Create the Forbidden Icon

Learn to create the stop or Access denied or stop symbol in this free Photoshop tutorial.
Step 1:
Start a new document of size 300×300 px. Create a new layer and draw a rectangle using the rectangular marquee. Draw a circle using the Elipse Tool (u). Hold Shift as you draw to get a perfect circle. Fill [...]

create a shiny XBOX gem

Let’s learn to create a shiny XBOX gem.
Step 1:
Start a new document of size 300×300 pix. Fill the layer with this colour (#335A00).

Step 2:
Go to Filter>Artistic>Plastic Wrap and use the following settings

Step 3:
Now go to Filter>Artistic>Fresco and use the following settings

This is what I got.

Step 4:
Now select the side green portion using the Magic Wand [...]

Create custom brushes in Adobe Photoshop

Learn to create custom brushes in Adobe Photoshop using this tutorial.
Adobe Photoshop let’s us to define our own custom brushes. Let’s see how to create our own custom brushes.
Step 1:
Start a new document of size 50×50 pixels with a transparent background. [...]

Create a drunk illusion

Learn to create an illusion image. In this tutorial you will feel as if you are drunk.
Step 1:
Let’s learn to create an illusion image that makes you appear as if you are drunk.
I have selected this image

(note: Do not stare the final image for a longer duration, doing so may lead to a severe headache)
Step [...]

Create a water ripple

Learn to create a water ripple in photoshop.
Step 1:
Start a new document of size 400×400 pix.
Select Foreground(#54B6E9) and background(#005E8F).

Use the brush tool and select this brush and give some random strokes on the canvas.

like this

Step 2:
Now go to Filter>Blur>Radial Blur and use the following settings

This is what I got after the radial blur filter.

Step 3:
Now [...]

Create a 3d ebook

Learn to create a book in this Photoshop tutorial. You can use this tutorial to create a cover page [...]

Watercolor Images using built in plugin

It’s very easy to convert a photo into a water colour photo. We just need to use a built in plugin called Watercolor ofcourse.
This is the picture that I am going to use .

now go to Filter>Artistic>Watercolor.
Use the following settings

That’s it we are done. This is what I got.

You can play with other settings [...]

Create a forum signature

Learn to create a custom signature for your self to use it on the forums/discussion boards.
Start a new document of size 350×100.
Now press ‘d’ to reset the colour in Photoshop to it’s deafult. Now go to Filters>Renders>clouds.

Now go to Filters>Render>Lens Flare use the following settings there

This is what I got.

Now go to Filter>Bruh Strokes>Sumi-e and [...]

3d waterly tentacles

Learn to create tentacles. These tentacles looks beautiful on any layout. A very handy tehnique to impress someone.
Start a new document of size 300×300 px. Create a new layer and draw a rectangle using the rectangular marquee.

Now fill the rectangle using the following gradient. You will get something like this.

Now we need to make a [...]

TV scanline effect

Learn to create the TV scan line effect using the custom patterns in photoshop.
The image that I have chosen is

Let’s try to add the scan effect to it. This can be done in two ways
1) Create a new layer and manually draw each line over it. Well that’s what newbies do.
2) Here we will use [...]