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This Article provides a collection of high-quality Photoshop smoke effect tutorials and brushes. Smoke effects can be useful in different types of design and artwork. Please drop a comment if you know a tutorial or brush set I have not listed.

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Creating the illusion of water and rain in designs using Photoshop can be a bit really difficult. If the right techniques and textures are not applies the effect may look unrealistic and fake. This article provides a collection of great tutorials and brush collections focused on the most needed water effects like rain, drops, reflection etc. Please drop a comment if you know a good tutorial or brush.

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Typography is defined as the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyph. With Photoshop and the right skills and techniques at your disposal you can push the limits of Typography to the edge. This article is one of the largest categorized collections of Text Effect Tutorials will be able to find. All tutorials have large preview images and all links have been verified today. Don’t forget to bookmark, share and come back because I assure you this “elephant post” must be cut up and consumed in smaller slices! I you do so I bet your Photoshop skills will soon be hard to compete with…

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Tutorials on how to create Web designs in tools like Photoshop have increased rapidly in numbers recently and as always there are some that are better than other. I have previously created quantitative lists trying to list any tutorials available that is worth following fx. 185+ Web Design Tutorials using Photoshop, CSS, HTML etc. In this article I have put a significant effort into picking only a few but some of the best available. This should make your life easier and its not too overwhelming to plan going through them to sharpen your skills and be inspired. I have based my assessment on the quality of the design itself, appearance of interesting and useful tip/techniques  and on the detail and quality of the individual tutorial steps. Stay tuned as I will scan through more tutorials and provide more Web Design Tutorials you can’t resist trying out!

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In this article tripwire magazine presents a very large collection of Photoshop actions (some in large bundles). A Photoshop action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files. Actions can make nearly any change to an image and examples could be changing the image size, adding new layers, appling filters, saving files in a specific format etc. With the click of a button an action can help us achieve time consuming effects in no time you just need to have access to the right actions. Read on and you will hopefully find what you need.

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It’s amazing what can be acheived in tools like Photoshop. In most cases learning new techniques and skills is essential even though it’s from a tutorial that is not directly related to the type of designs you typically do. Many tricks in Photoshop can be used all round and you will simply extend your “personal toolbox” when you investigate how others suggest a specific task to be done. I may be that you have your own way to do it…but it is also likely that it can be improved by adding elements you pick up when scanning or following tutorials. Lets get started!

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Designing web sites is a highly creative process and it isn’t easy at all to get started if you don’t have the right ideas, inspiration and tools available. One thing is to get the idea or falling in love with a design used on some web site you run into. Turning the idea into a concrete design, fx. a nicely layered and structured PSD ready to be sliced can be quite a challenge unless you have years of experience. One of the best ways to get started is to learn from others having enough experience and passion to share their techniques and ways of working in detailed tutorials. Great thanks to all the tutorial creators – keep up the great work!

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This post pick up on the previous two parts of a very detailed tutorial for “Creating a Clean and Elegant Blog Design with Photoshop, Part 1 + 2“. This is part3 and it will be covering last steps required to finish the design by adding the Side Bar and Footer Sections. We pick up just where part 2 ended and the result of part 3 and final Blog Design will be looking like this:

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This post pick up on the previous and first part of a very detailed tutorial for Creating a Clean and Elegant Blog Design with Photoshop, Part 1. This is part 2 and it will be covering steps required in Photoshop to create the Blog Front Page Post Section.

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Creating a great looking blog design isn’t as hard as you may think but it is a long process and quite a few different techniques will be required along the way. I think it is worth the effort trying it out yourself as knowing your blog theme well and basic web design and programming is essential for serious bloggers. Also besides being good at writing on interesting subjects and driving traffic, look and feel and usability is key to the success of a blog. You can of cause pay for a premium theme and it will most likely cover your needs but it may not give you the skills needed to act on the ideas you get along the way.

In a series of articles I will go through the design process starting in Photoshop and plan to go all the way implementing it as a theme for Wordpress. The part 1 is about creating a good looking header and working with some nice to know Photoshop Tricks. This tutorial now consists of:

• Part 1 – covering the Theme Header Section
• Part 2 – covering the Blog Front Page content area
• Part 3 – covering the Side Bar and the Footer Sections

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