Crater Landscape

By Dirk Metzmacher

The PDF Create Craters in Photoshop offered an alternative to the whole sky and planetary tutorials. This is a moon or asteroid, wich will combined with huge impact holes. For direct Download.

No Comments / Published on August 11, 2009

Top 25 most popular Brushes Sets

By Dirk Metzmacher

The overview Top 25 most popular Brushes Set contains some of the finest brush sets: ornaments, grunge, smoke and vectors – very varied.

1 Comments / Published on August 10, 2009

The evolution of web design

By Dirk Metzmacher

The article The evolution of web design presents a brief retrospective on the development of web design. From 1993 to 1996: The web is a boring place for designers > From 1995 to 1998: browsers war zu From 1998 > 2000: Designers get serious about creating websites > From 2000 to 2004: the rise of web standards > From 2004 to 2007: the era of Web 2.0 and From 2008 to now: moving to other devices. A nice overview.

No Comments / Published on August 10, 2009

Lorem Ipsum

By Dirk Metzmacher

When designing web pages or flyers, often there is no text available: “The text should be inserted later”. The Lorem Ipsum Photoshop CS4 Extension gives you a handy addon for Photoshop CS4. So you always have a Lorem Ipsum generator on the side.

No Comments / Published on August 10, 2009

Tutorial: Water and Waves

By Dirk Metzmacher

Summertime and swimming pools: Hop into the blue and enjoy total refreshment. Not everyone can afford his own pool, but Photoshop offers a way to have a bit of bathing fun for free. For that we use the Clouds filter, which is one of few filters that generate a random result.

Water surface

1. From clouds to water

The water surface in a swimming pool catches the sun in numerous reflections. The Clouds filter as one of the few random generators offers the easiest way to get natural structures. This is one of those cases. Press D on the keyboard to reset the foreground and background color to standard black and white.

Now everything is prepared for our Cloud filter. There’s still one problem though: The clouds’ size cannot be adjusted. For smaller structures this means that you’ll need a larger document in order to scale it down later on. Read more »

No Comments / Published on August 9, 2009

Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation

By Dirk Metzmacher

Everytime I don´t understand what´s exactly in the picture, I speak of “surrealism”. The author of the workshop Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation probably had the same problem. A woman gets hugs from branches, in a romantic scene with a bird. This is definitely … no idea. Surrealism?

No Comments / Published on August 7, 2009