Photoshop Abstract Planetary Rings

This Photoshop full tutorial illustrates painting, and artistic, effects to create these Abstract Planetary Rings -- you'll be creating abstract planetary rings on Earth to give it a supernatural feel. It is also a good tutorial in using Filter effects ... September 27, 2010

Photoshop Cool Text Effects

In this edition of Photoshop Madness, we'll create two movie posters, one from the Avatar Movie, and the other from the Deadliest Catch. Then we enjoy the ubiquitous Aqua Text Effect (again), and delve into Photoshop's Displacement Mapping. We'll wrap it up with a serving of Ice cream and several others! August 31, 2010

Adobe Illustrator tutorial : Briefcase

There just aren't enough Adobe Illustrator tutorials on the web! I guess it's because the hacks can do easy stuff in Photoshop ... but Illustrator takes expertise and real work! Here's another one from our PS FAVE IconLibrary -- learning to make a shiny icon in Illustrator July 28, 2010

Hot Photoshop Text Effects Part 3

Here's the last of our hot, flaming, Photoshop text tutorials for a while... whew -- another set of tutorials for designing type with warm, glowing results. Enjoy July 13, 2010

Blending Modes Words with pictures

Discovering a site that makes words with photographs that form letters gave us the opportunity to experiment with Adobe Photoshop Blending Modes to generate some interesting variations on Wordmark's photographic fonts April 28, 2010

Photoshop for Looney Tunes

This Photoshop tutorial answers a call for help from a Photoshop 911 reader, with a series of steps used to simulate the famous "Looney Tunes" logo screen -- while practicing techniques common to all versions of Photoshop -- that all Photoshop users should know April 28, 2010

Flaming Text Tutorials in Photoshop

Dirty Dozen Photoshop tutorials for very hot, flaming, sparkling, burning, magma, inferno typography text effects! Whew! I'm sweating from all this heat March 29, 2010

Photos Out of Bounds

Designing Woman, Adri, brings us this great Photoshop Tutorial that shows you how to make your photo subject jump out of the photo, and into another. It's a new handling of an age old technique in Photoshop, brought to life by this wonderful young designer. March 28, 2010

Tutorial: adding color to black and white

This Photoshop 911 case called for adding a spot color to a black and white photo -- yes, the technique works, but -- Some Photoshop techniques just don't work if the photo doesn't lend itself to the effect! March 26, 2010

Building a grid in Photoshop

Photoshop 911 forum member laments that none of the online tutorials for grids allow the grid to work out evenly in the required picture space. Well, that's because most of those tutorials never consider real-world application. Here... let me show you how... February 26, 2010