Grunge effects like textures and scratches can be used create backgrounds, to distress text, or just to add a subtle texture to an element in a design. One of the easiest ways to add texture and scratches is through the use of Photoshop brushes. In this tutorial we'll show how you can create a custom scratched surface brush that will be highly useful in your own design work. This is the same technique that was used to create our set or Scratched Surface Brushes that are available at Vandelay Premier. The post How to Create a Scratches Photoshop Brush appeared first on Vandelay Design ..read more

Advertisements often display a lot of creativity in design, and Photoshop is an excellent tool for those who are designing advertisements. Fortunately there are a number of tutorials specifically for designing advertisements, and others that demonstrate techniques that are effective for advertisements. In this post we'll feature 17 different tutorials that can help you in your own advertising design. Create an Amazing Ad in Photoshop The post 25 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Creative Product Advertisements appeared first on Vandelay Design ..read more

Photoshop opens up all kinds of creative possibilities for designers. When you’re working with text in your designs, there are endless ways that you can style your text and countless different types of effects that can be created. Whether you’re working on a typographic design or simply using text for something like a poster design, […] The post 30 Essential Photoshop Text Tutorials for Beautiful Effects appeared first on Vandelay Design ..read more

Abstract backgrounds are very common in web design and for other purposes like poster and wallpaper design. Photoshop provides plenty of potential for designing amazing abstract backgrounds, and in this post we'll showcase 25 tutorials that show how it can be done. Create Abstract Colorful Balls Illustrations in Photoshop CS5 The post 33 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Backgrounds and Wallpaper appeared first on Vandelay Design ..read more

This post was originally published a few years ago, and since that time many of the tutorials that were featured in the post are no longer online. So we’ve revamped the article with a fresh selection of tutorials, some old and some new, that should prove to be very helpful. Photoshop gives designers the ability to create some amazing effects that can accomplish just about anything you can image. Lighting effects and abstract effects can be some of the most engaging and powerful effects created in Photoshop, and they're also a lot of fun for designers. Fortunately, there are plenty of Photosho ..read more