Best of the Web - October

Nov 11th in Web Roundups by Collis
Wow I can't believe it's the 10th of November already. Pretty soon it's going to be Christmas! Anyhow, it's a week late, but here is the best of the Web from October: tutorials, downloads, and articles!

Author: Collis

Hello! I started PSDTUTS because years ago reading Photoshop tutorials was how I got into design. I hope the site helps and inspires others! You can find me on Twitter!

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  • Creating a Leopard 'X' in Photoshop

    With the release of the new OSX, this simple tutorial from TutorialDog takes you through mimicking the 'X' look. Incidentally if you use GIMP, our very own Zee has a tutorial about making the aurora in the background in GIMP.

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  • Designing a Watercolor Effect Menu

    Nick from WebDesigner Wall has put together a pretty neat two-part tutorial about how to create a CSS menu in his watercolor style. This first part takes you through the Photoshop behind the effect.

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  • (Over the Top) Photo Retouching

    I do enjoy photo retouching tutorials, even if they often result in a not particularly realistic end product. This one from EyesOn manages to go over the top but still look nice!

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  • Toning with Duotones, Tritones, and Quadtones

    PhotoshopSupport has a pretty good explanation of multi-tone images in Photoshop.

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  • Computer Virus Effect

    It's amazing how the limited number of filters that Photoshop has can be put together in so many countless ways. In this tutorial you'll make use of a few tutorials you've doubtless used many times before but to make a really unique look. Very cool!

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  • Creating Shadows for Complex Objects

    This technique is super useful when compositing objects into backgrounds. It's simple and easy to follow.

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  • Creating a Lens Flare with the Wordpress logo

    Proving once and for all that Lens Flares despite being often equated with newbie-ism, can still be super cool!

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  • Wrinkled Photos

    A very clever way of scrunching up your photos that actually looks pretty realistic!

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  • Apocalypse

    I've been watching a lot of the TV show "Heroes" lately. If you haven't seen it, go get it right now! This tutorial hasn't really got much to do with Heroes, except that the look reminds me of post-nuclear New York :-)

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  • The "Beautiful Lady Effect"

    This tutorial has an exceedingly silly name, but the result is actually pretty damn nice, so ignore the name and go read the tutorial!

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(FREE!) Download Picks

  • FONT: District Thin

    I love super clean, thin fonts, and District is pretty damn nice. The only problem is once you have the thin you will be tempted to go and buy the rest... I suppose that's why they give it away!

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  • TEXTURES: Mayang - 3400 Free Textures!

    Mayang is a site that sells DVDs of textures. What's interesting is that they nonetheless have the entire library for free download. That's 3400 textures readily available, that is a *lot* of texturing!

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  • BRUSH: Paint Brush Strokes

    20 brushes that look like paint brushes, made for Photoshop CS2 from the fabulous Brusheezy.

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  • VECTORS: Vector Swirls/Swooshes/Wings

    Bittbox regularly gives away free vectors, including these super swirly-swooshey-wing things ... great description huh?

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  • Xtrabold

    Ok, this isn't really an article, more of an inspiration piece, but you have to go see this guy's work. He's only 18! When I was 18 I didn't even know what Photoshop was!

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  • Photoshop Smart Objects, smart but not always that smart

    Veerle's written up a little wrap up about Smart Objects that includes all the good that we love and a little of the not-so-good, which I actually didn't know!

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  • The apostrophe: Contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t swing both ways

    If you haven't been to iLoveTypography yet, head on over, there were more articles than I could shake a fist at to choose from. And the site seems to be growing in leaps and bounds. Every time I visit, the subscriber count has jumped another thousand!

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  • Blends, Gradients, Steps ...

    COLOURlovers has one of their signature color explorations, this one on gradients. And since as you all know I love a good graduation of color, I really enjoyed this one.

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  • The Showcase of BIG typography

    SmashingMagazine are doing what they do best, rounding up great examples of something. In this case it's big type, and they have found some lovely typographic treatments to look at.

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  1. Jens Schulze November 11th

    Thanks, some i allreadly know like veerle blog ;).


  2. Antonio November 11th

    Excelente, muchas gracias!!!


  3. Aloke Pillai November 11th

    Wow, 18 is pretty impressive, but I am a 15 year old free lance graphic designer. ;D


  4. Mat Harvard November 11th

    Awesome, seen a few of those before, but thanks non-the-less!


  5. Joefrey Mahusay November 11th

    Wow! Excellent List of Website and Great List of tutorials…


  6. Greg November 11th

    amazin men! thank you for everything!! :)


  7. Yuji Tomita November 11th

    I visited nearly all of them : ) Love everything.

    Wow - I’d like to see that 18 yr olds process on one of those super abstract pieces. I’d like to see how “http://www.xtrabold.net/showcase/kdu.html” is put together!


  8. sfufoet November 11th

    awesome！THX！


  9. Aidy Sabb November 11th

    Hey man.. i love your website..i’ve been a regular here and this new article is HOT! thanks alot!


  10. trendsettr November 11th

    I’m not that good but i’m only 13 years old.


  11. Mark November 11th

    Great links. Really love the computer virus effect tutorial


  12. Jim Viola November 11th

    Wow these are really great!


  13. Enes Kaya November 11th

    Thank you for sharing that, thi site is so cool…. I Love it


  14. Zee November 11th

    Thanks for this amazing list of tutorials. Very useful… and thank you very much for listing my Leopard Aurora tutorial with GIMP.


  15. johno November 11th

    Some great links. Thanks for the mention too. I’m trying to remember what the world was like before psdtuts!
    It’s the quality that sets you apart–the quality of the finished product, and the qulaity of the instruction.


  16. johno November 11th

    …unlike the quality of my comment: note the typos.


  17. nitesh November 11th

    are u serious this is so awesome people i love this site


  18. Arik November 11th

    Thanks for the picks!


  19. Headshot November 11th

    Thanks!! :D


  20. Mike - Digitalismo November 12th

    A great compilation. Nunca está demás.

    Saludos


  21. Jens November 12th

    You are my best friends now!


  22. Chris November 12th

    Great collection of links there, thanks!


  23. Eli November 12th

    Wow, very nice roundup, some very nice resources here.

    I noticed that you’ve included my brushes (the paint stroke brushes) thank you very much for including them, would you mind linking to my site at the end of what you wrote about them though?

    I don’t mind you linking to Brusheezy for the download though.

    Thanks Collis!


  24. Search Scripts November 12th

    Awesome collection of latest photoshop tutorials and retouching examples.


  25. gloomy November 13th

    really cool tuts and a great portfolio :D

    however to bad that the guy of the apocolypse tutorial uses a diffrent program to do the lighting :( wanted to learn that program using photoshop…

    aaah well… somthing i can invent myself then :)


  26. Dourival Villar November 13th

    i love this blog, aways amazing tips, thanxs all, From Brazil!


  27. Jessi.2 November 13th

    Just like to say you guys do an awesome job with this blog. I and check my feed everyday. Great Stuff!


  28. chad November 16th

    Love you site. Onr thing i would love if you could post is a wordpress theme tutorial. Both you ans zee seem to have a grasp on what to do, but i think many of us would be interested in seeing the process.

    Chad


  29. salman November 21st

    okay…..

    For extra “INSPIRATION”….
    I’m 16 yrs. old….:D

    And Heres my work…..

    http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=6738&l=593ff&id=637676664


  30. b00m November 23rd

    that’s good


  31. Greg November 23rd

    Thanks for this, I love the photo re-touching one.


  32. Jonathan November 29th

    PSDTUTS I put this Best of the web on my website this is the Link. Visit it and I wish that its okay. Thanks hope to hear from you.


  33. TGTBT January 10th

    I want to read the (over the top) photo retouching tutorial but the entire website you’ve linked to has been suspended. If it’s not too much to ask could you please create your own version of it? The original version seems like it’s going to be long gone. I just didn’t want to miss out on a great tutorial if I could help it. A lot of the other tutorials you’ve found were amazing.


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