Inspired by “Catch the Beat” by Staredown Studios and this MSNBC Style Effect tutorial, I decided to have a go at making my own. Digital Aurora 1920×1200 1024×768 320×480 Digital Aurora flipped 1920×1200 1024×768 320×480 Digital Aurora dual-screen 2560×1024 And I thought this one turned out kind of interestingly – applied the Polar Coordinates filter. 2560×1024 [...]
Occasionally for a print or website, you might require images with a white background. Usually these are easy to find, take or mask yourself, but for some things it can be more difficult. Fire is one example. It would be very difficult to try and mask out flames from a fire photo using the pen [...]
I’m about done with this Pirate wallpaper series, so I’m making the Photoshop PSD file available for anyone that would like to edit it and make their own version. If you do, I’d be interested in seeing what you come up with, so let me know in the comments.
A recent OXO Tower brochure had a clever design idea, but unless you live in the London area and have a particularly keen interest in the OXO Tower, it’s unlikely you’d have seen it. I thought this idea was too good to let slip away into obscurity, so here it is and here’s one way [...]
Download Photoshop Custom Shapes: Guns Includes: Photoshop CSH file and vector SVG file for use in other programs (Inkscape, Illustrator, Flash, etc) Filesize: 253kb About Downloaded over 38,000 times on deviantart, this was the first set of Custom Shapes I made. There is quite a lot of detail in the guns, even though they are [...]
When I started using Lightroom, I thought it would be very handy to be able to import all my Camera Raw presets into the developing room. Afterall, I’ve spent the past couple of years developing them and they’re the same options as far as I could see. Wrong. I thought it would be a matter [...]
In this tutorial I’ll show how I processed this image using the easiest way to darken the sky for dramatic effect and some super-sharpening to bring out more detail in the photo. The photo I started with was okay, but nothing particularly interesting. The exposure was good, but the real scene was more dramatic. I’ve [...]
This was kind of fun. A little challenge to make a wallpaper in 5 minutes. This turned out to be closer to 10 minutes but I was enjoying it. Made using brushes and coloured using a Gradient Map adjustment layer. Size is 1600x1200px. And a darker version. Download the PSD file (4mb)
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Download Blue version: 1024x768px 1280x1024px 1600x1200px 1280x800px (widescreen) 1920x1200px (widescreen) Download Black version: 1024x768px 1280x1024px 1600x1200px 1280x800px (widescreen) 1920x1200px (widescreen) Download the template I’ve always loved these simple pattern wallpapers. They’re the only type I can stand for very long, other than a plain, solid colour. So, I made this little template for you to [...]
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I stumbled across this technique by accident while playing with Gradient Maps a while ago. It’s a simple way to add an attractive, non-uniform tint. Click the icon to download the action. If you want to know what the action does, then read on. How it works Start off with the basic image Add a [...]