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Best of the Web - January

It's 2008 and we're off to a big start! I've browsed through the PSDTUTS Flickr group and saw some fantastic work. Its so cool to see the community putting the skills they learn here to such great use. Rumor has it that this last month of January had a few things to learn elsewhere on the net as well. Let's check them out...

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Amazing Photoshop light effect in 10 Steps

From our very own Fabio, this really cool tutorial covers detailed lighting effects. It shows us how to make a coffee cup glow. This one is a must read.

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Filter-free art in Photoshop

This tutorial has a concept of creating great artwork in Photoshop without using any filters. Of course they use lots of other effects though. Learn to create a photomontage of a city scene.

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Photoshop vintage effect

Veerle always has high quality tutorials. This one is as well. If you've ever wanted to make a photograph look vintage with just a few tricks this is the tutorial to check out.

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Pixels and Vectors

Learn how to use smart objects to drop vector illustrations into Photoshop and merge detailed texture and the clear sharp beauty of vector style.

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Virtual Murals

If you've ever wanted to do some graffiti then this the tutorial to check out. It covers planning a grafitti mural with the use of Photoshop.

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Cartoonish/Juicy Text

An easy to complete little tutorial that has a real cute text effect.

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*Bling Bling* Simple Gold Text Effect

A while back we had a gold text tutorial right here on PSDTUTS. Photoshopstar has a tutorial on creating gold text with the use of layer styles placed on a unique background.

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Tutorial: Electrifying Energy Beams

Glowing lines look great. One of PSDTUTS most popular articles covers advanced glow effects. Luxa.org shows us how to unite a glowing line with a photograph. The look of the final image in there energy beam tut is polished and cool.

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Create An iPod Shuffle

This short tutorial covers putting together gradient shapes to form an Ipod shuffle. The results look professional and its easy to do.

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(FREE!) Download Picks

FONT: aaaiight!

This font has a limited character set. Though its a lot of fun. If your in need of a legible graffiti style font then check it out.

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Free Vector Pack 9 Sampler

Go media is at it again hammering out another high quality vector graphic pack. And to announce the release they are giving away a sampler pack.

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24 Free High-Res Textures

Who can't use some more texture. This is something you just can't have enough of.

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Speakers

I haven't tried these out yet. They look really cool. If anyone downloads them and tries them out let me know how they worked for you.

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20 Vector Lines Swirls and Patterns

These vector patterns look great. You don't need Illustrator to work with them. You can open them in Photoshop.

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Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of

Smashing Magazine has a through roundup of great Photoshop tutorials. Just in case you've missed it.

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Vintage Web Design

A quality collection of vintage style website designs. While none of these break any new design ground. They are each a departure from the main current of website design today. I like seeing how a designer will carry through a theme like this in a design.

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32 Amazing Inspirational Pieces of Graphic Artwork

Some great selections from Design Flavor, a user submitted artwork community that allows for ratings of each submitted piece.

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The Rising Stars of Design

A detailed roundup of a handful of rising designers to check out. There is a diversity of styles represented here and the artists answer questions about their inspirations and some of their methodologies.

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Branding Yourself With Gravatars

On to some shameless self promotion, *literally images of myself*. There are a lot of sites set up with gravatars. PSDTUTS has gravatars enabled. Its a great way to brand your comments on blogs. This article reviews how to promote multiple blogs this way. For an explanation of how the self portrait was made visit AiBURN.

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Think Different: Buy a Bigger Envelope!

This is a fun post that makes good points about not needing to upgrade to the next Mac, the MacBook Air.

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Design a Logo the Ultimate Guide

A compact bit of solid advice on logo design. For a relatively short article it covers a lot of useful information about the process of logo design.

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