In this post, I will show you 20 awesome photo manipulative wallpapar from desktopography.net, hopefully you will enjoy them as much as I did and find them inspirational.

And by the way, here is an introduction of desktopography.net:

Designers and developers spend about 90% of their waking life in front of a computer so the most appealing genre for a wallpaper would be one that has beautiful design mixed with the all important aspect of being outdoors.

What we see everyday can affect our mood and state of mind, enhance your desktop with a wallpaper creation from desktopography and feel the essence of nature and the outdoor existence on your computer. Bring tranquility to your desktop, feel the wilderness and give your background a breath of fresh air..

Source: desktopography.net

Here goes the list, enjoy!

That’s it for this post! Hope you enjoy it and find it inspirational!

In this post, I will showcase you 10 excellent Photoshop Tutorials that I think can give you a boost to your drawing skills. I have personally tried out them in the past and I think the quality of them are quite good, and should give you lot of tips and tricks into the Photoshop drawing world.

For your convenience, I categorise those tutorials into three difficulty levels: 

Here goes the list, enjoy!

Beginner

How to Draw Badge Buttons in Photoshop

In this tutorial I’ll be showing you how to create your own shiny buttons that you can stick different pictures on.

Source: psdcore.com

Realistic Water Drops

In this Photoshop tutorial I will show you how to make basic water drops in three dimensional space using the elliptical marquee tool, free transform, duplicate layer and a few simple layer effects.

Source: pshero.com

Draw 3D Crystal Icon in Photoshop

This tutorial shows you how to draw nice and glossy 3D crystal icon. A beginner level tutorial however quite informative. Have a try!

Source: 10step.sg

Custom Sim Cards Tutorial

This tutorial shows you the steps to make this really cool, realistic sim card in Photoshop. Very simple yet effective.

Source: hv-designs.co.uk

Intermediate

Create An Old Envelope

I’ve had several requests since posting the Postage Stamp lesson for a follow-up on how to create the envelope used in that tutorial. Well today my Photoshop friends your prayers have been answered. Here’s the step by step to creating that cool old envelope.

Source: pshero.com

How to Make a Badass WordPress Logo

I was in a store the other day and walked by a sign with a logo that had an amazing shiny/metallic look to it. So, I whipped out my cellphone and took a picture of it. I spent a while trying to recreate the look but came up with something a little different. I applied that look to a WordPress Logo. This is how I did it…

Source: 3nhanced.com

Creating a Glass Ball

During the course of this Photoshop tutorial we’re going through 9 major steps to create a glass ball. The main goal of this tutorial is that you get an idea how to approach this. It’s not that important to remember all settings, but it’s more important that you understand what’s exactly happening.

Source: lunacore.com

Advanced

Faking the 3D look using Photoshop

The aim of this tutorial is to show you a different use of Photoshop other than image editing. It is my tribute to the original artist’s work. Besides, I wanted to break a tradition here. Most of the 3D work of animators is inspired from 2D work (sketch/painting/photo).

Source: 3dtotal.com

Create an amazing Ad in Photoshop

I’m a really fan of Peter Jaworowski aka The Hejz, I even wrote a tutorial for PSDTUTS showing an effect inspired by one of the Peter’s amazing works. Then last week, Cameron and Bobby, gave me some tips on how create those light streaks, and that is what I will share with you in this post.

Source: abduzeedo.com

Design a Vintage Radio Icon in Photoshop

In this Photoshop Tutorial, you’ll learn how to design an old vintage radio using simple shapes, gradients, patterns and textures.

Source: tutorial9.net

OK that’s it for this post! Thanks for reading it and I hope you found those tutorials useful for improving your drawing skills!

Till next time, have a great day!

In this post, I will show you my collection of 11 Fascinating and Educational Tutorials Teaching You How to Produce Better Photo Effects. Those are tutorial that I came across months or even years ago, and until now they still reside in my firefox bookmarks. It’s a small collection, however I’m sure  you will find pretty much everything you need to make great looking photos, based on the techniques outlined in each tutorial.

Hope you enjoy them and learn lots :)

For your viewing convenience, I broke down the tutorials into three difficulty levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advance.

Here goes the list, enjoy!

Beginner Level

Basic Photo Editing Tutorial

For this tutorial I will be showing you how I personally edit my photos. These are just the basics such as removing blemishes and smoothing the skin as well as making other general adjustment.

- source: thetragictruth-of-me.deviantart.com

Finding and Identifying the Light Source

Use Photoshop to create and add a dramatic ray of light to your photos. It’s easy, accurate, and fun! This tutorial shows you how to find and identify the light source for your photo. Fairly easy, have a try!

- source: photoshoptutorials.ws

Photoshop Tutorials: Turn A Photo Into A Collage Of Polaroids

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn how to take a single photograph and turn it into a collage of polaroids, with each polaroid containing a small section of the overall image. You can use this effect with lots of different types of images, whether it’s a photo of one person or several people. It’s great for photos of family or friends, vacation photos, or even as a creative effect for wedding photography.

- source: photoshopessentials.com

Transform Photo into Watercolor Painting

This tutorial shows a quick and easy method to transform photo into watercolour Painting by using just a few steps. The great thing about this tutorial is that you can use it pretty much any photo of your choice. Have a try!

- source: 10steps.sg

Intermediate Level

Faking HDR in Adobe Photoshop

This HDR Photoshop tutorial shows quite easy way to fake HDR photos in Photoshop. You don’t need to shoot into RAW or take multiple photos – one JPEG file is enough.

- source: nill.cz

Lighting a Giant Elephant

If you’re like me, every now and then you find yourself needing to insert a subject image into a background where the lighting between the two doesn’t quite match. Your subject image may be flatly lit, while your background contains crisp shadows and highlights — and if you don’t correct the problem you run the risk of getting a load of critical comments.

- source: worth1000.com

Fiery Photoshop Space Explosion Tutorial

Illustrating scenes from the final frontier can make for some beautiful work. In this tutorial — the longest we’ve ever published — I’ll walk you through creating a spectacular space scene featuring two planets colliding. Strap yourselves in, Photoshoppers!

- Source: psd.tutsplus.com

Seamless compositing

Learn how to fake unbelievable fantasy images, like this giant warrior lizard, using some clever Photoshop trickery.

- source: digitalartsonline.co.uk

Advance Level

Create dynamic distortion effects

In the following steps, I’ll let you in on one of the most effective and easily mastered techniques that I use to make striking, dynamic distortions of subjects – in this case I’ve used a model, although the technique can be adapted to any objects that you wish to feature in your work, such as cars or trees.

- source: computerarts.co.uk

Matte Painting

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!

- source: 3dtotal.com

Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto’s ability with Peter Petrelli’s power. We will use images and filters to produce this wave explosion effect. Even though it may look like a difficult tutorial, it’s really not that hard.

And just by the way, this is the most amazing, comprehensive, absolutely beyond awesome tutorial I have ever seen so far on the interent.You’ve got to try this out.

- source: psd.tutsplus.com

Ok that’s it for this 11 Fascinating and Educational Tutorials Teaching You how to Produce Better Photo Effects post here on psdvault.com. Hope you enjoy this collection and found those tutorial interesting and useful.

Till next time, have a good night!

In each post of this series here on PSD Vault, I will share 10 hightly practical tutorials to get you started with Photoshop Toolset, along with some tips and tricks to increase your workflow efficiency.  There will be two tutorials for each tool and eventually cover every single tool in Photoshop.

For Part I, I will be focusing on the Move Tool, Marquee Tool, Crop Tool, Slice Tool and Magic Wand Tool. Hope you enjoy those tutorials and find them useful!

Move Tool

A Look At The Move Tool

This tutorial is the first part of a series of photoshop video tutorials covering each of the tools in the tools palette. In this tutorial, we cover the Move Tool, also sometimes referred to as the Pointer Tool.

Six Move Tool Tips For Photoshop

So naturally enough, the main function of the Move Tool in Photoshop is to move objects around the document window. It’s basically your index finger for pushing stuff around, but by combining it with some modifier keys you can add to it’s functionality. Here’s six MoveTool tips to speed up your workflow.

Marquee Tool

Select With the Marquee Tool in Photoshop

In this video tutorial, you will learn how to select with the marquee tool in Adobe Photoshop CS3.

The Photoshop Marquee Tool

There is almost nothing you can’t do to a picture in Photoshop. Learn how to use the marquee tool in this free video clip on this great computer program.

Crop Tool

Photoshop’s Crop tool explained

The crop tool is probably one of the easiest tools to use, but probably not used as often as it should. Use the crop tool to help the appearance of your image by enhancing the composition.

Using Photoshop Crop Tool: Beyond the cropping

Generally cropping is process to removing portions of an image to create focus or strengthen the composition. But with Photoshop Crop tool, its provide much more option to crop and more flexible.

Slice Tool

How to Create a template using slice tool in Adobe Photoshop

This is a tutorial about how to use slice tool in Adobe Photoshop and export it as a web page.

Image Slicing in Photoshop CS3

No doubt you’ve heard about image slicing, but do you know what it is and how it works? Image slicing is a technique for creating a web page (or a component of a web page, like a header or navigation menu) visually in Photoshop (Fireworks and Illustrator also allow you to slice images, too). But how does it work?

Magic Wand Tool

Select With the Magic Wand Tool in Photoshop CS3

The magic wand tool can be used to make a precise selection to an image in Adobe Photoshop CS3. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to select with the magic wand tool in Photoshop CS3.

To make quick selections, just wave the Magic Wand

Photoshop’s Magic Wand tool makes it quick and easy to select large areas of an image with just a few clicks.

Ok that’s it for Part I of 10 Highly Practical Tutorials to Get You Started with Photoshop Tools! Hope you enjoy those tutorials and if you would like to add any site you find useful, simply drop me a comment below.

Meanwhile, if you have any tips and tricks about those tools, you’re more welcome to share them here by leaving a comment below.

Thanks and have a very creative day!

No doubt PSDTUTS.com is the most popular Photoshop tutorial site around, and I have to say the quality of the tutorials posted there are top-notch. However, there are many other sites also provide a good bunch of Photoshop tutorials, and I think they are definitely worth checking out if you’re looking for a wider variety of tutorials, inspiration and resources.

In this post, I will introduce you a list Six High Quality Photoshop Tutorial Sites Apart From PSDTUTS.com, which I visit on a regular basis. Go and have a look at them, I’m sure you won’t be disappointed :)

Oh by the way, the tutorials posted on those sites are absolutely orginally written.

Ok enough talk, here goes the list:

Tutorial9

We are Tutorial9 – a collection of teachers, experts, and caring folk from around the world, all gathered in one place to pass along our knowledge to absolutely anyone interested in learning.

- About Tutorial9

PSD Fan

As you may have guessed from our name PSDFAN will be providing Photoshop tutorials. However, we want to stress that this won’t simply be ‘just another tutorial website’.

- About PSD Fan

Abudzeedo

The idea behind this blog is primarily to be a channel for me to write down some ideas, experiments, news, and a lot of thing that I see online and probably will forget in a couple of months.

- About Abudzeedo

PSD Learning

Ross Aitken, the owner and main editor of PSD learning is currently studying design in Glasgow. He has a great interest in computer graphics and writes tutorials in order to share his knowledge of this subject with others.

- About PSD Learning

10 Steps

Blog focusing mainly on Photoshop and Flash tutorials. Apart from passing on some useful tricks and techniques, we will be providing interesting design news and great freebies. 10Steps.SG will try its best to present tutorials in a neat and friendly manner for all the readers.

- About 10 Steps

PSD Core

This is a relatively new Photoshop tutorial site (launched in December, 2008), but it’s some really nice tutorials on there, plus the interface and layout of the site is very clean. Should be a place worth bookmarking.

- James@psdvault.com

OK that’s it for Part I of  Six High Quality Photoshop Tutorial Sites Apart From PSDTUTS.com! I hope you find this list of Photoshop tutorial sites useful and learn to the maximum!

Cheers and have a nice day :)