Photoshop Greatness – Part 1

 

Adobe Photoshop is definitely their flagship product and is the best graphics editing software(by some distance), here’s a roundup of some awesome tricks, tutorials, articles and pictures on photoshop.

Photoshop in your garage.

How to make an key icon in photoshop

Following on from a previous article on toolbar icon design we’re going to tackle it’s Big Brother, the Application Icon. The two serve slightly different functions within the program but adhere to the same idea. While we could start on an existing application, we’re going to embrace vaporware and produce an Icon for an Application that doesn’t exist. This is simply to show the process. This tutorial will follow the construction of an Icon for an imaginary application called “Keyfob.” We’ll say that it’s an application for locking and unlocking the Mac remotely. This is partly inspired by a process where someone managed to put their Mac to sleep using a mobile phone.

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/cian/how-to-make-icons.html

1000+ free high res photoshop brushes

Hundreds of thousands of incredible Adobe Photoshop brush sets are all over the web. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of Photoshop brushes available, you can now add patches of dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any look you want.

Without further ado, we present 1000+ high-Resolution Adobe Photoshop brush sets that will be perfect for any project you may happen to be working on.

Important: Licenses of every brush set varies, so be sure to check that information before using them.

http://www.noupe.com/photoshop/1000-free-high-resolution-photoshop-brush-sets.html

Happy Birthday Photoshop, 20 years of Photoshop shenanigans

Twenty years ago today, one of the most beloved programs of all time was created, Photoshop.  Photoshop is a photo manipulation program, loaded with features to create or modify any image to make a work-of-art. 

Photoshop was created in 1987 by Thomas Knoll, a Student at the University of Michigan, and later his brother John Knoll, when it was named Display and ImagePro. In September 1988, John Knoll presented a demo of Photoshop to Adobe’s internal creative team, which was well received.  As a result, a licensing agreement was struck. In February 1990, after 10 months of development, Photoshop 1.0 was released to the public.

Now almost 12 versions later and 20 years of history, Adobe celebrates its popular product’s 20th Birthday. Photoshop has become the standard for image manipulation and has spurred a cultural phenomenon alongside it. Photoshop has created a sub-culture of photoshopped images, which contain one or more fatal flaws. This begun the phrase "That looks Photoshopped" and "shopped" meaning something looks too good to be true.  Happy Birthday to Photoshop from everyone at Neowin.net.

The gallery below contains some Neowin’s all time favourite Photoshop shenanigans.

What are some of your favourite photoshop goof-ups?

http://www.neowin.net/news/happy-birthday-photoshop-20-years-of-photoshop-shenanigans

20 Top Photoshop Icon Design Tutorials

Icons can spice up a website and make it look that extra bit special. I have compiled a list of 20 tutorials from many different websites that teach you how to create icons in Adobe Photoshop. There is a great selection of icon tutorials listed here, for beginners and also advanced Photoshop users.

http://www.webdesigndev.com/photoshop/20-top-photoshop-icon-design-tutorials