Remember, remember, the 10th of December. No, it is not V for Vendetta, it is PS for Vendetta. The weekly top quality Photoshop tutorials, week 53, arrived. 20 detailed tutorials for different areas of design.

Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Create mile-high type art

Fantasy images don’t need to include cheesy damsels, dragons and generously proportioned elves. What they do need, however, is carefully considered, painterly colours, moody lighting and detailed texturing.
In this tutorial, Fabio Sasso shows you how to achieve that glossy, detailed fantasy look through careful compositing, and control of layers and blending modes. You’ll extrude type in Illustrator and then composite on textures and other details in Photoshop.

Skating in clouds. Magic scene

Recreate the New Moon Movie Title Treatment in Photoshop

I’m sure everyone is familiar with the movie The Twilight Saga: New Moon. In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn to create a type similar to this movie’s title treatment. In this basic Typography tutorial, there will be no need for us to download extra brushes, tools or plugins as we will be using the most basic Photoshop tools and techniques and its default brushes.

How to Create a Clean 3D Notepad in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’re going to create a realistic notepad icon using Layer FX and Photoshop’s pen tool. The final image may look complicated, but it’s surprisingly easy to make.

Creating a Set of Digital Painting Icons Part 1 – Sketchbook with Pencil Icon

This is the first tutorial in a series called “Creating a Set of Digital Painting Icons.” We will design five icons that depict common tools associated with digital painting: a sketchbook with pencil, a camera for taking reference pictures, a paintbrush, a pen tablet and a large screen with a complete matte painting displayed on it.

Creating a Set of Digital Painting Icons Part 2 – Camera Icon

Welcome to the second tutorial in the “Creating a Set of Digital Painting Icons” series. This time we’ll create a digital SLR camera, a tool digital artists often use to take pictures to create textures or for reference. We will construct a rather simple camera, but we’ll make it interesting through judicious use of brush strokes and shadows

How To Design a 3D Wooden Box in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn to make a Wooden Box with a realistic touch.

Draw a Rather Cute, Unique Style “Play” Button in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the process I took to create this rather cute, unique Style “Play” Button in Photoshop. It’s a simple (aimed for PS beginners) but fun tutorial, have a try :)
The primary goal for this tut is to show you the functionalities behind the draw tools, selection tool and the use of layer blending options. I also added my own design ideas to make this play button a bit unique

Vintage Mac Icon Photoshop Tutorial

Create a Watercolor-Themed Website Design with Photoshop

Watercolor in graphic design has become very trendy the last couple of years, many websites and incredible designers are using this style and taking it to another level. Even knowing the technique is important in this kind of design, is more about creativity and experimentation. You will learn how to use the Art History Brush and combine it with watercolor custom brushes to create a nice background header image and more

Easy Star Light in Photoshop

I’ve been writing tutorials inspired by skateboard deck designs for a few weeks and today it’s not going to be different. I’m very addicted to that, I love the ideas some of the designers have and for this tutorial I will recreate a really nice effect with lines forming a star. However I will go a little bit further and I will transform it in a light effect and add a nice pattern overlay. Everything using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

Faking the 3D look using Photoshop

This image was inspired by a similar XSI render done by Baruch Zevolun, Israel. The design credit goes to him. You can compare the original at http://www.softimage.com/Community/Xsi/Galleries/Gal_July02/Gal_July02.phpNote : Please do not view this as plagarism. The aim of this tutorial is to show you a different use of Photoshop other than image editing. It is my tribute to the original artist’s work. Besides, I wanted to break a tradition here. Most of the 3D work of animators is inspired from 2D work (sketch/painting/photo). This 2D work was inspired from a 3D render. Hats off to Baruch Zevolun !The following example can be done by anyone who is familiar with Photoshop. You don’t have to be an artist. Only the basic tools of the software along with a keyboard & mouse have been used. A tablet or digital pen is not required

Blend a Planet Transparently into a Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial I will show you how to use different blending modes to blend flying hairs easily and to make semi-transparent planet. I’ll also show you different techniques of adjustment to get the most realistic results in your photo manipulations

How to Design a Beautiful Google Calendar Icon

Google Calendar is one of many apps that runs on the Internet, not on your desktop. I’ll show you how to make your very own desktop icon for Google Calendar and, hopefully, the skills behind creating other similar icons.

Create a 32×32 pixel social media icon using Photoshop

Icons can be very tricky to design, the main gripe I have is getting them to look right no matter what the size is. Creating your icon so it’s looking all swish ‘n’ bang is in the detail, just a one pixel line can help add shadows and depth to really bring it to life. Today I’m going to run through my design process of creating my 32×32 pixel Twitter icon, hopefully you’ll be able to pick up some techniques and tips on how to get your icons looking sweet.

Create 3D effect email icon with reflection

This mail cover icon will be very useful in your web design projects. This can be used as image link to contact form, subscription form, etc.

Create a Simple Autumn Scene in Photoshop

In this tutorial I will be teaching you how to make a vibrant, simple Autumn Wallpaper using vector files and some simple techniques in Photoshop.

Badge Buttons

In this tutorial I’ll be showing you how to create your own shiny buttons that you can stick different pictures on.

Make a Sketchy Wallpaper for this Christmas

This tutorial will show how we can create a sketchy wallpaper for Christmas this year! We shall cover watercoloring, pencil sketching and some simple lighting effects. It will be good if you are working with a pen and tablet.

Feathers and Angel Wings

Painting wings is quite similar to painting hair: the first time you do it seems impossible, but in fact it’s not, and there are little tips that can help a lot.