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40 Popular Lists of Photoshop Tutorials

Today, psd-tutorial.com are going to give you roundups of so many adobe photoshop tutorials. I’ve seen so many blogs posting about photoshop tutorial lists. Today, I’m gonna give you list of adobe photoshop roundup that is written by several top graphic design bloggers around the blogosphere.

This list may not represents the best roundup at all. If you have some good roundup articles, feel free to notify me by commenting in this article. At first, I made this article to make me easier to search for adobe photoshop tutorials & enhance my graphic design skills and experience. But then, I’m sure that this article will be very helpful for all of you who wants to learn more about adobe photoshop.

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25 Excellent Night Photography + Tutorials

Night photography refers to photographs taken outdoors between dusk and dawn. Night photographers generally have a choice between using artificial light or using a long exposure, exposing the scene for seconds or even minutes, in order to give the film enough time to capture a usable image, and to compensate for reciprocity failure. With the progress of high-speed films, higher-sensitivity digital image sensors, wide-aperture lenses, and the ever-greater power of urban lights, night photography is increasingly possible using available light.

Night Shot Techniques & Equipments

1. A tripod is usually necessary due to the long exposure times. Alternatively, the camera may be placed on a steady, flat object e.g. a table or chair, low wall, window sill, etc.
2. A shutter release cable or self timer is almost always used to prevent camera shake when the shutter is released.
3. Manual focus, since autofocus systems usually operate poorly in low light conditions. Newer digital cameras incorporate a Live View mode which often allows very accurate manual focusing.
4. A stopwatch or remote timer, to time very long exposures where the camera’s bulb setting is used. (source)

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Why is Photoshop Good for Web Design?

Photoshop is a great graphics editor. It was originally designed for photo editing, but it can be used for many other tasks. One of such is web design. Now days, nearly all professional web designers are using Photoshop to build websites because of its powerful features and easy to use tools. If you have never designed a website before you can simply use Photoshop to handle everything from design to code for you. However, this is not the best way to design a website, but it is possible, and if you are new to the web design world you can get a website up and running quickly without learning HTML and CSS.

Using Photoshop to design a website is not the same as designing a brochure for example. You need to know the limitations of the current web browsers and the functions available on the web. For example, you might come up with something that’s totally amazing, but later you find out it isn’t buildable. Understanding the limitations will allow you to bend the rules without breaking them! Many London website design professionals tend to prefer to design the layout and graphics in Photoshop and then slice the images afterward. So if you are serious about designing websites you need to use software like Dreamweaver along with Photoshop.

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Photoshop Tips For Novice Web Designers

Have you thought about designing your own website? The truth is you don’t need to be a professional web designer to design websites? However, you do need some design background in order to create a decent looking website. If you have done some research yourself you know the first step starts from Photoshop or paper. You need to create the design first before any coding can take place. Fortunately, it’s actually quite simple when you know the basics of web design and how a website is structured. You might want to read some materials on this before designing one.

Creating a website layout in Photoshop will require you to know there are three main components – the header, the body and the footer. You might also have a sidebar. Think of these as containers that will hold your contents on the page. A web page is normally structured in this way, so if you can get your head around this you will find it much easier in designing it. You should create a folder in the layers palette for each one of these containers and put graphics, text, images in them accordingly. Doing so will keep your document organized.

The next thing you need to decide is the wide of your website. At the time of writing this article, the most common screen resolution is 1024px x 768px. Knowing this, your website layout should be no wider than 950px otherwise the scroll bar will appear. You can take a screenshot of the browser window and use that a guide to help you see how the page would look like with it. Simply cut out the content section after the printscreen command and then stick it on the very top layer. You can switch it on and off to see the difference.

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4 Important Tips Of Using Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop has been used widely by most graphic designers all around the world. I understand that using adobe photoshop isn’t easy. If you learn any tricks to use adobe photoshop, it’ll bost up your performance of using adobe photoshop.

I read this article & found out that those tips are very useful for adobe photoshop user. But there are a couple of big gotchas I’d like to tell you about to save you some of the hours of frustration that I’ve enjoyed. Take A Look At these tips & speed up your work with adobe photoshop!

1. I Can’t Use a Tool

1. This is the scenario: you select a tool and try to use it and nothing happens. Solution?
2. Are you on the layer you think you’re on?
3. Look at the Layers Palette to make sure you’re really on the layer that you think you’re on.
4. If you’ve toggled the eye icon off for the layer you’re on, you won’t see the changes you’ve made until you toggle the visibility for the layer you’re working on.
5. Are you working on a layer with the transparency locked?
6. Are you working on a layer that is hidden behind artwork on a layer above it?
7. Have you changed the opacity or blending type for the layer you’re on? If the opacity is set to a low number, you won’t be able to see your changes.
8. Are the settings for the tool that you’re using preventing you from seeing your work?
9. Check the settings for the tool you’re using in the toolbar across the top of the screen.
10. If you’ve hidden the marquee tool and forgot to turn it back on (Ctrl+H on Windows, Command+H on the Mac) you might be working with a selection without realizing it.
11. You might have the brush settings set to a low opacity. I’ve also run into an oddity where if I’m using the puck (cordless mouse) for my Wacom tablet, any settings in the Brush Palette such as scattering or smoothing will prevent the brush strokes from displaying. It’s just using the puck with the pencil or brush tool (or other paint tool) that does this. If I use the Wacom pen, everything works as it should.
12. Did you use the Type Tool?
13. You need to click on another tool in the toolbox or cancel out of the type tool before you can use other Photoshop features.

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How To Speed Up Your Work In Adobe Photoshop

It’s been a while since the last time i updated this blog. I’m very-very sorry, because i had to take care of my own business. But now i’m back to the blogging world. Keep subscribed to get more useful articles!

I just found out that there is some easy tips to speed up your work in Adobe Photoshop from this article. There are several tips that will increase your speed of using Adobe Photoshop that i modify from the original article. Just take a look at these tips.

1. Memorize some of important shortcut of tools that you often use.
2. Colorize your menu tabs that can’t be reached easily with shortcuts.

I’ll explain every single tips deeply in this article.

If you memorize some of shortcuts that you often use, it will save most of your time, because you will be able to work 2 times faster than before. Most of Adobe Photoshop user must have memorized their own often used tools. Take a look at these summarized shortcuts here:

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Do You Use Gravatar?

I’m going to show you about Gravatar! This article is for all of you who doesn’t know about gravatar before. What is gravatar? I’ll explain it for you!

Gravatar means Globally Recognized Avatar, an image represents yourself when you give comments in wordpress & drupal blogs. Unfortunately, blogspot doesn’t have this service at this moment. You may use any image to represent yourself. People commonly use their own photo for gravatar, while some people use their blog icon to represent theirself. You only have to submit your email address to use this service…

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Reposted – Twirl Effect

I’ve posted this article several months ago with Bahasa Indonesia. I decided to repost this artice in English to share this tutorial all around the world. This tutorial enables you to make twirl effect with adobe photoshop so that you can make your own beautiful abstract wallpaper. I personally love this effect, and i want to share this to all of you! If you haven’t got best result, try again! This tutorial isn’t too hard to be repeated!

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VistaIcons.com – Free Vista Style Icons Down...

Today, i’m gonna share to you about VistaIcons. What’s VistaIcons?

VistaIcons.com is a collection of free Vista Style icon sets of over 2500 high quality icons in png and ico format. From VistaIcons.com. you can freely download 256×256 PNG icons for Windows Vista.

This blog is one of my favorite resources to search & download vista style icons. I can say that VistaIcons provide so many high quality icons. The design of icons are excellent, you can use it for self purpose. Unfortunately, they only provide PNG file type, when others usually provide .ICO file type for icons download.

One interesting part here is they also provide free icon making software, but i still prefer using adobe photoshop for this purpose (click here for all list)

• Iconrestorer 1.0.5.1
• Icofx 1.6.4
• Icontweaker 1.12
• Vista Transformation
  
• Liquidicon XP 1.0.4
• Icon Phile 2.1
• Ave Iconifier 2

There is another information for you who don’t interested in icons.  VistaIcons has another useful blog & website for you! Here is the list!

• www.scanwith.com – Security & Privacy Tools
• www.csselite.com – CSS Gallery | Showcasing the best in CSS web design & development
• www.vistaknowledge.com - Windows Vista Desktop Customization

Here is some of their gallery of VistaIcons. Feel free to download their icons for self purpose only

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Tutorial: How To Make Planet

Today, i’m gonna show you how to make planet using adobe photoshop. Psd-tutorial.com has reviewed this tutorial once, but i think i have to repost this information to all of you to make sure that everybody read this tutorial & improve your graphic design skill.The original tutorial isn’t made by me. I even forgot where i found this tutorial. I think it was from deviant art.

I want to tell you that this is very hard tutorial. Months ago, i tried to make planet by following this tutorial & failed many times (7-8 times). I got frustrated & take a rest for a while. Finally, i managed to make planet with this tutorial & make my own simplified tutorial about how to make planet with adobe photoshop.

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Picture below is one of my best result of making planet with detailed tutorial.

But I personally recommend you to take a look at the original tutorial to make more perfect planet, because the original tutorial is more detailed than my tutorial. Right click & save image as picture below to save this tutorial.