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Fiddling with Photoshop

March 25, 2008 by Jen

One of my new favourite websites is PSDTUTS.com (PSDTUTS is short for Photoshop Tutorials – the PSD is the Photoshop file extension). It’s laid out really well for the novice by showing step-by-step instructions on how to do stuff in Photoshop from scratch, and with existing photos. I was having a play around with this tutorial and thought I’d adapt it for my own website banner.

You may have to refresh the page to see the new banner, or here’s a thumbnail.

Semantically driven banner

If you’ve clicked over to look at the tutorial you’ll note that mine is very very different from it. I took the principals of the tutorial and went quite off track – really off track. Instead of using a gradient I used a pattern which explains the texture, although there still is a gradient or two included. I also used some brushes because I love brushes. I already had some brushes I’d downloaded previously but I found some more at Obsidian Dawn. Did I say I love brushes?

I don’t begin to use half of the features in Photoshop but I want to make it my mission to learn to do so.

This was my old web banner.

Semantically driven banner (click to view larger image).

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Filed Under: Web/Tech Tagged With: blog header, photoshop, photoshop brushes, web banners

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Comments

  1. Babyamore (Trish) says

    March 25, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    Cool – it looks great Jen !

  2. jeanie says

    March 25, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    ha – it was refreshed and not showing, but when I came in to comments it has changed to the new design – very cool.

  3. DeeGee says

    March 25, 2008 at 8:32 pm

    Yeah, cool! But if you are looking for more Photoshop brushes (42 cool and free brushes) on the net, I’ve got a hint: http://graphics-illustrations.com Go, download!

  4. Guera says

    March 26, 2008 at 5:16 am

    The new header looks great and thanks for the link. I really want to learn how to use Photoshop more and tutorials that explain it in words I can understand (ie not photoshop jargon) are fantastic!

  5. Jayne says

    March 27, 2008 at 10:47 am

    That’s really pretty!
    Well done 🙂

  6. Shai Coggins says

    March 31, 2008 at 10:36 pm

    Definitely loving your new banner. Love the colours and design. Well done!

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