Archive for the ‘Photoshop Tutorials’ Category
Today we will be working with the most basic tools in Photoshop and creating a very simple illustration, to practice using only the most basic effects. We have now made it over to part two of our tutorial, designing our awesome burger. If you are ready to start design, let’s get started.
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Today we will be working with the most basic tools in Photoshop and creating a very simple illustration, to practice using only the most basic effects. There will be three phases to this tutorial in order to get our final product. Today we will start out by designing a simple glass illustration, using only shapes and the paint bucket tool. Let’s get started…
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Today we will be designing a simple log in screen for an iPhone/Android App. Apps are the newest rage and as a designer chances are you will be asked to design some kind of screen for an app or at least to change up the design for an app, so we decided that we will start doing more app tutorials, as well as other tutorials. Now, let’s get started…
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Today I will be showing you how to create a simple coming soon page in Photoshop. We will be using Adobe Photoshop CS4 and will be using the very basic tools of Photoshop to create this tutorial.
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Today I will be walking you through the process of creating a simple nature scene in Adobe Photoshop. I will be using CS5 to do this tutorial, but it will work in any variation of Photoshop without too much changing. As always this is what you will be creating:
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Today’s tutorial is brought to you by the motion picture (fancy name for movie) Desipicable Me. This tutorial was inspired by my 6 month old son who can, believe it or not, sit through the entire movie at least twice a day without any form of unhappy faces or noises. He laughs at the movie (yes laughs), and is just awestruck by it. Since it is such a vital tool to getting through the work day (wonders of a freelancer) I wanted to dedicate a quick tutorial to the cute little guys. Enjoy!
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Yep, another new tutorial author has joined the team here at HV-Designs and his first tutorial is awesome! Josh will be walking you through some simple Adobe Illustrator techniques on creating vector shapes and bringing them to photoshop and then applying some photoshop techniques to bring it all together. Let’s get started!
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Hey guys, I know its been awhile since we have released a new tutorial. That is partly my fault as I have been super busy lately but I did get an awesome freebie to release for your guys today. Thanks to our friend Dominic Wood we have this amazing Milk UI Kit for you to download. Several pieces of this UI Kit have been featured on the popular page of Dribbble, admired by other designers, so Dom and I decided we would release them to you guys. Anyway, feel free to download.
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Today I am proud to bring you guys Pt. II of the HV-Tumblr Theme Series. This episode in the series is the PSD file for our last tutorial, but it also includes the layout for “Single Post Page” and the Modal Window for the images on single post page. If you are going to continue to follow the series be sure to download this PSD as we will begin coding up the HTML version of our pages in PT. III.
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Round emblem styled logo’s seem to be cropping up all over the place at the moment, blogs, magazines, design communities such as Forrst, just to name a few. The reason why? Stating the obvious you might say but they look feakin’ sweet!
So, I thought to myself, why not create my own little emblem logo with my own style in there and share it with you guys here at HV-Designs. Here’s a look at the finished article that we will have achieved by the end of this tutorial.
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Today we have the pleasure of presenting our readers a freebie from the very talented Hillary Hopper, exclusive to HV-Designs. This log in form is a fully layered PSD with easily customizable options. Today’s freebie is free to use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. So, what are you waiting for download the freebie already!
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