One of the best free stuff Graphic Designers can find on the Web for free are high resolution backgrounds and textures. Long gone are the days when you had to buy very expensive CDs in order to obtain good quality backgrounds for your design ...

" I have received a lot of positive feedback from the first set of hi-res grunge textures that I released back in May. I like the idea of throwing out some large images for others to use without locking it down so there are a ton of silly rules ...

10 free Wood Textures

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This tutorial will show you how to transform a standard color photo into a mix of colors, black and white and sepia in a fast and easy process. Start with your original and add an adjustment layer of channel mixer. Layer ---> New ad ...

GetBrushes.com is free Adobe Photoshop brushes directory, featuring handpicked collection of the best brushes for Photoshop on the net, all free to download and use. Here you’ll find PS brushes for every style and taste, ranging from always ...

Bram from Sweetbeat.be tells you how he got the rainbow in the photo above using photoshop : - Open new document 20x20cm. - Make a new layer and select it. - Select the pen tool en draw a bowed line.Make sure when you have the pen tool sel ...

This photoshop tutorial will show you a fast technique to enhance eyes and make them stand out. Let's start with a typical flat image.This technique works best for light-colored eyes. first off go to the DODGE tool and choose MIDTON ...

Bram from SweetBeat shows you how he drew the arrows on this image : - Open a new document at for example 20x20 cm - Create a 'new layer' by going to LAYER ---> NEW LAYER or clicking the 'new layer' icon in the layers palette - ...

In this tutorial, we're going to take this image : And make it look like the following one thanks to a texture, blending modes and layer masks : This process works best for images with a grayish neutral background, so I took one sho ...

There’s an old cliché about a picture being able to speak a thousand words, so you’d imagine that having shot a great image, you wouldn’t need to say any more. You could just edit it, make it available for sale and let the eloquence of its co ...

What sets the good photos apart from the ever-increasing stack of common photos, are the people and actions photographed. A photo of a person feverishly grabbing his belongings before his house floods, is almost certainly going to be a more g ...

Give skin a cracked or peeling look with this tutorial.

This Photoshop tutorial by SweetBeat will show you how to design and use your own background brush Making the brush -Make a new document 60x37cm and make sure that the foreground and background colours are set to black and white. ...

The angle of the sun on the horizon is smaller during wintertime, creating numerous pleasing effects for photographers, such as a prolonged period of the magic hour. We refer to the magic hour as the time around sunrise or sunset, when mos ...