two and then we will discuss the advantages of vector masks over pixel masks and how to use them effectively. If you would like to learn more about masks and paths, take a look at some of our previous tutorials explaining these basic tools. Let’s get started!

Create Custom Rims For Your Ride in Photoshop

Customizing your ride can be a lot of fun for those of you who are into that sort of thing. In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to create some custom rims for your ride and then show what they would look like if overlaid on top of an image of a car. Let’s get started!

This tutorial was prepared in collaboration with Radu Matei.

Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Photo-Realistic Orange from Scratch

In this tutorial I want to share with you how to paint and texture an Orange. This is the basic procedure for achieving a photo-realistic effect.

Design a Dark Surreal Urban Scene with Space Brush in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Design a Dark Surreal Urban Scene with Space Brush in Photoshop. This is an intermediate tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try

Along the way, I will show you a few simple photo manipulation skills that might be useful for your future design, including some lighting tricks and image adjustment techniques.

Professional Photo Retouching for Perfect Skin

How To Create a Dramatic Action Scene in Photoshop

I’ve recently been admiring the book covers of those military action thrillers, you know – Andy McNab and the like? So I decided to have a go at designing my own dramatic war torn scene in a similar style. Follow this step by step photo manipulation tutorial where we’ll be using stock photos, textures and brushes to produce an intense design.

Create a Star Trek Style Communicator in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we will draw a retro Star Trek style communicator, a voice communication device used in the original Star Trek series. We will combine layer styles and lots of manual drawing. So, prepare your Wacom to boldly go where no Photoshop tutorial has gone before.

HDR Photography With Photoshop CS5

Most of you have probably seen HDR photography before – even if you didn’t realize it at the time. HDR stands for high dynamic range and is a technique used to combine photographs taken under various exposures to produce an effect that is often quite beautiful. In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to shoot and edit HDR photographs in Photoshop. We will discuss what bracketing means and how to shoot multiple exposures and then merge them together into one HDR image with the HDR Pro option in Photoshop CS5. We will also talk about the faux HDR effect called HDR toning for which you only need a single exposure but it still creates a very believable HDR effect. Let’s get started!

Create a Packet of Potato Chips in Photoshop

Learn how to create  a mouth watering Packet of Potato Chips in Photoshop!

Create “Milk monster and Chocolate Splash”

Create an Amazing Abstract Heart Surreal

In this surreal Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn the entire workflow from start to finish of creating an incredible surreal abstract artwork.  Starting with just a single photograph, you’ll learn how to apply adjustments to bring it into an easily workable color scheme, as well as then using the pen tool to create amazing surreal shapes.  Then, you’ll learn how to finish it off with a few other effects and another stock photo, for an incredible surreal artwork.

This is sort of a follow up tutorial to our previous surreal Photoshop tutorial, Create an Unbelievable Surreal Abstract Artwork with Photoshop.  If you’re curious as to the sort of results you can achieve with these techniques, check out these two interviews with established surreal abstract artists…

Heart in Envelope Icon Psd Tutorial

In this tutorial you will learn some simple tricks to create a cute icon for Valentine’s Day. The icon consist of an envelope with a red heart shape inside. This icon is made from scratch so no need for stock images or other resources. You can resize it to any size without loosing the quality of the image because it is a vector icon. Hope you like it! Let’s start!

Creating Good Enough to Eat Typography

Create a Super Powerful Effect on a Human Hand

This Photoshop tutorial goes over the creation of an action scene inspired by the movie, TRON. We will discuss surreal photo manipulation techniques that give the illusion that the subject’s arm and other parts of his body are disintegrating into light. The techniques in this tutorial use different transform tools, filters and adjustment layers to give phenomenal results. Great lighting techniques and atmospheric effects will also be demonstrated in this tutorial.

Create a Vintage Memorabilia Poster

This tutorial will show you how to create a conceptual vintage-themed poster of the Design Instruct South Expedition to Cape Horn in 1975. We will be mixing images, grunge brushes, textures and more to achieve the final design. The design process involves Photoshop filters, layer masks, trendy typography techniques as well as the use of Adobe Illustrator to create a stylish circular badge logo.

Make a Dark Statue with 3D Tentacles Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial we will create a dark statue photomanipulation using Photoshop and Cinema 4D. I will show you how to turn a photo of a woman into a statue, how to create tentacles in Cinema 4D and add them to the photomanipulation and many other techniques for adjusting the lights, the textures and the colors of the final image. Let’s get started!

How to Create an iPad 2 From Scratch Using Photoshop

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to draw Apple’s iPad 2. We are going to use vector-drawing techniques combined with manual drawing and layer styles to create a convincingly realistic iPad. We will also use Smart Objects to help us easily change the iPad’s screen content and the iPad’s Smart Cover color.

How to Create an Amazing Futuristic Matte Painting in Photoshop

This tutorial shows how to develop a futuristic fantasy theme out of a plain background using photo manipulation, photo montage techniques coupled with some painting inside Photoshop.

Painting a Fantasy Warrior in Photoshop

This picture represent a fantasy warrior character portrait that I painted as a personal artwork. For this tutorial, I will be using Photoshop with a Wacom tablet to create the finished result. I will also be using techniques and methods that I feel most comfortable with when coloring. I suggest that after following this tutorial, you find out what works best for you.

Learn how to design a Create Professional Blog Layout Design Using Photoshop, we using some modern techniques in this beautiful photoshop tutorial. we creating an professional design related blog website design, hope you all really like and give some positive feedback on it.

Resources Used

Search Icon
http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/36563/128/find_green_search_zoom_icon

Friends Icon
http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/43430/48/friends_icon

Latest Comments Icon
http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/34641/48/comments_icon

Company Information Icon
http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/22169/48/card_customer_info_user_icon

Step 1: Create Canvas

So first we’ll start a new document, this canvas is 1200px wide x 1400px high. Next we fill the background layer with a white color #ffffff.

Step 2: Fill Colors on Canvas

Fill the top area 450px high of your canvas with color #555552, and the area beneath this with color #ebe9e1.

Step 3: Gradient Fill Colors on Canvas

Now create a layer called ‘gradient rectangle’ and create a linear gradient at the top of your canvas, with color #555552 and color #777777.

Step 4: Add Text Logo with Shedow

Type out some logo text in the top left of your canvas, I used the font Helvetica size: 40pt.
Then I added a drop shadow blending option (35% opacity, distance: 1px, size: 0px), then add below slogon as “Where Color Lives”.

Step 5: Add Search bar

draw an rectangle with 325px wide and 30px high, you can download search icon for make more professional look.

Step 6: Add Content Area

Now we need some guides for create content area, draw vertical guides as you can see in sample image below, Create a white rounded rectangle (10px radius) within these guides, and apply a stroke blending option (settings below):

Step 7: Create top Navigation Bar

Let create top navigation bar for my professional blog layout design. The easiest way to create top navigation that will fit the rounded corner top of my main content area is to create a rounded rectangle with the same 10px radius with color #dedcd3, and then rasterize this layer, and cut off the bottom rounded area, you can see below sample image:

Step 8: Add Top Navigation Links

Now we want to apply top navigation format with font name Myriad Pro size 16pt and color #484845.

Also, I wanted to apply an active menu state with an shape “sign 3″, demonstrating which page the blog was currently on. just click on “custom shape tool” and select share which you want to draw for show your active menu link with color #dedcd3.

Step 9: Top Banner Area

Now create a new layer below top navigation area, this is because we’re about to create the area directly beneath our menu, and we want our active menu arrow to be visible above this banner area, now fill your selection with color #000000.

Step 10: Top Banner Sideshow Area

Top banner area we are using as featured post area, we need a post thumbnail. I took one from a recent smashingbuzz.com article, and pasted it over the black area. Then after write all article detail from link and place these required area using Font for heading Myriad Pro color #dedcd3, post detail with font Arial and color #c6c061 and description text with font Aria, color #ffffff.

Step 11: Create Sidebar

Create a new layer called ’sidebar layer’ and create a yellow left column for your layout. Your column should be 275px wide, 750px high with color #dedcd3 and should fit the bottom left rounded corner of your content area (use the same technique for this as for your menu shape).

Step 12: Subscribe us area

Create a heading ‘Subscribe Us’ at the top of your gray area color #cbcbcb with white bottom line, also using color #4a4a47, for my heading text. Then I laid out various social networking icons beneath this header area.

Step 13: Advertisement area

Create a heading ‘Advertise Here’ because all famous blogs have advertising place holder, so I added some basic ad blocks to my site for make an growing blog website.

Step 14: Popular Articles Section (Sidebar)

To complete my sidebar with the heading text to ‘Popular Articles’, and added some relevant text beneath this.

Step 15: Content Area (Articles)

Let’s move forward for create content area where we want to show posted articles with following details:
1. Article Heading with font Arial and text color #535350
2. Coments and Posted Area with font Arial and text color #990000
3. paste an existing article image from Link
4. paste text from above link with font Arial, font size 14pt and color #000000
5. Read More click area for read further all article

we are sharing sample image below:

Step 16: Footer Area

Now add some content to your footer. Creating 3 headings as we need as professional blogger

Friends (icon download here)
Latest Comments (icon download here)
Company Info (icon download here)

The headings should be Font Arial, Size 16pt, Color #4a4a47, bold and add an separator using Rectangle tool and
background color #d3d1ca.

Step 17: Footer Area with Details

In Friend section: font Arial, Size 13pt, color #a5a5a5
In Latest Comments section: comment text font Arial, Size 10pt, color #a5a5a5, comment URL text font Arial, Size 11pt, color #a5a5a5,
In Company Information section: font Arial, Size 13pt, color #a5a5a5

you can see below example image:

Conclusion

Finally below you can see the final result of this Professional Blog Layout Design tutorial. Click on the image to see the full-size version, we also sharing our source file for our respected visitors and readers. I hope you enjoyed it and hope you will leave you comments.

All Photoshop Users can download free brushes and make more creative stuff for your web designing or print media campaigns too because today we sharing 35+ Startling Adobe Photoshop Brushes, you peoples accomplish more effectual results and improve efficiency, there is some creative grunge effect and some technology swirls that are required there is sure to be a brush that fits your needs. Whether you want to learn more about creating brushes for your own use or for distribution, all listed tutorials will give you the skill for learn more about creative designs.

How to Create a Set of Photoshop Grunge Brushes

How to use the Brush Tool in Photoshop

Create a Eco Friendly Social Bookmark Icon

Create Fantastic Stone Textures in Photoshop

Creating Grunge Brushes

Creating a Cloud Brush

Hair Brushes III by DesigningDivas

How to Create Your Own Photoshop Brushes

Wings – Photoshop Brushes by ~ ruby-proudfoot

Jenn B’s Typographic Grunge Brushes for Photoshop

Photoshop Brush Tutorial: Shape Dynamics – Size Controls

How to Make Photoshop Brushes by ~Scully7491

How to Create Your Own Brushes

Paper Edges – Photoshop Brush by ~jstoltz

Make Save PS CS Brush VideoTut by DigitalPhenom

How to create and define Photoshop Brushes

Funky Web Design Layout

PS6 Brushes – GRASS BRUSH KIT by austral-azn

14 Tutorials for Creating Photoshop Brushes

Fire Brushes: Photoshop Tutorial

Worn Photoshop Brushes For High Resolution [Part III]

Create Photoshop Brushes for Coffee Stains and Splatters

Photoshop Brush and Gradient by ~ redbonniekidd

Drawing clouds Brush by zevenstorms

Master the Brush in Photoshop

Create Custom Photoshop Brush from a Photo

Tasty Tattoo Photoshop Brushes, Vector Art, and PNGs

Building a Lego Bricks Photoshop Brushes Set

Brush Options pt. 1 -B- by photoshop-tutorials

Creating Your Own Grunge Brushes

How to Create Florishes in Photoshop

Desert Cracks Brushes by Scully7491

Design a Grungy Web Layout

Design a Grungy Web Layout (Part 2)

Abstract 08 by ~JavierZhX

Proper use of the grass brush by Blue-Uncia

Creating Grunge Brushes

Mega-ripple Text

Rust with Holes Text Effect.

Ice Cold Text Effect

Colorized text

2009 Multi-colored effects

3D text effect – 2009

Smoke Text

Curly Flare Text

Recreate the ‘Bee Movie’ Text Effect

Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text

Create a Spectacular Style Text Effect

Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

Vista Styled Text

Iron Man Wallpaper

How to Create High Quality Metal 3D Text in Photoshop

Reflective Liquid Type

Oily and Shinny Text Effect in Photoshop

Create A Leopard ‘X’ in Photoshop

Using Light and Shade to Bring Text to Life

Text Effect Quickie: Vibrant Pop Text Effect

Kaboom! Exploding Text

Liquid Text Photoshop Tutorial

Black and White Lettering with a Dramatic Splash Effect

StarCraft Interface Design

Stunning 3D effects in 30 minutes

Soft Stylized 3D Type

How to Quickly Create a Stylish Retro Text Effect

Create a Frilly 2009 Typo

Freeze your text

Dramatic Text on Fire Effect in Photoshop

Performance Car Club Wallpaper

Snow on Text

Graffiti with Photoshop

Gold Text Effect

Create a 3D Flowery Text Effect

Spiral Text

Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography

Bling Bling text

6 Quick’n’Dirty Photoshop Text Effects From Scratch

Supernatural Text Effect

Photoshop Text Effects: Easy Plastic Text with Layer Styles

Layered Text

Gutsy Text

Icey Styles in Photoshop

3D Typographic Effects

Chain Text

Paint-splodged text

Simple spooky text

Graffiti Art Effects

Text in stitches

Advance Glow Effect

we arrange a set of Adobe Photoshop Fantasy Tutorials, where you can learn about image manipulating, filter usings, illustration, freebies stuff and many other tool training tutorials who can help web designers and graphic designers, enjoy!!!

Chronus Crusade signature V2.0

Hey everyone, time for some free signature PSDs! I’ve gathered these great looking signatures, one photoshop signature created by Roroni, one photoshop signature created by nfx, and one photoshop signature created by castro. These PSD files should help you discover some new techniques and effects. Feel free to experiment and play around with these PSD files, however please respect the artists and do not claim to have made them yourself. I will be giving out more free signature PSD files in the future, so make sure to check back soon!

Download this signature

The Full Metal Alchemist

Download this signature

This Sprite signature

Download this signature

Final Fantasy Photoshop Signature Tutorial

In this photoshop signature tutorial we will be making a Final Fantasy signature, using a final fantasy render, the photsohop liquify filter, a cinema4d render, and splatter brushes. The PSD file can be downloaded in the Premium section. You can find the Final Fantasy render here. The cinema4d render we used can be downloaded here. I positioned directions on how to color the cause to be appropriately to match the color of your signature in the tutorial. I am not allowable to share the splash brushes here, though you should find abundance of good brushes online. Let’s get started, here’s the result of the tutorial…

Full Metal Alchemist photoshop signature tutorial

Welcome to this Full Metal Alchemist signature tutorial. We will be using some cool consequence by brushing collective with the relocate and sharpen filter to create texture, as well as extract masks combined with Photoshop modification layers. You can download the signature PSD…

Code Geass Signature tutorial 2

Welcome to this CodeGeass Photoshop Signature tutorial. We will be using a code geass character, a large render, and special filter effects to accomplish the final result.

Final Fantasy Signature Tutorial

Welcome to this Final Fantasy Signature Tutorial. We will use the Filter Liquify tool to generate some exceptional effect of flow, a light beam effect and we will clutch two space stock pictures to realize the final result.

Metal Gear Solid Signature Tutorial

cWelcome to a Metal Mechanism Solid Signature tutorial. This signature has an elective colored outcome. We will be using some cinema4d renders, and the smudge and blur tool. This signature PSD was formerly made by nFx. Before you start, find some cinema4d renders and a metal gear concrete picture or some other type of stock.

Photoshop Skateboarder Signature Tutorial

In this tutorial we will be making this good looking Skateboarder Signature. We will be using two cinema4d renders to create the signature…

Vega Photoshop Signature Render tutorial

Welcome to this basic Signature render tutorial. We’re going to use renders to create a good looking signature, teaching you the basics and techniques to add depth and flow to your signature.

Abstract Space Tag design tutorial

In this tutorial we will be making this very creative abstract space design tag. It uses an assortment of space stocks and some resources to texture the canvas. What’s significant is that you don’t want to try to reconstruct this exact image. Somewhat learn the techniques used to make this design, then apply your creativity to your own work of art.

Half Life Photoshop Signature Tutorial

In this tutorial we will be making this overwhelming Half Life photo manipulated signature. We start out by taking a good looking background, and place a completely random character that has little to do with it into the canvas. We will show you methods to combine this character in, and how to add deepness to the background as well as making a landscape that seems to make sense. This remarkable tag was designed by Castro. Let’s get going!

Guitarist Photoshop Signature Tutorial

We will be making this guitarist signature created by Castro. Discretionary in this tutorial is the use of the topaz filter. It does not add that much to the final result, so you can merely skip this step if you don’t like the plugin or the filter. This signature uses a lot of alteration layers, I tried recitation them as high-quality as I could.

Radiohead Photoshop signature tutorial

Hey everyone, we’re going to create this overwhelming radiohead signature, designed by a immense artist named castro. He has designed numerous astonishing tags that we will be featuring soon. This signature makes good use of amalgamation settings to color the signature, and the pen tool to design some good flow around our focal point. Before you start this tag, make sure you have some good original brushes ready to use.

Gorillaz Photoshop tag tutorial

Today we will learn how to make the signature below, using Pen Tool, some patterns, the erase tool and stock insertion. Its a very straightforward, yet effectual technique to create gorgeous looking tag. For a signature like this to look good you will need some good stock although, one with a lot of dissimilar characters or detail on it. I will post the stock below. Enjoy!

Bodies Photoshop tag tutorial

We will be making this hot signature created by scalper. This tutorial has another discretionary result, where we merely hide the gradient overlay adjustment layer and keep the innovative coloring. For this to work though you will need a good looking stock with attractive colors. Our result in this tutorial looked immense both with and without the modification layer. I will include a animation file that shows you step by step how the tag was made at the bottom of the tutorial. Lets get started.

Greenwoman photoshop tag tutorial

Thanks for presentation this tutorial. We will be making a good looking tag with the use of numerous cinema4d effects. The innovative tag was designed by Scalper, he is working with me to support SignatureStop with fresh contented every day. He has uploaded many of his overwhelming cinema4d renders, which will be available for download in the possessions section. This is one of his tag tutorials that we will feature in the following days. The result:

Massive c4d tag photoshop tutorial

Welcome to this tutorial. This tag was designed by Scalper, we will be featuring more of his great work very soon, this is one of his simple yet effective cinema4d tags. To create this tag, you will need a few cinema4d renders. You can find plenty in our resources section. You will also need a pattern, which I will provide in this tutorial. The result of this tag tutorial:

Anima Photoshop tag tutorial

In this tutorial we will be making this tag designed by Anima. The only stock we will be using is the render of the attractive woman. We will create some sort of rainbow effect with the gradient tool to give the tag its color. This tag relies greatly on your abilities with the smudge tool and your creativity. The background is completely made out of brushing and smudging. The result of this tutorial:

Beautiful Smudge Photoshop tag tutorial

We will be making this good looking smudge tag today, designed by Sly. Clutch a good looking colorfull render, since that’s all the stock we will be using separately from a splatter brush and vector shape or brush. To create this tag we will be using manifold clipping masks (you should know the basics of clipping masks though we will elucidate the details somewhat), the paint daubs filter effect, the liquefy filter effect and some gradient maps. The result:

Aco photoshop tag tutorial

In this tutorial we will be making this sweet tag with the use of a stock, a cinema4d render, lots of smudging and some pattern techniques. Discretionary in this tutorial is the pattern we create on top of the text, you can moreover use your own pattern or leave it out. We have some patterns available in the Resources section if you’re looking for some. In this tutorial I tried to elucidate the significance of flow and how you use it in a tag:

Education Adobe Illustrator is one of the significant skills that every designer should have, it will help you in creating exclusive designers and more capabilities to deal with lines and paths than Photoshop and other bitmap software. The below is a compilation of the most remarkable vector tutorials that will take your skills to another level.

How to Create a Textured Vector Landscape

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a stylized textured vector landscape. The techniques are simple and easily translated into other illustrations. Check out Chris Spooners post 40 Stunning Vector Landscape Illustrations for more vector landscape inspiration.

How to Create a Magnified Text Illustration

In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to create a pragmatic magnifying glass with shapes and gradients. You’ll also be taught how to efficiently use Illustrator’s text tool to create a three column layout, and then incorporate this into an illustration. Let’s bound into the tutorial.

Complex Circular Design Techniques

Creating complicated circular designs and patterns may look hard because the shapes can be very intricate, but you will be astonished at just how easy making these shapes can be. I will go over some neat behavior, tools, techniques, and settings that will have you pumping out perfect spherical designs in no time using Illustrator.

Playful Yet Robust 3D Letter Design

This tutorial is perfect for the superior apprentice who wants to take her skills to the next level. We’ll explore how to create 3D text and use depth-of-field to improve a design.

How To Create Your Own Vector Cartoon Character

One of the most popular articles here on Blog.SpoonGraphics is how to create a vector cartoon character from a hand drawn sketch, an Adobe Illustrator tutorial covering the process of creating Captain Blackspoon.
Using similar techniques, follow this tutorial to create your own vector character; Freddy the Fish.

How to Create a Cartoon Character with Expressive Lines

Cartoon character drawing covers a lot of techniques and styles from one color characters to multilayered colorful ones. In this tutorial, I will wrap the essential steps for creating a colored multicolor cartoon character that includes shadings. I used Adobe CS3, a Wacom tablet, an inked drawing, and scanner. With your tools ready, let’s get to it!

Music icon Corel draw x4 Tutorials

Hi in this Tutorial we are going to create a music Icon like iTune icon so let start…

Create Your Own Gothic Looking Card Deck

In this tutorial, we will give details how to create an awesome card deck design. You’ll create our own brushes and design rudiments to achieve a cool looking card. Let’s get started!

Create a Vector-Based Zune with Photoshop

Since our Zune is going to be a pleasant sleek back, let’s setup a light blue background that will praise the black.

How to Create Colorful Abstract Artwork in Illustrator

In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to make a colorful and vivid abstract artwork completely from scratch with Illustrator. There will be no need of stock images. You can always make a small sketch how you’d like your composition to be. But that’s not completely essential because we will be creating the masterpiece while playing with shapes.

How to Make Festive Vector Gift Boxes

Get prepared for the holiday season with this celebratory gift box tutorial. Successful conclusion of this tutorial requires a solid understanding of Adobe Illustrator’s tools as this advanced tutorial moves at a quick pace. We’ll be working with Illustrators 3D tools, Brushes, Gradients, and Blurs to create these holiday presents.

How to Create an Alarm Clock Icon

With simple shapes and gradients, this easy tutorial will show you how to create an alarm clock icon. We’ll be using Illustrator CS4 for this tutorial, but those of you with older version should be able to pursue along as well. Let’s jump into this tutorial, which commencement illustrators will find particularly useful!

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How to Create a Hellacious Flaming Skull in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’ll go through all the steps of creating a flaming skull in Photoshop. We’ll be using some images we shot ourself of flames, and a stock Designious vector skull to get us started. This tutorial covers some relatively simple steps and some clever photo manipulation techniques. Let’s get to it!

Create a Feathered Crow Illustration

If you want to take your Photoshop abstract design skills to the next level, then we have an interesting tutorial for you. Discover how to explore abstract designs and improve your compositional skills while building an abstract work of Photoshop art. Learn more about this tutorial at the jump!

Create a Feathered Crow Illustration

you’ll be taken through the process of creating this crow illustration. The tools and resources you will be using are just a few so this will be great practice for you to achieve real nice results while using a limited number of resources. Let’s get to it!

How to Create a Grunge Style Illustration with Stains

I decided to show my personal way of creating stain based designs in Photoshop. In this tutorial, we’ll grab a picture, apply several filters to it and obtain a monochromatic stain, which combined with stain brushes and a texture will transform into an eye-catching grunge result. Let’s get it started!

Creating a Touching Story Scene in Photoshop

where he writes Photoshop tutorials. He started working in Photoshop many years ago when he began to utilize this great tool all the time. In this tutorial, you are going to create a story scene using photo manipulation and a lot of color adjustments.

Using Adobe Kuler to Enhance Your Photoshop Color Workflow

Let’s look closely at a crucial and time-saving product for designers called Adobe Kuler. We’ll learn to explore, create and share color themes using the Kuler website and the built in extension of Kuler in Photoshop CS4. What’s Adobe Kuler? It’s a web-hosted application, providing free color themes that can be used by anybody, in any project you are working on. Let’s jump into this article and learn more about Adobe Kuler and how to use it with Photoshop!

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Thanks1. Creating a Space-Helmeted Future Retro Illustration

The images I’ve used are: The helmet , the cloud , the red star cloud , other star cloud image. Feel free to use your own images, however you may need to tweak the settings of any of the steps to get the right effect with different assets.

2. Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography

It was an awesome typography design from Ginger Monkey Design called Compassion. What I really liked about that design was how they mixed some “frilly bits” with the typeface to create an outstanding piece of work. I decided to create a tutorial showing how to do that as well – Fabio

3. How to Create a Dark Surreal Illustration in Photoshop8 months ago: Fri, Jul 25, 2008 12:38pm EST (Eastern Standard Time)

we are going to create a dark surreal illustration using a few techniques and a handful of images. In the end, we will apply stylish color settings and give the illustration that extra polish it needs to give it that finished look.

4. Create Destructive Black and White Lettering with a Dramatic Splash Effect

We’ll make some expressive lettering, which includes thoughts connected with a central word. We’ll turn standard text into a stunning, destructive illustration, and give it a final unique look. So, let’s rock this one and learn all about the cool techniques included here! – Wojciech Pijecki

5. How to Create a Digital Illustration Using Birds

This tutorial is all about creating an illustration using just a few stock images of birds. The composition is quite simple, but with a little inspiration you can create something really nice.

6. Splattered Vector and Photography Mash Up

Mixing Vector work with Photography is a great way to produce a fun and colorful art style. This approach is used in a variety of projects from club flyers and CD Artwork through to high-end advertising imagery. Expanding on the comprehensive guide to the Pen Tool by Ian Yates, we look at creative ways of implanting the tool. This tutorial should convince those of you lacking the confidence to draw within Photoshop to do so with style – James Davies

7. Create a High Flying Snowboard Illustration

We all know the typical “flying snowboarder through the air” photo. Add a lens flare, and you’ve got it made! In this tutorial we’re giving the ol’ concept a spin by using wavy lines that suggest motion and paint splatters for snow. Let’s get to it! – Alex Beltechi

8. How to Design a Rockin’ 80′s Party Poster

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to design a poster for an 80′s anthem party. Throughout this tutorial, we’ll create some textures for background, manipulate a photo to give it a stylish look, and make some color variations. Let’s jump into this super rad tutorial – Eren Göksel

9. Learn How to Create a Fiery Demon Montage In Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’ll be creating a photo montage of a demon destroying a city using only stock photos and of course Photoshop. What are we waiting for? Lets get started! – Kieran Innes

10. Design a Rocket-Powered Retrofuturistic Digital Illustration

Retrofuturism is a topic that has always fascinated me. In this tutorial, we’ll go through the steps of recreating my own experiment in this style. After making the 3D typography in Illustrator, we’ll use Photoshop to create an out-of-this-world digital illustration on the topic of space exploration.

11. How to Quickly Create a Stylish Retro Text Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will be designing a cool retro text effect, which is growing more and more popular in today’s design. Today you will learn how to use the Perspective tool to create depth and how designers can use default gradients in unusual ways! – Arik

In this tutorial, I will demonstrate you 5 great behavior to really make your pixels explode in layout and interface design using Photoshop. These necessary techniques will really give your designs a more 3D, substantial feel to them!
I refer to these techniques as “Pixel-Exploded” because they tend to use very few extra pixels (than you would ordinarily use in a design) to make your graphics explode out a bit more. As cliche as it may sound, these diverse effects really do work, and many modern websites and designs use them regularly.

Let’s take a look at a few:

• The 2 Pixel Divide
• The Pixel Shadow
• The Pixel Bevel
• The Shadow Highlight
• The Vista Effect

The 2 Pixel Divide

The two pixel divide is a widely used effect on interface design, and layout design. Some quick examples would be Windows Media Player (Version 11), Pixel2Life.com, and 2Advanced.net. It’s a very subtle effect (as most effects should be), so you might not knowingly take note of it. However, the results from it are usually great when used responsibly.

It’s very easy to accomplish, and only takes Two Pixels to really make it.

Start out with a simple design, such as a header for a website, with a navigation bar underneath:

Now, Zoom In (Ctrl + “+”) to a close level where you can really start to work with single pixels. Select your Pencil Tool from the tool bar, and select a Foreground Color of White. In a New Layer, draw a horizontal line dividing the banner from the menu (Hold Shift to draw perfect lines).

Create another new layer, and using a Foreground Color of Black, repeat this process directly above the white divider.

That’s it! After this, I usually lower the opacity on both of these new layers until I find desirable results that don’t conflict with the surrounding elements too much.

The Pixel Shadow

I like to use this effect when I’m working with text or simple designs on top of soft backgrounds. Again, it’s nothing extravagant, but it gives me that extra flare I’m looking for sometimes.

Let’s say I’m working with the document shown below. Adding an ordinary Drop Shadow is going to give the shape and text a very soft shadow, which is not what I’m looking for. However, I do want it to pop out a bit more.

What I do instead is add a Very Hard Drop Shadow.

I’m going to go into the layers blending options (Right click the layer, “Blending Options”). From here I’m going to Add a Drop Shadow, and then set it up so that the Size is set to “0″, and the Distance is set to”1px”. Click Ok to apply blending options.

Much Better!

The Pixel Bevel

It’s usually safe to stray away from using the Bevel Blending option in modern layout design, but if used carefully, it can actually be used for good. Take the document below for example.

The orange box has a soft gradient, and even a drop shadow applied to it to give it a little more “Pop”, but it still seems a bit bland.

To fix this, I’m going to go into the Blending Options for the Orange Box Layer, and Add a slight “Bevel and Emboss”.

As you can see in the options, I’ve set the size to “0px”, and have adjusted the angle to 90* (to give the effect of a light source from above).

The Result is a box with a lot more depth in it’s appearance!

The Shadow Highlight

Here is another technique that might slip past you on first glance, but makes all the difference in a good design. It’s similar to the 2px divide in that it’s a very subtle, but also effective technique.

Not to mention it’s just as simple.

Take this document for example:

As you can see directly underneath the “Box Header” Black box, I have a slight Drop Shadow. It doesn’t give us a whole lot of “Pop”, but it’s a start.

We’re going to do the same thing that we did for the 2 Pixel Divide essentially.

Zoom In to about 400%-800%, and using the Pencil Tool (White Foreground) on a New Layer, draw a horizontal line at the very top of the Drop Shadow.

Now just adjust the opacity of this line to blend nicely with the rest of the design. You should end up with a nice separator between the header and the content area (where the shadow begins).

The Vista Effect

I’ve gone into great detail for this effect in my “Vista Window Effect Tutorial“, but I thought that it was nice enough of an effect to at least mention here.

The effect used in Windows Vista’s Aero Theme (for their “Windows” more specifically), uses a combination of different blending options, including “Bevel and Emboss“, “Outer Glow“, “Drop Shadow”, “Inner Glow“, and even “Color Overlay“.

Furthermore, the effect is really set up into 3 parts. You have the Main Window, the Inner Window, and the Extra Parts (The Exit symbol and Window Title).

You’re welcome to explore this effect using this PSD (Vista Example) if you’d like (We’ve got an even better PSD example on our Vista Window Effect Tutorial page).