Wired Magazine introduced on the September 2008 issue a new headline design created by Mario Hugo. This cool headline design struck me with its beauty and simplicity. So I decided to turn this effect into a Photoshop tutorial. Although the effect is a bit different, all credit should be given to Mario Hugo.

Lets face it - rubber stamps are an amazingly quick and easy way of marking something in real life, but recreating them in Photoshop is a little more difficult. Unlike real media, the electronic canvas does not have creases, folds, and underlying texture to distort the ink. Neither does an electronic stamp have problems with ink adherence, creating a unique effect every time it is used.

Ever wanted to be a professional thief? Cracking open safes, robbing banks? Not such a good idea, but why take the risk of getting caught if you can fake it? I’m going to teach you how to make a nice laser cut on a metal surface, with all the effects you get when you do it. To keep it realistic, I’m not going into creating the laser itself - In reality you can’t actually see the laser, so why bother making it?

Very trendy, pimp everything with photoshop. That is why we are gonna pimp our text in photoshop. In this tutorial you\’ll learn how to make a simple layer-style for your pimpin’ text in photoshop. If you don\’t have the patience to do this tutorial, you can just download the PSD wich contains the layerstyle from this tutorial. Nice and easy.

In this tutorial we will be learning how to take a few different stock images and put them together with some text to make a movie poster/DVD cover design. If you followed the first part of this tutorial on destroying a plane then you can use that image as well.

Abstract 3D objects is something that we are seeing more and more in graphic design so I thought it would be good to learn how to create a cool looking design using an abstract render and let you see how simple it is to create a full piece of art in this way. I’ll be using lots of simple techniques so anyone should be able to follow it.

The holiday season is fast approaching and we’re soon going to be running around like headless chickens to get everything done in time. So why not get a head start with your Christmas photo postcard! :) And what makes your photo pop? A cool looking border or frame around it!

Almost every photograph can benefit from small color corrections - changes that eliminate subtle casts, and allow the true colors to speak more clearly to the viewer. Watch this tutorial to learn how to adjust the color balance of any photo.

Two of the most recent big additions to Photoshop are smart objects and video layers, both which are very powerful and worth learning. I thought I would try and write the best and longest tutorial ever on these at the same time. Through creating an animated grunge style interface, we will learn some useful techniques and ways to use both of these in any of your projects.

Today we will make a realistic animated surveillance amera effect in Adobe Photoshop.