I hope you enjoy using them and if you like please feel free to showcase them in our flickr group

This way your art work will be showcased on our site and in the group. ...]]> Today I am excited to present some fantastic high resolution fractal brushes. These were rendered at 2500 pixels and created at this size so the quality is at its max. Of course in different colors they will look even more  awesome ,if I may say so myself.

I hope you enjoy using them and if you like please feel free to showcase them in our flickr group

This way your art work will be showcased on our site and in the group. Our group has 1,319 items and 166 members with regular contributions.

As usual these are 100% free to use in commercial and personal work just attribute to Digital Art Empire and add a link if you want to share them.

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download: 9 Fractals Digital Art Empire (21.34MB) added: 28/04/2010 clicks: 542 description: 9 Fractals Digital Art Empire created in CS4 please attribute to us and link to here http://digitalartempire.com/ thnks

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Please remember to ...]]> These are some of the freshest and most popular tutorials from around the interweb. We searched hard to gather together a selection that covers most aspects of design using Photoshop.  Its always a good time to brush up on your skills with photoshop and always good fun . You may notice they are grouped together (without a header) from manipulations to, tuts from this year, film posters and many more.

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Create light effects with texture

Add colourful, personal flare to your work by incorporating doodles and textures, writes Craig Shields.

Design an Underwater Omega Code Poster

Omega Code is a band that ran a massive design contest to create interest in their music, by allowing designers to use their unique triangle logo and compete to win the contest.

Magic lamp in the old room

Balance 3D with mixed media

Melt 3D elements with organic shapes in Photoshop for illustrations that leap off the page, writes Xavier Bourdil

Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Create retro poster art

The retro aesthetic of the 1950s and 1960s is currently back in vogue and it’s set to be a great trend for 2010.

In this tutorial, you’ll be taken through, step by step, the creation of some custom brushes, and application of them to a stock image to create a matte dispersion effect.

Melting Girl in Photoshop

One of the best things in Photoshop, in my opinion, is that we can create all sorts of effects and photo manipulations mixing regular stock photos

Lost in Space Typography in Photoshop

So in this tutorial I will show you how to create an easy and super quick text effect in Photoshop. We will play with Brushes, Blend Modes, basic filters like Blur and Liquify, and also text.

Create a Funky Retro Wavy Text Effect in Photoshop

The purpose of this tutorial is to learn how to mask out an image so that it just shows through the editable text, making it friendlier to modifications later on.

Create a Vivid Themed Illustration Using Simple Hand-Drawn Elements

Drawn elements are certainly something that can enhance an illustration. Even if you’re not very good at drawing, you can still create a quality piece. All you need is a good idea and some Photoshop skills.

How to Make a Dark, Post-Apocalyptic City Illustration

Using simple tools, we’ll turn lively streets into abandoned ruins overgrown with weeds. A number of stock images and a few little tricks will let us optimize our work and make this job more interesting and spectacular. So let’s go!

Manipulate Smoke to Create Hyper-Real Images

Learn to apply the Warp Tool effectively and a few other tricks to make smoke look like a skull. This technique has a variety of outcomes and works well with water, clouds and a whole bunch of other stuff. This is probably more for intermediate users, as I guide you through the process well, but not every Warp Grid point handle move. Let’s get started!

Create frozen liquid effects

Sergio Vichique shows how you can bring the coolest of effects to your illustrations.In this tutorial I will show you some techniques to give almost anything a liquid or frozen fluid effect. I’ll also reveal the easiest way to extract liquid images and keep them transparent.

Make an Inspiring Artistic Poster with Drawn Elements

In this tutorial, we’ll create drawn elements, use design brushes, bring them into Photoshop, and merge them into a unique poster composition that feels hand-made, stylistically unified, and personalized

It’s Time to Create a ‘Neo-Constructivist’ Poster with Photoshop

Constructivist graphic design is often associated with communist politics and propaganda, but it’s more than that, Constructivism is about using bright colors, playing with lightness, perspective, geometrical forms, besides photomontage techniques and digital collage.

How to Create a Retro Boxing Poster in Photoshop

Creating a retrograde look is nothing new, but there are some things to keep an eye out for when mimicking Graphic Design from any decades past. We’ll be drawing inspiration from Poster Design from the 1960s, particularly Boxing Posters from that era. Let’s get started!

Soul Rebel Poster Tutorial

In this tutorial I will show how to create an awesome illustration that can be printed as a poster to hang it on your wall.

Creating a Space-Helmeted Future Retro Illustration

I’m going to call it Future Retro for the sake of this tutorial. I employed my take on the style in pitching a poster and overall look for a night at a local club. This tutorial goes over the meat and potatoes of it’s creation!

Create an Intense Movie Poster in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’re going to create a poster for a fictional movie called “Fugitive.” The movie is meant to be a suspenseful thriller that features one’s escape under the cover of darkness, despite man’s attempt to capture the lone hero.

How to Create a Somber Composition in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to manipulate stock images and turn them into your puppets to express your desired feelings.

Photoshop Tutorial: Use lighting effects to make photos sparkle

From sparkles, pixie dust effects, coloured light spots and light beams, to using splatter effects as a form of lighting, it’s all here. Some of the tricks you’ll learn are created through cunning use of stock photography, while others make use of Photoshop’s built-in tools.

Photo Strip

This is a Photoshop tutorial on how to create a beautiful photo film strip.The warp tool will be used to create the twisting effect (so, you need Photoshop CS2 or above to complete this tutorial). With the completion of this tutorial, you will be able build a photo strip with your own photos or artwork.

Pop Art-inspired fashion illustration

Spots make the difference by offering a simple way to give your work a Ben Day-style Pop Art bent, as Gavin Dias demonstrates. Using dots to add tone and shading to your fashion illustrations is a fun and simple way of re-creating a 1950s Pop Art look.

Create an Out of Bounds Fantasy Illustration

In this tutorial, we will take you through the process of creating a fantasy scene, make water pour out of a painting, make some sort of a absorption effect and end up with a really nice looking color. The main idea behind this surreal illustration is that we are actually in a painting and the painting on the wall is the real world, the world where our vulture tries to escape.

Self-initiated abstract art

Out-of-this-world work doesn’t require a brief, says JUN, just careful choice of source material, a few hours and a little imagination. Self-initiated work often means a lack of budget, but that doesn’t mean it can’t look good. It’s all left up to your imagination and creativity.

How To Create the Photo Manipulation “Brightness Tomorrows”

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a futuristic looking photo manipulation using some special tools, such as the Background Eraser Tool and how to blend pictures properly using Match Color Adjustments and Lighting Effects. So let’s start!

How to Create a Chilling Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

In this tutorial I will show you how I created a fantasy photo manipulation called “You Can Not Frost The Time” with using several Photoshop tools such as Color Range, different blending modes, and more. Let’s get started!

Fantastic Tree

Drawing Mircosoft’s XBOX 360

This tutorial is going to teach you how to draw a Mircosoft’s XBOX 360 console in photoshop using a reference image, simple techniques such as the gradient tools and the pen tool. You are expected to have some experience with both of these two tools to successfully apply and follow this tutorial.

How to Create a Super Shiny Pencil Icon

The Pencil is one of the visual metaphors most used to express creativity. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw a pencil icon. We’ll have a look at gradients, selection tools, and basic transform operations. Let’s have some fun with this.

Rendering a Striking Matchbox in Photoshop

This tutorial consists of creating a digital illustration in Photoshop of a box of matches. We’ll be creating the matchbox cover design, the striker on the matchbox from a pattern, and placing the cardboard texture on the box. We’ll also create the matches and align everything into a 3D perspective.

Army Swiss Knife Tutorial

Make an iPod Classic

You will be learning how to create an iPod classic but also you can use the same technique to make an iPod nano.

Design a Shiny Photorealistic Apple Remote

3D Mp3 Player

Designing Loox Pocket PC

How to create an interesting Pocket PC using only Photoshop.

LG LCD Monitor Icon

Creating A Vector Style MacBook From Scratch

This tutorial is quite a long one, so I would go get a drink now if I were you, OK we are going to make a MacBook Pro in Photoshop using shapes and different blending options, combining these two simple things we get a realistic vector outcome which can be used in many different situations, so…let’s begin.

Dark Angel Photomanipulation

In this tutorial i will show you how to design a grunge style photo-manipulation. You will learn how to blend different images into one composition.

Stunning Dragons Attack in Photoshop with 3D Features

In this tutorial I will show you how to create an sort of video-game style image with dragons, fire, smoke, robots and other crazy things.

How to Create a Fantasy “Mother Nature” Scene

This tutorial is about creating a fantasy scene called “Mother Nature.” We will use well chosen images, brushes and most off all our imagination in combination with Photoshop techniques to create an outstanding image. So let’s get started!

Classic Photoshop Tutorial: Master 3D type effects

In it, type-effects guru Nik Ainley shows how to create the above image. The key is to create the letters in a 3D package first as individual characters, then bring them into Photoshop for further post work.

Photoshop Tutorials: Easy Watercolor Painting Effect

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn how to easily make a photo look more like a watercolor painting. This photo effect works best on images where maintaining rich colors and strong contrast is more important than keeping any fine details, since you’ll be losing a lot of detail with this effect.

Space Lighting Effects in 10 Steps – Photoshop Tutorial

Abduzeedo means abducted in portuguese, the spelling is not exactly that, it should be abduzido. But the whole idea for the Abduzeedo’s design is the space. I’m really fan of playing with this subject because we are sort of free to create whatever we want, and using Photoshop that really means everything.

Really cool Eclipse Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial I will show you how I created the Abduzeedo’s footer. Some of the techniques I used here I took from other tutorials and also from another tutorial I wrote some time ago for PSDtuts Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs. Besides, the design is inspired by the amazing work of James White, so I highly recommend you to check his work out.

The Magic Night

This lesson will show to you as by means of simple actions to create a beautiful and interesting collage.

Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effects in Photoshop

One of the best sites around for desktops has to be Desktopography. I’ve been inspired by their amazing work, so today we are going to put together a sunset image mixing some vector shapes and dusky lighting effects to produce a slick image that would make a nice album cover for a chillout mix!

Combine Renders and Light Effects for Awesome Results

In this tutorial, we are going to extract the ability of Photoshop tools to make an epic piece of digital art.  We’ll look at how to manipulate a pre-made render into the composition, as well as how to utilize blending modes, gradients and the liquify tool to achieve a brilliant abstract result.

Create a Dark and Surreal Poster Using Your Own Portrait

Today’s tutorial was inspirited by digital artist Rob Shields who graciously granted permission for us to use his work as inspiration. I chose his work titled “Keep me in the dark.” In this illustration it is essential that you use a tablet; especially for the doodles and the white strokes that will give the portrait a more detailed effect. Let’s get started!

Create a Cosmic Sci-fi Poster Design in Photoshop

I’m a great fan of sci-fi art. Have you ever seen a Metallica cd cover? Simply amazing. This kind of design inspired me to create a cosmic sci-fi scene. Today I want to show you how to create this image in Photoshop. This tutorial is for intermediate users who know how mask and selection tools work. We will use also a bit of Illustrator and Cinema4D. Have a try!

Create a Fantastic Abstract Fan Poster

In this tutorial, we are going to get creative with layering, lighting, and texture to build fantastic abstract piece. More specifically, we’re going to employ some unusual techniques to make a fan poster for the band Omega Code, but you’ll quickly see many different applications for what is taught here.

Photoshop Tutorial: Create a children’s book illustration

In this brilliant tutorial, Photoshop wizard Fabio Sasso puts layer masks and Photoshop’s built-in filters to good use to create a beautiful, enchanting image that wouldn’t be out of place in a children’s book.

Photoshop Tutorial: Create dynamic backdrop lighting

In this tutorial, Ricardo Ajcivinac shows how to recreate this brilliant image (which is also the cover of our Jan 2010 issue), and how to give your character art extra punch by using lighting and layer styles.

How to enhance your subjects with striking light effects in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you a simple technique that can be used to enhance any kind of subject with stunning light effects. We will use in particular selection tools, gradients and brushes to achieve the result.

Super Easy Typographic Portrait in Photoshop

So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a really cool and super easy typographic portrait in Photoshop. We will use the Displace filter and some Blend Modes to achieve the effect. The whole process is quite simple but it might take you some time to add the texts and elements, but once you do that the rest is very straight forward.

his tutorial covers many advanced techniques, but not to fear, as Joe will walk you through step-by-step how to create it.  You’ll learn rendering, depth of field, dispersion, photomanipulation, and how to add the tiny details that all combine for a brilliant artwork.  So, let’s get started!

Egg Planet. Fantastic globe photo manipulation

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!

Create a Kill Bill Style Movie Poster in Photoshop

As you might have noticed from the other photoshop tutorials on this site, I am a bit of a movie buff and enjoy recreating movie posters. In today’s tutorial I am going to show you how to make a cool Kill bill style movie poster complete with bloods, swords, and girls.

“John Rambo” Movie-Poster Tutorial

Today we are going to recreate the original movie poster from the recently released (or let’s say unleashed) movie “John Rambo”. This poster is very simple but effective at the same time. We will use an original picture from the movie, which also the poster-designers seem to have used.

Iron Man View Interface Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial I will show you how to create the Iron Man screen interface, I don’t even know if I can call it that way . We will use Illustrator to create some vectors and Photoshop to put everything together.

Design a Sin City Style Poster

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create that effect in Photoshop, but this time we’ll use Illustrator to create the perspectives and text. I’ll walk through the process of creating the effect; However, it’s always good if you play around and test different settings to see how it works. That for me is the best way to learn.

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Afer the popularity of our previous brush sets 15 Free Space Brushes – Galaxy Nebula & Planets & 9 Unique and Exclusive iPod and iPad Brushes for Photosho it looks like Ill be doing a weekly brush set because you like them so much.

These are all amazing bushes at the highest possible size, 2500. I’m sure you’ll enjoy using theme for a variety of projects. Please retweet this and be sure to subscribe via RSS. If you would like set ...]]>

Afer the popularity of our previous brush sets 15 Free Space Brushes – Galaxy Nebula & Planets & 9 Unique and Exclusive iPod and iPad Brushes for Photosho it looks like Ill be doing a weekly brush set because you like them so much.

These are all amazing bushes at the highest possible size, 2500. I’m sure you’ll enjoy using theme for a variety of projects. Please retweet this and be sure to subscribe via RSS. If you would like set of brushes with a particular theme please leave a comment or email me and I’ll be happy to get them made.

Thank you to the following photographer’s russelljsmith / Lincolnian (Brian) /ruurmo /Swami Stream /tomooka /Per Ola Wiberg ~ Powi ~ back

download: 6 Stunning Floral Brushes (14.36MB) added: 17/03/2010 clicks: 210 description: 6 Stunning Floral Brushes for Photoshop. Containing: 6 Photoshop Brushes Photoshop Version CS 2 , 3 & 4 size : 2500 x 2500

I recently made some fractal brushes for Little Box of Ideas . They had a good response so I thought I’d make some for you guys too .

These are all made at 2500 pixels and should work in photoshop CS and above. If you enjoyed use them please feel free to link to them but please don’t redistribute as your own.

It looks like we’ll be publishing a new brush set every week so if you have any requests ...]]>

I recently made some fractal brushes for Little Box of Ideas . They had a good response so I thought I’d make some for you guys too .

These are all made at 2500 pixels and should work in photoshop CS and above. If you enjoyed use them please feel free to link to them but please don’t redistribute as your own.

It looks like we’ll be publishing a new brush set every week so if you have any requests for brushes leave a comment saying what type your interested in or email us. Please retweet this and be sure to get out RSS feed.

download: 6 Free Stunning Fractal Brushes Which You Need (21.17MB) added: 10/03/2010 clicks: 971 description: 6 Free Stunning Fractal Brushes Which You Need all at 2500 px Photoshop CS and above

To boldly go where no brush has been before , joking aside these brushes are some of the best I’ve made so far . I’ve really got the knack of making them work.They are all images of Nebula galaxies and stars at a high resolution.

Each brush can be sized to 2500 pixels so they’ll come in handy for a variety of projects .These brushes are made from NASA images , they have a very open usage policy which is good ...]]>

To boldly go where no brush has been before , joking aside these brushes are some of the best I’ve made so far . I’ve really got the knack of making them work.They are all images of Nebula galaxies and stars at a high resolution.

Each brush can be sized to 2500 pixels so they’ll come in handy for a variety of projects .These brushes are made from NASA images , they have a very open usage policy which is good thing to know about. You can use any of their images for any purpose , they ask that you acknowledge NASA as the source. Thank you NASA for helping me make these brushes.

Here is a preview of all 15 brushes with a white brush against a blue background.

download: 15 Free Space Brushes - Galaxy Nebula & Planets (27.80MB) added: 26/02/2010 clicks: 456 description: 15 Free Space Brushes - Galaxy Nebula & Planets Containing: 15 Photoshop Brushes Photoshop Version CS 2 , 3 & 4

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source Wikipedia.

Photoshop CS5 is due to be released by spring (April 2010) and at the latest by mid 2010. Adobe seems to release new CS version at least a year and a half apart.

Seeing as the last brushes were so popular I decided to make some more , I’ll be sure to get more freebies out this week in the spirit of Christmas. These brushes were made from images of Christmas things such as Tinsel, Snowmen and Ice. I’m sure you’ll find these useful as your creating xmas designs. If you like these brushes Ill post some more at the end of this week also check out 9 Free Must Have Christmas Brushes ...]]>

Seeing as the last brushes were so popular I decided to make some more , I’ll be sure to get more freebies out this week in the spirit of Christmas. These brushes were made from images of Christmas things such as Tinsel, Snowmen and Ice. I’m sure you’ll find these useful as your creating xmas designs. If you like these brushes Ill post some more at the end of this week also check out 9 Free Must Have Christmas Brushes which you’ll find useful.

Preview :8/8

8 High Res Unique Christmas brushes

All at 2500 x 2500 and at 300 ppi

Free for personal and commercial use with no attribution/credit however please do not redistribute or sell them as your own.

Download from here:

Mediafire Download (11.4mb Zip File)

Thanks to these artists who helped make these possible .

• Darwin Bell
• moonsetsky
• cote
• ~yienshawn92~
• einarfour
• brockvicky
• www.theedinburghblog.co.uk
• eriwst
• kevindooley
• *~Dawn~*
• Muffet
• apesara
• Mr Wabu

These brushes were made from images of Christmas things such as Santa , Snowmen and Presents. I’m sure you’ll find these useful as your creating xmas designs. If you like these brushes Ill post some more at the end of this week also check out  22 Unique Marbling Brushes which you’ll find useful.

Preview 9/9

9 High Res Unique Christmas brushes

All at 2500 x 2500 and at 300 ppi

Free for personal and commercial use with no attribution/credit however please do not redistribute ...]]>

These brushes were made from images of Christmas things such as Santa , Snowmen and Presents. I’m sure you’ll find these useful as your creating xmas designs. If you like these brushes Ill post some more at the end of this week also check out  22 Unique Marbling Brushes which you’ll find useful.

Preview 9/9

9 High Res Unique Christmas brushes

All at 2500 x 2500 and at 300 ppi

Free for personal and commercial use with no attribution/credit however please do not redistribute or sell them as your own.

Download from here:

Mediafire Download (9.7mb Zip File)

Thanks to these artists who helped make these possible .

• Darwin Bell
• moonsetsky
• cote
• ~yienshawn92~
• einarfour
• brockvicky
• www.theedinburghblog.co.uk
• eriwst
• kevindooley
• *~Dawn~*
• Muffet
• apesara
• Mr Wabu

‘Paper marbling is a method of aqueous surface design, which can produce patterns similar to marble or other stone, hence the name. The patterns are the result of color floated on either plain water or a viscous solution known as size, and then carefully transferred to a sheet of paper. This decorative material has been used to cover a variety of ...]]>

22 brushes in one set of 11 medium and 11 large both ,all unique and created by Digital Art Empire.

‘Paper marbling is a method of aqueous surface design, which can produce patterns similar to marble or other stone, hence the name. The patterns are the result of color floated on either plain water or a viscous solution known as size, and then carefully transferred to a sheet of paper. This decorative material has been used to cover a variety of surfaces for several centuries. It is often employed as a writing surface for calligraphy, and especially book covers and endpapers in bookbinding and stationery. Part of its appeal is that each print is a unique monotype.’ Wikipedia

I really enjoyed making these one Sunday afternoon in the summer some of the original  marbling textures (15) can be found here. Using the brushes is good , they work seamlesly and I will include them in a tutorial soon .

A little update about Digital Art Empire

To all the regular readers ,which are growing steadily daily,thankyou to everyone who has been following the blog. Marc is no longer a part of our team because of his career interests, howver I [Ben] am still looking for writers for tuts and articles, so if you would like some exposure get in touch, its awesome to collaborate.

If you want to contact me for any reason ,even just to say hello please feel free , I always answer all my emails. I would really like to grow a genuine community of like minded designers and digital artists who have real discussions . The reason I haven’t posted as much as I intended this month is because I have been busy writing tuts for other blogs, namely PSD Fan and My Ink Blog which I recommend checking out in themselves. I set out with the intention of posting one tutorial a week which may work, however a more modest amount of two a month may mean better quality.

preview: 6/22

22 High Res Unique Marbling Brushes

medium are  1735 x 2448

large are 2500 x 2500 all at 300 ppi

Free for personal and commercial use with no attribution/credit however please do not redistribute or sell them as your own.

Download from here:

Rapidshare Download (69.3mb Zip File)

Mediafire Download (69.3mb Zip File)