Webmaster 99 » ps http://www.webmaster99.com Free Webmaster Resources Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:46:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 PsGalaxy : find the best photoshop freebies http://www.webmaster99.com/2009-08/psgalaxy-find-the-best-photoshop-freebies.html http://www.webmaster99.com/2009-08/psgalaxy-find-the-best-photoshop-freebies.html#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:41:41 +0000 Webmaster9 http://www.webmaster9.com/?p=314 What is PsGalaxy?

PsGalaxy is a free photoshop website, a place where you can find the best photoshop freebies ie: photoshop brushes, psd files, photoshop gradients photoshop patterns, photoshop actions, costume shapes.

The website is updated often, if you’re looking for free icons, free vectors or free flash files you can find the best ones by checking those links.

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The PsGalaxy URL : www.psgalaxy.com

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]]> http://www.webmaster99.com/2009-08/psgalaxy-find-the-best-photoshop-freebies.html/feed 0 30 Text Effects of Photoshop http://www.webmaster99.com/2009-08/30-text-effects-of-photoshop.html http://www.webmaster99.com/2009-08/30-text-effects-of-photoshop.html#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:22:48 +0000 Webmaster9 http://www.webmaster9.com/?p=312 Graffiti with Photoshop

When you don’t have the guts to pull this off in the real world, Photoshop to the rescue. Learn how to make graffiti with Photoshop.

Create a trendy typographic poster design

Using simple shapes, you can produce some great-looking contemporary designs that create a big impact on posters; another good example being the recent Trendy Geometric Lines tutorial.

Dramatic text-on-fire effect in Photoshop

Learn how to use a photograph of fire to strike text to the match. This is a beautiful tutorial, a must-see.

Paper-craft text effect

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create paper-craft text effects.

Reflective liquid type

Create liquid text, a very handy trick.

How to create a gold text effect in Photoshop

Learn how to create a gold text effect. I personally love this effect, so subtle yet powerful.

Text in stitches

In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to convert text to a path and stitch that path using a custom brush set.

Paint-splodged text

This is a quick text effect tutorial. It shows you how to simply create paint-splodged text.

Create a spectacular grass text effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a rather cool-looking grass text effect.

Quick and dirty Photoshop text effects from scratch (six tutorials in one)

Learn how to make six different effects using just layer styles. So really, this is like six tutorials in one!

Create a dream-like design with 3D typograph

This detailed tutorial shows you how to create a 3D typography-based design. All the elements revolve around the theme of dreaming.

Create a 3D flowery text effect

Design soft stylized 3D type

Learn the basics of creating polished 3D type using Illustrator and Photoshop.

3D text with a touch of grunge

A pretty detailed tutorial that shows you how to create grungy 3D text.

Stunning 3D effects in 30 minutes

Together, with a pinch of this and a dash of that, we’ll figure out how to create this cool effect in just 30 minutes.

3D texture

Create amazing 3D-textured text with Illustrator and Photoshop in this in-depth tutorial.

Funky 3D-style letters

A straightforward guide to creating funky 3D-style letters.

How to create high-quality metal 3D text in Photoshop

This tutorial shows you how to create 3D text and give it a high-quality metal look using only Photoshop.

Create a spectacular flaming meteor effect on text

Take typography one step further by having text falling from the sky in a burning inferno. Yes, this is the text-on-fire tutorial to end all text-on-fire tutorials. It uses a little Illustrator for the text and a lot of Photoshop to burn up the screen!

Vanity License Plate

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a custom vanity license plate using a few basic Photoshop tools a piece of reference material and some creative layer stylings.

Barbed wire

Wrap your text in barbed wire!

Slow-shutter effect

Learn how to create this beautiful slow-shutter text effect.

Vibrant pop text effect

In just a few moments, you can add a vibrant splash to your text that will really give your design a pop-culture flavor!

Create a layered glowing text effect

In this tutorial, we will create this effect using very basic Photoshop tools and layering effects.

Scan-line text

Create a style dubbed “Scan-Line Text,” which is basically text that glows like bright scan lines, with a smart reflection as well. Learn how to create this amazing yet simple effect with this easy-to-follow tutorial.

Transparent glass lettering in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you’ll use some super layer effects and a bit of magic to make a lettering style that looks transparent and stunning.

Smoke type in Photoshop in 10 steps

Learn how to create a smoke typography effect by playing with some brushes and adjustment layers. It’s a very easy tutorial, and you will be able to finish the whole process in 5 to 10 minutes.

A slick supernatural text effect

Create a smoky night effect with text, giving it an eerie supernatural feel. It’s a good exercise in using the wave distortion filter.

Typography wallpaper in Photoshop

Why not design your own typographic wallpaper from now on?

Super-cool frilly bits typography

In this tutorial, you will learn how to mix some vectors with letters to create a really nice design. This one is a personal favorite.

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]]> http://www.webmaster99.com/2009-08/30-text-effects-of-photoshop.html/feed 0 100 Websites to Teach Yourself Photography http://www.webmaster99.com/2009-08/100-websites-to-teach-yourself-photography.html http://www.webmaster99.com/2009-08/100-websites-to-teach-yourself-photography.html#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:34:57 +0000 Webmaster9 http://www.webmaster9.com/?p=297 Basic Photography Tutorials

  • About.com: Photography – Catch up on photog blogs, photography contests, and even learn your camera basics with this thorough page.
  • Learn Photography – This site is aimed at the photography neophyte, and walks you through choosing a camera, learning specialized terms and mastering lighting and composition.
  • Photo.net – This community of photographers features millions of photos from thousands of photographers, with interactive forums, product reviews, and photo news to make you a better photographer.
  • Photography Articles – These collected articles from the “No BS Photo Success” website offer tips on joining photography forums, shooting tutorials, info on online courses and much more.
  • Photography.com – This site is a one-stop shot for photography needs. It features awesome articles (such as how to photograph flowers, or galleries of war photos), informational videos, photo galleries, and much more.
  • BetterPhoto.com – This site offers online courses with a “Better Than Money Back” guarantee that they will make you a more amazing photographer.
  • Teach Yourself Photography – This simple site offers basic advice for photography, from what other photographs and art can teach you to how to learn lighting.
  • 50 Principles of Composition in Photography – In just under 6 minutes, this video offers 50 tips and tricks to buff up your composition skills.
  • Photography Tutorials – These simple tutorials cover cropping, teaching children camera safety, finding the right white balance and many more topics.
  • Photography Tutorials and Helpful Links – Browse the informative forums, check out the tips and tricks and enjoy the Flickr galleries of amazing photos on this equally amazing site.
  • Photography Techniques – This no-frills site helps you pick your first camera, learn travel photography, become an expert at photo printing and other awesome topics.
  • Learn – This Kodak site offers tips on photo shooting and printing, photo enhancement, and photo organization.
  • General Photography Tutorials – Master low-light shooting, multi exposure photos and HDR photographing with this great site.
  • Journalistopia – This online journalism site has tips on cheap photo printing, image-sharpening, panoramic photos, and more.
  • Photography Tutorials – This site links to other sites to help you find photography courses, capture light, take great night photos, and more.
  • Photo Knowledge Base – Designed for photographers of all skill levels, this multi-faceted forum is broken up into very specific categories (such as 35 mm and ZLR cameras) and offers all the photo tips and tricks you could ever need.
  • Learn to Take Great Photos – This site features tips, challenges, courses, and much more. Complete with thorough video tutorials, this site should definitely be bookmarked ASAP.
  • Tutorials On Photography – This simple site has tips on using a darkroom, color management, the merits of digital cameras vs. film, and many more topics.
  • Learn Photography – This site is about every aspect of learning photography, from basic composition and low light photography to taking pictures of people, water, flowers, and more.
  • Basic Photography Tutorials – This no-frills site helps you learn about darkrooms, spiral loading, print processing, composition, and many more topics.
  • 5 Minute Photographer – This subscription site offers video tips and tricks to becoming an amazing photographer in just 5 minutes.
  • NYI Photoworld – This New York Institute of Photography e-zine features pictures of the month, profiles gifted students, and offers plenty of facts and thoughts from the pros.
  • Learn Photography – This is a video course consisting of 16 lessons, and offers over 60 photography tips. Whether you use film or digital, these lessons have something for you.

Advanced Photography Tutorials

  • Layers – This online magazine offers tips on shooting silhouettes, using watermarks, using digital boxes, and much more.
  • Macro Photography Tutorial – This simple site walks you through macro photography from start (understanding your camera) to finish (getting images “even the naked eye would miss”).
  • Luminous Landscapes: Tutorials – This site helps you polish your luminous lens with tips on photographing the stars, night landscapes, solar eclipses and more.
  • Photography Tutorials – These down and dirty tutorials offer help with fixing highlights and shadows, photographing splashes of water, separating colors for screen printing and much more.
  • Photography Tutorials by Andrew Whyte – Purchase these online tutorials and you too can master wedding photography, painting landscapes, digital photography, and more.
  • Photography and Studio Lighting – This site helps you use white backgrounds, set up a studio at home, and even learn some photography hacks along the way.
  • 10 top tips for travel photographers – This Youtube video offers 10 quick tips and tricks for travel photographers in their native environment: on-the-go.
  • Photography Tips – This no-frills site is broken into “Beginner” and “Advanced” sections, offering tips on everything from exposure basics to digital landscapes.
  • Teaching Yourself Photography – This photo-filled tutorial offers great tips on Internet research, photo re-creation, learning new techniques, and more.
  • Photo Tips and Techniques – These tips are very specific—such as animal photography and holiday photography—and will help make you a photographer for all seasons.
  • Luminous Landscape – If you’re into shooting landscapes or nature/documentary photography, this site offers photo tips and equipment reviews in addition to amazing online tutorials that you can purchase.
  • Dan Burkholder Photography – This site offers an online store for equipment and tutorials, as well as an amazing online portfolio.
  • New and Inspirational Photography Tips – This simple site specializes on small tips and tricks that can enhance the work of even the most veteran photographers.
  • How to Do Macro Insect Photography – If you’d like your lens to get up close (like, really up close) to the insect word, this site offers equipment tips, photography tips, and an amazing gallery of photos.
  • Prophotolife – These videos from the user of the same name help you solve an array of photography problems, and also offer specific advice on everything from studio lighting to bird photography.
  • Macro Photography for Beginners – Like the name says, this site is all about helping macro neophytes become macro masters. It offers tips on equipment, software, and shutter speeds to help you conquer the close-up.
  • Learning Macro Photography with Butterflies as Subjects – It doesn’t get more specific than this: tips on the cameras, lenses, and skills you’ll need to get up close and personal with the world of butterflies.
  • How to Take Great Pictures of Grandchildren – This grandparent-centric advice offers great tips on snapping pictures of your children’s children, such as making photos look natural, the perils of group shots, and how to get on their level.
  • Tips, Tricks & Techniques to Improve Your Photography – This site offers photography tips, humor, and very specific advice (such as posing guides and how to pick a great wedding photographer) with a blend of content for members and non-members alike.
  • Macro Photography – This simple site is all about helping you master those truly close-up shots. It offers recommendations on books, lenses, and money-saving tips in addition to links to other awesome sites.
  • Night Photography – Like the name says, this site is all about helping you master night photography. From special equipment to timed exposures to the merits of both manual and digital cameras, this site has it all.
  • CreativePro: Photography – This site blends in neat feature stories (such as iPhone apps for photographers) with informative how-to stories, equipment reviews, and the latest photography news.
  • PhotoPreneur – This blog is aimed at the professional photographer, with tips on breathing life into your career, publishing a photography book, and the most important tip of all: making mad money with your mad skills.

Digital Photography Tips and Tutorials

  • DPChallenge – This site has tips of all stripes, from making homemade lightboxes to macro photography to overlays and textures.
  • Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection – This site offers an array of tips for rocking your SLR camera. In addition to the blogger’s own tips, he displays advice from his readers as well.
  • Top Photography Tips and Tricks – This family-oriented, family-friendly video helps you master digital photography.
  • Digital Image Processing Tutorials – If you’d like to master the lens flare, use Photoshop effectively, or master processing itself, this is the site for you.
  • HyperPhocal – This site offers a little of everything, with advice ranging from the legality of selling your star photo to finding inspiration to photo organization.
  • Your Personal Guide to Digital Photography – This digital photography guide walks you through picking a camera, shooting great photos, using editing software and organizing your work.
  • Digital Photography Tutorials -This site has great tips on converting photos to black and white, reducing image noise, photo stitching, and much more.
  • Digital Photography School – This blog has contributors offering tips on surviving in the lean economy with your camera, Open Courseware Collections for photographers, and even how Twitter can make you a better photographer.
  • Digital Photography Tutorials – If you’d like to learn about aperture, exposure bracketing and photo noise as well as a bevy of awesome digital tips and tricks, then this site’s for you.
  • Digital Photography How-To Center – This Windows site helps you take great pictures, share them, print them, and enhance them.
  • Digital Camera and Photography Tips, How Tos and Tutorials – This site has tips on taking holiday pictures, underwater pictures, and even how to sell your work on eBay.
  • Digicam Help – It’s all about digital cameras with this thorough site. If you’d like to learn the best time of the day for photos, how to photograph the sun, or simply master erasing and formatting a memory card, this site’s got you covered.
  • Digital Photo Corner – If you’d like to sign up for a combined cruise/digital photo seminar, this is the site to do it on.
  • Second Picture: Tutorials of Digital Art and Design – It’s all about the tech info with this image-filled site that covers tone mapping, HDR photographing, work flow processing and more.
  • Digital Photograpy Tutorials – These varied tutorials help you master time lapses, lighting, digital lenses, and more.
  • Rob Galbraith: Featured Articles – This digital photography site has tips on the best bags for your equipment and the iPhone apps you need, in addition to the latest photography news from around the world.
  • Woven Shadows: Digital Photography Video Tutorials – These video tutorials walk you through copying photos, picking cameras, mastering macro photography and more.
  • PhotoAxe – These digital photography tutorials offer tips on making a profit, mastering dynamic photography, and even how to photograph Christmas decorations.
  • Take better photos: Digital photography tips and ideas – While offering basics and techniques for all aspects of digital photography, this site really shines with its specific advice on photographing babies, pets, sports, and more.
  • Take better photos: Digital photography tips and ideas – This site helps you become a chronicler of your own adventures, whether you’re hiking, biking, boating, or anything in-between.
  • Photography Basics – This digital photography blog offers tips on getting tricky shots, mastering sports photography, and more.
  • Beyond Megapixels – This digital photography site is bursting with lots of specific tips and tricks, such as mastering smoke photography, post-processing, painting with light, and more.
  • Learn how to take great pictures – This site covers all aspects of digital photography, from shooting specific things/events to mastering selling your photos.
  • Free Digital Photography Lessons & Tips – This simple set helps you master motion capturing, accessorizing your camera, finding great deals on cameras, and more.
  • Digital Photography Tutorials – Basics – This site explains why you should go digital, and offers tips and tricks on breaking into the world of digital photography.
  • Digital Photography Tutorials – These tutorials will help you with architecture photography, car photography, lens filters, and much more.
  • Digital Photography Tips – This site helps you master black and white photography, blending layers, applying glamour photo effects and much more.
  • Digital Portrait Photography – This simple site offers 29 tips on getting better digital photos.
  • Digital Photography FAQ – This no-frills, simple FAQ has answers to your questions about equipment, photography, software, and more.
  • 53 Crazy-good Digital Photography Tutorials – Just like the name says, this site presents 53 tutorials, from shooting impressive pictures to creating sunset effects to repairing old photos.
  • Rick Sammon’s Top Ten Digital Photography Tips – In just 5 minutes, you can absorb all of Rick Sammon’s digital photography tips in this awesome online video.
  • Digital Photography Tutorials Area – This simple site walks you through camera basics, intermediate photography techniques, and advanced editing tricks.
  • Learn Digital Photography – This no-frills site is about two things: learning digital photography and helping you pick the best equipment with awesome, in-depth reviews.
  • The Digital Photography Tutorial – This site helps you figure out what to do once you’ve begun your digital photography. Tips include handling workflow, printing online, photo storage, and much more.
  • DSLR Tips – Learn how to intentionally blur action shots, make water look dream-like, and even how to darken your photos for a gothic effect with this awesome site.
  • Photography On the Net – This site links to numerous others, such as digital photography forums and databases, free gallery management software, and awesome photo galleries.

Camera and Camera Equipment Reviews and Ratings for Professional Photographers

  • Digital SLR Cameras – This site introduces you to digital SLRS, offers practical applications for better photos, and even offers advice on picking the right lens and printing photos.
  • Digital ImageMaker – Another great no-frills site, this place offers photography news, equipment reviews, informative tutorials, and much more.
  • Adorama Learning Center – This site has two primary sections—photography tricks and equipment recommendations. In addition to tips and tricks for photogs of all skill levels and in-depth dishing on film vs. digital, the site offers bite-sized glimpses into the world of photography news.
  • Fredmiranda.com – This site gets right down to it, offering over 300 photography equipment reviews, an informative forum, amazing galleries, and info on the most popular photo software.
  • thePhotoFinishes – This simple site offers news, reviews, and how-tos for photography equipment and software.
  • Light Stalking – This site helps you pick a tripod, pick up a used camera lens, improve your wildlife photography and much more.
  • DPhoto Journal – This site has in-depth reviews about cameras past and present, and tips on how to use them.
  • PhotographyReview.com – This site helps you pick your cameras and equipment, and offers an array of news, reviews, and articles about the world of photography.
  • Imaging Resource – This simple site has camera reviews, lens info, and market research into the best-selling equipment.

Photoshop Tutorials

  • Apogee Photo Magazine – This photography magazine emphasizes the mastery of Photoshop and other helpful tech hints, all while offering informative adventures from photographers around the world.
  • Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Like the name implies, this site is all about mastering Photoshop. Learn how to use animations, text effects, and skillful retouches in no time at all.
  • Photoshop Tutorials – Learn how to get vintage photo effects, create realistic distortions, and master image manipulation with this colorful site.
  • Tips – This site is all about photo tips, from photographing weddings to creating light tents to mastering Photoshop.
  • Photoshop Tutorials – If you’d like to create grungy textures, design wooden backgrounds, or create urban montages, this Photoshop-centric site has what you need.
  • Power Retouche – This site is all about helping you find the best Photoshop plug-ins for retouching photographs.
  • National Association of Photoshop Professionals – Becoming a member of this Association gives you access to Photoshop tips, a subscription to Photoshop User magazine, your own Online Portfolio and much more.

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PSDVIBE.com, a site where you’ll find Adobe Photoshop tutorials, resources and freebies.

With all the repition of the same old tutorials, we wanted to provide users with a resource to find unique and new ideas through learning. At PSDVIBE we want to be precise with our tutorials, so if we believe we cannot explain what we are creating in detail, we will not bother posting the tutorial like many websites do.

With many tutorial websites, they focus only on pageviews. We want to provide quality over quantity and if that provides more pageviews, thats just a plus. As always if you have a certain technique you’ve seen and want to learn it, please visit our contact page, and theres a good change we will turn it into a tutorial.

2.HV-Designs

HV-Designs is a popular site dedicated to mastering Adobe Photoshop, JQuery, CSS and HTML. With over 200 lessons and new lessons added weekly, sometimes daily, hv-designs is constantly in the spot light..

3.SixRevisions

Six Revisions is a weblog that provides practical, useful information for the modern, standards-compliant web designer and web developer. It seeks to present exceptional, noteworthy tips, tutorials, and resources that the modern web professional will appreciate. You’ll find a variety of content from tools that can speed up your workflow processes to showcases of beautiful designs for inspiration and tutorials on JavaScript frameworks like jQuery and MooTools.

4.AdobeTutorialz

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Photo effects, Effects, Graffiti, Pop Art, Icons, Web Layouts, Wallpapers, Backgrounds

5.GrafPedia

Simply stunning tutorials and outcomes look really professional and high quality!

6. TemplateTuts

Template Tuts offers free, high quality web design tutorials. We boast completely free PSD downloads for every tutorial we publish so learning can take place at a personal level. We also encourage our readers to contribute to the community.

7. WebDesignDev

WebDesignDev (WDD) was started back in the summer of 2006 as a tutorial website for web designers. In our very first month we had over 200,000 visitors, was hacked and shut down by our host for having to much traffic. Since then we have change WDD a lot to keep up with the changes in the web design world.

8. PSD Tuts

Psdtuts+ is a blog/Photoshop site made to house and showcase some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. We publish tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain the techniques behind them in a friendly, approachable manner.

Adobe Photoshop is a fantastically powerful program and there are a million ways to do anything, we hope that reading Psdtuts+ will help our readers learn a few tricks, techniques and tips that they might not have seen before and help them maximize their creative potential!

9. Web Tint

Webtint.net is a website for web developers and designers, providing tips, tutorials, resources and inspiration.

10. PSD Tempate

If you looking for high quality psd templates design and tutorials PSDTemplate.com is your answer. Our aim is to provide the best psd layouts and tutorials. We do custom work also!

11. Webitect*

Webitect is a blog helping webmasters to build extraordinary websites. This blog is for anyone who wants to learn better design practices, coding and programming skills, website traffic techniques, and to become better content writers and webmasters.

Founded in October 2008 by Kayla Knight, Webitect has grown from a small blog of interesting web design discoveries, to a large scale web design and development magazine with multiple authors covering vast categories. In the future, we hope to grow as not only a blog, but as a business helping those improve web design, development, blogging, and general webmaster skills — completely free of charge for our readers.

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