PHOTOSHOP MADNESS is a state of mind where you cannot control your urge to surf the web in search of outstanding Photoshop work... and all of a sudden it's dinner time! So we go surfing today to find some goodies, and we've indeed found quite a few.
Be careful what you click -- beware of malware and phishing sites We remind you, however, especially Windows users -- be careful what you click. There are malware, phishing stalker and predator links abundant in many of the replicated sites these days. Whatch those little popups in the text. Just stay on the tutorial / content paths and you'll be okay.
First, we'll introduce Andrea Austoni...
5 Useful Photoshop Effects by Andrea Austoni Photoshop Fave
We're now following Andrea Austoni http://twitter.com/cutelittletweet a new Photoshop FAVE at Photoshop 911. Andrea Austoni is from Milano, Italy and you can visit here. Andrea's site is nicely done with a minimum of spam and no stalker links. You're safe here!
5 useful photoshop effects Photoshop Tutorial : 5 useful photoshop effects
card, christmas, design Abstract Christmas Wallpaper with snowflake, wallpaper
Holiday Spirit: Christmas Wallpaper
This abstract wallpaper in red with some gifts and stars was created by ART-D -- unfortunately, adobetutorialz.com didn't supply any credits for Art, and we could not find out who ART-D actually is, to give credit. So unless the author comes forward, we'll have to go with that. (One of the problems about these tutorial replicator sites (Besides a rude lack of credit for the authors) is they pick-up tutorials all over the web and "replicate" them in their own sites, as if they were their own. So you might have to drill down four or five layers to get to the actual author's site.
Anyway, this is a pretty good tutorial -- with a lot of idea starters for other works
Photoshop Tutorial for Abstract Christmas Wallpaper Photoshop Tutorial for Abstract Christmas Wallpaper
Photoshop Tutorial: Christmas balls with reflection
Holiday Spirit: Holiday ornaments with reflections.
This is a welcome tutorial because it covers mapping images to the shiny surface of the ornaments -- a question we've had many times in the Photoshop 911 emergency room. This one is by a contributor called "Jeka" with no other information other than location Chisinau, Moldova. No links or web sites listed by eyesontutorials.com. Careful, this site puts ad links and spam in the middle of content.
Photoshop Tutorial for Abstract Christmas Wallpaper Photoshop Tutorial:Holiday ornaments with reflections
Andrew Houle uses Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop to make snowflakes and put them into a realistic 3-D scene
A Very Snowy Tutorial
Andrew Houle uses Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop This wonderful piece was written by Andrew Houle. We like this one because of the sheer depth in the presentation of snowflakes. WOW ... great stuff! See other works by Andrew at: www.myinkblog.com. This Photoshop Tutorial also uses Illustrator to create this winter background. The focus is how to first create custom patterns in Illustrator and custom brushes from these patterns in Photoshop -- then put them together into a convincingly realistic scene. These techniques are all very useful.
Photoshop Tutorial for Abstract Christmas Wallpaper A Very Snowy Tutorial
Jungle King Photoshop Tutorial by Tony Mathew
Creating the Jungle King
This is a pretty cool photoshop tutorial by Tony Mathew. He shows you how to mash up a series of photos in a highly creative poster based on a famous painting from the 1800's. Tony is a Medical Student living in England. He enjoys design and photography in his spare time. Find more of Tony's art at khodium.deviantart.com
The tutorial is actually at tutorial9.net, and once you get past all the screen spam, it scrolls well. Beware, there are tons of stalker links and screen spam here. Windows users, we think you'll be fairly safe if you just don't click on anything not directly related to the tutorial itself. The author does include work files.
Jungle King Photoshop Tutorial by Tony Mathew Jungle King Photoshop Tutorial by Tony Mathew
How to Create 3D Text Blocks in Photoshop
How to Create 3D Text Blocks in Photoshop Eren Goksel, a lecturer at Anadolu University, uses Photoshop, Max, and CorelDraw to create these spectacular images. He also likes to write tutorials -- having dozens online. Most seem to be at psd.tutsplus.com, which is spam laden, but not too bad of a security risk.
Eren writes:
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a 3D Blocks text effect. You need to have Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended to practice this tutorial. This will be fun and I'm sure you can do lots of cool things using this technique.
Jungle King Photoshop Tutorial by Tony Mathew How to Create 3D Text Blocks in Photoshop
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