PSD Vault

In this tutorial, I will demostrate the steps I took to create a scratched Metal Text Effect using Photoshop.

Together we can practice different use of filter effects for create textures, adjusting layer blending styles, selection techniques, brush tool and dodge/burn tools.

In this tutorial, I will show how easy it is to adjust lightness for your photos by using the LAB Mode in Photoshop. You can apply this tutorial to any photo you like.

We will also explore the use of layer blending options, hue/saturation tool and various filters in Photoshop.

In this tutorial, I will demonstrate the processes I used to create this Crispy-Crust text effect with flower texture in Photoshop, inspired by Pizzahut’s thin’n crispy pizza base!

From this tutorial, together we can explore the power of blending style options, brush tools, image adjustment tools such as curve and hue tools, and some selection techniques in Photoshop.

Welcome to the first volume of the “Seeking Inspiration” series! This series is aimed to provide inspirational contents in terms of graphic and web design, and to give you a boost for your creativity. This series will be divided into parts and each part will focus on a specific topic from the graphic/web design field.

The first part – “The Power of Colours”, will take you into a world of colours and see how they will impact on the images you are creating. Hope you enjoy it!

One week after the offical launch of PSD Vault, it reaches 10,000 visits!

To be honest this is completely unexpected and I never thought my blog would be this popular. Although it’s a tiny success, I would like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who comes to my site, especially to those who wrote email and left comment to me.

In this tutorial, I will show you the procedures I took to create an Ocean-feeling text effect in Photoshop, which is inspired by one of the ocean photos my aunt showed me from Mykonos, Greece.

We will be exploring some layer blending options, various tools and filters. I will also show you the way I use to add extra lighting contrast to the image.

In this tutorial, I will show you the processes I used to make a shining, colourful Computer Case in Photoshop. You can apply the same technique to pretty much any object you like.

We will explore the use of various tools such as dodge/burn tools, brush tool, image transform tool, blur filters and more.

In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how you can easily turn a normal photo taken in daylight, into a realistic Night-Scened Image, inspired by the moive Sin City.

We will be using tools such as the curve tool, brush tool, level adjustment and various layer blending options.

In this Part III of Innovative Site Implementation, I listed some beautiful homepages of real-world commercial web/graphic design agencies around the world. Ok they didn’t give me any commission for doing this, it’s purely out of my personal interest.

I think due to the nature of their business operation, it is an absoluate neccessity to have a reasonally well-designed front page to represent their company identity, and to showcase what they can offer to their potential customers.