So you create tutorials or something that requires screen shots on Photoshop and none of your cursors show up in the screen shots! Well I have created a pack of Photoshop cursors for you to use how you like, the backgrounds are all cut out, just open the file and drag the layer of the cursor you want on your tutorial, as simple as that. See the preview below, and below that is the PSD download.

In this tutorial you will learn some great techniques to make a navigation bar in Photoshop. This navigation bar will be in blue, but you can easily change the colors to what you like. Here is a preview of how the navigation bar will turn out (you can make it longer or shorter if you like).

A couple of years ago, it was so hard to find great inspiration on the internet in terms of web design, great looking websites were few and far between. Now there are many many websites dedicated to showcasing great web designs to give you a boost in inspiration and motivation and get that right(creative) side of the brain a working how you want it to.

I was actually trying out a few ways to make a nice looking button when I realized this button actually looks like a keyboard key. It’s really simple to make, anyone can do it.

Cutting out an image in Photoshop is a common thing to do, especially when working with photos. There are a few ways to cut out a photo but by far the best for precisely cutting out your image is the polygon lasso tool, check out the image below to see where you can find this tool:

I use so many shortcuts while working on Photoshop to save time and the frustration of trying to find the right function in a menu and then ending up clicking the wrong one. With keyboard shortcuts it’s usually a combination of three keys that you press at any one time and it will carry out a specific function, such as ‘undo’, but you can get more advanced then that.

In my last post How to define patterns in photoshop i outlined how to define patterns, but of course we want to know how to make good looking ones. This involves a couple of different line patterns and styling them.

Defining pattens in Photoshop can be very useful, if you want to use patterns of your own. Defining patterns is actually quite easy and doesn’t take long. I have found patterns to be great space fillers mainly for website backgrounds, banners or even buttons..

This is probably one of the easiest ways to make any 3d object using photoshop. The trick is to use SketchUp to make the basic object that you want, then using photoshop you can style it with some gradients, or what ever you want. This way of making 3d objects with photoshop allows you to customize the object’s faces and make complex shapes easily (using sketchup).

How my 3d object turned out:

A few glossy styles which you are free to use wherever and however you please.