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How to Create a Realistic Fountain Pen
In this tutorial, you'll learn to design a realistic calligraphy pen from scratch. The tutorial involves a simple use of the Pen Tool and a few flexible Layer Styles. Lighting and reflection techniques are explained throughout the tutorial. This might be a quite useful for icon enthusiasts.

How to Create a Shiny Paint Bucket Icon
Learn how to create a simple three-dimensional icon of a paint bucket, complete with paint splotches, with this colorful tutorial. Harnessing the power of paths, layer effects and consistent lighting we'll obtain an effective, shiny icon.

Create a Serene Panorama from Multiple Photographs
In this tutorial, we're going to teach you how to combine multiple stock photos into a single, coherent scenery in Photoshop. We'll start off with a single panoramic photo, and integrate two others along the way. Also, we'll look at ways to make the final result look more dynamic and appealing with a few adjustments layers. If you're looking to improve your photo manipulation skills, this tutorial should prove very useful!

Create a Stylish Pair of Headphones
In this tutorial, you'll see how to create a sleek pair of headphones, mainly using the Pen Tool and Blending Options. The tutorial is based on teaching some simple ways of using the Layer Styles to create some great shadows and a realistic sense of 3Dimension. This tutorial also involves showing you some interesting ways of using the Gradient Overlay option to create a metal effect.

Snowman GIF Animation
Knowing how to animate objects in Photoshop can be very useful in web design, avatars , logos and much more. Here is a simple tutorial for beginners in the spirit of winter which will explain how to create an animation in Photoshop.

Stereoscopic Image for Crossed Eye Image Viewing
In this tutorial we will create a stereoscopic image for cross eye viewing, which means you will be able to view the final image in 3D and full color without the use of any special glasses. I will be creating a simple piece from scratch for the sake of this tutorial but the final technique learned can be applied to existing artwork very easily, granted you are the creator and have the PSD file.

How to Create a Stylish Media Player
In this tutorial, we're going to teach you how to replicate Apple's iPod Nano. Not only will we recreate it's signature body form, but also the headphones and put them in a unique setting that makes it pop. This an easy to follow step-by-step tutorial, and altering the final appearance should be a piece of cake, especially if you're a Plus member! Changing the appearance is only a metter of picking a few different colors or adding your own textures as skins!

Create a Promotional iPhone App Site
In this tutorial, we'll be continuing this series on creating an iPhone app promotional site by taking our previous Fireworks constructed wireframe and adding color, texture, images, and effects to polish off this design in Photoshop. We'll use some interesting elements, like iPhone imagery and a stylish aurora vector background illustration. We'll finish up with a professional site design ready to get coded! Let's get to it!

Creating the Spoiled Princess Fashion Poster
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a fashion advertisement poster. We'll be combining multiple images, finding the perfect stock, and unifying it with just the right colors.

Learn How to Draw Hand-crafted Pixel Art
You'll learn how to create awesome artwork in the style of eBoy and Army of Trolls.

How to Design a Print-Ready Flier with Photoshop and Illustrator
In this tutorial we are going to create 3D text and integrate it in a natural environment. We will not use any 3D programs, so all you need is Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create this effect.

How to Make a Highly Textured Site Layout
In this tutorial, we'll create a textured site layout by layering multiple images. Creating highly-textured web design layouts is easier than you may think. You can learn to build image intensive designs rapidly. For intermediate Photoshop designers creating this design will take less than an hour, and you'll learn some professional tips along the way.

Automatically Define Brushes by Using Actions
In this tutorial we'll see how to automatically define a Photoshop Brush through an Action. Using a shortcut we'll be able to Save a Layer and/or a PSD document into a perfect and clean brush ready to be used in our projects. This Action is useful because it allows you to save time during the definition of a Photoshop Brush and put together a versatile brush collection.

How to Create a Slick Anime Character
In this tutorial, we'll learn how to draw an Anime Style character. To start, we'll rely on basic shapes and the Brush Tool. Also, you'll learn one of my personal techniques I call "The Front Mirror" which I use for almost any of my animation projects. This technique will save you lots of time, and will help you to draw many characters for your projects in a very fast way.

Creating a Modern, Glossy Mouse Icon
This tutorial is about creating the Apple Magic Mouse in Photoshop, though you could use these techniques to create other mouse icon design styles as well. The new design of this mouse just looks amazing. Creating it and using it as an icon makes it all that more fun and interesting. The glossy look and the simplicity, transforms this mouse into a really neat looking icon.

How to Make a Melting Camera Scene
In this tutorial, we'll use the Layer Mask Tool and Liquify filter to "melt" the camera. I recommend you work with a tablet for this one (it makes your work easier), but if you don't have one it is also possible to go through this tutorial.

Dramatic Text on Fire Effect
This tutorial I'll show you how to use a photograph of fire to set text to the match. We'll render the look on a nice dark background with a gorgeous text effect to complete the image.

How to Create Cityscape Concept Art
In this tutorial, I will teach you how to easily create a successful piece of cityscape concept art. We'll be using a very basic 3D scene as a foundation for the piece, then taking it into Photoshop for some creative photo manipulation of reference photos, basic painting and adjustments. Let's create this urban scene!

Design a Colorful Illustration Using Patterns and Shapes
We came up with a cool illustration that incorporates patterns, coloring, as well as 3D shapes. The most important thing about this is that it is all extremely simple to create so it shouldn't be that difficult for anybody. There are a lot of new techniques here that I guarantee you'll be using, so check this one out!

How to Create Glass Transparency in a Cute Photo Manipulation
In this tutorial you'll learn how to incorporate glass into your work. We'll learn a good technique for incorporating glass transparency into photo manipulations, while placing a cute, pirate hamster on the high seas.