Brushes & Patterns Photoshop Tutorials
Use the Mixer Brush in Photoshop CS5 to Turn a Photo Into a Realistic Painting
Before Photoshop CS5, transforming a photo into a realistic-looking painting was quite tricky. Now that CS5 has been released we now have some new tools to help achieve this effect a bit more realistically. In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to use Photoshop CS5’s new Mixer Brush tool to transform a photo into a masterpiece in minutes. [more details]
Added on July 9th 2010 in Brushes & Patterns, Photo Editing
How to Create Great Abstract Artwork via Custom Brushsets and Particle Effect
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this cool Abstract Artwork via Custom Brushsets and Particle Effect in Photoshop. I will demonstrate how you can create your own brushset and use them to add particle effect to the image to spice it up. Have a try! [more details]
Added on June 29th 2010 in Abstract Effect, Brushes & Patterns
Add Brilliant Light Effects to Your Work with Photoshop
In this tutorial, I’ll show you several super easy techniques for incorporating remarkable light effects to your work using Photoshop. You’ll need only 10 minutes to make your own set of abstract brushes (I’ll show you how) for use in enhancing your design projects. We will work with textures too—I’ll demonstrate how to give an interesting look to a human ... [more details]
Added on May 17th 2010 in Abstract Effect, Brushes & Patterns, Digital Art, Light Effect
Creating Seamless Textures from Photos in Photoshop
In this quick, but very useful tutorial I will teach you how to create a seamless texture from any stock photo or image. This can be very useful when creating repeatable backgrounds for your websites background, or for your 3D modeling projects. [more details]
Added on March 29th 2010 in Brushes & Patterns
Create Awesome Abstract Text Effect with Brush Dynamics and Filters in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this really great-looking, abstract style text effect by using custom brushset (which we will be making one of our own) with dynamics, plus adding artistic effect with Photoshop filters. Have a try! This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be a bit tricky :) [more details]
Added on December 24th 2009 in Brushes & Patterns, Text Effect
How to Make a Highly-Textured Site Layout in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we'll create a textured site layout by layering multiple images. Creating highly-textured web design layouts is easier than you may think. You can learn to build image intensive designs rapidly. For intermediate Photoshop designers creating this design will take less than an hour, and you'll learn some professional tips along t ... [more details]
Added on December 15th 2009 in Brushes & Patterns, Web Design & Layout
Photoshop’s Brush Tool – Basic Guide
This time I've got for you a really basic guide, which is useful for beginners and people interested in learning a little bit more deeply the power of Photoshop's Brush Tool. Every single Photoshop user has dealt with the brush tool at least once, but not everyone knows how to explode its full potential. In this guide, you'll learn how t ... [more details]
Added on November 25th 2009 in Basics, Brushes & Patterns
Master Custom Brushes
If you’re not using custom Photoshop brushes already, then you’re missing out on one of Photoshop’s most useful features: used well, they will bring flair and individuality to your designs – as well as saving you a lot of time. In this masterclass, Craig Shields shows how you can move away from the screen and create your brushes from scratch in some de ... [more details]
Added on November 25th 2009 in Brushes & Patterns, Digital Art, Photo Editing
Creating Your Own Organic Textured Backgrounds
So two of the questions that I received most are, how I created the background texture on alifelski.com and also if people could outright take elements from my site and simply place them on theirs. With that, I would like to show everyone how I created my background in hopes that people will get inspired and create textured backgrounds of their own. [more details]
Added on October 28th 2009 in Brushes & Patterns, Web Design & Layout
Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this Trasparent Text Effect, mixing with Fresh Grass Texture and Cloud Brushset. You can use the text effect in a wide range of occasions – such as website header background, part of a natural themed design, etc. Along the way, I would like to show you my use of brushsets and the way I use th ... [more details]
Added on October 26th 2009 in Brushes & Patterns, Text Effect