Jul 07

Create an Elegant Photography Web Layout in Photoshop

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Photoshop, Tutorials

For another contribution on Design Instruct, I wrote for them a Photoshop tutorial on "How to Create an Elegant Photography Web Layout". In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to create a beautiful web page design that is dark-themed and perfect for a web portfolio that is centered around photographs. It’s a pretty simple tutorial that aims to illustrate some great techniques to adapt into your current web design workflow.

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Feb 02

How to Make a Worn Vintage Beach Ad in Photoshop

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Photoshop, Tutorials

For my very first contribution to Design Instruct, I’ve written for them this tutorial on How to Make a Worn Vintage Beach Ad in Photoshop. In this Photoshop tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a worn out, low-saturation-colored vintage beach ad in Photoshop. We’ll use some beginner to intermediate level techniques such as the usage of brushes, editing colors, using filters, masking and a whole lot more!

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Jan 27

Create an Old and Stained Newspaper Icon in Photoshop

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Icons, Photoshop, Tutorials

Since I really enjoy the grunge style, I will be sharing to you another awesome tutorial using my favorite style! In this Photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to create an Old and Stained Newspaper Icon from scratch. We will learn some basic to intermediate techniques in Photoshop such as making use of brushes, textures, masking, the burn tool and a lot more!

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Dec 31

Free Hi-Resolution Scribbles Photoshop Brushes

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Brushes, Freebies, Photoshop

Since the launch of my site, I’ve gotten a lot of good feedback for the scribbles-style being used for my navigation. Now, if you would like to add some scribbles to your designs, I’ve created 12 Hi-Resolution Scribbles Photoshop Brushes! These are perfect for your designs most especially if you have grunge, paper or hand-drawn themed ones.

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Dec 28

Craft a Vintage Postage Stamp in Photoshop

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Photoshop, Tutorials

In this easy, step-by-step Photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to craft a Realistic Vintage Postage Stamp. This is a pretty simple tutorial making use of basic to intermediate Photoshop techniques and features such as masking, creating your own custom brush, configuring brush presets and color adjustments.

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Dec 15

Free Hi-Resolution Paint Strokes & Spatters Photoshop Brushes

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Brushes, Freebies, Photoshop

Another important resource for designers are Photoshop brushes. Brushes not only contribute in beautifying our designs but they also save us a lot of time to come up with some of our desired effects as opposed to having to recreate these effects from scratch. I’ve created 16 Hi-Resolution Paint Strokes & Spatters Brushes for the readers of Dawghouse Design Studio. This is actually the first brush set I’ve created so watch out for more brush set giveaways in the future!

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Nov 29

Recreate the New Moon Movie Title Treatment in Photoshop

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Photoshop, Tutorials

I’m sure everyone is familiar with the movie The Twilight Saga: New Moon. In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn to create a type similar to this movie’s title treatment. In this basic Typography tutorial, there will be no need for us to download extra brushes, tools or plugins as we will be using the most basic Photoshop tools and techniques and its default brushes.

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