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600+ Photoshop Gradients Free to Download

Posted by on Mar 28, 2009 in Photoshop, Tutorials | 82 comments

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In Photoshop, the gradient tool is one of the most useful especially when creating background, icons, buttons for the web and many other things. Today, let's have a simple step by step tutorial on how to maximize the use of this Photoshop tool. At the end of this post, you well find plenty of resources that you can download and use for free in your designs.

The gradient tool is grouped with the Pain Bucket Tool in the Tools palette usually located on the left side of the screen.

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How to Install Brushes for Photoshop 7+

Posted by on Feb 12, 2009 in Tutorials | 4 comments

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If you have downloaded some of the Photoshop brushes featured in this website but don't know what to do with these files to get them working with Photoshop, here's a quick Photoshop tutorial to get you going.

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How to Create Sepia Photo in Photoshop CS+

Posted by on Feb 11, 2009 in Tutorials | 0 comments

photoshop tutorial - sepia tone We are so used to seeing photographs in color nowadays that seeing a photograph in sepia tones is something like a breath of fresh air. Black and white photos give pictures a romantic quality but sepia tones give a more softer appearance. Some people even say that sepia photographs feel more alive and elegant often provoking images of a bygone era that still captivates our imaginations.But how do we convert our color photographs into sepia toned images?

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Tutorial: Reducing Noise in Photoshop

Posted by on Feb 11, 2009 in Photography, Tutorials | 6 comments

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How do you get rid or reduce noise in your photographs using only Photoshop (that means, no help from filters and plugins like Noise Ninja or Neat Image)? The solution is EASY. You can actually remove or at least reduce them in Photoshop in four (4) easy clicks. Interested? Here's how.

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20 Useful Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials

Posted by on Jan 12, 2009 in Tutorials | 6 comments

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Using plain texts as visual elements in your design is boring. But with very little effort and with the aid of Adobe Photoshop, you can put effects to those texts to produce some very amazing and wonderful effects. In this post, I am going to list down 20 very simple yet very useful Photoshop text effects tutorials. The techniques used to create these text effects are not only useful for learning how to make special effects for all kinds of objects but also in giving you basic ideas on many of Photoshop's filters and commands.

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10 Must-See Photoshop Video Tutorials

Posted by on Jan 8, 2009 in Tutorials | 0 comments

photoshop video tutorials Gone are the days when you needed to read a tutorial article in order to learn a new Photoshop trick. So for you out there who hate reading... (most designers do), welcome to the world of video tutorials. One of the advantages of video tutorials is that they allow us to observe how experts for example make a collage step by step just as if we are inside a classroom.

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