Feb 24

Giveaway: Win Training Videos in Professional Photography Retouching

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Contests, Freebies

Update: Contest has ended. Winners will be announced soon

Aside from designing graphics, one of the many uses of Photoshop is for photo retouching. You can take a poorly taken photo, enhance it in Photoshop and make it look a hundred folds better. A great way to learn how to retouch photos is through online tutorials. If you are a beginner, step-by-step walkthrough tutorials are great, but sometimes, it’s also easier to follow a good screencast. A great site that provides photo retouching tutorial screencasts is RetouchCreative.

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Feb 23

Free Icons: Worn-Out Soda Cans Social Media Icon Pack

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Freebies, Icons

I’ve been a happy user of DesignBump, a site where you can share, save, vote on, and discover the best design related links from around the web. So when they launched their very own design blog, I decided to contribute for them. For my very first contribution, I’ve created for them the Worn-Out Soda Cans Social Media Icon Pack. The icon pack once again features icons of our favorite social media sites in 200×200, transparent PNG formats.

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Feb 10

Free Icons: Saint Valentine’s Day Icon Set

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Freebies, Icons

Valentine’s Day is once again here! To celebrate the season of hearts, Dawghouse Design Studio has teamed up with the very talented guys over at IconShock and came up with the Saint Valentine’s Day Icon Set, a set of icons that you will surely enjoy! These icons are available in sizes 256 x 256 and 512 x 512. The icons are available in transparent PNG formats and are free to use for your personal and commercial projects but may not be sold or redistributed.

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Feb 03

Free Icons: Vintage Postage Stamps Social Media Icon Pack

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Freebies, Icons

As you all would have probably noticed by now, two of my favorite design styles are grunge and vintage. Making use of these design styles, I’ve contributed another awesome icon set to Tutorial9 – the Vintage Postage Stamps Social Media Icon Pack. The set comes with 23 icons of your favorite social media sites, all in 200 x 200px and in transparent PNG formats. These icons would surely be a perfect fit for your vintage or grunge themed web designs!

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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 28

Free Icons: 27 Wooden Badges Icon Pack

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Freebies, Icons

Here’s another contribution I have made for Tutorial9: 27 Free Wooden Badges Icon Pack. The icon pack contains web and social media icons such as StumbleUpon, Digg, Twitter and several others!

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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!