http://www.mintyferret.com Fresh Photoshop tutorials, freebies, resources, and more! Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:06:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to Part Two of the 'How to Make Money with Photoshop' series (you can check out Part One here!). This post is completely on time and not an entire year late, I assure you. Last time I taught you how to use Photoshop (coupled with Illustration and Photography skills) to ... http://www.mintyferret.com/photoshop/photoshop-is-your-cash-machine-part-two/ I just happened across this Stumpy Pencil Photoshop Brush the other day. It uses a brush already packaged with Photoshop and applies different Brush Presets to help emulate the look and feel of a blunt pencil. The brush creator is a much better illustrator than I am, make sure to ... http://www.mintyferret.com/resources/digital-pencil-photoshop-brush-the-stumpy-pencil/ With the Tales of Beedle the Bard released a few short days ago, Potter-mania is once again on the rise! David Occhino has created this brilliant Potter-esque font, aptly named Hocus Pocus, for use in all your magical projects. (text effect created with the Gold, Silver and Bronze Text tutorial) Although not free ... http://www.mintyferret.com/photoshop-products/introducing-hocus-pocus/ I developed this (super easy) technique for turning a photo into a glorified pixel-y type sketch while racking my brain for a new Facebook picture. It is partly inspired by the awesome Threadless shirt I'm wearing. This is something fun you can do quickly, and with one of your own ... http://www.mintyferret.com/photoshop/sketching-with-photoshop/ For freelancers or small start-up businesses, creating an identity is one of the most important things you can do. Potential clients will judge whether your designers are worth hiring based on the quality of your own logo, website, or print materials. However, while the former two can be created without ... http://www.mintyferret.com/sponsored-posts/offline-identities-graphic-printing-services/ It takes a while to get to grips with Photoshops’ many shortcuts, but there is no denying that once you have learned the major ones productivity increases massively. This allows you to spend more time on the design and less time hitting F1 or randomly looking through the tools pane ... http://www.mintyferret.com/resources/photoshop-cheatsheet-for-the-shortcut-guru/ Insanely Great Tees has two Insanely Great Photoshop-Themed shirts! One features a sampling of the Photoshop Toolkit, the other the Magic Eraser (otherwise known as the undo shortcut). More astute readers will realize that the undo shortcut isn't restricted to Photoshop ... but those of us that live and breathe the ... http://www.mintyferret.com/photoshop-fanswag/wear-your-photoshop-with-pride/ This is it. You've worked your fingers to the bone learning all the Photoshop shortcuts. Your eyes are burning from squinting at a humming screen for hours on end, carefully positioning elements and designing art. Your brain's abuzz with the knowledge you've acquired through reading tutorials and your own experimentation. ... http://www.mintyferret.com/photoshop/photoshop-is-your-cash-machine-part-one/ I just stumbled across this free Photoshop Cloud Brush Set from the PixlPusher. Suffice to say, the quality of this set simply blew me away. These are hi-res brushes (some are over 2500pixels) and are simply breath-taking. Kudos to the maker, not only is this a beautiful set but useful as ... http://www.mintyferret.com/resources/free-hi-res-photoshop-cloud-brushes/ The folks at Filter Forge are giving away a series of high quality plugins based on their filter software of the same name. I tried both of the two packs available and they are pretty decent. If you like metals or photo editing then they should be ... http://www.mintyferret.com/resources/free-photo-realistic-plugins-for-photoshop/