Photoshop-Week I (April)

By Dirk Metzmacher

In this series I have a look at the most current Photoshop tutorials. Sometimes there could also be classics among them. I’m sure you’ll always find great techniques and inspiration. Read more »

No Comments / Published on April 23, 2010

Photoshop sources that you can’t pass up

By Dirk Metzmacher

In my daily research for Photoshop Weblog I encounter hundreds of workshops on numerous pages, some of which are of moderate quality, and some of which are surprisingly good. Here I want to present the best Photoshop sources. These are websites that publish useful tutorials again and again. And with a constant high quality, too. Read more »

No Comments / Published on April 12, 2010

Photoshop-Week III (March)

By Dirk Metzmacher

In this series I have a look at the most current Photoshop tutorials. Sometimes there could also be classics among them. I’m sure you’ll always find great techniques and inspiration.

Little possum

Possums are small and pretty cute marsupials. The tutorial Creating a Furry Possum at designreviver.com describes how to design such a cute little animal in Photoshop. Noise and the Smudge tool are the main ingredients here. This way even laymen succeed in generating thousands of hairs.

Creating a mixed creature

A chimera is a mixed creature. This combination of beings is also possible with Photoshop, of course. The Making of Chimera describes just that: A way to create your own mixed creature. A whopping five animals are melted into a new life-form here. Read more »

No Comments / Published on März 26, 2010

Photoshop-Week II (March)

By Dirk Metzmacher

In this series I have a look at the most current Photoshop tutorials. Sometimes there could also be classics among them. I’m sure you’ll always find great techniques and inspiration.

Arial Font is Bullshit

The very amusing video Arial Font is Bullshit shows how much typography nerds can concern themselves with fonts. And speaking of fonts: Jessica Hische did a great job with her evolutionary diagram of font taste (taste as in sense of design, not the other kind of sense).

40 sources of great design and Photoshop tutorials

Today I’m giving away some of my sources. Forty of them, to be precise, in the article 40 sources of great design and Photoshop tutorials. Next to direct links to weblogs and magazines you’ll find two current examples for each of them, as well. This way you can measure the site’s quality at a glance. Read more »

No Comments / Published on März 18, 2010

Photoshop-Week I (March)

By Dirk Metzmacher

In this series I have a look at the most current Photoshop tutorials. Sometimes there could also be classics among them. I’m sure you’ll always find great techniques and inspiration.

Eye tutorials

I wasn’t aware that there are so many tutorials dealing with creative changes to the eyes, such as you can see in the collection It’s All in the Eyes: 100 Beautiful Photo Manipulations. Eyes are very important for human beings, after all.

3D sphere and cube

Initially, the Photoshop tutorial How To Design a 3D Glass Icon leads us to a 3D sphere including lighting effects. In addition to that, the sphere is then put inside a transparent cube. So basic geometric shapes are arranged in a beautiful composition. Read more »

1 Comments / Published on März 8, 2010

Poster Girls

By Dirk Metzmacher

The Poster Girl Photoshop Tutorial shows you how to position a silhouetted lady on a new background. The Create Fantasy Wallpaper Tutorial is quite similar. Over the course of five pages the author explains how graphical elements lead to a collage worth seeing.

No Comments / Published on September 28, 2009