Author: James Qu

James is a seasoned Photoshop expert with over 25 years of experience based in Australia. As the driving force behind PSD Vault, he authors the majority of its in-depth tutorials and insightful articles.

If you just started learning Photoshop, you may wonder: what can I do to be more efficient with Photoshop? There are many secrets and hidden funtions (well, not exactly hidden, but you do need to pay close attention to find them) in Photoshop, you just need to discover and learn to apply them into your workflow. In this post, I will share 15 Tips to Help Your Become More Efficient with Photoshop.

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In this tutorial, I will show you the process used to create ocean monster attack surreal digital art in Photoshop. We will combine a number of objects such as city buildings, ocean and rocks to form the base on the image, and use an octopus stock photo as the monster. We will also add some tornado onto the image to finalise the effect.

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Welcome to the 93rd edition of “Typography Blendr”! This is a series to showcase some highly creative, beautiful typography from the web. If you’re working on a typography design project and need inspiration, this series will be a great place to check out! Want your typography work featured here? Submit them to PSD Vault DeviantART group (under Text Effect) or PSD Vault Flickr Group. Here goes the list, enjoy!

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