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What outstanding items have been arriving on the marketplaces? Here are a handful that have caught our attention.

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Master Advanced Drawing in Photoshop by Creating an Old Alarm Clock From Scratch

Drawing in Photoshop can be a scary learning curve to start with. Beyond the basic shape tools there are a host of more complex features that can make the difference between an intermediate and an advanced user.

Today we’re going to explore some of these features and learn how to create a realistic alarm clock vector. This will be an entirely non-destructive process, that results in a clean, scalable vector outcome. Simply put, you’ll follow the workflow of a true professional and learn how to use Photoshop’s advanced drawing tools the right way.

Each step is carefully explained, so you should be able to follow along with ease.

Let’s get started!

Final Image

As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:

Members Area Tutorial: Photo Manipulate a Beautiful, Bejeweled Ancient Princess

Today’s advanced tutorial will show you how to photo manipulate a beautiful ancient princess scene. In this tutorial we will be covering key topics including:

• Creating Custom Patterns
• Single Point Perspective
• Texturing
• Advanced fashion photo retouching
• Discussion and use of how shadows can make the added elements look natural
• Creating custom 3D textured text

Final Image

As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:

Members Area Tutorial: Photo Manipulate a Beautiful, Bejeweled Ancient Princess

Today’s advanced tutorial will show you how to photo manipulate a beautiful ancient princess scene. In this tutorial we will be covering key topics including:

• Creating Custom Patterns
• Single Point Perspective
• Texturing
• Advanced fashion photo retouching
• Discussion and use of how shadows can make the added elements look natural
• Creating custom 3D textured text

Final Image

As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:

Photo Manipulate an Eerie Sea Cave Scene

Today’s tutorial will teach you how to photo manipulate an eerie sea cave, along with grim reaper boatman. You’ll learn various blending techniques, whereby you can blend multiple photos seamlessly. You’ll also learn how to create an effective depth of field as well as some cool looking light effects.

Let’s get started!

Final Image

Free Download: Cracks Brush Set

In an effort to reward our email subscribers we’re releasing a fantastic new free Photoshop brush set.

These 10 cracks brushes are all really high-res, sharp and perfect for your photo manipulation and Photoshop projects.

Some of the more abstract cracks would also work really well as splatter and shatter effects, so are something I’ll be testing in upcoming tutorials.

These brushes are free to use on any personal and commercial projects. Redistribution is not allowed, but you can direct users to this page to download their own copy.

You can access this freebie and hundreds more in your Designer Toolkit area. Access the area below:

Ninite is a great website app which let you easily install multiple programs at once by opening one installer file which will download and run all the installer files which you picked to install for programs like Libreoffiice, VLC,  Google Chrome, and a bunch of other programs which you checked to download and install with Ninite.

Once you checked the sites which you want to install on your computer, you click the “Get Installer Button” at the bottom of the website, and open the installer file with Windows. There is also a version of Ninite for Linux, but it has fewer programs for Linux than Windows.

Members Area Tutorial: Design a Summer Time Vacation Poster

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a surreal underwater photo manipulation that is perfect for a poster design. You’ll work with various manipulation techniques including blending, masking, creating underwater effects, complex extractions and much more.

This is a comprehensive tutorial that will teach you a range of applicable photo manipulation skills to use across your work.

Let’s get started!

Final Image

As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating: