A Round-up of Photoshop Wallpaper Tutorials

Posted on June 23, 2010 by admin

With a certain amount of practice and skill, creating wallpapers can become easy and fun. This Round-up of Photoshop Wallpaper Tutorials can teach you to create the wallpapers you desire using Photoshop. This way, you won’t have to wait for someone else to make them, and you’ll get to bring out the creative side in you as you learn new techniques in making wallpaper designs.

Create a Character Illustration Wallpaper

Create Smoke Effect on Grungy Wallpaper

Yin Yang Wallpaper

Heart Background Wallpaper

How to Create a Retro Grunge Apple Wallpaper in 5 Easy Steps in Photoshop

Creating an Ecological Fairy Tale Wallpaper

Abstract Desktop Wallpaper

Create Awesome Music Wallpaper

Vector Wallpaper Tutorial

Photoshopping Aqua Wallpaper

Abstract Art Wallpaper

Feed your iPhone Tutorial

Create a Retro Pop Style Wallpaper

Beginners Tutorial How to Design a Texture Based Wallpaper

Chroma Wallpapers

Colorful Collage Style

Super Cute Easter Wallpaper Illustration Tutorial

Abstract Windows 7 Wallpaper

Create Fantasy Wallpaper in Photoshop

Star Wars Wallpapers

Using Some Free Stuff to Create a Wallpaper

Create an Abstract Wallpaper for World Cup 2010

Assorted Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

How to Draw Theatrical Scene Wallpaper Using Cute Animal Icons

Awesome Digital Bokeh Effect in Photoshop

Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper

Splash My Heart Wallpaper

Creating an Abstract Watercolor Wallpaper

Favorite Bands Tutorial

Impressive Photos Background

Ford Mustang Wallpaper

Funky Wallpapers

Design an Extreme Grunge Wallpaper

Create Psychedelic Grunchy Photography

Add Your Face to Movie Poster

Posted on June 22, 2010 by admin

You can find a lot of tutorials how to paste another face to the picture. Here I’m planning to show you my own way how to do this step by step and explain how to process every small detail in this design. You will look as a real real star!

Let’s start by finding the poster where you wanna be main actress or actor. For example, I will use Twilight movie poster (download here) or also feel free to use another posters from another movies what you like. Ok, then I need to put our picture on it. As for me, I just decided to use a picture of serious young lady (download here). Open up your photo and use Polygonal Lasso Tool to select face on the picture.

Press Ctrl+C to copy selected area, then open up canvas with movie poster and paste (Press Ctrl+D) there copied part of image from you picture. If you need to rotate your face to find suitable position and size for it, just use Ctrl+T for free transform.

After that we can move to next step. For now use the Eraser Tool and a soft round brush about 50 px to remove hard edges from face fragment layer.

As we can see, skin color of face fragment is bit different from original color face on the movie poster. How we can resolve this problem? Very easy! Just apply Image > Adjustments > Color Balance with similar presets to these:

Now the result looks better as before. We got much correct saturation for face skin.

Ok, now use Dodge Tool (Brush: 30px, Range: Midtones, Exposure: 30%) to make some parts of face a little bit lighter.

See the difference now:

After that we have to make some burn work with the opposite side of the face. Select the Burn Tool (Brush: 25px, Range: Midtones, Exposure: 40%) and process eyes area with it.

Move to the next step. Now we need to add global shadow to the left part of face. Create new layer, after that use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create selection and fill it with color of #1d0d08 on the new layer.

Remove selection with Ctrl+D and Apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur to blur current layer content about 3,8 pixels and change layer mode to Multiply.

Now will be the hardest part of doing this tutorial. We need to clear shadow layer with Eraser Tool and soft round brush with different sizes to get realistic view of shadow presence. I think, for the beginners in Photoshop it will be a little bit harder to get realistic result, but you have to try anyway. I got something like this:

We are finished with our tutorial! Now you’re looking like a great actress on that movie poster!

What to Wear: How to Dress for Engagement Pictures

Posted on June 22, 2010 by admin

What to Wear {Part 6: Couples}

As a photographer, it can help your customers when you direct them on what to wear. The next number of weeks, guest writer Kelsey Anderson will be providing information to help you coach your customers on what to wear.

When booking a portrait session I think it is almost always a given that the client is going to ask for suggestions on what to wear. I struggled with this question when I was first starting out. My clients would come dressed in matching outfits or in the same color head to toe. These clothing choices do not make for the most visually appealing image, right?

I knew that I had to change my clients way of thinking when it came to choosing outfits for their portraits. I personally believe that is part of my job to help style a session. This gives my clients another reason to hiring me over going to a chain portrait studio. I always tell them to choose items with good color, texture (ie, knits, ruffles, denim) and accessories. I tell them to think coordinating not matching. I even go as far as offering to come to their homes and dig through their closet with them or tell them to bring a trunk full of options and we can put together outfits on location.

Couples/Engagement sessions are so much fun to style! I always suggest my couples to bring a few different outfits, so we can change up the look mid session. I like my clients to dress up like they are going out on the town for the night. Here in the desert we have a lot of brown landscape so throwing a couple dressed to the nines in color against that backdrop is fabulous! Again I mention think coordinating not matching. You want their outfits to flow well with one another but not match from head to toe.

Here are a few items I love for engagement and couples sessions. I actually post a What to Wear Guide on my blog weekly! I like to keep ideas of clothing choices fresh in my clients head and don’t want to have to have them dig through my blog to find them.

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Recommended Stores:

Forever 21
Ruche
Express
Guess
Banana Republic
Nordstrom

Kelsey Anderson is a natural light photographer in Las Vegas, Nevada. Specializing in maternity, newborn, baby, children, senior and family photography.

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What type of advertising for photographers works best for the money?

Posted on June 21, 2010 by admin

What type of advertising works best for the money? Direct mail? Newspaper? Etc. by Sarah Petty

Small business owners always ask me “where should I be marketing,” but I know they are specifically meaning they want to know where and how to advertise. The thing that makes small business fun is that there is no easy answer. What happens is that if there is an easy idea (i.e. Facebook), everyone does it and then it doesn’t really work anymore. Is anyone sick of all of the “specials” on Facebook? Seems like every day I see tons of people offering quick discounts trying to attract new customers. Due to the amount of media segmentation and choices, it is increasingly difficult to obtain desired results by using traditional advertising like television, radio and newspaper.

In my opinion, the key to winning in small business is to create a group of people who love what you do, create products to keep them coming back and create loyalty to keep them referring their friends. I am sure that each one of you has a client who thinks you are the greatest thing since sliced bread. To that person, you are a brand and you are more than likely, worth more than your competitors. The key is to foster those relationships one person at a time. The time it takes to build a database of 500-700 clients and prospects is up to you. You can get involved in your community by speaking to local groups and by donating gift certificates to every school auction in town. You can co-market with other local small business owners who share your target market and have an event or create a mutually beneficial sales promotion. This is a great way to cross-pollinate your lists and grow your database. Your database is your most valuable asset so make sure you treat everyone like you would a good friend.

Sarah Petty is a highly-acclaimed speaker, author and coach who has inspired thousands of boutique business owners to use beautiful marketing to take their business to the next level. Her expertise is based on over 20 years helping build the Coca-Cola brand, meeting the marketing goals of a top regional advertising agency’s clients and building her own successful boutique photography studio. This studio was named one of the most profitable in the country within just five years in business. Sarah has mastered the science of marketing and the art of making it simple, actionable, and, yes, fun!

If you’d like to learn more about marketing from Sarah Petty, check out Café Joy. Cafe Joy takes much of the guesswork out of planning your marketing. Follow Sarah Petty, month by month, as she guides you to success.

Cafe Joy provides you with gentle reminders and consistent deadlines to achieve amazing goals for your business throughout the year.

Are you wanting to take your small business to the next level? If you want to grow your photography business, check out the Joy of Marketing Telesummit with Sarah Petty and 9 other amazing small business leaders. it is free to attend, and only a small amount to purchase the recordings and/or transcripts for early release or long term use. Sign up here.

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Create Colorful Composition in Photoshop

Posted on June 21, 2010 by admin

For some time, we hadn't a drawing tutorial, so here is new one. In this Photoshop drawing tutorial we will create a beautiful and colorful composition with circles. In this tutorial we will mostly use standard features of Photoshop, but I think you will learn some extra tricks using basic Photoshop tools. Mostly, we will use Layers styles and Pen tool. Just want to add that the technique you will learn in tutorial you'll be able to apply not only in creating balls, but for example the Christmas ornaments or any other abstract decors. So, let's start tutorial.

Stocks Used:

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typo magic Create Colorful Composition in Photoshop

1.Step - Background and Circle

Create a new document 1000px * 650px.

The main figures in our work will be circles and curves. We begin with the creation circles and circles detailing. Using the tool Ellipse Tool (U) and create an ideal flat large circle.

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2.Step - Blending Options of cirlce

Use the Blending Options to set the style of our figure.

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Custom styles like this:

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Being in the section Gradient Overlay move the cursor with a gradient in the upper left edge. This will make our figure more beautifully.

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And next add Bevel and Emboss and Inner Glow parameters:

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Your result should be like this:

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At this stage we have finished setting the style!

3.Step - Processing of circle

Next, we will work with Pen Tool (P). This is very important part of our work.

So, select the Pen Tool, create a new layer above the others and put the icon on the Paths and adjust the point this way:

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Click the right button on the selection and press the Make selection.

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Fill selection with white color.

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Using the Eraser Tool, for erase sides as shown below. Use a soft brush at 50% opacity and set the opacity of this layer to 35%.

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In the same way we make a new section below, similarly: (Note I used only 2 points)

After that, fill our section with white.

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For better quality we'll erase some parts, like this: (again we use for this soft eraser of 50% opacity.)

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Create another layer above others and create Pen Tool new section in the middle of our circle. Try to draw it symmetrically other sections. And fill this section in black.

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For a better effect edit parameters of layers like this:

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*For better quality we'll erase some parts on middle layer, like this: (again we use for this soft eraser of 50% opacity.)

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Create a new layer and add the final part, like this:

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Now select all layers of circle and press Ctrl + E to making a single layer.

Now our circle is fully prepared and we can proceed to the next step!

4.Step - Circles and type

So, now we have only 1 layer, our circle. Now we need to add text and multiply circles. It is very easy, just make a duplicate layer with the circle and change his hue. Start by creating a text.

By the way you can experiment with colors.

For the font I used “Microsoft Sans Serif” and I wrote the word “TYPO” (size: 120pt.). Also I made a bit smaller our circle to 72%.

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Next, make a duplicate layer of our circle and make circle to 72% of its size, press Ctrl + T to do that. Also change the color as shown below:

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Next, experiment, like this:

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For the blurring of circle I used the filter Gaussian Blur on 2.2 pixels:

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At the same:

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Now just add a little text "Magic" (Microsoft Sans Serif font / 40pt.)

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5.Step - Lines

So now time for beautiful lines and a some little circles.

Create a new layer, above the others and select the Pen Tool (icon on paths). To make a beautiful lines you need minimal skills of Pen tool and a little of imagination. So start drawing the first line!

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To make a full line pre-adjust the brush like:

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And click on the Stroke Path and next like:

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So, now we have:

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Rename this layer to "Line 1"

In the same way, make 4 more lines beside with others lines. Important: make a new line on a new layer! As a result, you should get like:

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Now, the important part: you need to configure the style of each lines. Simply set the style for one line, then simply change the color for the other, for example, style for the layer “Line 1”:

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And we got result like this:

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In the same way make the same styles for the remaining lines simply by changing the color.

Result:

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Next, merge all layers (5 layers) with lines (select layers and press Ctrl + E).

Select Eraser and erase unnecessary parts:

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I think now this lines looks nice.

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I also added a few small circles near the lines.

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6.Step - Finishing

Now is the time to decorate the work by leaves. To do this, I took a picture from Sxc.

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To separate the leaves from the background I used the following steps:

Click on the Select -> Color Range. Click on a white color on the background (fuzziness = 165) -> Delete selection. For the better quality click on the Layer -> Matting -> Defringe (1 px).

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You should get:

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Now just drag it on our work, as you like (under the layers of circles and lines), I have cloned layer with leaves 3 times and changed their rotate. You should get like that:

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So, we are almost finished! Well, let's make a nice background! First you need to assign a background-layer style.

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Result:

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Take this photo from Sxc.

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Place it above the layer with the background and set the blend mode Lighter Color. As result we have:

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Select Brush and draw near our abstract such fill. Color of fill - 03e1de.

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Then apply the filter Blur -> Gaussian Blur (48 pixels). And set the opacity to 50%. As result we have:

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Next, create new layer above others: Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Levels:

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And finally, our work is done! I add some little details and we can see result:

Final Result: Abstract composition

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Fonts of TV programs musicians and advertising

Posted on June 19, 2010 by admin

Finding good fonts can often be difficult but here are some from famous tv shows, bands and advertisements.

You can find them all here

Designing Gear Wheel in Photoshop

Posted on June 18, 2010 by admin

Are you hungry for new tutorials how to create objects in Photoshop? Ok, I have one interesting tutorial for you.

Ok, let’s start! Create a new document sized 500×500 pixels. Drag a linear gradient with colors of #eaf8fb and #d0dee1 as shown on a picture below. It will be background for putting gear wheel on it.

After that start with creating gear wheel. Select Shape Tool and choose on of standard Photoshop shapes

Designing Gear Wheel in Photoshop

and draw out it in the middle of our canvas with white color.

Then reduce height about 60% for this shape and rasterize it with Layer > Rasterize > Shape:

Load selection of shape with Select > Load Selection and fill it with grey to transparent gradient on the same layer (use color of #6d848c).

Remove selection with Ctrl+D. Now, we should add lower base and process lateral surface texture. Duplicate current layer with Ctrl+J and move lower layer 20 pixels down.

Then use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to connect the top edges and bottom edges of the gears with selection and fill it with whatever color you want.

After that deselect chosen area with Ctrl+D and apply Color Overlay (link to 08) layer style for current layer.

Then create layer under and merge it with previous to get all effects in one layer. Ok, now we need to add glares and shadows to lateral surface to show metallic sheen effect on it. Use Polygonal Lasso Tool again and select some area between two nearest lugs of gear wheel.

Then use Burn Tool (Brush: 15 px, Range: Shadows, Exposure: 50%) to add shadow in between two lags.

After that reduce brush size to 5 pixels and add dark shadow line in deepest part to increase metal texture reflection.

Change Burn Tool to Dodge Tool (Brush: 15 px, Range: Midtones, Exposure: 70%) and add a few glares from the left and right sides:

Remove selection with Ctrl+D. Add the same affect to each visible area between each lug.

Ok, we are done with lateral area surface. Move to the next step. Go to the upper part of gear wheel and bring some glare there also. For this effect use the Polygonal Lasso Tool again, create the same selection which you can see on the picture below and feel it with white color on the new layer.

Remove selection with Ctrl+D and apply Filter > Blur > Radial Blur with similar settings to these:

Your result should be the same as mine:

Then apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with next presets:

We received picture like so:

Now, press Ctrl and click the upper part layer thumbnail in the layers palette to create selection and use Ctrl+Shift+I to invert it, then press Delete button to clear selection.

Remove selection with Ctrl+D and after that merge all layers in one except background layer. Move to the next step. We need to create a hole inside the gear wheel. Get out the Elliptical Marque Tool and create selection similar to mine and fill it wit color of #6d848c.

Select Burn Tool again to make some small dodge work.

Deselect chosen area with Select > Deselect. Ok, now time to add the verge of gear wheel. For this effect use the Line Tool (Weight: 1px) and add white lines on each verge of gear wheel.

Merge all layers with white lines in one, then use the Eraser Tool (Opacity: 50%) and a soft round brush about 70 pixels and make little clean work.

Move to the last one step. To finish off our tutorial we gave to add some shadow under the gear wheel. Merge all layers except background layer in one and apply Drop Shadow (link to 25) layer style for new received layer:

Now we need to extract shadow effect to separate layer. Use Layer > Layer Style > Create Layer for this option. Move to new layer with shadow under the current layer and apply Filter > Blur > Motion Blur for it.

Now, we have something like this:

After that select Smudge Tool (Brush: 70 pixels) to increase the drop shadow on the sides just a little bit.

We are done with this tutorial. Now we have realistic view gear wheel created by ourselves.

Photoshop Video Tutorial: Watch Me Work {Color Pop, Eyes, Skin}

Posted on June 18, 2010 by admin

Today’s Blueprint is in the form of a Watch Me Work Photoshop Video Tutorial. Learn how to enhance a senior portrait by popping colors, smoothing and brightening skin, and enhancing eyes using a variety of MCP actions all found in the Incredible Retouching Package.

To see the video, make sure you can view flash, and that you are on the MCP Blog. You will not be able to see the video directly on RSS, email or Facebook.

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A Roundup of Gadget Design Tutorials for Photoshop

Posted on June 17, 2010 by admin

As modern people, we have a certain attraction to the latest gadgets offered by modern technology. These gadgets are often reinterpreted by many artists according to their view or outlook of the product. Unsurprisingly, these interpretations are often sure-fire hits with many other designers out there.

In this next post, we have come up with several gadget-making tutorials. Here is A Roundup of 44 Gadget Design Tutorials that can help you create the gadget of your choice. Feel free to check out these amazing tutorials and learn the up-to-date basics of creating cool and funky gadgets with Photoshop!

Nokia 5300 Cell phone interface

The tutorial will show you how to create a mobile phone design using layer styles, various tools and multiple vecto shapes.

Creating a Set of Digital Painting Icons Part 4 – Digital Tablet Icon

In this tutorial, we wil show you how to create a pen tablet from scratch.

Design a Shiny Photorealistic Apple Remote

Creating a shiny new apple remote using this tutorial.

How to Create a Realistic iPhone

This tutorial you will be creating a realistic iPhone image using Photoshop.

How to Design the Apple iPad in Photoshop

Learn how to design Apple iPad in Adobe Photoshop using this tutorial

Creating A Vector Style MacBook From Scratch

Using shapes and different blending options in Photoshop we will create a MacBook Pro.

Create A Realistic Video iPod Nano In Photoshop

With the use of Photoshop we will reconstruct an object from an existing photo.

MP3 Player Interface

Designing an interface for a modern MP3 player will be shown in this tutorial.

How to Create a Detailed Audio Player in Photoshop

The tutorial demonstrates how to make a detatiled audio player from scratch.

Create a Mobile Phone Styled Like the HTC Touch Diamond

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a mobile phone syled like the HTC Touch Diamond.

Sony Ericsson S500 Cell phone interface Photoshop Tutorial

Learn how to make mobile phone using photoshop.

USB Stick Tutorial

Creating a USB stick using this tutorial.

Creating Camera Tutorial

Using Photoshop 7 in making a camera will be used in this tutorial.

Photoshop Ipod Portable Speaker Icon

You will be shown how to make an iPod Portable Speaker Icon in this tutorial.

Create iPhone from Scratch in Photoshop

The tutorial will show you how to construct an iPhone from scratch.

iPod in Photoshop

Making an iPod in Photoshop will be shown using this tutorial.

iPod Shuffle From Scratch

By means of the original image of an Apple iPod, layer masks and basic selection and guide techniques you will learn how to reconstruct it with this tutorial.

Apple iPhone Mobile Phone Design

Following the easy steps in this tutorial, you will be going to design a sophisticated Mobile Phone.

Photoshop design sell MP3 digital player logo icon in Photoshop

Using Photoshop in this tutorial you will be going to design MP3 digital player logo icon.

Create An iPod Shuffle

Learn how to create an iPod shuffle by applying layer styles, dealing with paths and with shadows and lighting, and with the shape tools.

Make the Sony PSP

With this tutorial you will learn how to create a PSP.

Skin for MP3 Player Zune

Learn how to create the skin for a MP3 Player Zune with this tutorial.

Create a Slick External Hard Disk in Photoshop

This tutorial you will be taught how to make modern looking hard disk.

MP3 Player Illustration

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a MP3 Player Illustration.

Create An Apple Ipad

From scratch, you will be shown how to make an “Apple iPad” with this tutorial.

MP3 Player Design

Design a product using this tutorial.

Create a Digital Camera With Wooden Accents Using Photoshop

Be taught how to sketch a digital camera using Photoshop with this tutorial.

Creating a CD PLayer in Photoshop Tutorial

Make a realistic CD player with this tutorial.

Designing a Black Zune 2 in Photoshop

With this tutorial, you will be designing a Black Zune 2 in Photoshop.

Make a Wii

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make wii, nunchuck and the wiimote in less than 45 steps.

Photoshop design USB portable speaker logo icon in Photoshop

Using this tutorial, you will be able to design a USB portable speaker logo icon.

Photoshop Tutorial: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Design

Using Photoshop in this tutorial, you will learn how to design a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic mobile phone.

iPod Nano

Learn ho to construct a NANo iPod using this tutorial.

Draw an MP3 Player

This tutorial shows how to draw an MP3 Player in Photoshop.

Designing Canon Digital Camera

Design a Canon digital camera will be shown in this tutorial.

http://hv-designs.co.uk/2009/09/22/pc-mouse-tutorial/

With the help of this tutorial you will be able to create a PC mouse.

Good tutorial to create an Apple IPhone case from scratch

In this tutorial you will be taught how to create an Apple iPhone Case.

Create a Realistic Blackberry Style Mobile Phone From Scratch

To create a slick phone or Blackberry design use this tutorial to guide you.

Drawing a HTC Touch Pro

In this tutorial, you will gained the knowledge on how to draw a HTC Touch Pro.

Creating a Modern, Glossy Mouse Icon in Photoshop

By means of this tutorial, you will be creating an Apple Magic Mouse in Photoshop.

How to Create an Illustrated Cartoon Character

Using Photoshop CS4 in this tutorial, you will learn how to create a realistic Game Boy.

How to Create a Stylish Media Player in Photoshop

We will be teaching you how to duplicate Apples’s iPod Nano in this tutorial.

Bamboo Fun tablet

Create a bamboo tablet with this tutorial.

How to Create a Stylish Pair of Headphones

With the use of Blending Options and Pen Tool in Photoshop, you will be creating a sleek pair of headphones.

30+ Substantial Firefox Addons for Web Developer

Posted on June 17, 2010 by admin

Here is a very useful list of Firefox Addons for Web developer. Firefox is very easy to use and also powerful and popular web browser. It is also my favorite web browser and Firefox use most of the web designers and developers. Why? One of the reasons is the huge amount of Firefox Addons that facilitate the work of web designers, for example, with some Addons you can check errors on your website and with others you can check how your website will looks at other browsers and with different screen size. For this reason, today we give you ultimate list of most important Firefox Addons for Web developer. Totally is this list we include more than 30 extremely useful Firefox Addons.

JSView

All browsers include a “View Source” option, but none of them offer the ability to view the source code of external files. Most websites store their javascripts and style sheets in external files and then link to them within a web page’s source code. You can use the JSView extension to solve the problem. You can access it from the context menu, from the toolbar, from the view menu, or from the status bar.

JSView 30+ Substantial Firefox Addons for Web Developer

CS Lite

This extension will allow you to easily control cookie permissions. It can be accessed from the statusbar, a toolbar button, or the context menu. Just click on the icon to allow, block, or temporarily allow the site to set cookies.

CS Lite

FirePHP

FirePHP enables you to log to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP method call. FirePHP is ideally suited for AJAX development where clean JSON or XML responses are required. All data is sent via a set of X-FirePHP-Data response headers. This means that the debugging data will not interfere with the content on your page.

FirePHP

FireFTP

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. Along with transferring your files quickly and efficiently, FireFTP also includes more advanced features such as: directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, SFTP, SSL encryption, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing.

OperaView

OperaView is Firefox addons that lets you check how your website looks in Opera browser. This addon open pages in Opera from Firefox context menus.

OperaView

Codetch

Get the feel of Dreamweaver in a Firefox extension. Edit your documents right next to your web pages as you surf.

Codetch

Screengrab

Screengrab saves webpages as images. It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images – either to a file, or to the clipboard.

Screengrab

IE Tab

IE Tab – an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.

IE Tab

FireShot

FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages (entirely or just visible part). Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers.

FireShot

Web Developer

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. After installing the extension there is a ‘Web Developer’ menu under the ‘Tools’ and context menu of the browser, as well as a new toolbar. It is designed for Firefox, Flock and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Web Developer

GridFox

Draws a grid on top of a website. This is useful for checking designs that are supposed to follow a grid-based layout. Right click anywhere on a website, and go to GridFox > Toggle Grid. In the bottom right, you’ll see some buttons to help you create, edit and save a grid. You’ll also see some arrows which let you browse any existing grids for the site you’re looking at.

GridFox

ColorZilla

With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes.

ColorZilla

CodeBurner for Firebug

CodeBurner is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug, to extend it with reference material for HTML and CSS. The extension’s core functionality is centered around a new Reference panel, which contains a search tool for looking up HTML elements, attributes, and CSS properties.

CodeBurner for Firebug

Modify Headers

Add, modify and filter http request headers. You can modify the user-agent string, add headers to spoof a mobile request (e.g. x-up-calling-line-id) and much more.

Modify Headers

Html Validator

HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing.

Html Validator

Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to bring a wealth of development tools at your fingertips, while you are traveling on the network. You can edit, debug, and view CSS, HTML and JavaScript in real time on any page in the network.

Firebug

YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool. YSlow grades web page based on one of three predefined ruleset or a user-defined ruleset.

YSlow

EditCSS

EditCSS is a stylesheet modifier for sidebar. EditCSS makes this part really easy and well as intuitive attributed to its approach. It come with features like live inline previewing of styles and a unique grouping system, which is providing a lot of competition in this field because EditCSS is a bargain.

EditCSS

Open With Photoshop

Open With Photoshop is a new companion for web designers, graphic designers and in general whom like to use Photoshop. Open With Photoshop send any web image via right click context menu to the Photoshop. It is valuable tool for time saving.

Open With Photoshop

Rainbow

Color tools for web development. Colors can be tried out on websites by dragging a color area from the picker, inspector, or library to webpage content, or by selecting an element to paint with the color picker. Color values can be viewed in hex, rgb, and hsl CSS formats.

Rainbow

Font Finder

FontFinder is created for designers, developers and typographers. It allows a user to analyze the font information of any element on a page, copy any piece(s) of that information to the clipboard, and perform inline replacements to test new layouts.

Font Finder

Professor X

The Professor X Extension let’s you see inside a page’s head without viewing the sourcecode. When applied to a page it will display the contents of the page’s head element, including Meta, Script and Style content. This can help you see how a website was constructed without having to go back and forth between the sourcecode and the page in your browser.

Professor X

View Source Chart

Source Charting is a User Interface useful for navigating the DOM at lightning speed. It is also an excellent visual aid for those learning HTML. View Source Chart users can take advantage of a built-in browser feature (Ctrl + -) which results in zooming out of Source Charts.

View Source Chart

Domain Lookup

Domain Lookup is a Firefox extension that helps you discover valuable domain names while surfing the web. 60+ popular domain registrars are already supported.

Domain Lookup

ColorSuckr

This Add-on allows you to right-click any image on the web and extract the 12 most common colors from it. You can then build color schemes from the results as well as many other features on the ColorSuckr website.

ColorSuckr

Window Resizer

Resize your browser to various standard resolution sizes. The Browser Window Resizer is useful for testing different screen sizes. It accurately resizes your browser so you can test to see what a web page looks like in all of the standard resolution sizes.

Window Resizer

Total Validator

Perform multiple validations and take screen shots in one go. This 5-in-1 validator works with external, internal, or local web pages using the Total Validator service or local copy of the desktop tool.

Total Validator

MeasureIt

Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

MeasureIt

Aardvark

Cool utility for cleaning up a page (for printing or better viewing) as well as for web development. Displays a red rectangle on the element under the mouse — hit “w” to go wider (get the containing element), then hit other keystrokes to remove

Aardvark

Poster

A developer tool for interacting with web services and other web resources that lets you make HTTP requests, set the entity body, and content type. This allows you to interact with web services and inspect the results.

Poster

Load Time Analyzer

The Load Time Analyzer allows developers to measure and graph how long web pages take to load in Firefox. Load Time Analyzer produces graphs that show the occurrence of events such as requests for the page, images, stylesheets and scripts, along with events like the execution of an onload script.

Load Time Analyzer

LinkChecker

Check the validity of links on any webpage.

LinkChecker

View Dependencies

View Dependencies adds a tab to the Page Info window, in which it lists all the files which were loaded to show the current page.

View Dependencies

W3Techs Website Technology Information

The W3Techs extension shows with one mouse click which web technologies the current site is using. The technologies shown include content management systems, server-side and client-side programming languages, JavaScript libraries, markup languages, character encodings, web servers, operating systems, traffic analysis tools and advertising networks.

W3Techs Website Technology Information

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Final Image Preview

1.Step - Background and Circle

2.Step - Blending Options of cirlce

3.Step - Processing of circle

4.Step - Circles and type

5.Step - Lines

6.Step - Finishing

Final Result: Abstract composition

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