Top 10 Photoshop Brush Tips

Stephanie from Obsidian Dawn has kindly put together her top 10 Photoshop brush tips to help you get the most out of your Photoshop brushes.
Enjoy!

Top 10 Photoshop Brush Tips
1. Using "Replace Brushes..."
2. Rotating a Brush
3. Brush Fade
4. Brush Preset Picker Display
5. Adding Texture to Brushes
6. Changing Part of Vector Brush Color
7. Smoothing Brush Edges
8. Fluctuating Brush Color
9. Changing Brushes Perspective
10. Scattering Brushes

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Showcase of 2009 Logo Trends

I thought it would be exciting to list the logo designing trends for 2009 released by Logo Orange and Logo Lounge. Lots of cool ideas here!

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40 Photoshop Logo Design Tutorials

Logo design is a sub-school of graphic design with a very specific skillset. Here is a collection of 40 fantastic logo design tutorials to help you add this new design skill to your arsenal.

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4 Photoshop techniques to make photos POP!

This tutorial demonstrates some quick, easy methods for adding drama and/or interest to your shots.

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Free Stars and Swirls Photoshop brushes!

Susan Libertiny from BrushPortfolio.com has released a new set of free Photoshop brushes titled Star Swirls. These brushes have that 1970's Retro-hippy feel to them. There are a total of 20 brushes in the set measuring 1969 to 2500 pixels. They were made in Adobe Illustrator and exported to Photoshop. Happy creating!
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Top 100 Education Tweeters

Twitter is a growing tool for personal, business, and educational conversations. Not surprisingly, many schools, educators, and other educational entities have jumped on the bandwagon, and they have lots to share. I was featured on this website list as a designer/professor to follow.
Check out this list to find some of the best educational sources on Twitter today.

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20+ Awesome light effect/abstract Photoshop brushes

Here is a list of 23 high quality abstract brushes from various designers.

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12 Excellent Photoshop Web Design Tutorials

This article features the best Photoshop web design tutorials that teach simple effects which can be combined together to create a great website design.


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"Happiness is Sort of a Trick."

Penelope Trunk is one of the most interesting and provocative writers about career happiness – and happiness in general. This is an insightful interview on various aspects of feeling "happy".

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Photoshop CS4 keyboard shortcuts

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100 Lovely Free Textures to download

Use of texture in Web design is extremely common. Part of the reason textures are so useful to designers is the relative ease of the integrating one into a design if a high-quality textured image already exists, not to mention the endless possibilities. Fortunately, plenty of photographers and designers are willing to share their work with the rest of us so that we can use them in a number of different ways.
In this post, we’ll look at 100 different textures in a wide variety of different categories. Of course, each image is linked to the source where it can be downloaded. As with any type of freebie, be sure to read the terms and conditions or stipulations by the owner before using it in your work.

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How to create a Copper Photoshop text effect!

This is a strong and eye-catching text effect, though relatively simple to create. Courtesy of the wonderful designers over at PSDTUTS. We'll be using bevel and emboss styles, pattern overlays, and combining different techniques to mock-up the text into a related background.

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850 Cool Techno Photoshop brushes!

Must see. Great collection.

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Free Photoshop Swirls brushes

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Photoshop Sparkles: Add A Sparkle Trail To A Photo

In this Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how to add a sparkle trail to a photo, using a custom Photoshop sparkle brush we'll be creating.
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45 photo Editing tutorials for Photoshop

If you’re looking to improve a website by using Photoshop to enhance a photo to make it clearer, more interesting, or more exciting, here are 45 of the best tutorials to show you some of the possibilities.

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25 Tutorials Using Illustrator and Photoshop Together for Outstanding Results!

Photoshop and Illustrator are two of the most indispensable tools for web and graphic designers. For those of us who are always looking to learn more and improve skills, there are plenty of great tutorials out there for each of these programs.
Most designers feel a bit more comfortable in one over the other as a result of more experience or better understanding. However, sometimes the two can be used together in a way that emphasizes the strengths of each program.
In this post we’ll feature 25 of the best tutorials that utilize both Illustrator and Photoshop to create amazing results.

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Photoshop CS4 Buy or Die??? YouTube video

101 Photoshop tips in 5 minutes- YouTube video!

This video is very entertaining by one of my fave Photoshop writers Deke Mclelland from NAPP. It's like a rap video mixed with Photoshop education.

Rock On!!!

Free 10 week online Photoshop course!

In two weeks, CreativeTechs is kicking off a free, 10-week, worldwide, Photoshop course.

Jason Hoppe, an Adobe Certified Instructor, has designed a comprehensive course that covers Photoshop CS4 in detail. If you’ve been meaning to improve your Photoshop skills, now is the perfect opportunity:

Week 1, Feb 26 - Interface, Tools, and Shortcuts
Week 2, Mar 5 - Photoshop Layers
Week 3, Mar 12 - Selections
Week 4, Mar 19 - Advanced Selections
Week 5, Mar 26 - Masks
Week 6, Apr 2 - Pen Tool / Shape Layers
Week 7, Apr 9 -Drawing Tools / Brushes
Week 8, Apr 16 - Retouching
Week 9, Apr 23 - Color Correction pt 1
Week 10, Apr 29 - Color Correction pt 2

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