Weekly top quality Photoshop tutorials #38

3 of Constantin Potorac’s fresh released tutorials are in the article covering domains like photomanipulation and icon design. Besides these three, Danny Outlaw released a new tutorial with the redesign of his site (How to Make a Planet Terror Style Poster in Photoshop) and we continue with some other photomanip, illustration and logo design tutorials.
Create a Divine Angel Montage in Photoshop
First of all I would like to thank Cucu Tudor for collaborating with me in creating this tutorial. The final image is an Angel that lights his way in the dark forest. You will create this photo manipulation using stock images provided by some really great artists, which I would also like to thank a lot.
How to Make a Planet Terror Style Poster in Photoshop
Basic Coloring Tutorial by Loleia
Lola Rodrigues aka Loleia, is an awesome Illustrator from Spain and decided to share with us her ticks to a basic painting in photoshop, the tutorial is very simple and well explained so you can learn to paint your own drawings, check it out.
Professional Menu Button Photoshop tutorial
In this easy, step-by-step tutorial I’m going to show you how to design an interesting professional menu button by using some simple filters, for example Gaussian Blur & Motion Blur.
Create a Surreal Photo Manip
This tutorial teaches you how to combine various photos into a very surreal photo manipulation.
Woman With Apple iPod Nano
Create a Retro Photo and Background
In this tutorial we are going to take a regular, boring photo and liven it up using with some effects to give it more of a retro feel to it. We are then going to take the photo and create a background for it to lie on.
Photoshop/Illustrator Tutorial: Designing a Vexel Banner
In this tutorial I will teach you some of the techniques I use when designing my banners. It requires a basic knowledge of Illustrator and Photoshop, but if you don’t understand anything please feel free to ask me.
I have covered all the basic steps I used when making banners, but there are obviously a lot more things you could add to this to make it your own.
Drawing Kirby Photoshop tutorial
Ever wondered how Kirby was made? And although he was made using a 3d-program, this tutorial will teach you a very easy way to draw Kirby in Photoshop. By using some of the basic tools, I will tell you all the ins and outs about creating this spherific ball of joy!
I live in Europe, so only a few weeks ago, did I had a chance to play Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Nintendo’s latest hit in the Smash-series. In this game, where you participate in an epic fight between Nintendo, and also a few non-Nintendo characters, you will get a chance to play as one of your favorite game-heroes.
While mine isn’t Kirby, it is perhaps the most unique and funny character because it can eat enemies and change his appearance and powers to his “snack”. Because Kirby has been the topic for many photomanipulation-topics, I will teach you how to create your own Kirby instead of using a licensed render.
Virtual DJ Picture Photoshop tutorial
In this detailed tutorial we will learn how to design this nice DJ smile.
3D Glossy Arrows Photoshop tutorial
Web Video Player Skin Photoshop tutorial
We’re going to learn how to create a skin for your web video player. This is just the design part which we will do in Photoshop. Perhaps it will be followed up by a Flash tutorial on how to implement this skin into an actual working player.
Adding Texture to the Skin Photoshop tutorial
Basically, in this tutorial I’m going to be showing you how to add texture to the skin like the one in the image above.
Create an Out of Bounds Fantasy Illustration
Here is another illustration I have worked on with Toma Alin Gabriel. Worked on this piece with a lot of images and I would also like to thank the photographers for giving us permission to use their stuff. In this tutorial, we will take you through the process of creating a fantasy scene, make water pour out of a painting, make some sort of a absorption effect and end up with a really nice looking color. The main idea behind this surreal illustration is that we are actually in a painting and the painting on the wall is the real world, the world where our vulture tries to escape.
Galaxy Style Text Effect
Good morning fellow photoshoppers how are we today?. In this tutorial il show you how to create some galaxy type text, the inspiration behind this tutorial is “mario galaxy” on the nintendo wii.
How to Create a Van Icon in Photoshop
This is another icon I have created with Negreu Andreas. We wanted to create an icon that can be used for a game maybe or a Mac app of some sort. Before we started we searched the web for photography with similar vans, then made some ideas, and a quick sketch. After that we started working.
Apple Desktop Theme Photoshop tutorial
Learn how to design apple desktop theme in this tutorial.
Rectangular Glassy Logo – Design Tutorial
So I was lurking around the internet, and I saw this rectangular glassy logo web design concept on Monster Templates, so I decided, “ Hey, why not make a Photoshop tutorial?” So basically, we will learn in this Photoshop tutorial how to use our airbrush to achieve a very cool glass effect.
Painting Tools Photoshop Tutorial
Dezining the Dezinerfolio’s Logo – Web 2.0′ish
One of our reader here put up a question on How we had designed our logo. Instead of explaining how we created our logo, we put up a full tutorial on Creating Web 2.0 Style Logos ( taking our logo as an example ).


























