Entries Posted Under 'Tutorials'

Well, I was supposed to be on my way home from Michigan today, but a snowstorm moved in and I’m stuck here. So I thought this would be the perfect opportunity for me to share how to make the colorful watercolor-textured background used in my last desktop wallpaper. This tutorial is a quick and easy one; it primarily makes use of Photoshop brushes and layer blend modes, and requires that you have a nice selection of watercolor brushes at hand.

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I needed a camouflage background for a web project I was working on recently, and after playing around in Photoshop a bit, I came up with a quick and easy way to make a tileable digital camouflage pattern ideal for use as a website background. First I did some Googling to see what different real-life digital camouflage patterns look like, so I could get a feel for colors and arrangement and I kept these in mind as I worked on my own background.

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In part 1 of Creating a Winter Night in Photoshop, we completed a starry night sky with northern lights and snowy hills. Now we’re going to finish the scene up with some snowy pine trees, and some soft light reflections from the Aurora Borealis!

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My December desktop wallpaper features a snowy winter scene against a starry night sky created using Photoshop. In this post, I’ll give a step-by-step tutorial of how I did it. This tutorial assumes you have a general knowledge of how to use Photoshop gradients, the polygon tool, and the pen tool. Ready? Let’s get started!

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Recently, I needed to create a vector graphic rhinestone for a client project I was working on, so I googled “vector diamond tutorials” and then “vector rhinestone tutorials” and really had a hard time finding anything useful.  So, left to my own devises, I came up with what I think is a pretty good-looking diamond, and I thought I’d share how I did it.  This tutorial will show you step-by-step how to create the diamond below in Illustrator CS4.

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