Creating an Embedded Concrete Effect Using Layer Styles Only
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
It's amazing what you can accomplish with layer styles. It's a feature of Photoshop that is fun to play and experiment with. The short tutorial below is the result of some of my experimentation spending a few minutes with layer styles. First up, you'll need this texture pattern to follow along wi...
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Photoshop Quick Tip: Creating Depth of Field Using the Lens Blur Filter
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
Ever wondered what the Lens Blur Filter in Photoshop actually does? It's pretty interesting, actually. Unlike the other blur filters you can actually control the amount of depth and where it's applied in an image using alpha channels. Lets take a look at how this works.First up, lets grab a good pho...
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How to Create a Photorealistic Troll Using Photoshop
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
Sometimes, just opening Photoshop and playing around for a few minutes, can be the most fun. When you have no purpose, or deadline to contend with, just pure experimentation on the brain, you can create some interesting effects. Below is a tutorial, that I created doing just that. How to create a ph...
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Illustrator Quick Tip: Exporting Layered Files to Photoshop
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
Most of the time when I transfer a vector from Illustrator to Photoshop, I use a simple copy and paste. But if you have a more complex vector with multiple layers, there's actually a much better way by exporting the file to a PSD. Lets take a look at how to do this.Lets start with a layered Illustra...
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Photoshop Mastery: 25 MORE Techniques Every Designer Must Know
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
As I stated at the beginning of our first Photoshop Mastery post, it seems that you never really stop learning Photoshop. There are always new tools and new techniques being shared. In that spirit of sharing, we decided to put together another 25 tips and techniques that every Photoshop designer mus...
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Illustrator Quick Tip: Adjusting Line Width with Stroke Profiles
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
I'm constantly in search of adding hand drawn touches to vector illustrations. I recently stumbled across stroke profiles, which are new to Illustrator CS5. Using stroke profiles you can instantly adjust line weight from think to thin, giving it a hand drawn calligraphy appearance. Lets take a qu...
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How to Create a Watercolor Portrait in 3 Simple Steps
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
Recently I began experimenting with a quick technique for creating a watercolor style portrait with some of the brushes that we've created here at WeGraphics. After some trial and error I've come up with a 3 step process that ends in a nice effect that works on just about any portrait. Here's a...
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Create a Dynamic Particle Explosion in Photoshop
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
Lately, I've received several requests for tutorials on how to use some of our resources, or more specifically, how to achieve the look in the preview images. In this tutorial, I'm going to explain my process for using our latest freebie brush set to create a particle explosion. For this tutorial...
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Photoshop Quick Tip: Enhancing Your Portraits with Textures
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
One incredibly useful, but often overlooked uses for textures is to enhance portraits. Typically you might think of portraits as being soft in light and hues, but often just the addition of a textured overlay can punch the colors and contrast in very interesting ways. Lets take a quick look at some ...
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How to Create an Easy Dispersion Effect in Photoshop
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
Giving a subject a dispersion or splatter effect can create an incredibly dynamic image. The best part is, it's very quick and easy to do with a few Photoshop brushes, but the end result can look very complex as if it took you hours to create. In this tutorial, I'm going to walk you through 3 easy s...
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How to Make a Metallic Transformers-Style Logo
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
Yesterday I was browsing through the movie section at the local grocery store, and the logo graphic on this new Transformers movie box set caught my eye. It's just a simple TF, but the shape and the use of light and texture are striking. After studying it for a moment, I thought it would make an exc...
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Photoshop Quick Tip: Create a Lomo Effect in 3 Simple Steps
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
Unless you've been under a rock for the past 10 years then you're probably familiar with the look of Lomography or "Lomo" style photos. These photos typically feature unique coloring, high contrast, soft focus and dark vignettes. The movement was started in the early nineties when the founders were ...
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