Designious Times

In this tutorial we will create a fantasy picture with a dragon on a ruined burning castle.

This is a very quick and easy mode to create stage curtains that you can use in your drawings and no exceptional Photoshop skills are required whatsoever. For this tutorial I used Photoshop CS3.
FINAL IMAGE

You can download the psd file at the end of the tutorial.
Let us begin!
STEP 1
Create a new document of a desired [...]

Today I will guide you through this tutorial for creating this cool text effect and smooth background using Photoshop . We will be using some vectors some layer styles and quite a bit of motion blur. To download the vector for this tutorial and the final psd.  just scroll down to the bottom of this [...]

Background effect
1. Open a colorful image in Photoshop. I used a photo taken a few years  ago, i thought it was appropriate for this project.

2. Crop the most colorful part of the image, where’s the biggest diversity in color, and maybe a little black too.

3.  Duplicate the layer (CTRL + J) by dragging and dropping [...]

Inspired from Indian culture and brought back in the 1960s, the paisley prints still give a glamorous feel to textile prints. The crooked tear drop or half of a yin-yang seamless pattern is present on women skirts and handbags, men silk neckties, bandannas and not only. As a tribute to the 1960’s we’ve recently introduced [...]

Thou shall not abuse gradient!
Gradients are always cool and fun to use. But there are limits. It’s always ok to use a subtle effect but once you stepped over the line you’re on your way to Kitsch Land and you are guaranteed to obtain that awful 90’s look that we all know and hate.
So here [...]

A droplet is an executable file generated by Photoshop that allows you to apply a set of actions just by dragging and dropping files or folders on to it. This is a great time saver when you have to apply the same action to a lot of files! If you do this manually, you’ll spend [...]

Today I will show you a simple  effect in Photoshop that will result in a great background. You will need a good quality photo with good colors and of course a version of Photoshop.
I will be  using this photo that I’ve shot in my last trip. I like this picture because it has a lot [...]

Today we will create this amazing layout and along the way we will learn some simple but exciting effects. First we are going to put our texture to great use , go through  halftone effect and  we will end up with  creating  some easy but spectacular elements in Illustrator. This tutorial requires an intermediate level [...]

Lots of people responded in a very positive way towards our Complex sun rays vector tutorial. But some people asked us if these ever popular sun rays can also  be made in Photoshop. The answer is of course YES and today we will show you how to do just that . I assure you [...]