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Today we are going to look over the shoulders of quite a few professional designers. Using their original PSDs with open layers, we will be able to exactly reconstruct, what has been done and how. If you are like me, this way of learning by doing proves more effective than working through step-by-step tutorials. The following files come with lots of layers to be examined, as we are going to dissect a camera, a sports shoe, a cell phone and lots more. Have fun looking through the eyes of the most able Photoshop professionals. Before I forget: watch out for some layer-related Photoshop tips, I may have left for you throughout the collection…

Photoshop isn't only the popular choice for photo editing, it's also a good choice for designing a website. We have previously shown you how to design a blog layout with Photoshop. With a range of effects and features, Photoshop allowed us to compose a visually rich presentation using drop shadows, ...

PSD Mockup Designs Boost Your Productivity For most designers, the effort of creating great work comes in the form of working in 2D for hours or days within Photoshop. Brand designs for beverage cans, books, cereal, brochures and even software are painstakingly crafted with excruciating detail.

Final Product What You'll Be Creating The new version of Photoshop is finally here! Adobe Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) was finally announced at the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles. In the keynote address, Adobe announced several new features including Camera Shake Reduction, Camera RAW improvements, Image Upsampling, Properties Panel Improvements, Behance Integration, Sync Settings, and many more useful features.

20 Crucial Photoshop Features All Web Designers Should Know As web designers it can be easy to fall into a rut or a comfort zone in our daily Photoshop work. Today's article highlights 20 features that are crucial to an effective design workflow in Photoshop. Are you using all of them in your work?

Flat Social Media Icons is a collection of beautiful icons developed in the flat style. As you already know, we have issued several UI kits in the flat design style, namely Square UI (paid and free versions) and Flat UI (paid and free versions), and we've decided to create free social flat icons, so that the entire design fits the style. In the pack, you will find 35 icons (PNG and PSD formats). Use them in your projects, commercial and non-commercial use if free. Icons included in the pack: Blogger, Delicious, Designbumb, Designfloat, Designmoo, Deviantart, Digg, Dribbble, Drupal, Facebook, Forrst, Foursquare, Friendfeed, Gmail, Google, Google+, HTML5, ICQ, LastFm, LinkedIn, PayPal, Picasa, Pinterest, Reddit, RSS (Feed), Skype, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo, WordPress, Yahoo and YouTube. Source: http://designmodo.com/flat-social-icons/#ixzz2VFUkPHSw

Final Product What You'll Be Creating In this tutorial, we will explain how to create a magma hot text effect using layer styles and textures in Photoshop. Let's get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.

Tutorial Details Estimated Completion Time: 9 Minutes Difficulty: Beginner Apps Used: Adobe Photoshop CS6 Final Product What You'll Be Creating This entry is part 28 of 35 in the Shortcuts on Psdtuts Session " Previous Next " If you have been working with Photoshop for a while, chances are you've developed some custom settings that you prefer to work with.

Playground is a Prague-based production studio that often mixes 3D renders, photography, and concept art to create really amazing composite images. In this article, we will show a few of our favorite works from their portfolio, as well as a few progress images for some of the pieces.

Photoshop is a powerful tool for creating all sorts of imagery but it does have its limitations. While Photoshop does have some fantastic tools for creating 3D text, there are other applications that are often better suited for the job. That is why many illustrators use a combination of Photoshop and some other 3D application to help create 3D text. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Cinema 4D to create wooden 3D text and then how to use Photoshop to add the final touches. Let's get started!

We're going to cover some incredibly practical, basic tips that you can apply in order to create your own cost-effective photo manipulations from scratch. Not everyone has access to professional photography studios, and today you'll learn how you can product high-end looking results on a very limited budget. This includes everything from correctly setting up a photo shoot, to moving into Photoshop and covering post-production essentials. You'll work with lighting, detail removal, color correction and photo manipulation.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to combine Photoshop with Filter Forge to create a glowing 3D text effect. We will begin by showing you how to create basic shapes in Photoshop, we'll then show you how to convert them to 3D, and finally how to add the final touches using Filter Forge and a few of Photoshop's basic features. Let's get started!