Photoshop

Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers

The intention and initiative for this blog post was pretty simple. We are about a month away (as this article was posted) from Christmas. As the holiday is getting nearer, we thought it’s about time to decorate the desktop while counting down.
Let’s leave the recession drama aside, and celebrate this holiday season with true Christmas [...]


Design Web 2.0 Label/Badges In Photoshop

Lots of Web 2.0 websites like to use labels (or badges) like this to deliver status of current website/service, either the version or whether they are still in beta. Creating these labels are quite easy, especially with the use of Photoshop. Tutorial after jump.
Create a new canvas, 400 width 200 height. Select Custom Shape [...]


Creating custom pattern in Photoshop

Most of the time, default Adobe Photoshop’s patterns just could not satisfied designers needs. Minutes later you will be creating your own custom pattern for buttons, interfaces, photo scan-lines, etc.

Download this sample
1. Create a pattern image
Fire up a new canvas. It should be small (in terms of height x width). Image you are creating here [...]


Brusheezy - Free Photoshop brushes and patterns

We know Adobe Photoshop comes with a lot of brushes and patterns by default to play with, but will soon get bored easily. For me, I’m all over the net looking for new brushes and patterns, better if they are free.
And if you are also looking for some breakthrough from the default Photoshop pattern and [...]


Preview Photoshop Brushes With abrViewer

abrViewer is an external application that allows you to preview Photoshop brushes without going through Photoshop application. This standalone application is particularly useful for those who downloaded free brushes from the internet but have little time to go through each one every one of them. It generates a small preview the brushes so you’ll have [...]


Good Source For Photoshop Brushes

Always hate the fact that you’ve got not enough Photoshop brushes to play with? Try psbrushes.net. PSBrushes is another site enriched with Photoshop brushes properly organized in categories like abstract, grunge, humans, landscapes, oriental, shapes, and more. There’s a “View all” if you’ve got all the time in the world.

PSBrushes display each brush set with [...]


Design Realistic Stainless Steel Background and Text

Web designers and webmasters used to love cool steel or metallic kind of effects before the Web 2.0 storms in and washed everything away; leaving the WWW with glossy, abusive gradients websites. Apple.com has always been related to good Web 2.0 interface design but these guys has never lost the cool black and silver-ish effects [...]


40+ Hand-picked Photoshop Icon Designs

We know we can always count on the Internet for free quality icons, but that being said, free icons sometimes might have it’s limitation too. Here’s few we can quickly think of:

Copyright. Most free icons restricts usage on non-commercial product/website only.
Size. Don’t you just hate it when you found your favorite icon but it’s only [...]


5 Photoshop Shortcuts/Tricks To Boost Productivity

Reader Douglas R. wrote in and asked if I can share few tricks and shortcuts to work around Photoshop more efficiently. I thought that’s an interesting topic, but that being said, depending on your job nature you’ll tend to have different list of frequently-used shortcuts.
As a designer cum developer, here’s 5 Photoshop shortcuts/tricks I frequently [...]


40 Cool Abstract and Background

Attractive backgrounds to any graphics, banners or ads are relatively important. Getting the correct theme, whether it’s an abstract art, vector, or texture pattern, it somehow makes the entire artwork looks more interesting.
Some might not have noticed the great roles background images have played. For instance, forumites uses cool design background before messages in their [...]