Create an Elegant Portfolio Web Design in Photoshop

Create an Elegant Portfolio Web Design in Photoshop

In this Photoshop web design tutorial, I would like to show you how to create a clean and elegant portfolio web layout that has numerous areas for common content types such as an area that displays a blog post excerpt, a nice image slider for featured works, social media information, and a thumbnail gallery. We will cover plenty of professional-grade web designing techniques in this Photoshop tutorial.

Continue Reading

Visual Inspiration: 30 Beautiful Web App Site Designs

Visual Inspiration: 30 Beautiful Web App Site Designs

A web application’s site design is the first look potential users will get before deciding whether or not to sign up for the service; it’s the book cover, table of contents and blurb of a web app that abeyant visitors will scrutinize before deciding to make the jump towards becoming its user. In this web design inspiration showcase, you’ll feast your eyes on stylish and modern web app site designs that make powerful impressions.

Continue Reading

Create a Magical Floating Woman Scene in Photoshop

Create a Magical Floating Woman Scene in Photoshop

This Photoshop tutorial involves combining various photos and textures to come up with a colorful and surreal scene. This tutorial is geared towards intermediate and advanced Photoshop users who are already familiar with Photoshop. We will use things such as layer masks, a custom brush that we will make from scratch, image adjustments, and so on.

Continue Reading

How to Create a 3D Book Icon in Photoshop

How to Create a 3D Book Icon in Photoshop

This design tutorial is meant to explain how to draw a 3D book icon from scratch with the help of Photoshop. We will use tools such as the Pen Tool, Polygonal Lasso Tool, and Gradient Tool, among other things. A strong proficiency in drawing shapes is needed in order to complete this tutorial.

Continue Reading

Create a Funky Urban-Inspired Scene in Photoshop

Create a Funky Urban-Inspired Scene in Photoshop

As an artist, I am always listening to, and being inspired by, music. I wanted to do a tutorial that pays tribute to this art form for what it has contributed to our culture. In this tutorial, we are going to create a colorful scene inspired by breakdancing and the urban lifestyle. We will be using some Photoshop brushes, photo-blending techniques, and advanced lighting techniques to achieve the final result. Throw on some tunes and fire up Photoshop — let’s get to it!

Continue Reading

Watercolor Textures: Photoshop Brush Pack

Watercolor Textures: Photoshop Brush Pack

This is both a Photoshop brush pack and a texture pack. In this set, there are 25 different watercolor texture brushes ranging from 1200-2500px in width. Also included are PNG files for each respective brush (which are larger than the brushes) that you can use as decorative elements, background textures, and so forth.

Continue Reading

Create a 3D Shipping Package Box Icon in Illustrator

Create a 3D Shipping Package Box Icon in Illustrator

This icon design tutorial will discuss how to create a shipping box/parcel box icon from scratch using Adobe Illustrator. We will use the 3D Extrude & Bevel effect, the Pen Tool for drawing simple shapes, several panels like the Transparency Panel and the Gradient Panel, and other fundamental Illustrator features. We’ll detail our icon with a red shipping stamp (that we will draw ourselves), packing tape, and shadows/highlights.

Continue Reading