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Adobe Photoshop Christmas Tutorial Day # 2 : Amazing Illustration Of The Christmas Tree

ijthedon — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:39:40 +0000

Our Pre-Christmas continues. On the second day of amazing Christmas Photoshop tutorials we bring you nice Christmas Tree. The Christmas tree is one of the symbols of the Christmas. This one of the things that we are the most focused on during holidays. We decorate it, at the way we like it, and this makes Christmas more beautiful. So if you decorate your Christmas tree in real life, why don’t make your own on the computer, in Photoshop? That’s great idea, I know, and this tutorial is going to show you exactly how to create your own Christmas tree on the your personal computer. But this tree will be different from trees in real life, it’s magical illustrated Christmas tree. So decorate your own Christmas tree for Christmas, and have fun making your own tree in Adobe Photoshop, Cheers!

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Don’t forget to check out our previous Christmas tutorial “Christmas Photoshop Tutorial #1: Sketchy Santa Wallpaper“.

Christmas Photoshop Tutorial #1: Sketchy Santa Wallpaper

ijthedon — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:07:48 +0000

We’ve been on a long vacation during this summer and fall, but we are back. My Free Design Resources is working again. We decided to back today, because it’s exactly a month before Christmas, YEAH! I know you can’t wait for Christmas, and we are going to give you a little bit more of Christmas holiday spirit with our tutorials and other photoshop stuff.
From today, My Free Design Resources is Christmas themed. Which means that we are going to give you at least one Christmas themed pohotoshop tutorial every day until Christmas! So you can use it to make your Christmas more beautiful and more creative. We will start with simple one. Just a Santa Claus wallpaper, with a little bit of snow, and magic. The charm of this wallpaper is, it’s sketchy look, which is perfect for your kids. So you can make your own wallpaper for your kid, and that will make you proud. So enjoy in the first tutorial of the Christmas Photoshop Tutorial Series, and have a fun doing it!

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Adobe Photoshop CS6 Tutorial: Create Tree House From Fairy Tales

ijthedon — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:26:24 +0000

Now we have something magical for you. Something from fairy tales. And every fairy tale is the battle between good and evil. Usual evil characters are witches, and they are ugly, evil, old, and riding broom. Many witches are live in the scary houses or unrealistic tree houses. With this tutorial you will learn how to make a tree house in Photoshop, just like witches’. Of course all witches were used magic to create their magical tree houses, you’ll don’t need magic, all you need is a little bit of time and a little bit of Photoshop skills. And you’ll be able to create a tree house, just like witches done that a centuries ago in fairy tales.

Of course, your tree house doesn’t have to be evil, like witches’, but it will be amazing as much as their. I know that Halloween is far, but since we’re talking about witches, you’ll might like our “Halloween Pumpkins And Bats Photoshop Brushes”. This tutorial may be useful even if you are create your own fairy tale, so you don’t have to think about witch house. Whatever you use this tutorial for, you’ll for sure have a lot of fun working with it, enjoy.

This is the final product:

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Adobe Photoshop Space Tutorial: How To Create Realistic Galaxy

ijthedon — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:56:14 +0000

Today’s theme is space. So after outer space brushes, we have amazing space tutorial, where you will learn how to make your own galaxy in Photoshop. As you probably know, planet Earth is in the Milky Way galaxy. Huge and only known to man galaxy. Astronauts are still exploring Milky Way, and it’s left so much to explore.

But you don’t have to stop in Milky Way, you can create your own galaxy, your own part of universe. You are probably dreamed of having your own galaxy, now this is possible. You just need a little bit of Photoshop skills and a little bit of time. And you will have your own galaxy, where you are setting the rules, and where you are the boss. I hope that you’ll enjoy in this tutorial, like you enjoyed in our other tutorials.

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Adobe Photoshop CS6 Tutorial – How To Colorize Black And White Picture

ijthedon — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:15:25 +0000

At the beginning of your designer career with Photoshop, one of the first thing that you done, was making picture black and white. Every beginner does this, and this is one of the simplest thing in Photoshop. But, we have something special, something different. Everybody know to make picture black and white in Photoshop, but you’ll now learn how to make black and white picture colored. This is more complex than making picture black and white, but it’s not hard so much.
This is really something new, and more interesting than making picture black and white. You will now be able to give the life and colors to boring, depressive black and white photography. This could be useful in your design, too. Take look at this tutorial, I’m sure that you’ll have fun, and you’ll learn something new and useful.

Here is the video tutorial:

You can also read this tutorial at Ice Flow Studios.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial – Create Watercolor Typography Portrait

ijthedon — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:15:34 +0000

As you’re probably assimilated, we have great and creative tutorials. And this one isn’t much different. Today we are combining two very interesting things. We are combining the art of watercolor painting and art of typography. We are going to create portrait of watercolors and typography. It’s very simple, in what you’ll be assured in this tutorial.

In this tutorial is used simple picture of the girl, but you can use whatever picture you want. Our watercolor brushes are also featured in this tutorial, and it cant be done without those brushes. I hope that you will like this tutorial, as much as you like our other tutorials, or even more.

Final Preview:

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Adobe Photoshop Tutorial – How To Make Realistic Troll In Photoshop

ijthedon — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:22:33 +0000

Today we have something special for all of you gamers or lovers of fairy tales. Today we will learn how to transform ordinary old man into realistic troll from the forest. Just to be clear, this is not type of troll face, which is very popular nowadays because of 9gag. This is old fashioned green forest troll from role playing games, fairy tales or legends.

But I think that this old man wouldn’t be happy to see him transformed in troll, but it’s just for needs of tutorial. Of course you can apply this technique on your picture or picture of someone else. To make yourself a troll from your favorite role playing game, or to make fun with some of your friends. Whatever you do, you will have fun with troll transformation.

Don’t forget to check out our previous amazing photo manipulation tutorial, where we learned how to create underwater maiden from Lorelei legend.

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Adobe Photoshop CS6 Tutorial: Create Amazing Underwater Scene From Lorelei Legend – Photo Manipulation

ijthedon — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:42:30 +0000

In this tutorial we are dealing with mystical woman from the legend of Lorelei. This mystical, beautiful woman swims under the water, below the ship, what’s on the surface. Legend’s origin is from Germany, Loreley is rock on the German river Rhine, and also name of Mermaid, who is in tutorial. The legend says that, beautiful Loreley was accused of bewitching men and causing their death. Instead of capital punishment, Loreley was brought to nunnery. On the way to nunnery, she was accomplished by three knights, and they were passing by the Loreley rock, when they were near therock, she asked them to climb the rock to see Rhine last time. She does so and falls to her death; the rock still retained an echo of her name afterwards.

So that’s the legend, and you will learn how to bring this legend to life with this amazing tutorial. The Final picture looks so awesome, and you’ll now find out how to create it.

Read full “Adobe Photoshop CS6 Tutorial: Create Amazing Underwater Scene – Photo Manipulation” here.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial: Create Amazing 3D Text-Shaped Buildings

ijthedon — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:21:15 +0000

Now we’re going with big one! This is one complex and hard Photoshop tutorial, which will need a lot of time and a lot of skill. I’m going to show you how to make amazing 3D text from city buildings. With help of this tutorial you’ll be able to turn city buildings to letters of your name, or anything else you want. Now, just imagine that you are wealthy oil magnate, who owns the half of the city. You got to build a couple of buildings, but you have wish to make your name form the buildings.
Of course, it’s a small chance to make it in real life, even if you are oil magnate, you’ll hardly make letters of your name from city buildings. But with Photoshop it’s possible. Now you can feel as a powerful person, from your home, on your computer. Just follow the steps of tutorial, stay focused, and make the whole city yours.

Read the full “Adobe Photoshop Tutorial: Create Amazing 3D Text-Shaped Buildings” here.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial: Create Vintage Motorcycle Style Poster

ijthedon — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:18:36 +0000

This is for all of you who live fast life, driving super fast motorcycles on the highway. To all of you who drive to live, and live to drive. This tutorial is completely in motorcyclist style. Today, we will learn how to create awesome poster with amazing motorcycle and very realistic message.
And this tutorial may combine your two big passions (if you are passionate in this, of course), driving road monsters and graphic design in Photoshop. Even if you’re not fan of fast motorcycles, this tutorial might be interesting for you, because of its great looking, this tutorial is also easy to do. It may bring you experience of posters on the walls of the bars on the road, where you go to pause after long driving on your baby. So whatever you’re interested in, this tutorial might be interesting for you, so enjoy.

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