The Blur Gallery: Tilt-Shift Blur, Iris, & Field Blur – Photoshop CS6 Tutorial Adobe introduced the Blur gallery with the launch of the Photoshop CS6 Beta. This Blur gallery contains three new blurring features that behave like filters but give you control before ever committing a change. With a great amount of control over selective [...]

Introduction to the New Crop Tool – Photoshop CS6 Beta For any photographer or blogger who made use of Photoshop’s awesome Crop Tool you will be delightfully surprised with the sweeping changes that Adobe has made to this awesome little tool. I used the Crop Tool every single day, whether is was cutting screenshots, cropping [...]

Content-Aware Move Tool Tutorial – Photoshop CS6 Beta One of the more cutting-edge features delivered in Photoshop CS6 Beta is the brand new Content-Aware Move Tool. The concept of this tool is that you will be able to select objects in your image and move them around and Photoshop will do all the edge work [...]

Create Custom Shadows – Photoshop CS5 Tutorial Creating a great drop shadow has become one of the fundamental skills for any graphic or web designer using Photoshop. In this tutorial we’re going to start at the most basic of basics and break out the good ole’ Drop Shadow which we all know and love so [...]

Create a Simple Mp3 Player – Photoshop Tutorial Ever want to walk through the steps to creating your very own sweet Mp3 player interface using Photoshop? This tutorial will get you going in no time with a super sleek Mp3 player modeled after the player used at CodeBase Hero » but inspired by the great [...]

Create a Realistic CD – Photoshop Tutorial Using Gradients, Shape Tools and some cool techniques in Photoshop CS5 we will create this sweet CD entirely from scratch. We’re going to be creating a fairly large CD so you will be able to use this piece of artwork in other projects when it is needed. The [...]

Create a Sleek Countdown Timer – Photoshop Tutorial We’re going to create this slick little flip clock countdown timer using Shape layers, Layer Styles, and Text in Photoshop CS5. This is a great graphic for any number of different countdown or date timers. Jump right in and enjoy! Tutorial Inspiration: http://365psd.com/day/2-218/ Video Step 1: Create [...]

Apple Style Video Player UI – Photoshop Tutorial In the following tutorial we’re going to explore what it takes to create the visual aspect of the Apple Trailer style video player. Using lots of Shape Layers and Layer Styles we’ll learn to use Vector Masks, Layer Styles, Custom Shapes, The Pen Tool, Aligning Tools, and [...]