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.

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps used to create this unique splash gold typography in Photoshop. We will use several gold textures to form the base on the text – along the way, we will be using a number of image adjustments, dodge/burn tool, selection tool to aid our effort in creating this text.

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Bartosz Lewicki is a fantastic digital artist and designer. He was born in Poland and now living in south Germany near Switzerland.

Bartosz’s artworks are extremely detailed and inspiring, and I sought the opportunity to have an interview with him to discover more about his work. Make sure you check out this interview, and hopefully you would find it interesting and useful.

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Hey guys, welcome to another give-away contest here on psdvault.com! This time we have 2 TimeTracker Pro Licenses from CreativeWorx.

TimeTracker is a fantastic new tool from CreativeWorx that solves the timesheet problems for the creative community in a very unique way. TimeTracker works automatically behind the scenes to magically capture your activity, intelligently assign billing codes, and generate a timesheet.  It’s awesome because it lets you focus on your creative work without interruption!  Don’t believe it?  Go try the free version now.  The TimeTracker extension for Adobe Creative Suite is always free (www.creativeworx.com)

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The digital brush is as effective as the physical one. When painted by an expert hand, Photoshop brushes can speak many words. It helps to connect with your audience which words can’t convey. Mastering it, however, is not an easy task by any means. In fact the going gets tough here. It takes superior precision and years of practice to create a connection between the monitor and your hand.

This article is aimed to provide Photoshop beginners with the basics of Photoshop Brushes, which is arguably the most essential function of Photoshop.

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Hey guys, welcome to the 15th volume of the “Let’s Learn Photoshop Basics” here on psdvault.com. In this video Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to perform Snow Painting and Ice Texturing with a few simple Photoshop tools.

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In this tutorial, I will show you the process of creating this create an intriguing manipulation by mixing nature and grunge elements in Photoshop. This will be an interesting experiment for you to use tools such as image adjustment layers and layer blending modes, as well as practice the use of liquify filter and brush tool. The PSD file of this tutorial is available via the PSD Vault VIP members area. Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge) PSD Vault VIP Membership You can download the PSD File for this tutorial via…

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