Photoshop is the coolest Design Software whether it be for graphics or images and now even 3d. I have been scouring the web to find some cool Photoshop re-touch tutorials to feed your photoshop cravings. I managed to find around 38 and then selected the ones that I felt covered two things 1. really taught in detail step by step and are easy to follow for new and seasoned photoshopers.  2. Have created a great end result that is worth the time but can be applied to a wider range of images by adding your own creativity.

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Hello all you lovely  inspiring people I have been away for a while but now I’m back on tutorials and set to bring you a great new service that is from what I can tell a world first as no other tutorials site provide a subscription service that is delivered right to your inbox via email.

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Photoshop has a variety of tools available to it’s users, many of which have multiple uses. This is a list of 20 Photoshop Tool Tutorials to help you familiarise yourself with the tools available. These 20 Photoshop Tool Tutorials are laid out in some semblance of order. You will find the more basic and introductory of the 20 Photoshop Tool Tutorials at the beginning. As you read on, you will discover the Photoshop Tool Tutorials dealing with more advanced use. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced user, there is sure to be something in this list of 20 Photoshop Tool Tutorials to help you out.

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Free Icon’s can help you create a wealth of attention to your services / products as all designers and developers will use them in their websites, apps and softwares. Types of icons could be Desktop icons like the ones found in windows on the PC or Doc icons on the Mac. On every website your sure to find Favicons the are usually in the browser address bar that and also show up in the tabs in firefox.

Social media icons can be found at the end of every post or article you read as they help with a sites popularity. The more we designed the icon the more chance it will catch attention and get clicked through which can be very important.

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Icons make up a great part of any User Interface and have been apart of the development of software since windows 3.1
(the earliest one i can remember im only 23 ). Weither its a website, desktop / web application icons can serve not only as
a little detail of design but also as a visual indicator of what that thing over there in the corner of a users screen is supposed
to do.

Today i have compiled a list of 50+ hand-picked icons that i felt best served the software field as well as contributing to any
kind of development. Not all of the icons in this list were picked to be used in every project such as the windows ones but
can then serve as inspiration towards creating maybe your own unique icons set

At DeviantArt.com which is where you will be able to download them right under the images.

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Photoshop actions make your photoshop life a whole lot simpler by making the regular changes you would normally make to a image or file much more automated so that you dont need to go through each step over and over again.

Each Designer or Photographer will have their own unique manipulations that they most commonly do to most of their work. It could even be rescaling each file you work with to 500px by 500px or adding a set vibrance balance you know each piece of works will need.

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Sun light can create some stunning effects on anything it can get to from shadows to orange clouds sunlight is the one of the reasons we are able to continue living. Aswell as its many hundereds of benifits the light from the sun makes one hell of a photograph so heres 50 of them from many different photographers and enthusiasts to inspire you on your next shot or even a few shots down the line when its just the right moment

Some of the shots have been enhanced using image editors such as photoshop to add that extra wow effect but i feel any crystal camera could take a shot of sunlight that would not leave much in the way of editing even though i would still most probably edit it, being a perfectionist anyway heres the 50 fantastic photographs.
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A mixture of Photography and Art inspirations today to kick start your mind into what to capture or create next. I have tried to cover illustrations as well as photographs of scenery that capture many colours and natural effects. The first two photo-montages are excellent at combining artistic flare into a photograph of a individual i love the style in which the first works hybridgothica was created. Which one do you like best do let me know comment below .
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Inspiration from Light is the highlight in todays inspiring article as we take a look at some incredible pictures created and taken from deviantartists. Light can make an image really cool as well as creating emotion or even power. The Visual effect of light leave one gazing leave that wow effect and professional end result. Check out this selection and do let me know your thoughts or even make some suggestions for artists you like you know where the comments are!

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Today’s dosage of inspiration takes a peek into the minds and imaginations of
Photo editors that manipulate common images and portray Fantasy’s. Digital Art is the word here and artistic it as some of these effects and end results are really cool and inspiring. I chose Fantasy image manipulations because i think they really push image manipulation to show off all its might, which is exactly what our readers (you) will love to see.

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What about if your creating some art work or even a leaflet/flyer or cover design? Not all Photoshop design is websites and Logos it can range and diversify into many different things. In todays Inspirational article i wanted to show you some designs that you may or may not like people have different tastes and me being how i am i like to explore my tastes and even ask myself well what dont i like about it or how would i do it
my way.

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Photoshop is a fantastic tool that has been used to create many web 2.0 designs such as headers, navigation buttons, wordpress theme designs and even full website designs. Utilising Photoshops effects and filters you can create some really cool and professional looking effects that give you that edge when it comes to creating top standard work.

Inspiration can come from anything but why not get it from us? Haha Just kidding why not get that inspiration from the kinds of designs you want to aspire to or even to gauge
ideas from some of the worlds top design pices that have been created in photoshop. Well thats what we aim to do today by giving you a nice inspirational dose of Photoshop designs.

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Photoshop CS4 Tutorials abound on the internet and it can be difficult to find one which has the information you are looking for. Hopefully this list of Photoshop CS4 tutorials will help you to get that information quickly. I have broken the thirty up into three groups: text, photographs, and general Photoshop CS4 tutorials. From creating unique and professional looking logos to having some fun with photographs, this list of 30 Photoshop CS4 Tutorials should have you well on your way to achieving you graphic goals.

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Illustrations can be in the form of a pencil drawing to a digital design made from a mixture of photos an digital art. These images portray many different unique styles of illustration give you insoiration from more than one angle. These images were taken from various artists from around the web that have put their work on flickr.com. Check em out their cool !

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In this tutorial you will learn how to turn an image of a young girl into a artistic illustration. You will require a Basic to intermidiate knowledge of Photoshop and its tools to perform this tutorial
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I like to add a little use to inspiration which is why i picked wallpapers because you can actually use them by putting them onto your desktop background. This collection is not specifically HD quality like our recent posts but most of these are amazing abstract art compositions done in photoshop so inspiring they are indeed. Enjoy

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Im really getting into these wallpapers quite a lot now and am seriously considering creating my own to be made available for free download. Heres another inspirational selecton of High Res wall papers found from flicker and the web.

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I was feeling a little Smokey today with the re-launch of miraztutorials.com and felt that a list of Photoshop smoke tutorials was in order. I came up with the idea after looking at a picture of me posing with a cigar in my mouth. Any how back to the list and learning here’s a set of 10 of the best Photoshop smoke effect tutorials on text, images and just plain smoke on its own.

1. Creating Smoke starts with shapes and moulds them into smoke.

2. Creating Smoke Like Effects onto a cup of coffee beans

3. Realistic Smoke effect

4. Smoking With Photoshop Tutorial

5. Smoke Effect Tutorial

6. Smoke Type in Photoshop in only 10 Steps

7. Create Smokey Typography in 12 Easy Steps

8. Smoke Photoshop Tutorial - Video

9. Photoshop Smoke Tutorial You-Tube Video

10. Creating Smoke in Photoshop – Photoshopcopz

That’s concludes this post hope you enjoyed the list and got what you were looking for be sure to subscribe to the miraztutorials.com rss feed to receive updates of the latest tutorials.

Tutor : Shazad Mirza
Bg : Designer and developer

In this tutorial i will teach you whats good about the new content aware scaling. Along with its slight downfalls that i will also show you how to overcome using some clever but simple techniques. You will require a copy of Photoshop CS4 to go through this tutorial as this is a new feature of photoshop and will not work in previous versions.

I am asuming that you have a beginner to intermediate level of experience in using photoshop prior to following this tutorial.

Step 1
Open image in photoshop you can use any image that has a person in the fore-ground and either trees or buildings in the background. To use the image in this tutorial just right click on the image and then save to hard drive.

Step 2
Double click on the background layer in the layers panel this is so you can unlock the image and go on to scale it. Photoshop CS4 will bring up a mini window for you to name the layer, we can leave this as layer 0 as we wont be using many layers in this tutorial.

Before

After

Step 3
Now go to the edit menu and click on Content Aware Scale alternatively using your keyboard you can press Alt+Shift+Ctrl+C on the PC. You will now be able to see adjustable anchor points around the image as you would get using the Free Transform tool.

Before

After

Caution point
If you now start to play about with the anchor points you will quickly realize that you will start to degrade the image and the poor girl is getting pretty distorted. We want to avoid this. Adobe Photoshop CS4 does have a setting that can help with preserving actual skin color pixels when using Content Aware Scale, the setting is a toggle button that shows up in the top right hand corner of the options bar for the CAS tool that we are using.

Here are two examples of the results.

This image is with out using the Protect skin tones setting

This image has Protect skin tones toggled on

As you can see in the first image the girl is not preserved at all but in the second the girl holds out very well but we loose on the car in the back ground. The only things we want to loose in this case are the road and trees. Lets learn how to achieve this

Step 4
We now need to create a alpha mask over the objects we want to protect in the image in our case the girl and the car. To do this select the quick selection tool and roughly highlight the girl and then to highlight the car as well hold the Shift key to include the car into the same selection.

Step 5
Go to the Select sub menu in the menu bar and click on save selection.

Step 6
This will bring up a mini window for you to name the alpha selections you have made remember that in this case we are saving both the girl and the car as one selection. In more complicated images that have more people or objects in them you will need to keep things on separate selections.
Save this selections as girl and car.

Step 7
Now if you go into the channels panel you will see a new Alpha channel under the default RGB channels. Now click on this channel and view that it shows us our selections in black and white, you can also make any further adjustments here if required.

Step 8
Go back to the RGB channel and hit CTRL + D to get rid our the highlighted selection on the image. This wont get rid of our alpha channel as it has been saved.

Step 9
Now go back into the CAS tool by clicking on Menu > Edit > Content Aware Scale and make sure that the Protect skin tones is toggled off as we wont be needing it because we have made our own selections. Now go slightly to the left to the Protect drop down and select girl and car this will protect what ever selections we have saved when we are using the CAS tool.

Step 10
Finally resize the image similar to the one below and see how both the car and the girl hold out very well. Photoshop CS4 has decided itself what parts of the road and trees to keep and to get rid of in order for the image to blend.

Step 11
Photoshop CS4 will now prompt you to keep the changes you have made or you can click tick on the far right of the CAS tool options bar when you are happy with your adjustments.

Heres the final result

Yeah i know the end result aint perfection but thats for you to work on my job was to teach the ins and outs of CAS .

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