FedEx Kinkos - Office Products now at fedexkinkos.com

The Naval Museum of Alberta

Nothing can replace a tree.

FedEx

Australia Post - If you really want to touch someone, send them a letter.

Australia Post - Personalized your post

 

Starwars III - Return of the Sith

The Fitness Company

Sprite Ice Blue

Condomshop.ch - Don’t be stupid, protect yourself.

Eurostar.com - London for lovers

Clorets - Eliminate bad breath

Mini Cooper

Porsche

3M - 3M Security Glass

Sharpie permanent markers

Denver Water - Use only what you need.

Bergmann funeral service - Come a litle closer.

Domino’s Pizza - Hole

Duracell - Last longer, much longer

WWF - save the world with a few coins

Freshlife - Start a fresh life.

Pepsi Twist

WWF - Don’t cut the rain forest.

Mr. Hot Pepper

M&M - Communication just got sweeter

Orion telescope

Nike - Just do it

Kill Bill 2

Glassex cleaner

Guiness - Road signs. The more you drink, the slow you react.

Heineken DraughtKeg - Made to entertain.

Heineken Jammin Festival, Venice.

Land Rover UK - More pull

Nestle

McDonald’s bus stop

Part of the campaign to announce that they are now opening at night.

McDonald’s - Rock ‘n’ Fries

Playstation 2 bus stop

WMF knives - Cutting board

Nivea Beauté - Calcium Power

World No Tobacco Day - Non Smoking Area

Duracell Escalator

Motor Magazine - Speed tracks

Wonderbra bus stop

TAC - If you drive on drugs, you’re out of your mind.

Rubik’s Cube - 25th Aniversary

UNICEF Mickey - The children can’t die.

UNICEF - Don’t ignore me

MSNBC - A Fuller Spectrum of News

Sony PSP - Handcuffed

New York Fries - Real fries in a fake world.

Snickers - 50% Extra!

Nivea - Goodbye Cellulite Sofa

Volkswagen Beetle - The new beetle

Hard Rock Cafe - Don’t know the lyrics?

Whenever you flipped through a tech related magazine, how often you stopped and stare at a tech ad for more than 3 seconds. Chance are most of us will ignore them. The problem with tech ads are just like the others, they have to very clever and really creative in order to catch some attention. Here are some really cool technology related advertisement from notable companies like Sony, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, etc that don’t suck. Full list after jump.

 

AOL Mega Mailbox

Apple iPhone Photo

Apple iPod Touch

Apple Mighty Mouse: Lucifer

Comcast

High-Speed Internet -Blimp

Digicape Apple Discount

Hewlette Packard

HP Computer skin

Kingston Technology: Stick

Things seem smaller when you have 8GB.

Microsoft Balloons

Microsoft Hardware. Happy 25th.

Motorola Razr: Blood

Norton Systemworks: Mower

Olympus: Tripod white

m700 with image stabilisation

Palm Pilot

Panasonic: Wide Angle

RCA Music

Samsung

Samsung ultra slim cell phone

Samsung Plasma TV

Sony cotton stick

Anti-distortion HiFi. For a cleaner sound.

Sony Vaio

Sony Vault

Sony Widescreen TV

Sony Walkman

Sympatico/MSN

WWF

You might not be the best photographer, but this doesn’t mean the photos you publish will suck. We’ve previously showcased 41 nicest photo effects tutorials you can adapt, now here’s more. By adding this new 30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials to our previous entry, you have over 70 ways to enhance photos taken with digital camera, or even dSLR.

While you are at it, here’s more Photoshop tutorials you might be interested:

• Icons - Hand-picked Photoshop Icon Designs
• Web Interface - Greatest Web Interface Design Tutorials
• Text - Best Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials
• Photo - Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects
• more..

Full list after jump.

 

1. Using Ink Drops in Your Digital Compositions

   This tutorial demonstrates techniques to creatively work ink drops into your compositions.

   

2. Fairy Night Eye

   How to correct the photos’ colors, change the eyes color, work with the layers, applying ready brushes and designs, create your own design and to picture the stars.

   

3. Make your image look awesome with a few light effects

   

4. Compositing with Adjustment Layers

   Created a dark and mysterious scene with a young girl paused in an eerily calm storm.

   

5. Add A Sparkle Trail To A Photo

   How to add a sparkle trail to a photo

   

6. Adding Light Streaks To A Photo

   How to add colorful streaks of light to a photo.

   

7. Make Perfume Commercial

   How to make your very own fragrance advertisements.

   

8. Colorful Picture Style

   Make a strong impression to a picture by using color blend techniques

   

9. Electrifying Energy Beams

   Great effect that will bring some energy to your subject.

   

10. The little mermaid Photo Effects

    Learn to improve the quality of the picture, create the effect of scales on the human skin, create the model’s make-up, change the color of her hair.

    

11. Coldplay / Apple Style Portrait

    How to create a portrait based on the style of the latest Coldplay / Apple Ad featuring “Viva la Vida” from Coldplay

    

12. The Making of Mystic

    Nik Ainley walks us through the process of making a spectacular image.

    

13. How to make your own vector portraits

    

14. Photo Editing / Retouching

    Basic editing tutorial using adobe Photoshop.

    

15. Blue glow dreamy portrait

    Make a dreamy portrait by playing with glow and colours.

    

16. Fire Lines Tutorial

    How to create creative and stylish fire lines in 10 easy steps.

    

17. Creating light motion trails & glowing sparks

    A technique often used in advertising these days, is these glowing lines. They look like light motion trails. If you ever wondered how to create these kind of lines, here is how I do it…

    

18. Lighting effects in Photoshop

    Creative lighting can make all the difference to your photos – here’s how to jazz it up a little.

    

19. Sin City Photo Effect

    How to get that Sin City look in your image.

    

20. Creating a Vector Composite Effect from a Photo
    

    How to take an image, in this case a woman’s face, and give the appearance that it is entirely composed of vector shapes.

    

21. Photo to Pencil Sketch

    Convert photo to pencil sketch effect in Photoshop.

    

22. Creating your own Fairytale Scene

    

23. Giving a Mafia-Look to a Business Photo

    

24. Dirty Grunge Poster

    This tutorial will show you how to change your images into a cool dirty grunge design, which could be used for posters, prints, CD covers, etc.

    

25. A Rather Different Photo Collage

    

26. Urban-Style Piece of Artwork

    How to create a dirty, urban style image using both well known techniques as well as a few new ones.

    

27. The Ocean Girl Photo Effect

    Learn how to create an ocean girl artwork by combining some stocks and blending techniques.

    

28. The Guitar Photo Effect

    

29. Make photos sparkle

    From fashion shots to portraits, here’s how to add a touch of magic with Photoshop lighting effects.

    

30. Good and Evil Photo Effect

    How to take an image and split it into two personalities.

    

31. Desaturated ‘Gothic’ Look

    Style Kruella (or anyone) in a vaguely ‘Underworld’ desaturated blue style for that traditional ‘goth’ look.

    

32. How to make your Twins (Clones)

    

From: Hongkiat.com

One day, on my way to work I decided to make a small detour on my way to the subway and took a walk through one of Lisbon’s most charismatic parks. It was a cold February morning, no one was in sight and the sound of morning traffic was subdued by the trees. I was immersed into a natural environment and it almost seemed magical. Suddenly, I passed by some trees that really caught my attention ( image 1 ). They somehow resembled groping hands and with their scale, they looked threatening. I believe it is my love for fantasy that made me see the tree like that and not as mere tree. Several days later I went back and took some photos of these trees and so started the painting “Fresh Meat”. image 1 At the time I still wasn’t sure what I wanted to portray. I knew I wanted to have the tree in a “hand-groping pose”. I asked myself: What could make the tree even more threatening? It had to be groping for something innocent, something delicate: a little girl (which later turned into a young woman) lured by the wickedness of the tree. Almost like Old Man Willow from Tolien. I also wanted to introduce the classic “Psycho”-type-on-top-of-the-hill-house to add mood. So now I had the main ingredients and I was ready to get my hands dirty, digitally, that is. My initial sketches were done on plain A4 photocopy paper and they were quite small. The chosen sketch is actually 2 cm high ( Image 2 ). I scanned it and brought it into Painter where I applied my first layer of color. ( Image 3 ) I love Painter mainly for its ability to apply brushstrokes that mix with underlying colors. This initial painting was done quite quickly to maintain spontaneity and not to overwork it. I just wanted to find the right colors to go along with the mood of the painting, which in this case were autumn colors: yellow greens and orange browns. At this stage I wasn’t concerned with details, avoiding working on a particular area of the image for too long. This was done keeping the tip of the brush quite big and working quickly. Image 2 Image 3 '); document.write(''); } if (browName!='Netscape') { document.write(''); document.write(''); } // --> While I paint, sometimes I flip the canvas to get a fresh look at what I am working on. ( Image 4 ) I’ve seen countless tutorials that speak of this technique, but I would like to underline it once more, because it really helps (although I forget to do it most of the time). In this case I ended up liking the flipped version better, and I kept it. At this stage I also started to introduce some detail especially on the tree which was the main subject. I progressively painted with smaller brushes, constantly changing opacities. Image 4

As I go through the painting process I keep going switiching to Photoshop, because of its outstanding adjustment tools and ease of use, especially with layers. Here, ( Image 5 ) I used Levels and Hue/Saturation adjustments to fine tune contrast and color. Sometimes I use adjustment layers so I can make localized fine-tuning.

Image 5

During the process I don’t have a clear idea of what the final image will be and so it is quite a sinuous walk until I get to the final painting. As you can see here ( Image 6 ) I tried to introduce a cathedral-like building and make the tree “fuller” with small branches. Even if you drop these new ideas, there is always something that is retained ( Image 7 ). That is one of the things I love about digital painting: its versatility to experiment various versions of the same image.

Image 6	Image 7

Between these two steps ( Image 8 and 9 ) the main difference is the texture. It can really make the image more detailed and finished. However, this step didn’t take so long as it may look because I made use of a custom hose in Painter (I could similarly have done a custom brush in Photoshop) to do the vegetation. I believe that if you have the tools to make things easier (without making it look artificial) use them! It’s not cheating in my book.

Image 8	Image 9

Something that really helps during the whole process is to seek criticism from the people around you, be it family, work colleagues or even your dog! Most of the time they do not relate to the image the way you do (especially the dog), and most of the time you are doing your paintings for other people to see and not for yourself. So consult the client often! Other ways to seek opinions are through online forums in the WIP sections. Although it’s rare to get an in depth analysis of your work, sometimes you get some really cool tips, like the one to introduce some skulls in the bushes behind the trees to spice up the image. While working the background elements, like the house and the sky I realized that the vegetation behind the tree wasn’t really working because the silhouette of the tree was lost. The vegetation also created a strange diagonal that didn’t help the composition. So, I decided to cut away some bushes and introduce a mountain ridge to balance the image and add more depth ( Image 10 ).

Image 10

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Back in Photoshop I introduced a warm haze to hint at a setting sun to the right ( Image 11 ). A new layer in Photoshop set to the Color Dodge blending mode can do wonders sometimes. For me it is the best and most interesting way to introduce light into a painting. This was the image I ended up posting in the forums in the finished paintings section.

Image 11

Another big bonus of digital painting is that an image is never finished. You can paint over it as many times as you like because it will never deteriorate. So, several months later, I picked it up again and corrected aspects that were criticized in the previous finished image, mainly the building in the background and the girl ( Image 12 ). I reworked them and I think the image improved with these important modifications based on feed-back.

Image 12

Few months ago we showcased 22 best Photoshop text effects Photoshop tutorials here at hongkiat.com, but then we soon realized they were still plenty of good tutorials out there and the current ones aren’t enough to satisfy most designers anyway. So we went searching for more and 3 months later, we beg to show you more.

This time we put together another 50 really nice text effect Photoshop tutorials, making it more than 70 great Photoshop text effects in our archive. Full list after jump.

1. Text In Stitches

   How to convert text to a path and how to stitch that path using a custom brush set.