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100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series – Car Related Designs

Posted on December 31st, 2008 in General | No Comments »

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Final 10 tutorials of our “100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series”, We covered all major and profitable segments where you can use Photoshop for a living, this has been a very long journey, watching hundreds of Youtube videos, reading and browsing thousands of Photoshop Tutorials websites just to find those that qualify for a easy to follow and worthy Tutorials.

91. Turn A Car Into A Hover Car
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This tutorial is about taking any car you like and Turing it into a hover car by just using Photoshop. So grab an image of a car a jet engine and a nice background image.

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Go see the Tutorial here.

92. Full-size side view rendering in Photoshop
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With today’s large-size printers, no one should have to go through the pain of producing a full-size, tape rendering, with all the masking and paint spraying. A scanned line drawing of your design is all you need to render your car in Photoshop, and make it look like the real thing. Print it large, hang it up on the wall, and blow away the competition…
Go see the Tutorial here.

93. Porsche Digitally rendered
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This tutorial shows how to create a Porsche illustration in Photoshop starting from a scanned hand-drawn sketch.
Go see the Tutorial here.

94. How to Add Flaming Decals to a Modern Car Design – Part I
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This tutorial will explain the steps needed to turn this boring Prius into an awesome street racer. This tutorial is aimed at intermediate users of Photoshop, those who know most of its basic tools and how to use them. This is Part I of a two-part series.
Go see the Tutorial here. Go see the 2nd. Part here.

95. How to airbrush a cars paint work Using Photoshop
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This tutorial will show you how to create an air-brush look for you car also I have added a nice skull at the end for more affect.
Go see the Tutorial here.

96. Badass Bling Effect in Car Advertising
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his tutorial will show you step by step on how to create a “Badass Bling Effect” using layer styles in Photoshop. Once you create the layer style, you can easily “blingify” any layer.
Go see the Tutorial here.

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97. Dramatic Car Color Change
This tutorial will guide you through the steps needed to change the color of a red car. Once you learn to do this you can use any car so don’t worry it won’t have to be a red to black change every time. If you have any questions let me know

Go see the Tutorial here.

98. Car Advertisements
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Before we start, it is very important to choose a picture, where the car has the right color. We want something that is as close as possible to light-gray.
Go see the Tutorial here.

See the Gallery here.

99. Rendering in Photoshop
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During sketch development I find that I understand what I would like to ’sculpture’ in my design from the section lines I draw as a base, as well as from ‘leaving out’ areas. However, if you want this to come across to the people making the decisions, you need something that stands out and jumps off the wall in a presentation.
Go see the Tutorial here.

100. Stylish Mini Car Wallpaper
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Learn how to create a stylish, unique looking car wallpaper perfect for a business or an enthusiast.
Go see the Tutorial here.

Help us buy a New MacPro

Posted on December 19th, 2008 in General | No Comments »

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100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series – Web Graphics

Posted on December 19th, 2008 in General | No Comments »

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Hello again, We’ve reached the 80s with our “100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series“, this time is about Web Graphics and how to make your job easy and profitable using web 2.0 tricks and techniques. We hope you like this 10 tutorials. Feel free to add your comments and suggestion in the Comment and Forums areas and don’t forget to check the last 70 tutorials.

71. Create a Professional Gaming Header
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In this tutorial you will learn how to create a professional gaming header design. If you have any questions about this tutorial be sure to ask in the comments and i’ll be happy to answer any questions. Also, remember with all the tutorials, the psd is available for download.
Go see the Tutorial here.

72. Eco Theme Template
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We will design nice looking green web layout.
Go see the Tutorial here.

73. How a Simple Layout Can Be Mixed ‘n’ Matched with Patterns, Photos and Backgrounds
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In this tutorial we’re going to put together a quick, simple but effective layout and then create variations using backgrounds, photos and patterns.
Go see the Tutorial here.

74. Web 2.0 – VoiceTrader
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In this tutorial I will walk you through the creation of my latest Templamatic design, titled “VoiceTrader”.
Go see the Tutorial here.

75. Design Web Layout With Photoshop

76. How to create a web 2.0 button

77. Creating the “The Art Institute Photoshop Template”
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In this tutorial I will show you some easy steps to create a sleek template.
Go see the Tutorial here.

78. How Web 2.0 Logos Are Drawn
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In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to reveal you some of the nice Web 2.0 logos, how you can draw their logo exactly the same (well, not really 100% though) with Photoshop.
Go see the Tutorial here.

79. Clean Gray Header Design
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In this tutorial you will learn how to create a simple header with a rounded grey navigation. If you have any questions about this tutorial be sure to ask in the comments.
Go see the Tutorial here.

80. Creating flexible buttons using Photoshop shapes and styles
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Not sure about you, but when I create buttons for a web site, I always use shapes, especially if the button has rounded corners. These vector shapes have the advantage that they are easy to scale or resize. Combine them with effects and you have the most flexible button ever.
Go see the Tutorial here.

The Ultimate Guide to Mac OS X (1)

Posted on December 18th, 2008 in General | 1 Comment »

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In this Tutorial-Review of Mac OS X we will navigate through every one of its features with a concise definition, videos and pdf documents to support any technical information of the System, this is a looong journey, but once taken you won’t need to look back for more information about OS X. In this first chapter we will check: The Desktop, Mac OS X Finder, Quick Look, Spaces and Time Machine.

The Desktop


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The Mac OS X Desktop is starting point of the System, the place where we orgazine and distribute our job, it lets you access your photos, videos, folders, applications, documents and more. It contains all the tools and utilities to help you achieve any task. Using Spaces you can have more than one Desktop to distribute your jobs in different and easy way.

Mac OS X Finder


the_mac_os_finderThe Finder in Mac OS X is the environment where all System transactions are executed, from draggin windows to trashing documents, the Finder is responsible of the most single action done in the System. The Finder is the first application in your Dock and is always open and ready to assist you.

The Finder as we know it is a combination of all previous Finders and with every System Upgrade it gets new and fresh features. In the most recent upgrade the Finder got CoverFlow and QuickLook, both features help you navigate visually through your documents.

Mac OS X Shortcuts

Finder window
Keyboard shortcut Description
Command-W Close Window
Option-Command-W Close all Windows
Command-Right Arrow Expand folder (list view)
Option-Command-Right Arrow Expand folder and nested subfolders (list view)
Command-Left Arrow Collapse Folder (list view)
Option-Command-Up Arrow Open parent folder and close current window

 

 

Quick Look

Quick Look is a new addition to Mac OS X Finder, it provides an easy way to see inside your documents without open them, you can navigate all pages from Word, Excel, Quicktime movies, pdf files and many more, just clicking the Quick Look icon or pressingh the Spacebar when one or more documents are selected.


Spaces

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Mac OS X Spaces is ultra easy way to organize your running applications, windows and utilities by giving them a unique space. You can access Spaces by pressing F8 and selecting the Space you want to go or move Opened Applications by dragging their windows to the space that better fit them. To setup Spaces you may go to the Systems Preferences and select Exposé and Spaces.

Spaces Shortcuts
To move to another space, press F8 to view all your spaces, and then click the space you want to use.
To view all your windows in all your spaces, use Spaces and Exposé together: Press F8 to view all your spaces, and then press F9 to see every window within each space. To go to a particular window, click it.
• To go directly to a space, press the Control key and the number key for the space you want. For example, press Control-1 to go to space 1.
To scroll through the spaces, press the Control key and arrow keys together.
To change the ordering of your spaces, press F8 to view all the spaces, and then drag the spaces to reorder them.
To move a window from one space to another, use any of these shortcuts:
Press F8 to view all spaces, and then drag the window to the new space. To move all the windows belonging to the same application, press the Shift key while you drag the window.
Drag the window to the edge of your screen and pause; after a moment, the window is switched to the new space.
Move the pointer over the window, and hold down the mouse button while pressing the Control key and an arrow or number key.

 

Time Machine

Time Machine is an automatic backup system that records everything you do on your Mac, it lets you go back in time and recorver your photos, music, movies, documents and more any time you want them. It’s

It’s a copy of your computer hard disc frozen in time, the most amazing thing about Time Machine is how easy to setup and use, it tracks all your files changes, make the backup and keeps checking for new changes, it works in the background, recording and organizing your backups for future usages.

Chapter 2:
System Preferences

Chapter 3:
The Sidebar
The Dock
CoverFlow

OnyX: 7 Mac OS X Critical Utilities Deathmatch

Posted on December 17th, 2008 in Featured, General | 1 Comment »

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Returning to Our “7 Mac OS X Critical Utilities Deathmatch“, where We evaluate the most used and acclaimed System Utilities available for Mac OS X exposing all their features, learn how to use them for your System optimization. This time We will see how OnyX stack up against its rivals.

OnyX is the little application that could help you optimize and take full control of your System Performance, it is a small but powerful toolbar packed with excellent features to extend applicaciones_letrero_onyxthe already known efficiency of Mac OS X. OnyX is a ultra powerful System maintenance with countless tweakable features and parameters that brings peace of mind when it comes to keep your Mac OS X fresh and responsible.

OnyX is a Universal Binary application that can optimize Systems with Intel and PowerPC processors, it is highly recommended to login with an administrator account in order to use OnyX critical features.

Onyx Toolbar
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This is OnyX main window, from the Toolbar you can access all the features and resources, control, turn on and off, delete and remove and optimize the System.

Verify Tab
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In this section you can Diagnostic your hard disk for failure, damages and System File Structure, it can only Diagnostic Serial ATA disks, Firewire and SCSI are not supported.

Maintenance
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In this section is where you can Rebuild Spotlight, repair Permissions and Ownerships and remove all .DS files that may hold any information.

Cleaning
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In Cleaning you can delete the Caches Files for almost all Applications, browsers, quicktime, system, logs, recent items, cookies and more.

Utility
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Here you can get information about the Manual Commands, Delete all your trashed files and locate any information inside any system files.

Automation
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Set all your critical maintenances and let OnyX does the rest.

Parameters
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Parameters represents the most important Tab of OnyX, here you can completely control the whole System, The Finder, The Dock effects and animations, Exposé and Dashboard, Safari, Login items, Spotlight, The Disk Utility, Control the Terminal and iTunes.
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Summary
OnyX is a powerful tool for optimization, maintenance and personalization of Mac OS X, it comes with pretty decent set of features to help you get the most out of you computer. It is a freeware (DonationWare) utility available in all the Mac OS X flavors (Mac OS X 10.4 (OnyX for Tiger), Mac OS X 10.3 (OnyX for Panther) and Mac OS X 10.2 (OnyX for Jaguar)).

If We were to compare OnyX against our previously revisited Utilities then OnyX is the real winner so far, it does much more for its cost (free), but this race is not over yet, but write in your scorecard that OnyX is by far the most Economy-Wise choice. You can always donate a small portion of your monthly salary to the makers of OnyX, they will appreciate it.

Go get OnyX here
Website: http://www.titanium.free.fr/

10 iPhone Programming Resources Online

Posted on December 11th, 2008 in General | No Comments »

The iPhone has been a hit out of proportion for Apple and rivals and it’s becoming the mandatory platform to program for, so there’s a sense of urgency on programmers and developers to learn to create the next big thing for the iPhone or iPod Touch. Almost all major game developers are rethinking its strategy to include some of their famous games into the iPhone. Here is a little list of the most important Programming Resources that we can find online.

1. Apple iPhone Developer Center Website
Of course, the epicenter of all iPhone related material.
Visit the ADC.

2. Animating a Ball Using An NSTimer

I am going to show you today how you can do some simple animation by moving a ball around the screen. We will not be using OpenGL ES to move the ball. We will simply be using an NSTimer and a UIImageView.
See the Tutorial here.

3. Stanford iPhone Programming Classes Material
Excellent library of PDF based Classes ready to help you master the iPhone Programming.
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php
Visit and download your favorite ones here.

4. IBM: Develop iPhone Web applications with Eclipse

Learn to create iPhone Web sites using Eclipse, Aptana’s iPhone Development plug-in, and the iUi framework. See the development of a Javadoc viewer for the iPhone, uncover tips for user interface design, and hear about the future of iPhone application development.
Visit the well documented material from IBM here.

5. iPhone Developers Community at iphonewebdev.com
Developing content for the hottest new mobile device? You’ve come to the right place.
This website is a community of web developers helping each other to create the best possible web applications for the iPhone… the premier platform for portable Web 2.0 applications. Examples here.
Visit phonewebdev.com here.

6. iphoney
iPhone simulator based on Safari helps you fine tune your applications before its final delivering to the public.
Download iPhoney here.

7. 35 Free Icon Sets for your iPhone

An amazing collection of the most elegants and ready to use iPhone icons for your applications.
Visit speckyboy.com here.

8. Learn How To Develop For The iPhone

Today I’m going to show you how to build an alternate page and style sheet for the iPhone and iTouch. We will cover how to detect if the user is using an iPhone to view your page as well as the orientation of the device – whether it be landscape or portrait. To accomplish this we will be using javascript, and some Safari mobile specific CSS tags
Check this well explained tutorial here.

9. iPhone application development, step by step
When Apple announced that the SDK for iPhone application development was going to be (just) Ajax, we were very excited to build an OpenLaszlo application for it.
Check these interesting tutorials for the iPhone application development here.

10. iPhone Toolbox
One of the most complete iPhone resources website on the net, it contains hundreds of well documented tutorials, tips and tricks to make your developing process flow easily.
Visite the iPhonetoolbox.com here.

100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series – Web Design

Posted on December 11th, 2008 in General | No Comments »


These are 10 productive Web Design Photoshop Tutorials, ranging from the small favicons to the most complicated template design totally done using Adobe Photoshop. There is more to come, the next 10 are about Advertising and how Photoshop helped big Media companies achieve almost perfection.

51. Slick Blue Navigation

In this tutorial, you will be shown how to design a Head Navigation for your website.
Go see the Tutorial here.

52. Create a Vibrant Modern Blog Design in Photoshop

Taking a closer look into the world of web design this tutorial will cover the process of designing a vibrant and colourful modern blog layout in Adobe Photoshop. Beginning with a blank canvas we’ll go through the process of creating the entire structure and effects from scratch.
Go see the Tutorial here.

Plus: Encoding a Photoshop Mockup into XHTML & CSS

53. Real Estate template

This tutorial will show You how to make nice looking web template for Real Estate site.
Go see the Tutorial here.

54. Stunning Interior Design Website Tutorial

I will show you how to create a Interior Design layout.
Go see the Tutorial here.

55. Create Web icons + Navigation Bar

56. Handy Web 2.0 Icons In Photoshop

When we are working on a Web design project, we quite often need icons to show commands like add, delete, or edit. With the Web 2.0 trend, the use of badges and subtle 3D has become very popular. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a really easy and very nice 3D effect to be used in either buttons and icons or elements that need some depth.
Go see the Tutorial here.

57. How To Create A Favicon In Photoshop

Favicon is a little custom icon that appears next to a website’s URL in the address bar of a web browser.
Go see the Tutorial here.

58. Modern Web 2.0 Header
n this tutorial, I’m going to be teaching you how to make the web header I used for this site. It’s fairly straight forward, so if you’re just starting web design, this will be a good tutorial to read.

Go see the Tutorial here.

59. Designing Glossy Web 2.0 Badges

This is a relatively basic Photoshop tutorial, but you should have basic knowledge of Photoshop and its tools to follow through to the end.
Go see the Tutorial here.

60. iPhone interface design

The iPhone platform elegantly solves the design problem of small screens by greatly
intensifying the information resolution of each displayed page.
Go see the Tutorial here.

Downloading Youtube Videos to your Mac

Posted on December 8th, 2008 in General, Safari | No Comments »

How to download Youtube videos to your Mac Desktop. There are a lot utilities and tricks available to download those good Youtube videos, here is a short list of the downloaders:

Youtubex.com
An internet site that let you download Youtube videos from an address you provide.

Downloadandsaveyoutubevideos.info
An internet site that let you download Youtube videos from an address you provide.

Javimoya.com
An internet site that let you download Youtube videos from an address you provide. You can find there the Videodownloader, a Firefox Add-on extension.

VideoDownloader
A Firefox Add-ons

VideoDownloader add a small icon on the status bar at the bottom of your firefox window, and a toolbar button. Just click that and download the video you are watching !

Video Downloader allows you to download videos (to your computer) directly (and easily -just one click-) from most video sites.

You can download from:
Angry Alien, Blennus, Blip.tv, Break.com, Dailymotion, Double Agent, eVideoShare, Free Video Blog, Google Video, Grinvi, iFilm, Keiichi Anime Forever, Metacafe, MySpace, MySpace Video Code, Putfile, Totally Crap, vidiLife, vSocial, AnimeEpisodes.Net, Badjojo, Blastro, Bofunk, Bolt, Castpost, CollegeHumor, Current TV, Dachix, Danerd, DailySixer.com, DevilDucky, Double Agent, EVTV1, FindVideos, Hiphopdeal, Kontraband, Lulu TV, Midis.biz, Music.com, MusicVideoCodes.info, Newgrounds, NothingToxic, PcPlanets, Pixparty, PlsThx, Revver, Sharkle, SmitHappens, StreetFire, That Video Site, VideoCodes4U, VideoCodesWorld, VideoCodeZone, Vimeo, Yikers YouTube and ZippyVideos.

* Firefox Firefox: 1.5 – 2.0.0.*

100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series (11-20)

Posted on December 2nd, 2008 in General | No Comments »


This is the second installment of the 100 Harcore Photoshop Tutorials Series, it is about doing something productive and entertaining while using photoshop, it can be for profit or not, you decide. Take a look to these 10 more, I had to check them all one by one to see what you can learn from them....

11. Make Up Effect for the Face
In this Photoshop tutorial I will be walking you through the creating new make up for the face.

Go see the Tutorial here.

12. Water Drop

Photoshop: Water Drops! - Click here for this week’s top video clips

13. Realistic 3D Flag

Photoshop: 3D Flags! - The best bloopers are here

14. Composite Image "Berry Splash"

15. Light Saber

16. Create a light blue glowed object

17. Apple TV Style Background

18. Awesome Eyes

19. Design Beer Glass and Bottle
Well, in this easy Photoshop tutorial I’m going to be teaching you how to design beer glass and bottle.

Go see the Tutorial here.

20. Kung Fu Panda Wallpaper

Go see the Tutorial here.

100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series (1-10)

Posted on December 1st, 2008 in Adobe Photoshop, General | No Comments »


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.

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