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  Photoshop Tutorials To Improve Your Modeling and Design Skills

  You have to use Adobe Photoshop for a really long time to understand its potential completely. There are many things you can do using its endless features. You need to discover them and decide how to... More... 49 Comments

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  40 Beautiful Grunge Photoshop Tutorials

  Grunge is a popular trend that attempts to give designs a more organic and realistic look. It also provides a stark contrast to the simplistic, polished, and rigid "web 2.0" trend, opting... More... 90 Comments

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  50 Excellent AJAX Tutorials

  AJAX provides Web developers with plenty of opportunities to enhance the user experience and improve the performance of their websites. There are countless ways that AJAX can be used, and fortunately... More... 99 Comments

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  35 Beautiful Vintage and Retro Photoshop Tutorials

  With the recent post on retro and vintage in modern web design, it's time to put the theory into practice. We've scoured the Web to find some impressive Photoshop tutorials that can help you achieve an... More... 113 Comments

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  Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Best Of: Part 2

  It's been about 7 months since the original Illustrator Tutorials - Best Of was published, and in that time there have been many more noteworthy tutorials released. With all of that new content , it's... More... 79 Comments

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  40 Photoshop Tutorials On Rain Showers and Water Drops

  With fall just around the corner, designers are looking for ways to complement their work with Fall imagery like water droplets, rain on leaves and fall rain showers. Including rain or water drops in a... More... 80 Comments

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  50 Photoshop Tutorials For Sky and Space Effects

  Humans have always had an infatuation with the air above us and the space around our planet. With Adobe Photoshop we can create new images or enhance existing photos to include the sky and space as a... More... 92 Comments

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  70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials

  Beauty retouching is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively. There are two simple reasons for that. First, Photoshop offers a variety of advanced... More... 268 Comments

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  Icon Design Tutorial: Drawing A Pencil Icon

  Nowadays we can see icons everywhere, from a game console to web applications. Icons are getting more and more popular and play an important role, maybe the most important role in user interfaces.... More... 110 Comments

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  Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Rainbows, Glows and Light Effects

  Lighting effects in Adobe Photoshop are used to add flare and polish to images. They communicate feelings of creativity, technology, magic, and fantasy. Creating beams, glows, motion trails, rainbows,... More... 127 Comments

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  Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials - Best Of

  by Dirk Metzmacher The best thing about Photoshop video-tutorials is that they allow you to observe professionals just as if you were standing nearby and looking over their shoulders. You can see... More... 158 Comments

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  Adobe Fireworks Tutorials and Downloads - Best of

  Adobe Fireworks is the industry leader for prototyping and rapid site building. Some of you may not be aware of this, as you may be using Photoshop for each phase of web-site production. The articles,... More... 145 Comments

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  Drunken Monkey Photoshop Tutorial

  In this article I will explain step-by-step how I've designed an attractive character in one of our recent projects, namely for the company "Drunken Monkey Collectibles". I will review the entire... More... 88 Comments

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  Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Best Of

  Over years Adobe Illustrator has become the standard application when it comes to illustration design. Artists, illustrators and graphic designers use Illustrator to create vector-based graphics which... More... 172 Comments

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