30 High-Quality Grunge Photoshop Brush Sets

February 18th, 2009 by Jacob Gube | 14 Comments

Photoshop brushes allow you to have a readily-accessible suite of brush tips to enhance your compositions.

In this collection, you’ll find 30 beautiful Photoshop brush sets to help you grunge up your designs. There are over 400 individual brushes here for giving your artwork some grunge.

1. Photoshop Grunge Brush Set (10 brushes)

Photoshop Grunge Brush Set - screen shot.

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40 Useful Photoshop Web Layout Tutorials

February 2nd, 2009 by Jacob Gube | 54 Comments

Adobe Photoshop is the industry-standard when it comes to creating web page layouts. Photoshop’s versatility, robust set of tools, and excellent workflow management make it the web designer’s preferred application when creating designs for the web.

In this collection, you’ll find 40 high-quality tutorials on creating web layouts from scratch using Photoshop. This article contains a copious variety of tutorials to help you learn and master the various techniques involved in creating beautiful web layouts.

1. Corporate WordPress Style Layout

Corporate WordPress Style Layout - screen shot.

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35 Basic Tutorials to Get You Started with Photoshop

January 5th, 2009 by Jacob Gube | 35 Comments

Adobe Photoshop is a very powerful and versatile image editing/graphics creation application that is the industry standard in its category. Though Photoshop’s interface is intuitive enough for an absolute beginner to learn basic image editing tasks such as cropping and resizing, to be able to fully master and utilize all of its tools takes a considerable amount of time.

If you’re interested in honing your Photoshop skills to create spectacular compositions, this is for you. In this article, you’ll find 35 basic Photoshop tutorials for getting started with Photoshop.

General tutorials

1. Getting Started with Photoshop

Getting Started with Photoshop

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25 Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers

December 18th, 2008 by Jacob Gube | 50 Comments

Adobe Photoshop is the tool of choice for most web designers. From creating a website template to objects and components such as content boxes and buttons, Photoshop doesn’t fail to deliver.

In this collection, you’ll find 25 excellent Photoshop tutorials geared towards web designers. You’ll find a variety of tutorials that include creating full web page templates, navigation menus, headers, and content boxes.

Templates

Photoshop Paper Texture from Scratch

Photoshop Paper Texture from Scratch - screen shot.

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50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets for Modern Design Trends

November 23rd, 2008 by Jacob Gube | 68 Comments

Janet Jackson and Luther Vandross were right when they sang, “the best things in life are free”. There are many talented designers out there who choose to help the community by providing free and useful Photoshop brush sets that you can download and use on your artwork.

In this collection, you’ll find over 50 free Photoshop brush sets for current design trends and styles such as vintage, retro, grunge, hand-drawn, swirls, and nature-inspired.

Note: It’s important to read the fine-print – some designers require attribution or have special requirements for commercial use. Even if they don’t require any credit, it’s always highly-appreciated to give them some anyways.

Vintage and Retro

Darger-esque

Darger-esque screen shot.
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