the Minty Ferret 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 Photoshop is YOUR Cash Machine – Part Two Photoshop is Your Cash Machine! Part Two
Part two in the mini-series, learn how to use your Photoshop skills to compete in graphic design contests for lucrative prizes!

]]> http://www.mintyferret.com/photoshop/photoshop-is-your-cash-machine-part-two/ Digital Pencil Photoshop Brush – the Stumpy Pencil 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…

]]> http://www.mintyferret.com/resources/digital-pencil-photoshop-brush-the-stumpy-pencil/ Introducing Hocus Pocus 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.

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]]> http://www.mintyferret.com/photoshop-products/introducing-hocus-pocus/ Ghastly Images – Sketching with Photoshop Hand-Drawn Sketch
Easily turn a photo into a neat 'hand draw' sketch! These turn out looking a little like a ghost.

]]> http://www.mintyferret.com/photoshop/sketching-with-photoshop/ Offline Identities – Graphic Printing Services shortcuts.GIF

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…

]]> http://www.mintyferret.com/sponsored-posts/offline-identities-graphic-printing-services/ Photoshop Cheatsheet for the Shortcut Guru shortcuts.GIF

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…

]]> http://www.mintyferret.com/resources/photoshop-cheatsheet-for-the-shortcut-guru/ Wear Your Photoshop With Pride 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…

]]> http://www.mintyferret.com/photoshop-fanswag/wear-your-photoshop-with-pride/ Photoshop is YOUR Cash Machine – Part One Photoshop is YOUR Cash Machine! Pt. 1
Turn those Photoshop skills into a money-making machine! This tutorial will show you several sites where you can sell YOUR photos for cash!

]]> http://www.mintyferret.com/photoshop/photoshop-is-your-cash-machine-part-one/ Free Hi-Res Photoshop Cloud Brushes I just stumbled across this free Photoshop Cloud Brush Set from the PixlPusher.

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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…

]]> http://www.mintyferret.com/resources/free-hi-res-photoshop-cloud-brushes/ Free Photo-Realistic Plugins for Photoshop filterforge.jpg

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…

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