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Recently, the Photoshop team has been publishing some sneak peeks of what they have been working on for the next version of Photoshop. Later this week, Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes will be in New York City for a series of live sneak peek events. This will be a great opportunity to see for yourself what the Photoshop team is working on. I’ll be attending and would love to see you there if you’re in the area. The details for the event are below.

Thursday, February 9 Event Meetup

Hosted at the School of Visual Arts with special guest SVA alum and pro photographer – Sarah Silver. Bryan O’Neil Hughes, Ps Sr. Product Manager, will demo.

Saturday, February 11 Event Meetup

Hosted at pro photographer Sarah Silver’s NYC studio. Bryan O’Neil Hughes, Ps Sr. Product Manager, will demo.

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Grant Friedman | February 7, 2012

Recently, the Photoshop team has been publishing some sneak peeks of what they have been working on for the next version of Photoshop. Later this week, Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes will be in New York City for a series of live sneak peek events. This will be a great opportunity to see for yourself what the Photoshop team is working on. I’ll be attending and would love to see you there if you’re in the area. The details for the event are below.

Thursday, February 9 Event Meetup

Hosted at the School of Visual Arts with special guest SVA alum and pro photographer – Sarah Silver. Bryan O’Neil Hughes, Ps Sr. Product Manager, will demo.

Saturday, February 11 Event Meetup

Hosted at pro photographer Sarah Silver’s NYC studio. Bryan O’Neil Hughes, Ps Sr. Product Manager, will demo.
Tim Kyde | February 7, 2012

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Tim Kyde will explain how to create chewing gum packaging in Photoshop and Illustrator. We will begin by showing you how to create print-ready artwork and then how to render that artwork as a mockup that can be presented to clients. If you are looking to take your packaging and print design skills to the next level then Log in or Join Now to get started!

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Grant Friedman | February 7, 2012

When compositing photos in Photoshop, sometimes the story you tell can be just as important as how well you combine the images. Frequent Psdtuts author Tony Aubé is not only good at combining the images he uses, but he is also great at combining them in an emotional way. Let’s take a look!

Ever Belonging Seaheart

In this piece, it is clear that this ship is in trouble. Will the ship’s crew make it to land safely or will they be smashed against the rocks?

Maiden’s Prospect

This maiden is waiting for her prince. Will the suitor on this ship be the one?

David and Goliath

This climber has a tough, if not impossible journey ahead of him. Will he be successful at climbing the face of this mountain?

Awaiting Summer

In this apocalyptic piece, Tony explains how to combine several photos to create a panoramic image in Photoshop. Then he explains how to turn that image into a snowy apocalyptic wasteland.

Red Silk

In this piece, Tony explains how to create an Asian-inspired scene using several photos.

Toscane’s Skies

This composite shows a person enjoying what looks to be a beautiful day, atop a large hill or mountain. In this piece, you get the impression that this person is reflecting upon a major life event. You can see the steps Tony took here.

Returning Home

This rider is almost finished making the long journey home to his castle.

Hitoban Musumegokoro

In this piece, Tony depicts a sleepy Asian-inspired town using several stock images. This image is also available as a tutorial.
Erasmo D'Onorio De Meo | February 7, 2012
In today’s quick tip tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a cinematic “Transfarmers” Text Effect using the layer styles. Let’s get started!

Tutorial Assets

The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.
Step 1

Make a new .PSD document, 1000 x 500 pixels, RGB color, 100 dpi and grey background (color #33333). Create a new layer and fill it with brushed metal pattern from tutorial assets section (any metal texture will do though). Now using the Blending Options, fill this layer with a Light Blue color and set the blending options to “Overlay”. Finally if you want you can add a gradient that include several white and grey tones, with a bright area in order to create a better effect for the background.

Step 2

Now create the text using this font: Transformers Solid. Use these settings: 70 pt – Anti-Alias: Sharp. Now rename this text: “3D”. Then go in the menu Layer > Layer Styles > Blending Options and use these settings:

Step 3

Duplicate the text and rename it “Base”. Right click on his layer and click to “Clear Layer Style” or in the Styles Palette click on the first style “Default style (None)” (It’s the same thing). Now move this text slightly to the right in order to create a “pseudo 3D effect” with the text below (Look the Step image). Then go in the menu Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options and use these settings:

Step 4

Duplicate the text “Base”. Right click on his layer and click to “Clear Layer Style”. In the Blending Options menu on the right set the fill to 0%. Now and use these settings in the menu Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options:

Step 5

Your text effect is almost completed. Now we have to create a text reflection. Insert all 3 levels of the text effect in a group. Duplicate this group. Right click on it and click to “Convert To Smart Object”. Right click on it again and click to “Rasterize Layer”. Then go in menu Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical. Now move it as the image shown and then with the Eraser Tool delete as long as you want in order to create a realistic reflection. Finally to make the text effect nicer I added some sparks with simple brushes and color lights with soft brushes.

Conclusion

Now your text effect is completed!
Wojciech Pijecki | February 7, 2012

Applying the right atmosphere and lighting to your artwork can be a tricky task. In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Wojciech Pijecki will explain how to create a mechanically enhanced subject, in a sci-fi environment, using advanced shading techniques in Photoshop.

This tutorial is available exclusively to Tuts+ Premium Members. If you are looking to take your photo manipulation and retouching skills to the next level then take the tour to find out more!

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Grant Friedman | February 7, 2012

We recently showed you the first sneak peek of Photoshop CS6 by Senior Photoshop Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes. Today, Photoshop Product Manager Zorana Gee released a new video showing even more features of CS6. In this video Zorana will explain two really nice enhancements to Photoshop; Background Save and some performance tweaks to Liquify.

The first feature that Zorana shows is Background Save. This is a feature that many users have been asking for. It will allow you to save your file and then continue working while the file is being saved.

Another fantastic feature that Zorana demonstrates is a performance tweak to Liquify. If you’ve ever worked in Liquify, you know that you can’t expand your brush beyond 1500 pixels. This is frustrating if you’re working on a really big image. In this video, Zorana works well beyond 1500 pixels. In addition, the Photoshop team has also improved the performance of Liquify so that it doesn’t tile. You can now use Liquify in real-time with no lag.
A.J. Wood | February 7, 2012
Layer comps are a great way to organize content inside Photoshop files. They allow you to save multiple design ideas in a single PSD while reducing the need to create duplicate layers. As you’ll see in this tutorial, layer comps can flow from Photoshop to InDesign making your workflow even more efficient. Let’s get started!

Tutorial Assets
- Nitexpress Party Flyer
David Appleyard | February 7, 2012
Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

Psdtuts+ — Photoshop Tutorials
- Create a Pimped Out Truck Using Photoshop and Point and Shoot Photos
  
  Making modifications to your car or truck in Photoshop can be a lot of fun. In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a pimped out truck modification using photos taken with a simple point and shoot camera, with no advanced lighting setup. Let’s get started!
  
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- Create an Elephant Sundae Using Photo Manipulation Techniques
  
  Photoshop is great at seamlessly combing photos to create an entirely new scene. In this tutorial we will create an elephant sundae using several stock photos. Let’s get started!
  
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- The Incredible Digital Art of Michael Oswald
  
  In this article we will be featuring the work of Michael Oswald. Oswald is a digital artist with a unique style. His technique involves a combination of photo manipulation and digital painting techniques and the results are often stunning. Let’s take a look!
  
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- Sublime Text 2 Tips and Tricks (Updated)
  
  Sublime Text 2 is one of the fastest and most incredible code editors to be released in a long time! With a community and plugin ecosystem as passionate as this one, it just might be impossible for any other editor to catch up. I’ll show you my favorite tips and tricks today.
  
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- An In Depth Analysis of HTML5 Multimedia and Accessibility
  
  In this tutorial, youll learn how HTML5 helps to provide you with several ways of presenting your media content to users. As a result, youll increase the availability of your media to users with different
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- Writing an API Wrapper in Ruby with TDD
  
  Sooner or later, all developers are required to interact with an API. The most difficult part is always related to reliably testing the code we write, and, as we want to make sure that everything works properly, we continuosly run code that queries the API itself. This process is slow and inefficient, as we can experience network issues and data inconsistencies (the API results may change). Let’s review how we can avoid all of this effort with Ruby.
  
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- How to Illustrate a Microscope in Illustrator
  
  The microscopes is a symbol of our civilization. Throughout this tutorial on how to illustrate a vector microscope you’ll take advantage of numerous Illustrator tools. You will learn how to use blends, art brushes and 3D rendering in Adobe Illustrator. Let’s get started!
  
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- Create a Picture Gallery in Illustrator
  
  This work is a common project created together with Iaroslav Lazunov and Alexander Egupov. We have used 3D rendering, Blends, Opacity masks, making this three-dimensional stage with vanishing points. Learn every step in how to create this picture gallery work.
  
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- Important Resources for Learning How to Design Typefaces and Full Fonts
  
  If you’re serious about creating a typeface design, then you’ll need some solid resources to get started. Learn effective typeface design workflows, how to take an initial spark of an idea from sketch, through Illustrator, into Fontlab, and then work your creation into a complete and custom font design. Here are multiple tutorials that show you how to create fonts in Illustrator and Fontlab, and you can also dive into articles that describe the foundation of quality type design with ample inspirational examples.
  
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- A Beginner’s Guide to Pairing Fonts
  
  Pairing fonts can be a challenge. Selecting two or more fonts which work well is one thing – selecting two which work together to achieve your typographic aims may have you reaching for the aspirin. Let’s see if we can alleviate any headaches. This guide will help you get started with font pairing for the web.
  
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- Design a Series of Smart Banner Ads in Photoshop
  
  With the continuous growth of the Internet, online marketing has gotten bigger every year, and along with it, the advertising industry. One major factor in all this craziness is buying and selling ads.
  
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- Twitter Bootstrap 101: Introduction
  
  Twitter’s Bootstrap is an excellent set of carefully crafted user interface elements, layouts, and javascript tools, freely available to use in your next web design project. This video series aims to introduce you to Bootstrap; taking you all the way from downloading the resources, to building a complete Bootstrap-based website.
  
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- HDR: Love it or Leave It?
  
  There are few techniques in the photography world that divide our community as much as HDR. High dynamic range images, or HDR images, are a special type of composite image that combines several images at different exposure settings in order to create an image with increased dynamic range. The look provided by HDR is loved by many, and disliked by perhaps just as many. In today’s article, we’re going to take a better look at what HDR is, and get some opinions from photographers using HDR.
  
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- Inspiring Images of Cars and Motorcycles
  
  Cars and motorbikes have been around for 100 years. Throughout the century, they have looked beautiful, satisfied our need for speed and become a symbol for thrill seeking. Today, we’ll look at photos ranging from brand new Ferrari’s to classic muscle cars.
  
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- Quick Tip: GIMP Portable – Take Your Editing Software With You
  
  While a number of smartphones now offer photo editing basics (and a plethora of apps to expand things even more), the portability of a solid photo editing program has been hard to come by. Photoshop is a monster in regards to space requirements and its ability to work on any system where it is not expressively installed. Picasa can be fairly ‘lightweight’ but lacks many of the more advanced photo editing tools. So what about GIMP?
  
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- Modeling, UVmapping And Texturing A Low Poly T-Rex In Blender, Part 1
  
  In the first tutorial of 2012 you’ll learn how to create an awesome low-poly dinosaur using Blender and Gimp. In today’s post artist Karan Shah will walk you through the entire modeling process step by step, and show you how to create an optimized model suitable for use in any game engine.
  
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- Create A Realistic Explosion In Maya Using Maya Fluids
  
  Today you’ll learn to animate and shade fluids, understand all of the major attributes, learn how adding fields will allow you to gain better control over your simulation, and how to light and render the final animation.
  
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- SpeedTree To UDK: The Complete Workflow, Part 1 Creating The Tree
  
  Due to the shear number of polygons often required to make believable 3D trees, creating realistic ones for use “in-game” can be a challenging, time consuming task. SpeedTree from IDV aims to change all that with it’s intuitive UI, ease of use and powerful toolset. Making believable trees and plants has literally never been easier!
  
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- Dominoes” CameraTracker and Cinema 4d Case Study – Day 1
  
  In this tutorial we’re going to go over the principle functionality of CameraTracker from The Foundry, learning basic workflow, optimizing results, aligning the ground plane and exporting this data from After Effects to Cinema 4d.
  
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- Make An Amazing Motion Reactant Flame – Tuts+ Premium
  
  Using just a few video elements of torch flames, we composite a burning hand by using a series of null objects and expressions to drive a time lagged displacement effect to simulate fire burning from a moving source. We use the Puppet tool for the distortion and throw on some tracked lighting effects and a displacement map for the Heat. This principle can be used to add realistic, fluid motion to any tracked object.
  
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- Key Tips To Becoming A Successful Video Freelancer
  
  Youve watched thousands of tutorials. Youve put in countless hours and spent many late nights working on personal projects. Youve finally come to the conclusion that this may just be something you would like to do for a career. It can seem a little intimidating at first, because how are you going to convince someone to pay you to do this? Up until now youve been your only client. How do you get more? Im going to share my insight and experiences on how to successfully launch your freelance career this year!
  
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- Free Professional Quality Audio Unit Plug-ins for Mac
  
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  While I do agree with the saying, “The tools are only as good as the artist,” I also believe the opposite is true; that at some point the artist can only be as good as his tools are.
  
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- Quick Tip: Drum Processing Part 4: Tips and Tricks
  
  This short series of quick tips is designed to give you a good overview of the audio processing techniques involved in creating a professional sounding drum beat for use in house, electro and breaks in Cubase. In this final part we will look at a few ways to add even more life to your drums.
  
  Here is a sample of the type of beat you could expect to end up with at the end of this series of tips:
  
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- Quick Tip: Use the Doubling Technique for Quick Drums
  
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- Create a Microphone-Controlled Flash Game: Code
  
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- Why Bother With jQuery? A Guide for (Former) Flash Developers
  
  If you, like many Flash developers, are looking into using HTML5 for your web apps, you’ll almost certainly have come across jQuery. It’s a very popular JavaScript library, used by a large percentage of the most visited websites – but what’s all the fuss about, and should you use it?
  
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- An Introduction to the HTML5 Gamepad API
  
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- The Rise of HTML5 in WordPress
  
  2011 was a big year for the advancement of HTML5 in the web development community. It became pretty widely adopted, especially for the mobile web. There have been major projects that help developers use HTML5, like Paul Irish’s HTML5 Boilerplate (technically 2010, but popularized in 2011) and books galore!
  
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- Reusable Custom Meta Boxes Part 3: Extra Fields
  
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- The Ultimate Quickstart Guide to Speeding Up Your WordPress Site
  
  Give your site a boost! Implement crucial optimization techniques that will improve not only your ySlow score, but your Google rank too. In this tutorial we will cover all aspects of W3 caching, ySlow, Google page speed, CSS sprites & htaccess rules, to achieve a high ySlow score like i have done on my blog.
  
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- iOS SDK: Creating an Awesome Carousel
  
  Engage your users with stunning carousels. We’ll look at how easy and clean it can be to implement scrollable, interactive carousels in your iOS applications. With high configurability, you can have 3D, flat, rotating, and endless scrolling arrays for data, images, or buttons.
  
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- PhoneGap From Scratch: Introduction
  
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Grant Friedman | February 7, 2012

The Photoshop team is looking for their next evangelist. They just announced a contest asking for Photoshop users to submit their own hidden gem tutorial, and we would like the winner to be a Psdtuts+ reader or author! A hidden gem video needs to explain a lesser known feature or workflow of Photoshop. Each video would need to be 2 minutes or less and would need to mention “hidden gems.”

To see more examples of what a hidden gem video would look like, take a look at Bryan O’Neil Hughes’ series. The winning entry will win a trip to Photoshop World. For more information take a look at this post and the video below. Rules are listed here. Good luck!
Grant Friedman | February 7, 2012
As you know, each month, we round up some of the best Photoshop-related content from around the web. This month, there was some excellent Photoshop tutorials to choose from so please take a moment to review our favorites from January 2012.

Photoshop Tutorials
- Ice Cube With Cherry Inside
  
  In this tutorial AlfoArt will explain how to create an ice cube with a cherry inside.
  
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- Realistic Letterpress Effect in Photoshop
  
  This tutorial from Abduzeedo will explain how to create a realistic letterpress effect in Photoshop.
  
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- Sharp Fold Text Effect
  
  This tutorial from textuts will explain how to create sharp folds in text with Photoshop.
  
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- Create Hand-Drawn Animation
  
  This tutorial from Computer Arts will explain how to create hand-drawn animation using Photoshop’s animation features.
  
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- Create an Awesome Cinemagraph in Photoshop
  
  This tutorial from Net Magazine will explain how to create an awesome cinemagraph in Photoshop.
  
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- Making of "The Confrontation"
  
  This digital painting tutorial from on CG Arena will explain how to create a ôconfrontationalö artwork in Photoshop.
  
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- Super Easy Pewter Style Metal Text Effect in Photoshop
  
  This tutorial from Spoon Graphics will explain how to create a metal style text effect in Photoshop.
  
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- Making of "Fishman"
  
  This tutorial from 3D total will explain how to create a stunning ôfish manö using 3DS, Zbrush, and Photoshop.
  
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- How to Hold a Stylus
  
  This tutorial from Ctrl+Paint will explain how to properly hold a Wacom stylus.
  
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- Sneak Peek of Photoshop CS6 and Camera Raw 7
  
  This video by Photoshop Sr. Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes gives us a sneak peek of what Photoshop CS6 and Camera Raw 7 will look like.
  
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- Easy Wax Seal in Illustrator and Photoshop
  
  This tutorial from Abduzeedo will explain how to create a wax seal in Photoshop and Illustrator.
  
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- Love Me – Photoshop Manipulation Tutorial
  
  This tutorial from PSD Box will explain how to create a love themed photo composition in Photoshop.
  
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- Making Of "Discovering a Muse"
  
  This digital painting tutorial from 3D total will explain how to create this beautiful painting in Photoshop.
  
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- Useful Photoshop Layer Styles Tips and Tricks
  
  This article from Inspiration Feed will show some excellent layer style tips and tricks.
  
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- Painting Effects with Adobe Camera Raw
  
  This hidden gem video from Photoshop Sr. Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes will explain how to give your work a painted effect using Camera Raw.
  
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