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Make a TRON-Inspired Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Create an Adrenaline Filled Car Chase Scene

If you’ve spent much time looking through stock photography websites, you probably already know that it isn’t easy to find a perfect photo for any given project; and if there is, you will probably spend more time than its worth tracking it down. That’s why you will often need to create your own composite image to make a photo work. In today’s tutorial we are going to use many techniques to turn several stock photos into an action packed car chase scene with explosions and weapons fire.

Create a Vibrant Conceptual Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will create a unique digital art piece that easily can be used for high-quality printing purposes. There is water, balloons, fish, vegetation, a gloomy passage and a fashion nerd — this can not be nothing but awesome together!

Create a Surreal Sci-Fi Movie Poster with Photoshop CS5

Posters play a vital role in marketing and publicizing a movie or an event. In this Photoshop graphic design tutorial, we will be designing a science fiction (sci-fi) inspired movie poster while exploring–and taking advantage of–a few new features in Adobe Photoshop CS5 that will not only save us time, but will also give us awesomely stunning results.

Make a Divinely Dark Zen Composition in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, we will photo manipulate different photos, textures and organic elements to produce a mysterious Zen-inspired composition. We will produce a dominantly monochromatic piece that we will then sprinkle with hints of color to bring our work into another level. We will explore the use of the Color Range command, image adjustments, warping and blurring to give a sense of motion and depth, and much more.

Create a Dark and Surreal Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Create this intense photo manipulation with Photoshop. This tutorial will show you how to manipulate stock photos and turn them into this dark and surreal scene. A PSD is included with this tutorial.

Create a Dark and Rainy Crime Scene in Photoshop

We can all imagine what a dark and rainy crime scene looks like. We have all scene them in television and movies. Today, we will learn how to use different tools and techniques to create a scene of our own in Photoshop.

Creating the Eerie Photo-Manipulation ‘Captive’

Learn how to create an eerie photo-manipulation using some great blending options, lighting techniques and drawing techniques.

Create a Photoshop Mermaid Image Manipulation

This tutorial will show you how to create your own glorious siren, reflecting the beauty and vigor of the beast, and bringing it firmly into the present digital age.

Create an Armored Fantasy Dragon from a Jewelry Box Image

This tutorial shows the step by step process to turn a normal photo into a spectacular image, just by using creativity and some technical knowledge.

How to Create a Futuristic Sci-fi Warrior From a Stone Statue

In this tutorial, we’re going to create an awesome science fiction warrior in the middle of an epic war scene! Drawing techniques were used for the warrior… Then pen tool for masking… and hard rounded brush for detailing.

Create a Surreal Floating Landscape

Learn how to create a surreal floating landscape by photo-manipulating various visual elements into a cohesive piece. You’ll work with adjustment layers, blending options and light effects.

Making a Color Wizard in Photoshop

This tutorial is maybe another proof that I’m a light and color effects freak, I like them very much. So, In this tutorial I’ll show you more light and layer styles effects. You don’t need any special brushes for this tutorial. Everything is done using a few stock images and a few techniques already used on my previous tutorials.

Making a Surreal Manipulation in Photoshop

This is not going to be a difficult tutorial, we are going to work mainly with adjustment layers. I hope you enjoy it.

Dark Halloween Manipulation Tutorial

As I announced on the newsletter here is the Halloween dedicated tutorial. It’s a medium difficulty tutorial. As you will see I used pretty much the same techniques as on my other manipulations of this kind.

Transforming the Image of a Girl into a Milk Figure

Creating a milk figure can be a great idea for an innovative milk ad campaign. The given Photoshop tutorial would brief you about the techniques to transform any image into a milk figure. All that you need to make this milk image are some photo manipulation tools, like transformation tool, burn tool, layer mask, and few stock images.

Creating a sexy mechanical pinup in Photoshop

Photoshop is great tool for combining several images into a scene that can’t always be created in real life, like an android. In this tutorial I will teach you how to manipulate body parts, create depth from missing pieces and also how to integrate gears and engines to make an sexy mechanical pinup.

The creation of The Choice, a dramatic and fantasy photo-manipulation

This tutorial is not so easy to follow for beginners, but I suggest also to them to give a look because there’s certainly something that can be learned and applied in the future projects.

Create a Street Fighter Inspired Composition in Photoshop

Creating light effects is often a pretty easy process. Giving those light effects life and making them resemble real-life objects can require a bit more skill, time, and patience.

Design a spectral photo-manipulation

We will use a couple of stock photos and modify them so they will look harmoniously combined. In particular we will deal with the burn tool, layer masks and some Photoshop filters often overlooked.

Create a Vampire Portrait in Photoshop

In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to use Photoshop to turn a lovely portrait into a dark, intimidating vampire.

Create a Greek Sculpture Using Stock Photography and Photoshop

In today’s tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a Greek sculpture using several stock images. We will then discuss how to add blood, cracks, and other elements to give it texture and depth.

Combine Stock Photography to Create a Sleepy Japanese Village in Photoshop

We often talk about what an incredible tool Photoshop is to create imaginary scenes from stock photography. In today’s tutorial, we will create a sleepy Japanese village in Photoshop by combining several stock photos.

Create a Superhero Movie Inspired Photo Manipulation

We will create an exploding airplane and then we will merge our flying superhero, who I call “Super-Kid”, seamlessly into the scene. As what often happens in my tutorials, we will conclude our work by modifying color combinations and saturation with adjustment layers to create harmony among all the elements of the composition.

Serene Fantasy Photo Manipulation

This tutorial shows you how to combine different stock photos to create calm landscape manipulation. You will learn different techniques of blending, changing lights and shadows and color adjustments.

How to Create an Amazing Apocalyptic Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to compose an image using 3D and painted elements. These techniques include setting the global light of your manipulation and adding shadow and color adjustments.

Showcase Of 30 Sweet Email Newsletter Designs

30+ Impressive Email Newsletter Designs for Your Inspiration

Many newsletters are published by clubs, churches, societies, associations, and businesses, especially companies, to provide information of interest to their members, customers or employees. Sending newsletters to customers and prospects is a common marketing strategy, which can have benefits and drawbacks.A beautifully designed newsletter can make the user more interested in your product or your service, here i’ve collected 33 impressive news letter designs, for you inspiration, which will be help-full to you on your next newsletter design process

Newsletter Design: 50+ Great Examples

A good newsletter campaign can be a great way to inform your subscribers of all your company’s latest news, products and specials. In this post you will see some great examples of newsletter designs from various online companies. If your in need of some design inspiration, this post just might do the job. Enjoy!

Want more articles on inspiration? Check out some of my previous posts:

HTML Email Newsletter Toolbox – Tutorials, Templates and Inspiration

Whatever your personal feelings are about HTML emails, they do work effectively as a communications and marketing tool. And worst of all, you can’t ignore them, you just know that at some point a client is going to ask you to create a template for them.If you have never designed an HTML email template before you may be thinking: “Whats the big deal? You use some basic HTML with a little CSS, no problem at all!”. Little do you know that the actual design of the email is the least of your problems. When designing a web page you do need to cater for only a handful of browsers, each with there own particular little quirks. With emails, you need to design them to display properly in 50+ (!) email clients, with each one not willing to cooperate with.

There is no fun when designing an email template. You have to roll up your sleeves and test, and then test some more.

15 Clean & Effective Email / Newsletter Designs

As web designers we do our best to give the user the most functional layout while trying to make it look visually stimulating. So how are your HTML email / newsletters working for you? What! You don’t use HTML in your emails. Well let’s take a look at what you’ve been missing out on.

25 Premium Email Newsletter Templates For Successful Marketing

Email newsletter is really underestimated and I rarely see websites, blogs using it as marketing and communication tool. Everyone knows he should offer option to subscribe by e-mail, but how to use those e-mails powerfuly to strenghten your relationships and maybe even promote your own products? For that topic we should even create dedicated article, but I will start with just showcasing really well designed premium e-mail newsletter templates this time.

60+ Creative & Inspirational Newsletter Designs

As web designers, we know how to build a modern, semantic and accessibility-oriented website, with proper XHTML and CSS. We understand all the necessary ingredients in making a good website and their implementation.How about creating an equally good newsletter that matches its company’s standard. Many companies practice sending newsletters periodically/occasionally to their clients. Many do it because their competitors are doing, but some do it purposely. Among many reasons couple of reasons which seems logical to us are

35+ Free HTML Email Newsletter

Today we showing a great deal about 35+ Free Newsletter Email Templates, where we showing some great design for our personal and business use if there is policy for use listed templates for commercial use, you must follow links website which providing us very much professional and beginner level newsletter templates.

50 Beautiful Newsletter Designs For Your Inspiration

A newsletter is a regularly distributed publication generally about one main topic that is of interest to its subscribers. Newspapers and leaflets are types of newsletters. Additionally, newsletters delivered electronically via email (e-Newsletters) have gained rapid acceptance for the same reasons email in general is gaining popularity over printed correspondence. But I bet you knew that, right?

30 Excellent Graphic Email Newsletter Designs for Your Inspiration

Email newsletters are great marketing and communication tool with versatile uses and benefits that extend your reach into a users inbox. Its a great way to make a further connection with your viewers beyond the website and keep them in the loop with new things that are going on and products to look out for. All of this helps you build a unique relationship with them, keeping them coming back to your site.

30+ High-Quality Free PSD Website Templates to Download

25 Slick PSD Website Templates Free for Download

There are people all over the internet that are willing to give away their work for promotional purposes or because they want to spread their design talent to other people.

40 Amazing Free Website PSD Templates From devianART

Hi! I have collected these amazing website templates from devianART and they are all in psd format.

70+ Ultimate Round-Up of Free PSD Website Templates

Throughout history, great designers always found new ways to show their creativity to express themselves and create new trends and techniques to remark their work apart from the rest of the crowd. The definition of design is more critical in modern terms as now design is a way of communication; and, more specifically, Web design is a well define platform for showcasing your skills. There is no “Good” and “Bad” in design. It always define as “Different”.

April’s Free Professional PSD Web Templates

Here’s a collection of fully customizable templates which contain the graphic source files in .PSD format, fresh and creative resources from design community (April 2010).These web Psd templates are easy to use and customize and with some coding knowledge can be turned into ready websites. Please check the terms of use for each template before downloading and using it.

Fullscreen WordPress Theme

Fullscreen is a free one-column photography and multimedia theme for WordPress that can be used for portfolios, photoblogs, videoblogs, and virtually anything else where you want your content to be front and center. It provides visual artists a unique way of presenting their latest work online using a minimalist side-scrolling homepage.

Brave Zeenat Portfolio WordPress Theme

A clean Portfolio Theme ideal for photographers, artists and designers to showcase their portfolios. This is our first attempt at creating a WordPress theme and then offering it on a public domain. The theme does need intermediate level of familiarity with WordPress. There is an online help document available to get you started. You may download this theme for free and use it on your site; however you may NOT remove the Dizeno Co link in the footer.

Cameo WordPress Theme

Cameo plays elegantly with elements of light and shadow in order to give more emphasis on images. The theme comes with Featured image and thumbnailed latest posts displayed in the main page, Cameo is the perfect WordPress theme for your photo blog. Cameo also features widget-ready sidebar and footer on a fixed 2-column spread as well as an ajax-integrated drop-down page submenu.

Portfolium 1.1 WordPress Theme

Portfolium is a clean and flexible WordPress grid-based portfolio theme designed in a modern & minimalist style. Portfolium is ideal for designers, artists, photographers, and other creative specialists who require a professional portfolio theme. You don’t need to showcase your works?

Gallery

Gallery supports embedding from popular video sites like YouTube and Vimeo, even allowing you to add your own custom code if not supported.

Mansion

Mansion is a free photoblogger’s theme for WordPress. It features a flexible-width thumbnail grid for both images and photo journal entries. Mansion is perfect for those who want to primarily showcase their photographs and occasionally write blog posts.

Vivee

E-commerce Website Design – Shopping carts are an integral part of the online shopping experience. E-commerce designers face challenges in creating an attractive, yet user-friendly, website that will provide customers with a pleasant purchasing experience.In this post we will feature 35 online shops that have well-designed and appealing shopping cart pages. These pages are what visitors will see after choosing the items that they want, and just before beginning the checkout. Well-designed shopping cart pages can help to increase conversions and minimize abandoned carts by shoppers who change their minds.

In this post we present attractive, creative and user-friendly shopping carts, bags, trolleys, buckets and baskets — any kind of carts as they are used in the online-stores. Besides, we also cover related creative ideas, design approaches and usability guidelines.

Excellent Shopping Cart Designs: Showcase and Best Practices

Shopping cart optimization has always been a challenge for online retailers. To the end-user, it seems like a simple step to purchasing, however there are many factors that go into having a nicely designed shopping cart. If you are struggling to get users to convert during your checkout process, use some of these tips to help keep customers in the sales process.

Stunning Flash Shopping Carts for Your Inspiration

While browsing the cool new FWA website, I found some interesting ecommerce websites. I especially focused on the Flash shopping carts and I found some pretty inspiring examples I think you should check out.You bump into them all the time when purchasing online and there are some complicated shopping carts that give you a hard time. A shopping cart should be simple and self-explanatory when it comes to the obvious steps to purchase an item. The Flash examples I’ve chosen to showcase today are not only extremely creative, but also user friendly.

dark Shopping Cart Designs for Inspiration

More and more business owners are diving into online business and its good to have a shopping cart online. Yes, we are talking about dark shopping cart designs here. I think its in trend to have a dark website whether its dark color or texture we using and here I would like to share some dark shopping cart design which can help designers to take inspiration while working on their next shopping cart project.

Nicely Designed Sports activities E-Commerce Internet sites
Since I released CartFrenzy a number of months ago I have liked viewing a whole lot of excellent e-commerce web sites from designers all about the world. A lot of e-commerce web sites are not much to look at, but there are a great deal that attribute appealing patterns. In this post we’ll attribute 25 sports activities-connected e-commerce web sites.

Inspirational Design from Severe Sports activities Sites

The entire life-style and adrenaline packed action of intense sports activities flows into the style and marketing which is involved with the activity creating for some wonderful inspiration for designers. In the modern day planet this special design is spread onto the web creating for some distinctive site styles, let us just take a look at a assortment of mainstream examples and decide on out the frequent tendencies of the market.

Inspirational Showcase of Sports activities Web sites

As human we stay in a distinct situation: we are slaves of our passions. Is it a problems for us? Absolutely not! We like this slavery and we really like our passions. I’m italian, maybe too italian. I eat spaghetti and pizza, I drink espresso and “any presented sunday” my muscle tissues and my mind function for the football (soccer), practically nothing else. I also adore other sports activities, like basket (so magnificent), rugby (so tough), football (so american), formulation 1 (so rapidly)… and everyday I follow my champions on the net, for this purpose I will not inform you about best practices but what I declare searching and studying a activity site.

Showcase Of Wonderful Sports Websites

Right now we’ve collected some fantastic activity site to inspire you.

Useful Design Tools For Beautiful Web Typography
Typography is elegant when it is attractive and communicates the designer’s ideas. When chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very effective in supporting the overall design. Designers are always exploring different techniques with type: some use images or sIFR to produce very beautiful typography, while others prefer CSS alone to get the typography just right.

CSS Typography: Contrast Techniques, Tutorials and Best Practices
The main advantage of elegant CSS typography lies in its ability to be both attractive and improves the user experience. When chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very effective to support the overall design. There are many outstanding examples of how we can do this, and below you will find some of the best ideas and tips when it comes to using Fonts and typography in your CSS based sites.

22 Advanced CSS Text Effects And Web Typography Tips

Typography takes also very important role in good web designs, so I strongly recommend to read articles I featured there as well! Enjoy and get inspired for your new, advanced web designs!

Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs
Many people, designers included, think that typography consists of only selecting a typeface, choosing a font size and whether it should be regular or bold. For most people it ends there. But there is much more to achieving good typography and it’s in the details that designers often neglect.

Creating an image only for the purpose of displaying a gradient is inflexible, and is quickly becoming a bad practice. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, they very well might still be required, but hopefully not for much longer. Thanks to Firefox and Safari/Chrome, we can now create powerful gradients with minimal effort. In this video quick tip, we’ll examine some of the differences in syntax when working with the -moz and -webkit vendor prefixes.

CSS3 Linear Gradients

With the advent of CSS3′s comes support for gradients, specifically, linear and radial gradients. CSS Gradients is supported in FF3.6+, Safari 2+ and Google Chrome. In FF3.6, gradients can currently only be applied to an element’s “background-image” or shorthand “background” properties.

Speed Up with CSS3 Gradients

WebKit browsers paved the way with CSS based gradients. Now Firefox 3.6 is out and is supporting them as well, which makes using them for progressive enhancement all the more appealing. More good news, CSS3 gradients fall into the camp where you can specify fallbacks (i.e. images) so that browsers that don’t support them just use the image instead.

Gradient Buttons with CSS3

I have been having a lot of fun messing around with CSS3 and received a lot of emails since I posted my tutorial for Creating Shadows with CSS3. I decided that putting together a quick tutorial on how to use multiple CSS3 effects at the same time to create a cool looking gradient button would show people just how amazing CSS3 is.

Gradient Tool

You can create cool gradient with just several clicks using this tool and it’s easy to use.

CSS3 Gradient Generator v2.0

The CSS3 Gradient Generator was created as showcase of the power of CSS based gradients as well as a tool for developers and designers to generate a gradient in CSS.CSS gradients generate an image result, meaning the result of a CSS gradient can be used anywhere an image can be used, be it a background-image, mask,border, or list item bullet.

Spritebox
Spritebox is a WYSIWYG tool to help web designers quickly and easily create CSS classes and IDs from a single sprite image. It is based on the principle of using the background-position property to align areas of a sprite image into block elements of a web page. It was made using a combination of JQuery, CSS3 and HTML5, and is totally free to use !

Online CSS-Reset Tool

There are many CSS Resets available, including everything from very basic resets to comprehensive resets consisting of many styles. There isn’t a “best” CSS Reset for all designs, only a best CSS Reset for your design. To help you find the perfect CSS-reset styles, CSSresetr lets you try all the best CSS Resets on a variety of web pages – even your own.

CSS Layout Generator

The generator helps you create the structure of your website template using valid HTML and CSS.You can create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages.

Tiny Fluid Grid

The happy & awesome way to build fluid grid based websites.

CSS Validation Service

Check Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and (X)HTML documents with style sheets.

ProCSSor

Advanced CSS Prettifier that lets you format CSS in the exact way you want. It empowers you to turn your CSS into something that is visually more compelling, and with a minimum of effort at that.

CSS3 Please
The tool offers support for border-radius, box-shadow, linear-gradients, rotation, rgba colors and @font-face, with work underway on support for skew and scale. In some circumstances the tool also offers support for Internet Explorer using IE filters to replicate the same effects as achieved by CSS3 properties.

Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator
A powerful Photoshop-like CSS gradient editor from ColorZilla

SlickMap CSS

SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished site maps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It’s suitable for most web sites – accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links – and can easily be customized to meet your own individual needs, branding, or style preferences.

CSSDesk

CSSDesk is a online HTML/CSS sandbox. Experiment with CSS, see the results live, and share your code with others.