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What makes the Photoshop brushes great tool for beginners too?

bsilvia
25th March 2025
6th March 2008
2 mins
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The story about Photoshop brushes has some controversy in it. On one hand, many people, even experienced Photoshop users, don’t really use this feature very often. Maybe because it was pretty limited before and not so widely known among early…

Winter scene, Photoshop tutorial

bsilvia
25th March 2025
17th December 2007
2 mins
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10 Comments

This tutorial will show you how to create, fast and simple, but effective, winter scene in Photoshop. Use it for your own postcard, greeting card or scrapbook page. 1. Create a new document 6”x4” and color the background using Linear…

How to Install and Use Brushes in Photoshop (basics+video)

bsilvia
25th March 2025
22nd October 2007
1 mins
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78 Comments

During the last few days I received a number of questions on installation and usage of the Photoshop brushes. So, here is a short tutorial on installation and usage 🙂 Please note: This tutorial is made on a PC. Since…

Tutorial: How to draw a banner (scroll) in Illustrator

bsilvia
25th March 2025
23rd August 2007
1 mins
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21 Comments

Wrapping scrolls around illustrations or images are quite popular designers little trick these days. I’ll show you how to draw a scroll “easy way”. Step 1Assuming that you know how the scroll (banner) looks like, draw just one half of…

Tutorial: How to create a shiny Web 2.0 button in Illustrator

bsilvia
25th March 2025
9th August 2007
1 mins
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17 Comments

Easy 🙂 A few days back I was playing with Photoshop creating crumpled paper with torn edges and today it’s Illustrator time! First, draw a circle (using Shift tab) and fill it with radial gradient like this: Now, copy that…

How to make a crumpled paper with torn edges in Photoshop – cool ad example

bsilvia
25th March 2025
2nd August 2007
1 mins
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1 Comment

Now, this is one cool Ad!First read the content of the ad and then I’ll show you the links that will help you how to do this. ************************************************************************ UNCONTROLLABLE BODY SHAKER You can shake uncontrollably (and irresponsibly) each time the…

Cover page layout for the Vampire’s Health magazine

bsilvia
25th March 2025
30th July 2007
2 mins
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6 Comments

And now something completely different! Following the rumors on more and more people claiming to be Vampires, I decided to start a magazine “Vampire’s health”, or at least design a cover page in case anyone ever decides to make a…

Tutorial: Simple web shop icon

bsilvia
25th March 2025
23rd July 2007
1 mins
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1 Comment

Let me show you how I created a simple web shop icon (shop trolley). In Illustrator (or similar vector software) make a simplified shop trolley “L” shape (the handle + basis). Now, we will select the basis line and copy…