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My-Photoshop Tutorials
Look. You can find Photoshop tutorials everywhere. We know it, and you know it. So how are My-Photoshop tutorials different? We're focused on professional design, showing you how to do things in Photoshop that the other guys don't have the patience to show you.
Have a Photoshop question you can't find the answer to? Contact requests@my-photoshop.com and it may be the topic of the next post.
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Web Design Tutorials
This category of tutorials offers everything pertaining to web design and advertising.
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Web Advertising Banner Basics
Designing your own advertising banners can save you a lot of money, but you need to know a few basics to make the banners work for you. We're going to cover the common sizes, file types, and hit a few tips in banner creation.
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How to Create Banners that Work: Banner Ad Basics & Photoshop Tutorial
In our Photoshop-created banner ads, we want to get our compelling message across fast in a design that works well with other advertising pieces. Doesn't sound that bad, does it? It really isn't!
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Quick and Easy Flash Photo Gallery in Photoshop
Galleries are web pages that share your photographs, artwork, or anything else in picture-format with friends and family. Using Photoshop, you can create a photo gallery without knowing HTML (you'll never need it!) and without any real "work".
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How to Design an eBay Auction Template
This guide will take you through all the steps from designing to slicing to adjusting the html for an eBay auction template. It's painless, I promise. All that you will need is Photoshop 7 or above and a little bit of patience.
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Easy (and Complete!) Website Design
Using Photoshop, you can create your own website with very little headache.Seriously. I've been designing websites professionally for more than 6 years now, and constantly find myself surprised by how much fun it is to do.
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How to Design Blog Headers in Photoshop
As blogs continue to grow in popularity, the demand to make one design stand out from the next grows as well. Using Photoshop, you can create a unique header for your blog that will make it stand out from the crowd. It only takes about 8 steps.
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Glassy Pill Buttons
As blogs continue to grow in popularity, the demand to make one design stand out from the next grows as well. Using Photoshop, you can create a unique header for your blog that will make it stand out from the crowd. It only takes about 8 steps.
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Trendy Website Design in Photoshop Part 1: Design in Photoshop
Glossy buttons, well-placed gradients, and vivid images that tie into an overall color scheme are what you're looking for. Here's one method to help you create a great design specific to your site's subject using Photoshop.
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Trendy Website Design in Photoshop Part 2: Slice in ImageReady
This tutorial is the second of three parts outlining a method for creating great website designs tailored to your needs. You won't need to have much knowledge of ImageReady at all - just the ability to find the tools and options discussed in this article.
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Trendy Website Design in Photoshop Part 3: Editing HTML in Dreamweaver
This tutorial is the third of three parts outlining a method for creating great website designs tailored to your needs. You won't need to have much knowledge of Dreamweaver at all - just the ability to find the tools and options discussed in this article.
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Gel Tab Navigation System
A tab navigation system makes it extremely easy to get around a website. This tutorial is extremely easy, ending with a very clean tabbed navigation bar that you can add to any existing or yet-to-be website layout.
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Text Effect Tutorials
Sometimes, the best way to say something is to just say it. But if you've got to make a bigger impact than that, here are some tutorials for you.
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Animated Glitter Text
On forums and different home page sites around the 'net, one of the most popular effects is glitter text - the sparkling, shimmering, shiney text that just stands out and grabs some attention.
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Ice Text Effect
Maybe it's just the winter season, but one of the most requested tutorials I've had is for ice and snow. So, I'm trying to please the masses here and am offering up this really simple way to make ice text in Photoshop.
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Logo Design Tutorials
Logos are one of most designers' first professional projects ... and getting them right can be a royal nightmare. These tutorials will take the pain out of logo design.
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Globe Logo
This tutorial will walk you through the creation of a very stylish globe logo that features (of course) a globe and a person. These logos are great for businesses that need to emphasize a worldwide understanding, culture, and ability.
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Four-Color Abstract Logo
This logo can be used for a wide variety of businesses. Its main focus is on showing that a business is trendy, forward-thinking, and moving with the times.
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Brushed Metal Logo
Galleries are web pages that share your photographs, artwork, or anything else in picture-format with friends and family. Using Photoshop, you can create a photo gallery without knowing HTML (you'll never need it!) and without any real "work".
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Trendy Shopping/Fashion Logo
Logos can be one of the most frustrating items to come up with when establishing or creating a new business. Fear not - you can do it. This guide will help you create your own shopping or fashion logo in minutes using Photoshop.
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Simple Logo Designs
Making a strong, bold statement says a lot about your company - you're simply reliable. Creating logos like these in Photoshop is supremely easy - you don't need anything more than the shape tool and a font. Here are some ideas to get you going.
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Artistic Nature Logo
In this guide, I'll help you create an artistic nature logo. It is three-color, and can be applied to a variety of uses.
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Sound Guy Music Logo
In this easy Photoshop tutorial, we'll create a logo of a guy wearing headphones. With a few personal touches, this logo can be made to suit any music-related business.
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Image Effect Tutorials
These tutorials are all about play - do something creative.
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Easy Reflect & Shine
In this easy tutorial you'll learn a quick and fail-proof way to create reflections for images and text (it's the same method), and how to create a quick "shine" effect that always spices an image up.
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Painting with Light - Quick Photo Touchup Technique
In this tutorial, we'll learn a very quick and easy technique for painting with light to brighten images and highlight important areas.
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Easy and Professional Reflections
When done properly, reflections created in Photoshop can look just as professional and realistic and ones done in 3D rendering programs like 3DS Max and Poser.
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Basic Dark Photomanipulations
Okay so first off - what is a dark photomanipulation? It is taking a regular, even good-looking person (we'll be really macabre and use Angelina Jolie) and performing a few basic steps to turn that person into something spooky, dark, creepy, and generally perfect for Halloween.
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Cleaning Scanned Images
If you do any kind of illustration, you know the frustration of scans. Sometimes it's just not as convenient to use a graphic tablet and you're left with a messy scan that needs to be cleaned up. Here's how to clean it up in 5 easy steps.
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Smooth Skin Tone Technique
Glamour photos are a classic Photoshop touch; after all, who wouldn't improve or change small things about their appearance in photographs if they could? Things like freckles, uneven skin tone, and scars can be completely erased in about 3 steps.
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Dreamy Photos in 3 Steps
What are Dreamy Photos? They're the shots you see with the soft edges, the luminescent skin, the colors that look too brilliant to be real - because they're not real. In 3 quick steps they turn a snapshot into something you'll be proud to frame.
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Realistic Water Reflection Animation
In this Photoshop tutorial, I'll be sharing how to create some very easy - and beautifully realistic - water reflections and animate them. You don't have to know a lot about Photoshop to use this guide, I'll explain things pretty clearly.
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Photo to Clipart
In this guide, we'll take a few very simple steps to completely transform a photograph into modern clip-art. If you've spent any time on stock illustration sites, you'll recognize the style immediately - and be amazed at how easy it is to do yourself.
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Photo to Watercolor
Love the look of watercolors, but don't know how to paint? If you have Photoshop, you don't have to know how - Photoshop will do it for you! All you need is a copy of Photoshop and a photograph that you'd like to see as watercolor on canvas.
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Partial Black & White Photo
Photoshop is a great tool for doing special effects with your photographs. In this tutorial, I'm going to teach you how to create the effect of a partially black and white picture. There are many ways to create this effect and I am going to show you a very simple way to do it.
Once you have mastered this technique you can move on to other effects such as colorizing a completely black and white picture. But for this tutorial we will create the effect by removing the color and leaving it just where we want it.
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Correcting Red Eye
There’s nothing quite like taking the perfect shot of someone only to have it ruined by eerie, glowing eyes. Red eye occurs when the flash reflects off of the retina in the eye creating a red reflection.
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Create a Simple Collage Effect
One of my favorite things to create in Photoshop is a collage. A collage is basically several photos put together to create one big picture. You can make collages with tons of small pictures overlapping, or more simple ones with just one or two pictures.
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Easy 5-Step Photo Cut Outs
A recent request asked us for some tutorials on placing photos inside a heart, champagne glass, or other wedding-themed shape. Here's our answer in 5 quick steps - and it's not limited to a single shape. You can use this method on any photo with any shape your heart desires.
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Sepia On Color Photo Frame
A recent request asked us for some tutorials on placing photos inside a heart, champagne glass, or other wedding-themed shape. Here's our answer in 5 quick steps - and it's not limited to a single shape. You can use this method on any photo with any shape your heart desires.
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Using Adobe Photoshop Picture Package for Great Digital Photos
With the holiday season just around the corner, most of us are looking for ways that we can use our photographic genius in holiday gifts and cards. What will you need? Not much. A copy of Photoshop is essential and at least one photograph that you want to use.
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Print Design Tutorials
Print design is in many ways different than for-web design ... but the basic concepts are universal.
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Book Cover Basics
What this guide aims to do is share some basic ideas about creating great cover art for printed books.
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Design iPod Skins in Photoshop
What we're going to create is a self-adhesive iPod skin - to fit any iPod with a click wheel. It will protect your iPod and when it starts to show signs of wear, you can easily make another!
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Design Newsletter Postcards
This guide will walk you through the steps of designing a postcard newsletter template in Photoshop which you can use over and over again. These same steps can be applied to similar print designs like full newsletters, e-zines, and e-postcards.
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Product Design Tips
Adding your touch to your product design is the only way to show your work; product design may need special light and small touches to reflect your elegant and professional design .
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Pro CD Label Design
What we're aiming for in this tutorial is a CD Design that is ready for printing. Not printing off your computer - though you can do that, too - but so good that it's ready for pre-press with a professional printer..
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Designing Readability Into Text
Even if you do know the difference between a Serif and a Sans Serif font, can you quickly state off the top of your head what style, size, and weight it should be for a caption? Most of us don't have a clue.
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Professional (Book) Page Layouts
Whether you'll be publishing your final work only in electronic (usually .pdf) format, or using a print-on-demand publisher, this method for creating a page layout will help your end product keep the reader's interest and make you a proud self publisher.
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