We’re very passionate about teaching creative skills here at Tuts+, so over the last year we’ve been planning a new stream of educational content focused on the "Why?" instead of the "How". Today we’re unveiling the newest addition to the Tuts+ family: Creative Sessions. Every month we’ll be running a two week ‘Session’ on a [...]
There’s a reason why our various tutorials on slicing PSDs are consistently among the most popular articles on the Tuts+ Network. Every one of us, at one point or another, has needed to convert a PSD into a working website. The only problem is that, until you’ve gotten a few projects under your belt, it [...]
In today’s screencast we will revisit a tutorial by Asher Abbasi demonstrating how to create a magician’s hat in Photoshop. This tutorial will explain several tools and techniques essential to your mastery of Photoshop including basic drawing tools, blending modes, and lighting techniques. Let’s get started! View the written version of this tutorial How to [...]
In today’s tutorial we are going to turn a flawless blonde beauty into a sword-wielding survival huntress. To do this we are going to make her skin sweaty and dirty, her dress stained and torn, we’ll add blood stains to the sword, manipulate her hair, and create a post-apocalyptic background full of smoke and fire [...]
If you want to “go big” visually with a website, delivering complex interaction and a rich experience across a wide range of browsers, Flash is the only way to go. Right? Nope. Given the widespread adoption and advancements of modern browsers and JavaScript libraries, using Flash makes little sense. But it does have its [...]
The future of the Web is everywhere. The future of the Web is not at your desk. It’s not necessarily in your pocket, either. It’s everywhere. With each new technological innovation, we continue to become more and more immersed in the Web, connecting the ever-growing layer of information in the virtual world to the [...]
In this tutorial we’ll learn how to paint snow onto lettering. We’ll use a small brush, zoom in close, and paint strategic areas in a bit of a random fashion until we achieve a snowy look. This tutorial is great for those looking for some quick Photoshop brush practice. Everyone is welcome to download this [...]
You might be surprised how many people use Photoshop to mockup their industrial designs. In fact, Photoshop is a very popular tool among fashion and jewelry designers. In today’s tutorial we will use layer styles and shading to produce a really nice rendering of an analog watch in Photoshop. Step 1 First you need to [...]
As you know, on Psdtuts we provide Psd files for all the tutorials you see on our website to our Premium Members. This is one of the perks of Premium Membership and it is something that we do to help our members explore our tutorials in more detail. One question that we receive a lot [...]
If you’re looking to create a really nice photo manipulation, often you will have to combine several photos and apply a few effects to get your desired look. In today’s tutorial I decided to combine a few photos that I took while I was traveling to create a devastating tornado consuming everything in its path. [...]
As a designer, you will eventually have to face a couple of unfortunate truths in your career. Number one: just because you wear a bathrobe for most of your “business” hours does not actually make it business attire. Number two: at some point in your freelance career, you will encounter a client who does [...]
Editor’s Note This article is the first in our new series of “opinion columns,” in which we give people in the Web design community a platform to raise their voice and present their opinion on something they feel strongly about to the community. Please note that the content in this series is not in [...]
