Wall-E Cartoon Style Wallpaper

Do you want to make cartoon style wallpaper by yourself? Ok, then this tutorial special for you.

Preparing to the Olympic Games

In this easy, step-by-step tutorial I’m going to show you how to design an Olympic Games logo.

Mysticism in The X Files (I Want to Believe)

In this Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to design a mystic grunge-style ‘The X Files’ wallpaper. I was impressed by ‘The X Files’ and decided to make a background related to this movie.

Kung Fu Panda Wallpaper

3D cartoons one of the most popular fields in computer graphic nowadays, it has a lot of funs. In this tutorial I will try to create my own wallpaper on one of 3D cartoons ‘Kung Fu Panda’ using collage of graphic elements.
So, let’s start!

Learning Adobe Illustrator CS3 in 30 Days

OK, now for some non-Photoshop related news. iStockDiary has setup something similar to Tutorial9’s “School of Photoshop,” it’s a Learn Illustrator CS3 in 30 Days crash course. Currently there are only 3 days of learning up, but I hope not to be disappointed and iStockDiary follows through with the rest of the course!

I myself have been wanting to learn more Illustrator, and now I’m gonna

If you’re a beginner with Illustrator, this is where you start.

“Perfectum” Beautiful Photo Effect

The goal of this Photoshop tutorial is, in a very simple way teach even the Photoshop beginners how to add a very immense, beautiful photo effect to your cherished photos. In my experience this is great for the wives that want to add a special effect to their wedding photos!

Get Some More Fonts

If you ever find yourself with a lack of design inspiration, you could always look at some beautiful typography, or get some new & beautiful fonts to experiment with. I should probably take my own advice in this case and get some more fonts, so I swear I will right after this!

Places to look

Whenever you ask about free fonts, you’ll always be directed to dafont of course, but you should also check out urbanfonts and fontspace.

The Dark Knight Grunge Wallpaper

A quick Photoshop tutorial on the making of a grunge-style TDK (The Dark Knight) wallpaper! Is anyone else here looking forward to this wicked film?

(1680 x 1050 download)

Announcing the Winners

Thanks everyone for leaving a comment and linking back. Although we didn’t reach the goal, that’s OK, there was more chance for the ones that did contribute to win Here is the list of winners:

• 1 x one-year dA subscription: Stremel
• 1 x one-year dA subscription: Danilux
• 1 x three-month dA subscription: Octavian
• 1 x three-month dA subscription: Trocloc
• 1 x one-year subscription to GameWallpapers: Anthony Woods
• 1 x one-year subscription to CGWallpapers: David Leggett
• 3 months free with Host Gator (Hatchling): Sad Prince
• 1 x Killer Domains e-book: Domain Addict
• 1 x Killer Domains e-book: Michael Dunlop

Second set of winners:

• 1 x Blubs WordPress theme: That Should Work
• 1 x Blubs WordPress theme: Bits and Pixels
• 1 x one-page coding by PSD2HTML: Antilogic
• 3 months advertising on PhotoshopStar: Social Apple

Sorry to those that missed out, but thanks again everyone for contributing. I’ll be emailing the winners shortly, or just sending them their prize (dA users for example).

Giveaway Reminder!

Hey guys, just making sure you all know to leavea  comment or a link back to this post to win a prize! There haven’t been many link backs yet, so if you get in on that there’s a good chance you can win an awesome prize

I also wanted to say I’ll try get some more tutorials up soon, and that I’ve also already redesigned the comments for the new theme, I realized that there really was no improvements on the previous comments layout.

So yeah, will try and get on these things soon.

PhotoshopStar Birthday Party Giveaway

First the updated design, now we have some goodies to giveaway celebrating our second birthday!

What to do?

There are two sets of prizes (as you can see below), and all you have to do to get the chance to win one is leave a comment below. Alternatively (or as well as) you can link back to this post and the sponsors for the chance to win something from the other set of prizes.

Our goal is to garner 175 comments and 35 trackbacks then to draw the winners. This contest is a must-see for the web developers, not just the designers because we’ve got WordPress theme licenses and free coding on the table!

I’m almost certain that we’ll reach the goal, but in case we don’t, the draw will be made one week from now.

Prizes for leaving comments

Simply leave a comment below and get the chance to win one of the following:

• 2 x one-year deviantART subscriptions
• 2 x three-month deviantART subscriptions
• 1 x one-year subscription to GameWallpapers
• 1 x one-year subscription to CGWallpapers
• 3 month free hosting with Host Gator (Hatchling package)
• 2 x copies of Killer Domains e-book by Daily Blog Tips

Prizes for linking back

If you want the chance to win one of these prizes, then please link back to this post from your blog; all you have to do is link to this post and our sponsors.

• 1 x one-page coding job by PSD2HTML.com ($211 value!)
• 2 x Developer Licenses to Blubs WordPress theme ($198 value)
  
• 3 months advertising on PhotoshopStar ($150 value)

Sponsors

Many thanks to our sponsors who donated prizes:

• Blog Perfume and WebAppers (Blubs theme)
• PSD2HTML.com (free coding)
• The University Kid (one-year dA subscription)
• Daily Blog Tips (e-books)
• India Photoblog (GameWallpapers subscription)
• OIOpublisher (CGWallpapers subscription)
• Prizes that aren’t accounted for are donated by PhotoshopStar

Notes

Just so we’re clear, all you have to do is leave a comment below to be entered into the draw to win a prize, but if you want one of the bigger prizes, you’ll have to link back to this post and our sponsors!

Also note that the PSD2HTML prize will include one page coded using the Hi-End package, valued at $211! The winner of this prize would also be kindly requested to write a very short review of their service afterwards to be posted on PhotoshopStar.

$700+ value in total!

Introducing PhotoshopStar Redesign

In celebration of our 2nd anniversary, PhotoshopStar has received a design facelift!

As you can see it’s very similar to the previous one, in fact it’s like a new layout based on the old design (style, etc). We’ve got a fair amount of new features in this design though, so here’s the short list I’ve compiled:

• Less Ads
  Yeah, that’s a feature! You should understand that I need to earn some money from the blog, considering how much time I spend on it, but I really do hate the look of these unprofessional-looking ads as much as anyone! For now I’ve removed the ads from the content, but later on I may need to add some unintrusive ads near the bottom of the content.
• Subscribe Box
  I think this is a very important improvement, particularly for those of you that don’t know what subscribing is all about. Please take a look at the subscribe box in the top right and learn about subscribing today.
• Promote/Bookmark Posts
  At the bottom of posts you’ll now see a promote(translated:bookmark) section. If you use one of the following social bookmarking services, please feel free to bookmark! (Digg, Delicious, DesignFloat, Reddit, StumbleUpon)
• Contribute
  I’ll be putting up a contribute page shortly, as I’m interested in buying tutorials from my readers if you have any ideas. So far I’ve had some success buying tutorials from deviantART uses in exchange for one-year deviantART subscriptions (they come to me I swear!)
• Improved Searching (with Google)
  I’ve always found Google search to be the most efficient, and now you can benefit from it on PhotoshopStar. I think this is a great improvement over the standard WordPress search because you will have more options.

OK, so I said it was a short list! It’s still nicer, right?

I would now love to hear suggestions, comments, critique, and bug reports from my valued readers! I’m now going to go and make sure everything is working properly.

Photoshop birthday party coming soon! Prizes and stuff.