Archive for the 'effects' Category

Some Flash effects never seem to go out of style. One such classic is a zoom-blur effect used on photographs that’s much more eye-catching than simply zooming in or out on the image. In this tutorial, we’ll combine Flash CS3 with Photoshop CS3 to create a similar zoom-blur effect on a photo. These techniques can [...]

This tutorial will show you how to make some really great fireworks using Photoshop. It’s a great technique to use on celebration cards and posters, as well as graphics pertaining to holidays such as New Years and Independence Day.
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This tutorial is photoshop based and shows you how to the main steps in creating a matte painting. Before you start it’s recommended that u know some basic painting techniques, at least basic sketching, because most of the time you’ll have to fit in the right pieces.
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This well illustrated tutorial will walk you through the process of creating an iPhone-/ Windows Mobile-hybrid kind of SmartPhone and teach you some of the key-techniques of creating digital device mock ups. The original, layered Photoshop-file is enclosed for your convenience, offering you a chance to retrace the tutorial’s steps and reconstruct the original illustration.
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In this nice tutorial, you are going to look at how to recreate the same color and motion blur effect used in the movie poster for the biggest action movie of the 2007 summer, the Bourne Ultimatum. We’ll be using Photoshop’s Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to colorize the image using a color I’ve sampled directly from [...]