Mac-Type Background

This tutorial is about making a “mac” style background. You can use
these in all sorts of situations, including the obvious – your desktop
as well as part of your designs or for corporate work (powerpoint
presentations, flash work etc). Naturally you wouldn’t want to use this
exact set of steps, but following them will give you a good idea of the
technique. Good luck!
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How to use Photoshop to create Product Box?

Photoshop is a powerful tool for almost everything
you need in graphic and web design. This article explains how to use
Photoshop to create product boxes.

How many times you wanted to create cool product box
for some of your products? Sure, there are many ways, and with new
Photoshop you have even more options to create boxes. But I wanted to
show you how to create a “3D look box” in the 2D environment using
Photoshop paths.

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Flowing liquid effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will create a flowing liquid effect in Photoshop.
We’ll use for this an image of a overturned glass and make it look like
the contents of the glass is spilled on the surface the glass sits on.

Step 1

Make a photo of an overturned glass on a surface, just like in the
image below, or download one from a stock photo website. I am using a
free stock photo from stock.xchng. You can download the image here. I flipped horizontally the original image.

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Leaf Logo

Using Photoshop Preset Shapes create an amazing Leaf Logo with a Web 2.0 style.

- Star by making the leaf in a new file, I’m going to use the one that comes with the Photoshop Presets Shapes and #40b309 as color

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Creating web 2.0 logos

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make those web 2.0 text using
Photoshop. Below is what we are going to get at the end of tutorial.

1 First create a 400 by 80 new document in Photoshp. Now fill the background layer with some greyish color, I used #D4D4D4.

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Creating a Stunning Digital Smoke Effect

Some time ago I came up with a technique to create digital smoke using the Liquify filter in Photoshop. Although it was a simple and efficient way to achieve that sort of effect, people sent me emails asking how to customize it or that it wasn’t so easy to follow.

In this tutorial we are going to show you how to easily create digital abstract smoke using both Illustrator and Photoshop.
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Pastel Gradients

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web 2.0 Pattern Pack

web 2.0 pattern collection [link]

dots and screens pattern pack

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Artist’s Comments
These contain tiled patterns that should be defined/loaded in any
digital imaging editing program (gimp, photoshop, painter, etc). Please
leave a comment if you’re using them anywhere in my account. Thanks

Flowers Custom Shapes for Photoshop

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