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.

Welcome to the 105th volume of “Creativity Fine-Tuning: Best of PSD Vault Flickr Group”, which is a showcase I run regularly here on psdvault.com featuring some fantastic, highly-creative design works in the PSD Vault Flickr Group. Hope you enjoy those works as much as I did and find them inspirational! Meanwhile, if you have some cool designs and would like to be featured here on PSD Vault, you can simply join the PSD Vault Flickr group. If you like those works, then show those awesome designers some support! Click on the image to visit the author’s flickr page and drop them a comment…

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This Photoshop tutorial is written exclusively for PSD Vault by Australian Graphic Designer Stuart Ballinger.

In this tutorial, I will teach you to create a Underwater Themed Abstract Piece similar to my own piece “Marianas Trench”, which includes photo manipulation, 3D modeling and Photoshop postwork.

This is an intermediate tutorial, and a certain degree of program knowledge will be necessary. I have included the original 3D render for those who lack access to Cinema 4D.

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Welcome to the 10th edition of “Typography Blendr”! This is a series to showcase some highly creative, beautiful typography works from around the web. So if you’re working on a typography design project and need inspiration, this series will be a great place to check out!

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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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Welcome to the 9th edition of “Typography Blendr”! This is a series to showcase some highly creative, beautiful typography works from around the web. So if you’re working on a typography design project and need inspiration, this series will be a great place to check out!

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