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Today we’re going to learn how to create a super creative collage effect, using a range of photo manipulation, blending and compositional techniques. You’ll learn how to correctly extract your images, layer up various effects to create a sense of depth and detail, and create a cool sketchy hand-drawn effect for your photos. Final Image As always, this is the final image we’ll be creating: Step 1 C

Learn How to Photo Manipulate the Colorful Portrait ‘Transcendental’ This tutorial will guide you on how to turn a plain portrait into a unique, colorful and complex piece of art. You will learn how to modify resources and blend them into the piece, as well as adjustment layers and masking techniques. Final Image As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating: Step 1 The first step is t

Christmas is a great time for designers to explore new techniques and come up with some festive compositions. I’ve hand selected 20 great tutorials to help you push your creative talents this season. Learn how to create Christmas designs, including wallpapers, christmas cards, icons and more! (All images link to the original tutorial.) Design an Awesome Tree in Photoshop Draw a Header for a Christ

If you use Photoshop at all, you need mastery of a simple, but often misunderstood feature in Photoshop – Blending Modes. With so many amazing tools available, it’s easy to overlook this feature, but it should be a part of your toolkit. Where Are Blending Modes? The biggest reason Blending Modes are ignored is because of their location – right in the Layers Palette. It’s easy to miss because it’s

Logotypes are graphic marks or emblems commonly used by companies, organizations and even individuals to promote their brands and companies. The logos are either only graphic files with symbols and icons or are made of different mixtures of graphics and text, usually followed by a slogan. In the following round-up we have collected more than 60 amazing logotypes which are very well-designed, abstr

The last font round-ups which were released on Psd.Fanextra have been highly appreciated by you, the community, and you’ve asked for more! We have listened you, and set up another, great collection, with new, different and free sans-serif fonts, which, as usually, are available free of charge, for your both, commercial and personal projects! Titillium Text A slim and elegant font great for using i

Icons are great for adding extra details and professionalism to a website or application. Whilst detailed, bright and colorful icons are great, there is also clearly a market for minimal icons, which can often add a touch of class to your project, and be far more direct for your users. If you’re thinking of integrating a minimal style into your work be sure to check out these great icon sets: Devi

I live in Turin (Italy) and the Mole is the symbol of this city. Rome has Colosseo, London the Big Ben whereas Turin has the Mole. It is a very good subject to use, vectorized, to decorate this city’s merchandising items. A city skyscraper is a must to do as merchandising subject for mug and t-shirt. The image may need several sizes and needs to retain it’s detail so a vector is the most suitable

A logotype is usually a graphical representation which represents a brand, company, object, or firm. A good logotype, has a lot of chances to be remembered for a long, long time, and by this attracting new clients to the company which created the following logotype. In this collection we have made a list of more than thirty awesome, stunning logos, with a very appealing and elegant design. Logotyp

This is another awesome round-up of vibrant, stunning and simply beautiful photoshop brushes which fall under the abstract/fractal category. After the success of the previous collection, here is another great one, where you will be able to find totally different free brushes but at the same time as awesome as in the previous round-up! I personally use fractal brushes a lot in my own work, so will

Thursday Theory: The Importance of Perspective and Depth in Your Designs Perspective and depth are important aspects of graphic design, yet are often overlooked within community discussion. This is perhaps because graphic design is regarded as an inherently 2D medium. Consequently discussions of perspective and depth are generally confined to cinematic and photographic circles. This is interesting

Final Image Here is a preview of the image that we are going to be creating: Step 1 Create a new document (1000X1000px). Fill your canvas with ebe4ce. Step 2 Then create a new layer called ‘top highlight’. Fill the top 100px of your canvas with a linear gradient ranging from white to transparent. To make the effect more subtle reduce this layer’s opacity to 80%. Step 3 Now it’s time to create a co

32 Clean and Usable Icon Packs Icons may be a small design feature, but often form essential parts of a design. A great icon can either provide a subtle design flourish, or be used more prominently in a logo fashion to promote a product or web app. The following post showcases some really professional, usable icon packs, which are sure to add a nice touch to your web designs. Many of the packs con

Some time has passed since we had a font round-up, so today we bring you 50 fonts, featuring some really beautiful and stunning examples. This kick-ass compilation of free and awesome fonts features some rare examples, as well as some popular classics!

Self-promoting websites or portfolios are the most important places for potential clients to see your work and decide if you deserve to take care of their projects. Clients do not only look at the other work you’ve done but they also are browsing your website, to rank the level of your skills and professionalism. That’s why we have prepared a fresh round-up of 30+ portfolio designs, for you – to g

32 Hand-Picked and Awesome Brushes Since the huge succes of the previous photoshop brushes round-up, and the lots of positive feedback from the community, another collection of awesome, totally free brushes is provided here. The collection below contains fresh and simply awesome photoshop brushes you may well not have used before and should enjoy using in your upcoming projects. Trendy Blots The f

Infographics are another sources of interesting information, when you are in need of some. Reading boring, long, color-less articles isn’t such attractive and interesting rather than reading and viewing facts, numbers in an illustrated way. In the round-up of this week, we have compiled more than 30 nice-looking, well-designed and informative posters and infographics. The Online Communities The fo

Photoshop is one of the most used graphic editing program all over the world. It’s popularity has increased a lot, being used by tens of thousands of designers, creative persons, or just novices that try to overhelm this incredible software. With other graphic competitors from Adobe Inc, such as Fireworks and Illustrator – the Adobe Photoshop program is surely the leading one. In the round-up belo

NOTE: This post was originally posted on January 12th 2011. However, I still receive requests for quality xhtml templates and these templates remain great quality. Whilst WordPress is hugely prevalent, many designers and amateurs still regularly need a simple html template for their work. Enjoy! Nowdays, more and more designers and developers start selling their work for money, and as time goes by

41 Elegant and Stylish Websites for your Inspiration Inspiration is consistently a problem for both established and aspiring designers. When looking for inspiration for your next web design project, why not look over these 40+ elegant and stylish examples of web design. Each of these designs contains it’s own inspiring features, and sure to help your design process get jump started! Legends of Val

Nowadays, Photoshop is one of the most used graphic-editor worldwide. Many talented individuals within the design community pour a lot of time into creating awesome graphic elements. In the collection below we have carefully picked and gathered more than 30 beautiful and usable .psd files which contain text effects, wallpapers and design elements and more! Simple Subscribe Badges The current file