Weekly top quality Photoshop tutorials #33

20 comprehensive tutorials from the best tutorials sites gathered in one article as usual once per week to help you enhance your web designer or graphic designer abilities.

Splattered Vector and Photography Mash Up

Mixing Vector work with Photography is a great way to produce a fun and colorful art style. This approach is used in a variety of projects from club flyers and CD Artwork through to high-end advertising imagery. Expanding on the comprehensive guide to the Pen Tool by Ian Yates, we look at creative ways of implanting the tool. This tutorial should convince those of you lacking the confidence to draw within Photoshop to do so with style.

Making of a Mythical Encounter

Valentines Day – 3D fantasy composition in Photoshop

Combine Photo Elements to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

This Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to use a variety of color, lighting, and cut and paste techniques to create a surreal photo manipulation. Combine your creativity with these Photoshop techniques to create your own photo manipulation artworks.

Design an Epic Fantasy Scene with Photoshop

In this tutorial we are going to create a photo manipulation inspired by Valhalla, one of Mariusz Karasiewicz`s works. He is an amazing artist and his work is absolutly stunning. I want to thank him for allowing me to write this tutorial.

How To Make the Viget Inspire Background Photoshop tutorial

A few of you have been asking, so here it is: An overview of how we put the Viget Inspire background together. The driving philosophy behind real-texture stuff like this is to fake as little as possible. No matter how many brushes you have or how good you are in Illustrator, there’s a quality of unpredictability in real photographs and real, physical elements that adds great subtle qualities to any design.

Create a Professional Portfolio Design in 17 Easy Steps in Photoshop

This tutorial teaches you how to create a professional looking portfolio design using very basic techniques. The majority of online portfolio’s appear amateur, yet it really isn’t very difficult to produce a simple design, very quickly that can portray a professional image online.

This tutorial hopefully shows how a few simple techniques can bring great results.

Photoshop Tutorial Inspired By Quantum Of Solace

A few weeks ago I went to the movies to see the new James Bond movie: Quantum of Solace. The movie was nice, even though I’m not a really big fan of the series, however one thing that really caught my eye was the opening credits. I really liked the effects and the style.

The studio that did that animation was MK12 and I love the way they mixed sand and some sort of vector elements, it reminded me a bit of Apple’s Viva la Vida ad.

In this tutorial, I will show you how I created the image inspired by the James Bond movie, in Photoshop.

Create sci-fi poster art in Photoshop

The traditional space movie poster is a highly polished but formulaic affair, featuring characters that loom out of the darkness, brooding intergalactic clouds, some gleaming chrome effects for the text, and then a smattering of lens flare to add a little realism.

Given the right photography, then, any half-competent designer could knock up a perfectly adequate space movie poster design in minutes. The only problem is that, as it’s in space – and therefore impossible – such photos don’t exist.

In this tutorial, Fabio Sasso shows how to assemble a slick sci-fi poster with a space theme. By using some well-chosen stock images and assembling them carefully, making full use of Photoshop’s blend modes, filters and distortion tools, he shows that it’s simple to create stunningly professional-looking results

Create Energy Lines around a Dancer in Photoshop

Making of the “Rabbit killer” using pen tablet

I started the project by drawing something which looks like a “rabbit”.
My idea was to draw funny looking rabbit, but meanwhile I wanted to have that scary look.

Website Gallery Layout Design Photoshop tutorial

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a layout for a css website gallery using Photoshop. If you have any questions about this tutorial be sure to ask in the comments. Also, remember with all the tutorials, the psd is available for download.

A Letter from Florence Photoshop tutorial

How to Create a Digital Illustration Using Birds

This tutorial is all about creating an illustration using just a few stock images of birds. The composition is quite simple, but with a little inspiration you can create something really nice. I would like to thank Flavius for giving me a hand with this – much appreciated!