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Interface Depot

The Photoshop Guru's Handbook

 

 

 

Interface Design Tutorialsons
• Realistic Glass/Plastic Pill Buttons
• Plastic Menu Buttons
• 3D Orbit
• 3D Sphere
• Aqua Buttons
• Inset Buttons.
• Aqua Pill.
• Clear Plastic Tabs.
• Micro Buttons V2.0.
• Gradient Buttons
• Push Button
• Plastic Button
• Button and Channels
• Button Bar
• Chrome Buttons
• Mac Tabs
• Glossy Buttons
• Micro Buttons
• Gel Button
• Animated Rollovers
Panels, shapes and interfaces
• 3D Line Grid
• Audio Interface.
• Aqua Interface
• Adjacent panels
• Animated digital displays
• Basic Winamp skin
• Borders
• Brushed Surface
• Cornering Technique
• Corroded Edges
• Complex shapes
• Creating rounded corners
• Cracks
• Embedded Slots
• Embed Slots
• Gradient Border
• Inset Lines
• Interface 2
• Interface Pattern I
• Interface Skin and Bone
• Interface Shapes
• Interface tutorial
• Inset Patterns
• Interface 1
• Inside Curve
• Inset
• Inset lines
• Interface (tables)
• Interface panel with rollover effect
• Metal Plate
• Maximizing use of Textures
• Nice beveled metal
• Navigation UI
• Outer Bevel
• Outer Bevel II
• Plastic and chrome.
• Pixel Borders.
• Pixel Bevels
• Pixelated shadow
• Rounded edges
• Remote control
• Remote control 2
• Realistic digital displays
• Smooth Metal.
• S-Curve
• Three parts interface tutorial
• TV Screen
Miscellaneous
• Converting text actions to interfaces
• Navigational User Interface
• Sun Flare
• Slicing images
• Tiling Images with Tables
Wires, pipes and other parts
• 3D Ring
• 3D Pipes
• Assembled pipes
• A rusty lattice
• Chrome Rings
• Chrome Caps
• Chromed pipe
• Glass orb
• Glass sphere tutorial
• Gradient Menu Bar
• LCD Orbs
• Metallic Tube
• Metallic screws
• Pattern Wire
• Pipe
• Rivets & Screws
• Spiral
• Segmented pipes
• Sphere
• Screw
• Segmented Pipe
• Screws
• Segmented Pipe 2
• Signed pipe
• Shiny screw
• Screws, rivets and more
• Tab Menu Bar
• Tube
• Wires & Cables
• Wire tutorial
 



Mood and Lighting effects


Duotones
Soft focus effect
Creating sunsets
Adjustement layers
Layer blending modes
Smooth and highlight an image
 Simulating depth of field
Add color with layers
Faking depth of field
Compositing light
Atmosphere effect
Cross processing

Artistic effects
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• Creating watercolor paintings
 Creating an aged photograph
• Creating a sketch look
Creating a watercolor
  Emulsion lift off
• Artistic filtering
•• Quick painting
• Perfect blend
• Digital pop art
Scanline effect
 Page curl effect
Cityscape painting
• Fun with layer masks
• Pen and ink watercolor
• Watercolor from a photo
• • Oil painting from a photo
• Line drawing from a photo
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Frames and borders effects
• Edges and frames with masks
Creating a torn/deckle edge
Painting with an eraser
Vignette effect
 Creating a frame
Easy photo frames
Photographic edges
   

 

  Photo retouching tutorials
• Classic Photoshop
• Photoshop and the web
• Nice tabs interface design
• Rippled metal
• Creating tape strips
• Coloring a line art illustration
• Tuning a car
• Simulating a barcode
• Impressive glass orb

Text effects
• Gel text effect
• Eroded text
•  Text reflection
• Shattered text
• Gradient text effect
• Glass effect
• Rainbow glow
• Spooky text
• Motion Shadow
• Patched text


These tutorials will show you how to create impressive text effects:

More Text effects tutorials

  Photoshop 7 capabilities
• Transparent bevel text
• Rough metal text
• Toxic waste text
• Pixel bevel text
• Easy rusty text
• Mud effect text
• Chrome text 2
• Shattered text
• Extruded text
• Ufo glow text
• Chrome text
• LCD display
• Plastic text
• Spooky text
• Neon text 2
• Metal text 2
• Stone text
• Metal text
• Aqua text
• Neon text
• Fire text
• Gel text
• 3D text
• Ice text
 

Dirty text
X-ray text
Alien text
Snow text
Cubic text
Gel text 2
Chalk text
Jewell text
Speed text
Wobbly text
Plastic text 2
Linked letters
Mac OSX text

Chromage text
Fools gold text
Ray of light text
Bubblegum text
Photo inside text
Antique gold text
Four way fire text
Ray of light text 2
Smooth aqua text
 Hollow beveled text
Spikey chrome text
Embossed metal text

 
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w you how to create impressive text effects:

  free photo enhancement resources for download
• AutoInterlace Plugin for Windows
• Dreamy Photo Plugin for Mac and Windows
• Download some free Windows plugins from Cybia
• BackgroundBlur filter from PhotoEffex
• Very simple photo frame Action from StarZen
• Border and frame actions from Moss Likenes
• Border and frame actions from Adobe Studio Exchange
• Image effects actions from Adobe Studio Exchange

free interfaces and templates resources for download
• FXZone Interface Depot
• Interfaces and templates from Eyeland Studio
• Samples from SederGraphics
• Interfaces from GuiStuff
• More than 500 web templates from FreeLayouts

• Psd interfaces from Andy Graphics
• Buttons and interface from Robouk
• Psd interfaces from FreePhotoshop
• Interfaces from GraphicsByDezign
• Psd Interfaces from EyesOnDesign
• Interface buttons
• Lots of Actions and Styles for your interfaces from ActionFX

  free text effects resources for download
• Impressive Layer Styles by PSXtras
• Lots of free seamless patterns by PSXtras
• Free Photoshop 6 type effects actions from ActionFX
• Free Photoshop 7 type effects actions from ActionFX
Lots of free artistic fonts from AUTOFX  (requires free membership)

 


PS & Misc. Tutorials
Ortaga - Cool tutorials from a skin 
Digital Web Gold - Metal tutorial li
Graphics World - Lengthy list of t
Tutorial Land - PS tutorials, links, Google - PS tutorial list and search BBDigital - Good tutorials on Photo Janee's Tutorial Listing - Review 
Photoshop Cafe - Actions,  a
Planet Photoshop - Some good t
Amentia - PS tutorials from an i
JLSWebsource - Some really good Dream Infinity - Nice tutorials.
Think Dan - More PS tutorials.
Phase 4 - Nice tutorials and 
Xtreme FX - Really nice tutorials and Designer Area - PS tutorials, , 
Photoshop Lover - Tutorial 
CTRL-ALT-F - French tutorial and 
Computer Arts - UK
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