Design your way

Week 5 of this popular section comes with 13 Photoshop tutorials that will help you learn some interesting techniques. Let’s begin.

Reflective Bubbles

Author’s comment: “For my most recent work I wanted to create bubbles that would reflect my subject in a believable yet magical way”

Create a Wavy Blackberry Style Wallpaper Design

Author’s comment: “In this tutorial I will show you how to create an abstract background image using Photoshop only. The design has a cool wavy pattern with interesting lighting effects, like the Blackberry 9000 wallpaper. This is a tutorial you can sit down and complete in less than an hour, let’s get started.”

Skin painting tutorial

Author’s comment: “FOR THIS TUTORIAL, I SUPPOSE YOU KNOW ABOUT COLORS BASIC RULES.
As I did this tutorial for low speed connections, the quality of the letters has decreased.

P.S.: I DON’T GIVE A SHIT FOR HIS OR HAIR CLOTH, THIS IS A SKIN PAINTING TUTORIAL, NOT CLOTH TUTORIAL OR HAIR, KAY?”

Create a Shiny Lock Icon Design

Author’s comment: “Another popular icon that you can find on the internet is (no doubt) the lock icon. It is widely used to identify secure web pages. It often indicates password fields for secure files. Wherever you wish to place a lock icon, this tutorial will show you how to create an attractive one for you to use!”

Fox fire tutorial

Author’s comment: “This picture is no way connected to the web-browser Fire Fox, its not for Fire Fox, I did not get inspired by it, and it doesn’t look like anything like it. If I hear anything about the stupid web browser I will scream, and curse lots.”

Create A Textured Tag For Your Website

Author’s comment: “In this tutorial we are going to create a textured tag that you can use in your website designs. Adding textured elements to modern web designs is a current trend. Learn how to create your own texture and then apply it to your design element.”

Recreate the ‘Bee Movie’ Text Effect

Author’s comment: “In this quick Photoshop tutorial we’ll be recreating the ‘Bee movie’ text effect, you know, the one you’ve seen all over the place over the last few months”

Design Soft Stylized 3D Type

Author’s comment: “The use of 3D type is an increasing trend in design today. Creating such type usually requires advanced 3D software. Yet, not all of us own such software, nor know how to use it. In this tutorial, I will teach you the basics of creating polished 3D type using Illustrator and Photoshop. Let’s get to work.”

Interface Orbs

Author’s comment: “Shiny glass orbs have been popular fixtures for web interfaces and application skins for quite some time. In this tutorial, we will be going over a technique for making a standard interface orb.”

Create Spectacular Concept Art in Photoshop

Author’s comment: “Creating conceptual work can be fun and relies heavily on your imagination. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to combine stock photographs to create a stunning effect that can be easily reproduced to work with almost any combination of images.”

Industrial-Style Navigation Buttons

Author’s comment: “In this Photoshop tutorial I will be showing you how to make an industrial-style navigation button, well-suited for a clan template or something of the sort.”

Create a Brilliant Vector Lighter

Author’s comment: “We all know and love Photoshop for its pixel based manipulation. In this tutorial I decided to look into Photoshop’s vector capabilities, combined with gradients, layer modes and layer styles to produce a great looking, almost photo-realistic lighter.”

Create a glass type navigation bar.

Author’s comment: “I found this effect on www.depiction.net , the reason I used this effect is because it is a nice effect and very simple to recreate.”

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