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2 Mar

Speed Art: The Process of Creating a Spinning Cube in Photoshop

In a previous post titled Experimenting with Animations in Photoshop, I revealed some animation techniques I was working on. One of these animations was of a spinning cube. I decided to record the process of creating this animation, which you...
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9 Feb

Speed Art: Animated Valentine’s Day Text Effect in Photoshop

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, I thought I’d share with you this speed art video on how I created this Glittering Text Effect in Photoshop (tutorial originally created for Design Tuts+). Here is the final animation from the tutorial....
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19 Jan

Create a Realistic Paper Clip in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how easy it can be to create a realistic paperclip from scratch. Typically, I would approach a project like this with heavy use of Layer Styles. However, I wanted to share a technique in...
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5 Jan

The Making of My Christmas Card (with Speed Art Video)

Every year I create a custom Christmas Card I send out to friends and family. It wasn’t until recently that I started to record my process. Below you can watch a video on the making of my Christmas Card,...
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15 Dec

Use Smart Objects to Create Snowflakes in Photoshop

They say that no two snowflakes look alike. Trying to create several different snowflake designs in Photoshop can take time. Fortunately, there’s a simple technique that you can use to quickly create any number of truly unique snowflakes. Let’s...
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8 Dec

Create an Overlap Image Effect Using Layer Styles in Photoshop

Last month, I posted some asphalt textures to download. The main image (seen below) featured a very simple layer style effect to make it appear as if the asphalt images had some depth to them. Today, I want to share...
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24 Nov

Behind the Scenes: Creating Stylized Autumn Typography in Photoshop

Today, I want to share with you the process I used to create my Autumn Typography piece. This project is over 500 MB, took over 14 hours to complete (mainly experimenting with different techniques), and contains over 400 individual layers....
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13 Oct

Speed Art: Custom Lego Text

Not to long ago, I developed a new technique for creating a lego-style text effect as seen in the image above. I recorded my process and, until now, never released it. Here is the speed art video: For the...
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15 Sep

Behind the Scenes: Creating the Sharpie Markers

One of my favorite pens to draw with is the Sharpie®—and what better way to commemorate my appreciation for this drawing tool than to recreate the marker in Photoshop. I’ll take you behind the scenes of this image which I...
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