• My Experience As A Volunteer At Wordcamp Boston (with Session Slides) #wcbos

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  • 25 Unbelievably Inspiring Works Of Art – Masters Of Design

    It’s time for another dose of design inspiration. I think it’s necessary for designers to look at others work often to help expanding the imagination of creativity. It opens you up to more ideas and things that you wouldn’t normally even think of or consider doing yourself. I think my favorite type graphic art is photo manipulation because it is one of the most creative forms of art I’ve ever seen, and it requires an extreme amount of skill to do effectively

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  • How To Make A Dynamic jQuery Feature Post Slider For Wordpress

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  • 10 Beautiful High Quality Dual Screen Wallpapers

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15 Stunning Manipulated Photos – Masters of Design

December 16, 2009 | by: jaredwilli

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tn-manipsI can make a hundred of these lists just from the amazing images I have seen on Behance, and I just might. There are some unbelievable designers on that site that I have to really give a lot of credit for the work they do. I’d say I have better than average design skills, but there are some people out there that really push the envelope.

This list of photo manipulations is so breathtaking, I don’t know how else I can better describe them besides simply astonishing. I collected this list a while back in just one visit to Behance, and it didn’t take long to find all of these either. I know you will enjoy these amazing works of art, and creative design masterpieces

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Video: Sneak Peek Of New Adobe Photoshop CS5

November 17, 2009 | by: jaredwilli

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adobecs5This is a video that shows a sneak peak of some of the features being developed by Photoshop Laps. It includes new painter-style brushes that you can change and control in ways never possible before. If you have ever used brushes in Corel Draw you might notice the similar idea here. The video shows the use of a ‘wet’ brush being smudged and smeared.

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Certification Exam Practice Tests – by GraphicMania.net

October 30, 2009 | by: jaredwilli

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ps-certFor all of you who are looking to further your skills with Adobe Creative Suite programs, and maybe even become an Adobe Certified Expert, then go to GraphicMania.net and try answering the Adobe Photoshop CS4 exam practice questions, and take part in the contest. It’s a really great way to see how much you know about Photoshop Cs4, or what you could maybe learn some more of

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Recursive Image Illusions Are What Now?

September 30, 2009 | by: jaredwilli

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50 Examples of the Droste EffectA while back I was at work with nothing to do, during down time or something, and I wanted to make some kind of graphic or something in Photoshop, but I couldn’t think of anything to make. So I thought why not make the thing I was looking at, my computer screen! I didn’t really expect much from the end result since I was just doing it to kill some time, so I just started to create it just for the hell of doing something

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Grunge Forum Signature Tutorial With Light Streak Effects

August 30, 2009 | by: jaredwilli

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I posted a question on the new Tweeaks Facebook page asking what people would like to see on Tweeaks. So I made this forum signature tutorial for someone that requested it. I don’t think I am the best sig maker, but that doesn’t mean I won’t make a tutorial on how to make one. It doesn’t mean that anyone will try doing the tut, but it may be useful to someone somewhere.

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What this tutorial is will teach you:

  • how to make a grunge style design
  • a nice looking forum signature
  • keystrokes and shortcuts in Photoshop
  • how to make a custom brush
  • a bit of smudging
  • and one tehcnique for making a light streak effect

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How To Make A Realistic iPod Nano In Photoshop

August 14, 2009 | by: jaredwilli

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When I got my iPod I decided to make a design of it in Photoshop, and figured while I’m at it, why not make a tutorial on it. I have a silver 8GB 3rd generartion iPod Nano. Here is what the final result of this tutorial will look like.

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800+ Photoshop Text Effects and Photo Manipulation Tutorials

August 10, 2009 | by: jaredwilli

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Photoshop TutorialsWhat you need is a good tutorial, right? It’s not like you would be here if you were looking for a bad tutorial, and you won’t find a bad one in this list. I’m sure you can find just what you’re looking for. But there’s always this list of 3000+ Photoshop Tutorials including Plugins, Brushes, Extensions, Tips, and Tricks in case what you’re looking for isn’t here. I mean if you can’t benefit in some way from resource lists like these, then I’m sorry but I can’t help you. You’ll have to go back to searching Google for your tutorials because with all the links here and on the other post, anyone could be pro in no time, if you don’t you’re just not trying hard enough

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5 Amazing C4D Render Packs For Photoshop

May 15, 2009 | by: jaredwilli

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Here are some really amazing C4Ds renders made by To Angelus-Hellion on deviantART. These are very useful for forum signatures, abstract art pieces, and other types of graphic design work. I highly recommend downloading these because they are awesome.

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5 Minute Web 2.0 Button in Photoshop

April 21, 2009 | by: jaredwilli

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In this tutorial I will show you how I made the Download button that is shown where you download things on this site, when using the Aqau Skin. This tutorial uses a lot of Photoshop shortcuts, and keystrokes, so if you don’t know them that well, you will learn some of them here.

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This may take some people longer than 5 minutes, but that is how long it takes me to make a button like that, so I just call it a 5 minute button

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