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100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series – Apple Products

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:35:24 +0000

We are reaching the last 20 Tutorials from our “100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series”, a tremendous collection of the most professional Photoshop tutorials aimed at young and not so young photoshop users looking to increase their skills with fresh and easy to follow courses. Finish them as soon as possible because there are 100 Hardcore Adobe Illustrator in the Pipeline and We are getting ready to post the first iLife and iWork Tutorials from a new Video Series almost finished. Feel free to add your comments, considerations, suggestions and more, you are always welcome..

81. Designing an iMac

Here you will learn how to design an Apple iMac from the ground up in Adobe Photoshop.
Go see the Tutorial here.

82. Designing a Black iMac

Some months back before the latest iMacs were released, I was musing as to what a black iMac might look like. Being a Photoshopper, I decided to try making one. After posting it on a blog, the image went viral and started appearing on Mac and technology blogs and my site was inundated with traffic.
Go see the Tutorial here.

83. Designing an iPhone

Design a sophisticated Mobile iPhone using these easy to follow steps.
Go see the Tutorial here.

84. Designing an iPod Shuffle

This Photoshop tutorial will acquaint you with the shape tools, dealing with paths, applying layer styles and dealing with shadows and lighting. This is good tutorial for practicing these techniques.
Go see the Tutorial here.

85. Designing an Apple Remote

You know those cool little Apple Remotes you’ve always wanted to make in Photoshop? Now you can!
Go see the Tutorial here.

86. Design a Shiny Photorealistic Apple Remote

Apple has so many beautiful products. Their product designs consistently attain a sought-after status, which distinguishes them as an innovative company. In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to make a shiny new apple remote.
Go see the Tutorial here.

87. Designing a MacBook Air

Hello fellow photoshopers! In this 20-step tutorial I’ll be explaining how to make the MacBook Air ad (as shown on http://www.apple.com/macbookair). I’m not going to focus on the end result but I’ll try to explain lots of the tools I used and tell you some of the tricks to make your Photohop workflow easier! As an “Apple fanboy” I really enjoyed doing this and I hope y’all learn something!
Go see the Tutorial here.

88. iPhone Design (Video)

89. Apple Style Banner

This tutorial will teach you how to create and Apple iPod style banner for your own product.
Go see the Tutorial here.

90. Attack of the iPod People

iPod People, iCharacters, silhouettes–whatever you call them, they are those cool people who dance around in the iPod TV commercials and show up in the posters and billboards you might have seen around town and I’m going to show you how to make your own in Photoshop CS (this tutorial will work in other versions but will require some digging on your own to find out how).
Go see the Tutorial here.

100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series – Advertising

admin — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:55:14 +0000

Here the 10 Advertising oriented Photoshop Tutorials from the 100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series, I hope you master them and use it in your next Personal or Professional work, I have checked them one by one, tested and now I recommending them to you. I hope you like them all.

61. Create an Energy Drink Ad Design

In this tutorial, we’ll look at a flexible design solution that you can use to create one for an energy drink. It relies on a combination of the Difference Blending Mode and the Radial Blur Filter to achieve unique colors, contrast, and lighting.
Go see the Tutorial here.

62. Rolling Stone Magazine Cover

Designing a magazine cover professionally is one thing … what we’re going to do is copy something that’s already been done, though, so that we don’t have to spend years learning all the concepts.
Go see the Tutorial here.

63. PhotoshopUser Cover Magazine

This is going to be a simple tutorial to show you how to design a magazine cover in Photoshop. The topic is going to be about photography although you can change it to what ever you want.
Go see the Tutorial here.

64. How to Create a Movie Quality DVD Cover

In this tutorial we will be learning how to take a few different stock images and put them together with some text to make a movie poster/DVD cover design.
Go see the Tutorial here.

65. Designing a Software Box

n this tutorial, we are going to create a 3D software box using Photoshop. It’s rather simple but the results can be quite realistic, providing a creative way of going about and creating box designs for your own personal use.
Go see the Tutorial here.

66. Phone Advertising

In this tutorial I will show you guys how to make a very interesting and sleek Phone Advertising.
Go see the Tutorial here.

67. Add a Fresh Splash to your Design

In this tutorial, I’ll show you several techniques for enhancing a basic banner design for a product or service. These techniques can be employed to add a fresh splash to many of your designs!
Go see the Tutorial here.

68. Glossy RSS icon

In this tutorial we are going to create a colorful RSS icon for your blog.
Go see the Tutorial here.

69. Making a Print-Ready Business Card Using Only Photoshop

In this tutorial, we are going to design up a simple business card in Photoshop and get it ready for print with crop marks and bleed.
Go see the Tutorial here.

70. Rendering a Striking Matchbox in Photoshop

This tutorial consists of creating a digital illustration in Photoshop of a box of matches. We’ll be creating the matchbox cover design, the striker on the matchbox from a pattern, and placing the cardboard texture on the box.
Go see the Tutorial here.

100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series (41-50)

admin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:01:36 +0000

We’ve reached the first half of our 100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series, from now on We will enjoy 5 theme based sets (10 tutorials each). Feel free to request any tutorial, we have in the pipeline, a Complete Mac OS X Video Tutorials covering everything, a 100 Vector Tutorials, the iWork ‘08 Video Tutorial, the iLife 098 Video Tutorial, Adobe CS Video Tutorial, Introduction to Flash, Intermediate Flash, Aperture, Final Cut Pro, Microsoft Office, Toast Tutorial and many more mac tools.

41. Metallic Spiderman 3 Text

In this tutorial we’re going to show you how to create some
eye catching metallic text similar to the type used for the new”Spiderman 3?
movie.
Go see the Tutorial here.

42. Visual effects in the style of 300

Here’s a little Photoshop guide to mimic the 300 style. The effects could also be applied to video in After Effects with a similar setup. The aim here is to build the basic photoshop action with minimal tweaking. I’ve used basic shots but with good imagery you can achieve great results.
Go see the Tutorial here.

43. Interface Design Tutorial

The following is a technique every designer should have in their bag of tricks. I use this technique very often when making any sort of interface and it’s a handy trick to know.
Go see the Tutorial here.

44. Digital Coloring

This tutorial is done in Photoshop CS3, and you need some basic knowlegde to follow it. The numbers are the exact ones I used.
Go see the Tutorial here.

45. Removing Love Handles (Spare Tires)

In this tutorial we will see how to remove love handles (or the extra fat around the waist).
Go see the Tutorial here.

100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series (31-40)

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:01:52 +0000

Learn more, earn more. Remember that we accept your recommendations, any suggestion, express yourself in our Forums or in the Comments Section. Stay tuned for the next 10 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials and don’t forget that starting with the 50s Tutorials will be about a specific theme, advertising, web, movie and so on.

31. Create a Mobile Phone Ad Design

Let’s design a mobile phone advertisement. It’s inspired by mobile phone posters, billboard designs, and magazine advertisements. We’ll be reviewing using Smart Filters and Objects in this tutorial, as well as multiple techniques to create this design.

Go see the Tutorial Here.

32. How to Create Product Labels in Photoshop

n this tutorial, it will show you how to create a “Product Labels” in Photoshop. And this demonstrates you how to create a green tea label with a ninja character in background. Of course, you can use the same idea to present your products with different character. And our example is as shown in the thumbnail.

Go see the Tutorial Here.

33. Wordpress Themes done with Photoshop

Learn to create your own Wordpress Theme in Photoshop. This tutorial shows you how to create a wintery theme, just in time for xmas!

Go see the Tutorial here.

34. Chameleon Effect Tutorial

Go see the Tutorial here.

35. CREATE AN IPHONE ADVERTISEMENT

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a iPhone advertisement similar to the nano ad with paint dripping under it. If you have any questions about this tutorial be sure to ask in the comments and i’ll be happy to answer any question.

Go see the Tutorial here.

100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series (21-30)

admin — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:56:22 +0000

Third in a row, this is the third part of the 100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series, I hope you can get the most out of every one, there is much to come. From number 50 to 100 every 10 Series will be about a Photoshop specific theme, Photoshop on TV, Photoshop for Web Design, Photoshop in Advertising, Photoshop Movie Retouching and Photoshop for Cartoons. Stay tuned, we are reading and watching every one to see the real benefit in their placement at MTG.

21. Facial Structure Reshaping

22. De-Aging Tutorial

23. Web2.0 Badges

You’ve seen them everywhere. No self-respecting Web2.0 site would be without them; those little splashes of color that jump out at you and scream “HEY LOOK AT ME! OVER HERE!” Yes, that’s right. We’re talking about perhaps the most over-used trendy little design fad to come out of the two-oh movement-the badge!
Go see Tutorial here.

24. Realistic photo print

By using just a few simple effects you can turn your digital images into realistic photo prints.
Go see Tutorial here.

25. Water effect on products Photoshop tutorial

n this tutorial i’ll try to show you how to make a nice looking product bottle with the water effect that really makes you thirsty when you look at this kind of product pictures. You can apply this stuf to almost anything though, let it be fruit, cars etc. I also saw some nice photos of models wearing clothes with a similar water effect.
Go see the Tutorial here.

100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series (1-10)

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:36:38 +0000

Here is a new Series about Photoshop Tutorials, this is the first 10 from the 100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials we have been collecting. Remember you can share your opinion, collaborate and request any given tutorial you need… We will be posting 10 more every day until reach 100. If you have one and want it to be included, just send your link… We are collecting the final 20 this week. Hurry up.

1. Designing a Portable Gaming Device Poster
In this intermediate Photoshop tutorial we will be walking through the making of an interesting, creative advertisement poster. This is what I would consider great for advertising your newest product, or just getting some design practice. I will not be explaining the function of every tool in Photoshop used in this tutorial, instead I will be walking through the design process (if you could call it that, anyway).

Go see the Tutorial here.

2. How to Create a Copper Photoshop Text Effect
Copper is a wonderful metal. It’s strong and resistant but easy to handle. Besides, copper is great when you’re designing grunge and old-style graphics or websites. So here’s a simple and quick way to add this particular effect to your text and shapes.

Go see the Tutorial here.

3. 3D Typographic Effects in Photoshop
Photoshop is an astounding post-production tool – and here Nik Ainley of Shiny Binary shows you how to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools.

Go see the Tutorial here.

4. Space Environment
Amazing Space environment done using photoshop.

Go see the Tutorial here.

5. Sin City image Style
If you were looking how to get the Sin City style image for your next Photoshop project toda is your lucky day… Here a easy to follow steps to get it.

Go see the Tutorial here.

6. Making of Fiery Planets Collision
Excellent and easy to follow Planet Collision tutorial.

Got see the Tutorial here.

7. Matte Painting with Photoshop
This tutorial is actually a “making of” where I explain how I proceeded to achieve this matte painting.
I use a Wacom Intuos² A4 board, if you don’t have any graphic board this is going to be hard but not impossible. At each step of the matte painting, useless to remind you to create a new layer so that the work will be easier and mistakes avoided !

Got see the Tutorial here.

8. Realistic Software Box
Today we wll be mostly creating a software box within photoshop that could be used if you are selling software programs or web scripts from a site but dont have an actual physical box that you can photograph.

Go see the Tutorial here.

9. Make Jessica Alba Hot
So, is it just me, or is Jessica Alba the most hideous looking creature on the planet? I mean, she’s so damn ugly.

Go see the Tutorial here.

10. Movie Poster
Prepare to shock! Terrify! Amaze! Photoshop and Illustrator guru Mark Mayers demonstrates how to recreate the shlock B-movie posters of cinema’s golden age.

Go see the Tutorial here.

Creating Wallpapers using Photoshop techniques

admin — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:08:14 +0000

You have always asked yourself how are those movie and computers wallpapers done? Here are 45 tutorials that can help you to learn new tricks while designing wallpaper. This is an excellent collection of the best Wallpapers tutorials using photoshop…. I hope you like them and learn at the same time.

Create a Wavy Blackberry Style Wallpaper

Using Some Free Stuff to Create a Wallpaper

2008 Wallpaper

Butterfly Wallpaper

The Dark Knight Grunge Wallpaper

Diving Wallpaper

Design a Cool Music Wallpaper

The Joomp Wallpaper

Fantastic Wallpapers

Feed Your iPhone Tutorial

Favorite Bands Tutorial

Summer Camp Wallpaper