Designious Times

I woke up today earlier than usual and found some time to grab a cup of coffee. Then I had the idea of making one in Photoshop and i got something like this image below.

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 [...]

At the end of this tutorial you will learn how to create stars in space, shades of light (not necessarily in space) and some shapes with a “space” feeling. This tutorial wants to help you learn different techniques and encourage you to play with your settings and other techniques involved in the creative process. Here’s [...]

The effect was discovered independently by many different photographers often by mistake in the days of C-22 and E-4 . It has been used a lot for fashion advertising and band photography. Photoshop offers the chance to simulate the chemical cross processing process with the help of Curves Adjustment layer. This is a great [...]

Forget the transform options like skew, distort and perspective! When it comes to getting your perspective right, Vanishing Point is the king! Be it DVD covers, gallery paintings, windows from a house, skyscrapers or pretty much anything that is made or shot in perspective, you can easily adjust, modify and transform it using this smart [...]

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 [...]

So how do you get that perfect reflection? It sure does  look  great …on the web , in a commercial or in an eye -catching presentation. I actually use it myself anytime I’m trying to impress a client with the final result of my work.
Although reflection appears to be simple , you can easily go [...]