The Power of Photoshop
Dec 14, 2007 Cool Stuff, Photoshop
Not much to say today. Just wanted to show you the power of photoshop. Enjoy..
Simple Border Tutorial
Nov 3, 2007 PS Video Tutorials, Photoshop, Photoshop Video Tutorial, Tutorials, Videos
Here’s a tutorial on how to make a simple border around your picture:
Click here for a clearer version
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Content, appearance, usability & visibility are the basic web design principles & aspects which should always be kept in mind while preparing a commercial web design. Once you are over with this phase, you should search for a best domain host for registration of your website that is providing services compatible to your requirements. Usually it is included in the package provided by webhosting net companies. Apart from this, on line website building, free blogs and forums, e carts, free email accounts are also offered by these web hosting services providers. Due to increasing competition in the market more or less all of them are giving cheap web hosting services.
CSS Website Navigation Menus
Oct 30, 2007 Cool Stuff, Free PSD, Graphics, Photoshop, Scripts, Tools
This is very neat, customizable CSS menu for download by 13styles. Also comes with the PSD for skinning. Some of the css menus are free and some require you to purchase rights to use them.
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25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic Designer
Oct 24, 2007 Photoshop, Uncategorized
Haha…got this from cg-files.com, list of signs that you might be a hardcore designer. I don’t consider myself as a hardcore designer but some of these do happened to me.
- You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.
- You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.
- You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend’s shirt than listen to what he/she has to say.
- You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.
- You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.
- You consider meals interruptions.
- You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.
- You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.
- You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.
- You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
- You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.
- When you heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.
- When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)
- You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.
- You’ve actually $paid for a font.
- You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)
- The amount of words you’ve written with a sharpie labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in novels.
- You’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.
- You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.
- You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)
- You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.
- You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.
- You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
- You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.
- If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago
Watch out for a new tutorial soon..
Action Script In Photoshop?
Sep 9, 2007 Graphics, PS Action Scripts, Photoshop, Tutorials
Someone emailed me and asked what is action script for Photoshop. So I made this video to show how action scripts work in photoshop and how these scripts can save your time and effort…
Want to create your own action script?
Blur Loterina
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AdesClrPIcker – An Excellent Color Picker
Sep 5, 2007 Graphics, Photoshop, Tips and Tricks, Tools
Do you want to know what color codes does a website use and want to capture the colors
so that you can use them on your website or design?
All you have to do is open your Photoshop, wait it to load, press Ctrl+PrintScreen on your keyboard to capture the screen, paste it into Photoshop, select the color picker and hover it to the color you want on the image. So everytime you want to capture colors you need to open photoshop and do the same things all over again. This seems like a lot of work.
Why waste your time? there’s another easy way of capturing colors. With AdesClrPicker tool, you don’t have to wait for
Photoshop to load anymore. It is small and very fast color picker tool. It installs into your systemtray on your desktop and just with a single click of the mouse it captures the colors anywhere on the screen.
For full features, visit AdesClrPicker tool Read the rest of this entry »
How To Create Realistic Looking Pins
Aug 31, 2007 FREE stuff, Free PSD, Graphics, PS Video Tutorials, Photoshop, Photoshop Video Tutorial, Tutorials, Uncategorized
I create a new video tutorial today. I saw a tutorial at Veerle’s Blog on how to create pins in Illustrator. So I’d thought maybe I could create a video tutorial on how to create realistic looking pins in photoshop. Read the rest of this entry »
Hope you enjoy the video below…psd also provided
Click & Drag The Easy Way
Aug 30, 2007 Cool Stuff, E-Cover, PS Action Scripts, PS Video Tutorials, Photoshop, Photoshop Video Tutorial, Templates, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Uncategorized
Ok, you download an e-cover action script, load it to your photoshop. You spend 2 hours try to design killer e-cover but all you get is an ugly e-book cover. Well, Max is going to teach you the secret to creating stunning ecovers, he’s also going to give you all the action scripts, ready-to-use graphics and text, ecover samples and much more. You can just click and drag each of these elements into your own designs in second. The result! incredibly professional e-cover that you could create in just 15 second!!
What will you get with the Click and Drag Graphics Package:
1. Starter Templates
These “starter templates” are simple blank templates with a few subtle “effects” that spice them up. Even though these templates are simple, they look very professional with their subtle effects.
You get starter templates for headers in 3 different sizes (650, 700, and 750 pixels wide) and each cover shape (ebook, box, cd, report, ezine, member card, etc.). With all these different variations, you’ll be getting hundreds of templates to choose from.
2. Click And Drag Objects
This module is what makes this package so easy to use and so unique. No other package offers anything like these Click & Drag objects. With these Click & Drag objects you can literally create a professional and eye catching design for your site in minutes.
You get all kinds of Click & Drag objects to choose from like:
Text – already preformatted with the proper font, size, and layer style effects. Just drag it over to your header or cover, change the text to your own product or site name, and you’re done.
Text Bars, Squares, Circles, Stars, and Corners – these are the little shapes that go behind your text to make it stand out more and give it emphasis.
Horizontal Bars – These go across your whole header or cover to divide them into portions or to give that finishing touch.
All of these objects come on their own layers and are completely customizable. So you can resize them, rotate them, change their colors, change the text to what ever text you want, etc.. You can customize them to your liking.
3. Layer Styles
Layer styles add an effect to your layers with one click. So if you want your text to look “cool”, you can add a spicy effect to it by simply clicking on one of the layer styles. Just type your text, click on the layer style button, and your text will get an effect. Max has compiled and created all of the cool text effects you can find on all of the popular designs out there.
4. eCover Action Scripts
Max has recorded the steps he took to turn 2D covers into 3D covers. So all of the distort, resize, and other commands got recorded and can be played back with just a few clicks, and turn a 2D cover into 3D in seconds.
So basically, you start with a blank template or a “starter template. You then create your own design. And finally you play the eCover action of your choice and the cover turns into 3D right before your eyes.
5. Other Templates
In addition to the Starter Templates in Module 1, you will also get templates for all kinds of other mini site graphics like order buttons, footers, backgrounds, and even simple HTML mini site templates. So you’ll be able to create all the graphics for your mini site with the packag.
6. Video Tutorials
This package comes with easy to follow, step-by-step, screen capture video tutorials. Everything is broken down for you in simple terms, so even if you’re a complete newbie you’ll be able to get started right away.
7. Graphics Swipe File
You’ll get over a hundred of Max own favorite designs that he has done for his clients (covers, headers, order buttons, footers, and backgrounds). This swipe file will save you countless hours of frustration and “being stuck” for ideas again.
8. Resources
Max will be sharing with you his favorite design related resources like:
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Where he get his stock images from.
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Where he get his fonts.
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Where he get his ideas for designs.
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A cool place to get hundreds more layer styles, patters, brushes, textures, and more.
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And much more…
This resource module will save you hours of trial and error time trying to locate all of these places on your own.
And MORE..
This is a complete design package. I highly recommend for newbies in graphics design to get this package as you can experiment with the graphics, use it in your design and plus, your clients will be impressed;)
DVD Case Template
Aug 25, 2007 E-Cover, Graphics, Photoshop, Templates
So nice of manicho for releasing his real and stylish DVD case template. This would come handy if you are planning to have cover for your products. Do not mistaken, this is not an action script. You would have to tweak the layers yourself. If you want to change the box color, look on the “dvd case” group and tweak them with Hue/Saturation.
DVD Case+Art – PSD file by ^manicho on deviantART
Create You Own Professional Ecover Graphics
Aug 21, 2007 Cool Stuff, E-Cover, FREE stuff, Graphics, PS Action Scripts, Photoshop, Scripts, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials
Professional ecover graphics can and in most cases will help you sell more copies of your digital product (s). I searched over the internet and found two action scripts for making your own super fast, beautiful and professional looking ecover and box.
These scripts will do the job for you automatically. Just follow these steps:
1. Download the script and unzip it.
2. Open your photoshop. Then press Alt + F9 on your keyboard. This will open the the action box.
3. Click the small arrow on the right and choose load actions.
4. Find the the action scripts and press load.
5. You can see the script is in your action box.
6. Expand it by clicking the small arrow on the left and select step 1. Then select ‘play’.
7. A template will open. Design your ebook (add title, pictures, color..yadee..yadaa…) anyway you like..
8. The final step is to select the step 2 and click play..and wait for a sec and walla!…your new ebook cover:)
Download the free action scripts below: Read the rest of this entry »
Speed Painting or Fast Foward Painting?
Aug 10, 2007 Graphics, Photoshop, Videos
You may have seen one of several popular YouTube videos of Nico Di Mattia and other great graphics designers creating photo-realistic portraits in photoshop that, thanks to time lapse video, appear to been done in minutes. According to Wikipedia, speed painting is an exercise, primarily digital, in which one paints on a time budget, using already developed methods to create a piece. Contrary to (somewhat) popular belief, “Speed Painting” is not the same as a time-lapse video of a painting.
The video of John Locke painting by Nico Di Mattia showed the painting was done less than 6 minutes, but actually the real time took 4 hours. So Nico Di Mattia’s paintings do not fall directly under the speed painting category, they are commonly associated with it due to the time-lapsed nature of the video. I would call it a fast foward video painting. But if I were able to paint John Locke in photoshop, it would take a month to finish it. So how did Nico Di Mattia paint in less a day?
To be able to paint like him, you need a graphic tablet with a cordless pen and a cordless mouse, that plugs into a USB port. Using a pen rather than a mouse for drawing on a computer give you the feel like you’re drawing naturally and makes creating fine detail much easier.
Head over to his website to see the techniques, tools, and tricks he uses.
And watch his latest 6.05 minutes speed painting videos of Bumblelee which the painting was done in 19 hours of working…amazing!
And another video by Spacepaintings which was done in 1 minute,
and what category shall this type of painting goes into do you think?
Speed spray painted painting? fast spray painting?
Free Page Peel Ads Templates
Aug 4, 2007 Cool Stuff, FREE stuff, Graphics, Page Peel, Photoshop, Scripts, Uncategorized
Here are free Corner Page Peel templates in PSD which you could edit and use them with your Page Peel Ads Script. Available in 3 colors and designs.
Sorry, download not available at the moment
For those who don´t have the script yet, you could get it for only $12 with master resell rights at Page Peel Ads Sript + MRR.
Best Regards,
Photoshop Video Tutorial: Corner Peel Image
Jul 20, 2007 Banner Ads, Banner Designs, Cool Stuff, Graphics, PS Video Tutorials, Photoshop, Photoshop Video Tutorial, Tutorials, Uncategorized
I’m just so crazy with the flip corner or the “Dogear” image such as the Page Peel as you can see on the top right corner of this site, so I’ve made my own photoshop video tutorial on how you can create a corner peel image or banner that will look like below:
Here’s the step-by-step ‘Corner Peel Image‘ video tutorial.. Read the rest of this entry »
Optimize your ad clicks by using the latest Peel Advertising Script
Jun 27, 2007 Advertising Materials, Banner Ads, Banner Designs, Graphics, Page Peel, Photoshop
Move your mouse to the top right corner of my page peel site…cool huh?
This is call PagePeel Script. With this tool you can instantly and easily generate and administrate flash-animated dog-ears (also known as PagePeels, Peel-Ads, or Magic-Corner) and implement them into your own website!
Get the script here… Read the rest of this entry »
First Post
May 4, 2007 Graphics, Photoshop, Uncategorized
Hi, this is my first post and I have not much to say except for welcome to my da da de de da…I’m luving it blog..opss don’t get me wrong this blog has got nothing to do with Mc Donald…it’s all about how much I love photoshop, graphics, my works, and how
you could make money by selling or designing graphics.
I want to give my ideas away, confident that my little gift will come back to me manyfold..huhu…ok enough typing!! Thanks for being around.
You’ve got to check out this amazing speed painting by Nico Di Mattia.
LOST – John Locke
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