50 Dirty, Filthy Grunge Photoshop Effects

The grunge movement in design combines rips, tears, decay, smears and scratches to form a dark and gritty result. Here is a collection of fifty of the best ever Photoshop grunge tutorials for your enjoyment and education.

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11 Tutorials for creating business cards

This selection of tutorials will show you some techniques for designing business cards, as well as give you all the information you need to get set up the right way to make the design a success.

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Introduction to CSS video.

Very informative video from the people at Adobe.com

MAC Photoshop brush preview software

Brush Pilot™ is a fast and easy application for previewing Adobe® Photoshop® and Adobe Photoshop Elements Brushes (.abr), built exclusively for Mac OS X. Brush Pilot is designed to save you time by allowing you to instantly preview your brushes without having to load them into Photoshop.

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Create Neo-Constructivist Poster in PS-Video

Constructivism is about using bright colors, playing with lightness, perspective, geometrical forms, besides photo montage techniques and digital collage. This video explains the process

18 Awesome text affect tutorials

This is a collection of my favorite Photoshop text effects that look pretty sweet. I would recommend experimenting with these styles if your looking for something a little bit different.

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Creative web footer designs!

Website designs have so many different elements that work together to convey information in a usable and organized manner. For a website to be effective, every element on the page, from the header to the footer, needs to add to its overall usability and readability.

In this article, we’ll take a look at the footer and see what exactly makes for a good website footer. Keep in mind that just because the footer is at the bottom of the page doesn’t mean you should slack off with good design practice.

We’ll look at what to include in footers, the importance of site maps, usability practices and styling ideas and trends. Here are almost 50 well-designed footers to give you ideas and inspiration for your own footer designs.

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Logo inspiration with Type!

I love logos! They encompass so much branding identity into one tiny graphic. They are incredibly difficult to create, but when done correctly, they stand the test of time. Well-created logos often look seamless and effortless, but you can be sure that a ton of time went into the planning, research and development.

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Candy coated text tutorial

In this tutorial I’ll teach you how to make a web 2.0 logo so damn sugary sweet it’ll give your website a cavity.

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30 Photoshop Video Tutorials in graphic design

Sit back, relax. Watch and learn from the pros of graphic design, as they show you advanced Photoshop techniques, taking the simplest elements and creating something beautiful as well as tutorials on advanced drawing and illustration techniques.

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How to make tiled backgrounds super easy!

There are lots of background image generator sites out there, but this one is just so easy and simple, I felt compelled to say something about it. I’m not sure how long it’s been around, but BgPatterns.com makes it super easy to make a seamless tiled background image. There are plenty of elegant controls for the user including rotation, texture, color, opacity and more. So if you’re in the market for a seamless tile, or just want to save a little time, I recommend this site to anyone.

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Must see!!! Creative photographs that inspire

This is a mix of some creative advertisements, creative photo manipulation and just some stunning photography in general.

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Free copy of Adobe Coldfusion 8 for students and educators

Get a free copy of Adobe Coldfusion 8 if you are a student, faculty, or staff at an eligible educational institution, a $1,299 value!
Here's the scoop: Adobe ColdFusion 8 for Education is available for free to educational customers to use for learning purposes only and not for production purposes. This includes all qualified students, faculty and staff of eligible education institutions.

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May-- Best of the Web 2009

A lot of the tutorials featured this month used some of the most basic tools in Photoshop to create stunning designs for all levels of designers. This was also a special month for freebies because there is an extremely detailed and high quality icon pack that everyone should check out. Finally this month features articles that are informative for every type of designer, whether you are into logo design, or webpage design.

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45 How-to Web Design Tutorials in Photoshop

While many web designers create mockups in Adobe Fireworks and Dreamweaver, no design program gives you quite so much control as Adobe Photoshop. The lessons collected here will show you how to create gorgeous and functional complete websites, blogs, layouts, nav menus and headers in Photoshop.

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Free 10-Week Adobe Illustrator Course!

This class will be taught by Steve Laskevitch, founder and lead instructor at Seattle’s Luminous Works Training Center. Steve is consistently rated one of the top 5 Adobe Certified Instructors in the world.

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10 Typography rules every designer should know!

No matter how many bells and whistles you’ve built into a website, everyone relies on text to accomplish whatever they’re visiting the site to do.
That alone should make typography, the art of arranging type, a priority for any web designer.
In this article we take a look at 10 easy rules to keep in mind when designing your next web project.


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Basic Introduction to Typography

Typography plays a big role in graphic design and many designers are very passionate or opinionated about it. For this reason it is a very hot topic in design circles.

Developing your own skills in typography will take time and it can be one of the hardest things to get right. It is best to get a solid understanding of the basics as soon as possible in your education and career.

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30 Best Photoshop Abstract Effect Tutorials

PhotoshopLady.com has come up with the 30 Best Photoshop Abstract Effect Tutorials of All Time. This is a great collection!

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Dekepod video-Photoshopping High Art

Experienced photo retouchers make small fortunes by Photoshopping models and celebrities to make them appear even thinner and more youthful than in real life. In this dekePod video, Deke takes us back to a time when ideas of beauty were very different, the High Renaissance, back when body fat was a thing to be envied. He takes the ample proportions of Raphael’s Maddalena and transforms her into a well sculptured, slim and trim, modern day beauty.