Photoshop Tutorials

How to Create Awesome T-Shirt Mockups Like Jimiyo Go Media gave me the chance to test out their new women’s t-shirt templates, and I have to say, they are awesome. High quality, crisp images that’s sure to impress my clients since presentation is paramount! They are simple to use, but here are some tips on how I used them. First, I copy pasted my flattened high resolution image into the “Your Art” layer. Secondly, I align my image to be centered on the shirt. To do this: 1. Select All while you are on “Your Art” layer 2. Press ‘V’ to initiate the Move Tool. 3. You will notice alignment tools associated on the toolbar. 4. Click the center align buttons for vertical and horizontal and your image should be centered. Now with my image centered, I initiate the transform tool by using shortcut CTRL-T. In the toolbar, I link the vertical and horizontal, and play with the numbers til a good size is found. To constrain proportions by linking, click on the chain link icon. EDITORS...

CREATING YOUR CUSTOM HOODIE DESIGN We’re making a super custom illustrated hoodie design, right? The best place to start with a project like this is the sketchbook. For some inspiration check out my colleague’s sketchbook. You should start sketching something that you’re really interested in. Personally, I love tentacle looking things and couldn’t get the word “bogus” out of my head…so a bogus octopus was born. I did this one really quick (about 15 minutes) but your mileage may vary. I scanned the rough image from my sketchbook into Photoshop and busted out my handy dandy Wacom tablet. sketch I set up my file for 25” by 20” at 300 dpi in CMYK, then pressed ctrl+alt+shift+n to create a new layer and began to draw over my sketch. initial settings We always get questions about what kind of brush settings we use when drawing with a Wacom. These are the exact settings I used. pen settings pen settings2 Remember how quickly I sketched the octopus? It’s just a starting point...

I have been working with natural media more recently, and as a result, I have been learning how to bring my natural work onto the digital drawing board. I have shown a few people my “watercolor” technique and it has proven to be wildly popular amongst my peers. It’s not very hard to accomplish, so I figured I’d take a few minutes to share it with you good folk! For this tutorial I will assume that you have a basic working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop. Everything here should be backwards compatible back to 7.0 at the very least. Without further delay, I present information for you to be having: By the end of this writing you should be able to achieve a halftone watercolor effect similar to what I have achieved with this: Making The Drips and Splatters Before we can do anything in Photoshop, we have to have some splatters and washes and drips. I don’t actually use watercolor paints, I make an ink wash. You could just as easily search free stock images such as those at The Stock Excha...

Everyone knows the pink panther! I sure love the old cartoons and remember this old VCR tape packed with episodes I used to watch as a kid, over and over again. Well, there were lots of episodes, so it wasn’t as obsessive as it sounds… Anyway, I thought it was time to give the old feline a modern, furious twist, and so I created this T-shirt for Design by Humans, for which I would greatly appreciate your vote! Apart from shamelessly promoting myself, I’m going to show you how to create a poster of this new and improved pink panther using some great online resources, from Bittbox and the Go Media Arsenal . You can use just about any version of Photoshop and will need to brush up your art skills for this poster with a pen tablet. Drawing the panther First of all, download the sample file below & follow along with me in Photoshop. It’s got more than 100 layers, so you’ll really be able to see how this was put together. Download the Pink Panther Poster Project File Indeed, you ...

Introduction Hey! I’m Whyball and I’m a graphic designer. Since I was a little kid, I loved to draw; at first I started drawing all kind of things that I saw in the books - usually animals were my favorite subjects! After a while I started to create original drawings. A few years ago I discovered the digital drawing and was excited to see the simplicity of using the graphic tablet. Once again I was combining those 2 ways of drawing: copying and using the imagination. I recommend to use this technique of copying something when it helps you to save some time while you’re working, or to achieve better quality. For example, if you need to draw a hand in a specific position, and you’re not so sure you can draw it from imagination, my advice is to take a camera and capture the position & form of a hand. It’s useful to have a timer function so you can take picture of your own hand easily. In this tutorial I want to show you how I draw a hand using a picture plus some ima...