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Pyramid Icon Design – Photoshop Graphic Design Tutorial 22

Michael — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:29:13 +0000

This graphic design Photoshop tutorial describes creation of a simple triangular icon design for a web design logo or icon. I will walk you through how to use your pen tool to do this. There are many insights on how to use your Burn/Dodge Tool to create shades of lights and shadows in this Photoshop tutorial.

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Start off by preparing your document; you may use a pre-made background listed below.

Open Book Tutorial – Photoshop Graphic Design Tutorial 21

Michael — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:31:58 +0000

In a series of simple steps for this Photoshop graphic design tutorial, I will teach you how to design a simple but an effective open book design that can be used either for your flash autobiography or as a splash page for your website and web designs. This Photoshop tutorial can even be accomplished by beginners, so go ahead and give it a try!

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I have already prepared a background for you, so begin by copying it over to Photoshop.

3D Retro Strip Design – Photoshop Graphic Design Tutorial 20

Michael — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:31:37 +0000

Today, I was browsing around some web design templates and came upon quite an interesting concept, which gave me the idea for this graphic design Photoshop tutorial. Basically, it’s quite a simple technique to use with a pen tool, but it does create some really sweet results. Get ready in this web design tutorial to create a 3D Retro Strip in a series of simple steps.

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I have prepared a background for you; however, if you wish to make your own, please open a 500×500 Document.

Christmas Snowy Night Sky – Photoshop Graphic Design Tutorial 7

Michael — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:25:38 +0000

Today, we are going to design a winter white Christmas image on Photoshop that features a beautiful snowing night sky. This snowy Christmas theme can be used for either a nice Christmas header or a web banner. The Christmas image could also be used as a pretty Christmas ecard that you can email to others or pretty Christmas card that you can print out. This is a relatively simple Photoshop tutorial, but it brings out a nice, beautiful Christmas picture with a snowing night sky as a result. In my belief, any beginner in Photoshop can work around this Photoshop drawing tutorial and achieve the same results.

Let’s begin by establishing our working environment-in other words, a background. You may use mine; however, it’s relatively simple to create. All that I did was to grab the Dodge Tool, set the exposure to 50%, and went over the darkish blue color. It creates a nice effect that will help us further in the tutorial.

Safety Icon Design – Photoshop Graphic Design Tutorial 6

Michael — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:02:07 +0000

I was thinking about how to add to the list of Photoshop icon designs that I am working on. Many of you have already read my “Creating a Calendar” icon. Anyways, a new family member has arrived, and it is the Safety Icon. Once you complete this Photoshop tutorial, you will have the following results:

Let’s begin with the first and foremost basic step, which is creating the environment or the background for our icon. I have overlayed and added some shadows to my background so that you can just save my background, and start working straight from it.

Ribbon Image Design – Photoshop Graphic Design Tutorial 5

Michael — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:40:15 +0000

Today, we are going to design in Photoshop a ribbon image that can be used for practically anything. In our specific example for this Photoshop tutorial, we will be creating an advertisement banner for a store, a website, or any place that sells hardware. (Besides this ribbon design Photoshop tutorial described here on this site, you may also want to check out later on an easy way to generate an online ribbon corner banner design where you can simply paste some JavaScript generated onto your site.)

Let’s begin by creating for ourselves a nice background/environment on which to place our Ribbon and details. The Color used for the background is #83b70b. Gradient Layer Style you can see below along with the small preview.