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Great Photography by Dave Hill + Quick Tutorial

Great Photography by Dave Hill + Quick Tutorial
When I take pictures, I usually adjust them in Photoshop, giving colors some life, working in contrast, applying some color curves. Dave Hill is a great photographer who's developed a great effect for his pictures. Take a look at this work and don't forget to visit his personal website.

Create an amazing Ad in Photoshop

Create an amazing Ad in Photoshop
I'm a really fan of Peter Jaworowski aka The Hejz, I even wrote a tutorial for PSDTUTS showing an effect inspired by one of the Peter's amazing works. Then last week, Cameron, a friend of mine gave me some tips on how create those light streaks, and that is what I will share with you in this post.

Creating Smoke Video Tutorial - Experiment 2

Creating Smoke Video Tutorial - Experiment 2
Last July I started playing around with some software to create video tutorials. Last year I had done a video tutorial showing how to in Photoshop and last month I did one showing how to enhance your pictures.

HDR: Not Only The 'Magic' Effect

HDR: Not Only The 'Magic' Effect
Today we've got an awesome article about HDR and its applications. Andrea Pelizzardi, an italian designer, sent us an absolutily awesome tutorial on how to do 2 HDR effects... After checking this out, don't forget to visit his site!

Fireworks: 7 Steps Colored Lights Header

Fireworks: 7 Steps Colored Lights Header
Last week I've created a small site, and I developed a simple effect to the main image. I can't show you the site right now, because it's still unpublished. Btw, the image was pretty nice and simple to do, so now I will show you how to create in 7 steps this simple image, just using some textures, colors and, of course, color dodge!

Surprise behind the curtain in Photoshop

Surprise behind the curtain in Photoshop
In this tutorial I will show how to create curtains and other nice effects in Photoshop. When I was traveling I was always thinking about some ideas for wallpapers for Abduzeedo. Concepts that would show what the blog is about and of course, related to the Space subject. That was when I had this idea of an alien behind curtains.

Beijing 2008 Logo Light Painting in Photoshop

Beijing 2008 Logo Light Painting in Photoshop
This is not new, I have already shown this effect a few times but as last week I created a wallpaper for CSNGLOBAL, using an image of a guy painting their logo and I have received some emails asking me to write a tutorial, I decided to do that.

Splashy Leaf Wallpaper In Photoshop

Final Preview
Today I'm going to show you how to make a nice looking wallpaper in Photoshop. It includes how to make very nice looking leaves, waterdrops and subtle background effects. Enjoy!

HDR Experiments and RAWs for download

HDR Experiments and RAWs for download
I'm far from a professional photographer, I'm more of an enthusiast and I love to play around with my Canon G9. It's not an SLR camera but it works really fine for my skills and, also, it does RAW; everything I need for my addiction to HDR. I still have a lot to learn but I thought it would be nice to share some of my experiments.

Mini-layout inspired on 9rules design - CSS Part

Mini-layout inspired on 9rules design - CSS Part
Previously we've shown how to make a small layout on fireworks based on the 9rules desing. Now we're going to show you how to set this to code up. We're gonna explain everything, from slicing in Fireworks to setting the css in the code. Enjoy and let's get started!

Hell of Tutorial in Photoshop

Hell of Tutorial in Photoshop
A few days ago I took sometime to try some tutorials I read such as the really cool Dramatic Text on Fire Effect in Photoshop by Collis from PSDTUTS, and put some 3D typography ideas into practice. My idea was to create a 3D text with fire coming from the inside of the document like a hole.

A Visual Guide To: Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography

A quick video tutorial of Fabio's 'Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography'. Fabio has some video tutorials on the way, but to get things started we have teamed up to bring you this cool tutorial.

Crazy Cool Vectors in Illustrator and Photoshop

Crazy Cool Vectors in Illustrator and Photoshop
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a very nice image inspired by the amazing work of Andy Gilmore. If you don't know who he is, I highly recommend you to check his work out. He creates images combining vectors and blend modes to create astonishing designs, and that is what we are going to do. We will use Illustrator and Photoshop in this tutorial.

Photoshop Video Tutorial Experiment 1

Photoshop Video Tutorial Experiment 1
Last week wrote a post about video tutorials and thought I would start making some. So yesterday, even though I’m on vacations and it was Sunday I decided to try some tools and see how they would work. I did a very short tutorial just to see how long I would take to create a tutorial and how hard that task would be.

Classy personal portfolio in Fireworks

Classy personal portfolio in Fireworks
I'm a huge fan of Photoshop, it's a fantastic tool for pretty mucha anything, however when it comes to web design my favorite tool has to be Fireworks. I've been using Fireworks since I don't know when but I can say that its vector capabilities combined with pixel precision positioning make very easy to design websites.