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The June edition of the New Yorker has been released, with a cover devoted to the history of violence inflicted on black people in the United States. Entitled 'Say Their Names', the powerful illustration features George Floyd, the US citizen recently killed by a police officer in Minneapolis. It shows his body imprinted with images of individual victims, placards, scenes from history and pertinent symbolism. 

Kadir Nelson's cover art is interactive and can be explored on the New Yorker's website, which describes the feature as a "closeup examination of the artist’s latest cover, in which the murder of George Floyd embodies the history of violence inflicted upon black people in America". As you click through the page, you find out the individual stories of the 18 black Americans featured.

The New Yorker cover is a powerful tribute to George Floyd and other victims of police brutality

Prominent activists such as Martin Luther King JR and Malcom X – who were both assassinated in the 1960s – are included in the piece, and other victims include seven-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones and twenty-two-year-old Stephon Clark, who were both killed in their own homes in the last decade. The final annotation included in the interactive feature is the story of an escaped slave – known as Gordon – whose image was circulated as a key part of the abolitionist movement because of the shocking lacerations on his back.

Nelson has depicted moments of historical significance too, including the March from Selma, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, while the 'I Am A Man' placard reflects the protest signs carried by sanitation workers during the Memphis strikes. 

The mostly monochrome piece is interlaced with blue Periwinkle, which represents the millions of black people who died as slaves in the USA. Periwinkle was often used as a burial flower, and was often the only sign of a burial plot in the case of the resting place of many slaves.

Nelson is well-known for his work depicting African-American history and culture. His work is often featured on the cover of the New Yorker, and he has also created cover art for National Geographic (see it above), Ebony and Marvel, amongst other publications. Nelson is one of the many creatives standing up in the fight against racism, in response to the killing of George Floyd and support of the protests currently taking place globally.

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Artificial Intelligence is the use of computers or machines that have been created to work and react like humans. Some of the computers that have AI, are designed to include speech recognition, and learn user behaviours so they can predict activities or decisions before they happen.

AI creates a bridge to a new kind of interface, making work processes easier for businesses and customers alike.

Why is AI Important?

There are constant AI technological advances being made, so why not make the most of them and start integrating them into your toolset today? Read on to find out just why AI is important and how you can benefit from it in your work too.

Lower Costs

By integrating Artificial Intelligence into your toolset, you can stand to both save and earn more money. AI will leave you spending less time on various aspects of website management and development, freeing some of your time up and allowing you to finish websites faster. It will also leverage your set of skills and allow you to build greater sites that people will be willing to pay more money for.

Improve Customer Experience

Artificial Intelligence can be used to analyse data in much more depth than the human eye, so will greatly improve the customer experience. It will allow a more personalised and streamlined experience that users will be grateful for. By integrating AI into your toolset, you will soon learn about certain trends and patterns that AI picks up and utilise this with future sites you build, as well as being able to make suggestions to improve the customer journey on the site.

It’s The Future

With so many devices in our everyday lives tuning in to AI, it’s important websites are no different. Just look around many homes and you will likely see a device such as Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home. Phone’s have Siri or Bixby and many laptops have AI systems such as Cortana. As our technology continues to develop, websites need to do this too. Soon we will expect everything to be integrated and be able to control websites in a similar way to our AI devices with voice control and recognition.

How To Integrate AI Into Your Toolset
Chat Bots

One popular example of AI that is integrated into many different websites now, is the chat bot. A feature on a number of major sites, chat bots allow customers to ask and receive answers to questions without an employee having to take time out of their day to answer menial questions that they get asked all the time. The use of AI cuts out the middleman and recognises certain phrases and words to give the most relevant and comprehensive answer.

The first chatbots used to rely on simple, pre-programmed conversational pathways, but these had disappointing and often irrelevant results. More recently they use sophisticated natural language processing (NLP) systems which are a lot more complex and don’t follow just a scripted path, but allow for more meaningful conversations.

Sketch to Code

If you’ve just started in web design, or there are certain elements you are still learning about, AI can help with “sketch to code”. This clever piece of AI can transform a handwritten note, sketch or diagram into a valid HTML mark-up code that maintains itself. This can work from something as simple as a new design for a quote system, to something more complex.

Background Systems

AI can work in the background of a site in the run up to events and collect key aspects such as website analytics. Once this data is complete, the AI can take final instructions from you such as the content, theme and color preference and create a design from scratch that it thinks will perform the best due to the intelligence and knowledge it has been gathering in the background.

Voice Recognition

Back in 2012, the W3C Community introduced the Web Speech API specification with the aim of enabling speech recognition and synthesis in modern browsers. At present, Google Chrome is the only browser that has introduced this, however there is a HTML5 Speech Recognition API will allows JavaScript to have access to a browser’s audio stream and to convert it into text.

It’s important to get up to speed with voice recognition API’s as it’s predicted voice control will be huge in the future. If populating websites, think about how people speak and be sure to include some long-tail keywords that sound more natural. This will help those sites to rank when voice control is adopted more widely.

Adobe Sensei

Adobe Sensei is an AI and machine learning framework that is powering Adobe tools. It is a handy option to add to your toolkit to manage and work on your files.

If you are sourcing images for a website in Adobe Stock, there are over 100 million assets to sift through. Adobe Sensei uses AI and deep learning to understand what exact objects are within an image as well as deeper components such as the aesthetic quality, composition, color palette and even the emotional concept behind the images. This means it can quickly find the image most matched to your needs, saving you hours of time you would have spent sorting through to find the image you want.

Yossarian

Yossarian is a great tool that allows you to craft mood boards. With an aim to generate new ideas faster, it cites itself as “discovery with a twist.” Yossarian uses AI when creating mood boards to return “diverse and unexpected concepts” that share loose associations with what you have searched for, allowing you to be more creative. It will source different ideas and inspiration around what you are searching for, including many you might not have thought of associating with your initial search term.

Brandmark

If you create logos and design templates within your work, Brandmark logo maker is a great AI tool to add to your library. They cite themselves as the most advanced AI logo design tool on the market at the moment. Whether logo creation is something you currently offer, or something you are looking to do, this AI tool can make it easier.

Autodraw

Autodraw is another useful tool you can use for design jobs, where you draw a rough sketch and it will turn it into a neat graphic. This is a handy one to use in association with the concept of sketch to code above. It pairs the magic of machine learning with drawings to help you create professional looking graphics and visuals, quickly.

 

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Smart Interface Design Patterns In Your Pocket: Checklist Cards PDF

Smart Interface Design Patterns In Your Pocket: Checklist Cards PDF

Vitaly Friedman

2020-08-04T14:00:00+00:00
2020-08-04T19:34:38+00:00

Every UI component, no matter if it’s an accordion, a hamburger navigation, a data table, or a carousel, brings along its unique challenges. Coming up with a new solution for every problem takes time, and often it’s really not necessary. We can rely on smart design patterns and usability tests, and ask the right questions ahead of time to avoid issues down the line.

Meet “Smart Interface Design Checklists”, with questions to ask when designing and building any interface component.

Meet Interface Design Patterns Checklists, a deck of 100 cards with common questions to ask while dealing with any interface challenge — from intricate data tables and web forms to troublesome hamburgers and carousels. Plus, many other components (full list ↓), explored in full detail.

Each checklist has been curated and refined for years by yours truly — all based upon usability sessions, design iterations and A/B tests. Useful for designers & front-end developers to discuss everything a component requires before starting designing or coding.

And if you’d like to dive into design patterns live, attend our upcoming online workshops on Smart Interface Design Patterns, 2020 Edition, where we’ll explore 100s of practical examples over 5×2.5h live sessions.

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About The Checklists

Meet 100 checklist cards with everything you need to tackle any UI challenge — from intricate tables to troublesome carousels. Created to help us all keep track of all the fine little details to design and build better interfaces, faster. Plus, it’s useful to not forget anything critical and avoid costly mistakes down the line. Check the preview.

When working on pretty much any interface problem, we sit down with designers and developers and talk about its design, markup and behavior — using checklists. The deck creates a much-needed sense of alignment, so everyone is one the same page before jumping into design or coding tools.

The deck includes checklists on:

designing for touch (free preview),
hamburger menu and accordions,
carousels and navigation,
filtering, sorting, search,
data tables and feature comparison,
pricing plans and product page,
sliders and video players,
configurators and wizards,
date pickers and calendars,
timelines, maps, seating plans,
privacy and authentication,
onboarding and offboarding,
reviews and testimonials,
video and audio players,
web forms and donation forms.
Plus, 400 practical interface examples (free preview).

Beautifully designed by our dear illustrator Ricardo Gimenes, this deck is always by your side — on your desk or on your phone when you’re on the go.

Additionally, you get practical examples, action points and the checklists in a wide resolution (16×9) for reference and presentations.

A little bonus: 400 practical examples, action points and the checklist in 16×9.

You’ll get:

100 checklists cards on everything from carousels to web forms, carefully curated and designed,
Practical examples and action points for your reference in 16×9,
Editable text file to adjust for your needs,
Life-time access to the deck, updated regularly.
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Table of Contents

Designing For Touch Checklist

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Overall, 26 questions, including:

Input is never precise: are hit targets at least 48×48px? Can users tap on the same spot to undo actions? Do we expose critical navigation at the bottom on mobile?

Accordion Checklist

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Overall, 14 questions, including:

What icon do we choose to indicate expansion? Should expanded sections collapse automatically? Should the user be scrolled automatically when expanded?

Navigation Checklist

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Overall, 30 questions, including:

Do drop-downs appear/disappear on hover, tap/click, or both? Do nav items appear in a full page/partial overlay or slide-in? Can we split the nav vertically for sub-menus on mobile?

Hamburger Menu Checklist

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Overall, 23 questions, including:

Can we avoid a hamburger icon and show navigation as is? What happens when the user opens both search and hamburger? Do we expose critical navigation by default on desktop/mobile?

Filtering Checklist

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Overall, 25 questions, including:

Do we expose popular or relevant filters by default? Do we display the number of expected results for each filter? Do we apply filters automatically or manually on “Apply” button?

Sorting Checklist

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Overall, 32 questions, including:

Do we repeat sorting at the bottom of the content list? Do we include the “Sort by” label separately from the buttons/dropdown? Does the default sorting reflect the diversity of all major product types?

Search Autocomplete Checklist

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Overall, 33 questions, including:

Do we surface frequent hits, popular searches, products or categories at the top of autosuggestions? On what character do we start displaying autosuggestions? Do we use a look-ahead pattern for search queries?

Carousels Checklist

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Overall, 37 questions, including:

Can we just show a grid of images instead of a carousel? Is there a way to pause a carousel if it’s auto-rotating? How do we choose the sequence of slides?

Tables Checklist

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Overall, 28 questions, including:

Do we add steppers to navigate through columns or rows predictably? Do we highlight the cell, row or column on user’s tap/click? With rows as cards on mobile, do we expose relevant data for comparison?

Pricing Plans Checklist

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Overall, 51 questions, including:

How many features do we want to display per plan? Do we want to allow customers to switch currency (€/$/£)? Can we avoid requiring credit card data for the free trial period?

Sliders Checklist

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Overall, 19 questions, including:

Do we provide a text input fallback for precise input? Are there any values on a slider that shouldn’t be accepting? Should users be able to “lock” some values?

Date Pickers Checklist

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Overall, 20 questions, including:

What presets (‘prev day’/’current day’) do we need for faster navigation? Do we use dots color coding for different rates or days? How do we avoid displaying unavailable dates or zero-results?

Configurators Checklist

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Overall, 33 questions, including:

What’s the entry point to the configurator? Should the user automatically move to the next step when finished? For every step, do we explain and highlight dependencies?

Feature Comparison Checklist

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Overall, 27 questions, including:

Can users see only differences, similarities and selected attributes for all products/plans? Can the user move columns left and right? Should we ask customers to choose preferred attributes?

Timelines Checklist

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Overall, 24 questions, including:

How do we expose/highlight critical events (e.g. now/coming up next)? Should some events or time segments be available/fixed at all times? Do we communicate changes over time with an underlying histogram?

Schedule And Calendars Checklist

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Overall, 25 questions, including:

Do we provide quick jumps between tracks? Should we consider flipping the timing header by 90 degrees? Do we display what’s happening now and coming up next?

Maps Checklist

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Overall, 26 questions, including:

Do we provide zooming? How many levels of depth will zoom provide? Would an autocomplete search help users find information faster? For charts, can we flip axis to make use of available space?

Seating Plans Checklist

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Overall, 23 questions, including:

What kinds of pricing tiers and discounted tickets (senior, student) do we have? Do we have any planes or floors that users need to navigate between? Do we calculate and display an experience score for each seat?

Privacy Checklist

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Overall, 44 questions, including:

Can we group user data according to low/medium/high priority? Can we gradually request more user permissions when we need them? Do we ask for permissions only if we are likely to get them?

Onboarding Checklist

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Overall, 15 questions, including:

Can we avoid intro tours, tooltips, wizards and slideshows as they are usually skipped? Do we use empty state to indicate our features? When is the right timing to show a particular feature?

Reviews and Testimonials Checklist

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Overall, 36 questions, including:

Can we group testimonials by a feature/impact and highlight them together? Do we highlight the number of testimonials/reviews prominently? Do we display name, photo, title, age, location, role, company, brand logo?

Web Forms Checklist

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Overall, 76 questions, including:

Will we be using floating labels? If so, are they accessible? For a country selector, do we display some countries as frequently used? Do we show the number of errors above the “Submit” button and in the tab title as a prefix?

Donation Form Checklist

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Overall, 32 questions, including:

Do we include any testimonials or stories next to the donation form? What suggested donation amounts do we display, and how many? Which types of donations do we have: one-off, monthly, quarterly, annually?

Authentication Checklist

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Overall, 34 questions, including:

What password requirements do we want/need to implement? Do we really need CAPTCHA, or can we use honeypot/time traps instead? Do we limit the frequency of password recovery attempts?

Product Page Checklist

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Overall, 76 questions, including:

What layout do we use for the page (tabs, accordions, one long page, floating bar)? Do we display the final price (incl. standard shipping, taxes, payment fees, currency)? What do we display when an item is out of stock (notification via SMS/email)?

Video Player Checklist

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Overall, 33 questions, including:

How do we optimize for precise input and fast-forwards (keyboard, buttons)? Do we use preview clips, popularity bar, key moments preview? Do we persist the position of the video track on refresh?

About the Author

Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing or speaking at a conference, he’s most probably running front-end/UX workshops and webinars. He loves solving complex UX, front-end and performance problems. Get in touch.

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Do you want to dive deeper into the bits and pieces of smart interface design patterns? We’ll be hosting a series of online workshops, in which we’ll take a microscopic examination of common interface components and reliable solutions to get them right — both on desktop and on mobile.

We’ll study 100s of hand-picked examples and we’ll design interfaces live, from mega-dropdowns and car configurators — all the way to timelines and onboarding. And: we’ll be reviewing and providing feedback to each other’s work. Check all topics and schedule.

Vitaly’s Smart Interface Design Patterns Workshop, broken down into 5×2.5h sessions, with 100s of practical examples.

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The workshop is delivered in five 2.5h long sessions with lots of time for you to ask all your questions. It’s for interface designers, front-end designers and developers who’d love to be prepared for any challenge coming their way.

You’ll walk away with a toolbox of practical techniques for your product, website, desktop app or a mobile app.

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Photoshop tutorials are something that every user can benefit from, whatever your level of experience. When you're first starting out, the best beginner-level Photoshop tutorials can help you grasp the basics and set you on the right path. As you progress, you'll find that intermediate Photoshop tutorials can boost your skills and introduce you to new techniques. And even when you're a veteran of the software, there are always advanced Photoshop tutorials that can introduce you to new features and ambitious projects that can pull you out of your creative comfort zone and stretch your abilities yet further.

In many ways, it's a case of running to stand still, because Photoshop is expanding and adding features all the time, not to mention brand new ways of using it, such as Photoshop on the iPad. So there are always going to be more tricks you can learn.

With all that in mind, here's our round-up of the best Photoshop tutorials you can access for free on the web today. And don't forget to improve your Photoshop experience even further, with our roundups of the best free Photoshop brushes and the latest Photoshop plugins.

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01. Photoshop for beginners

If you’re a complete novice, then Photoshop tutorials are a great way to get your head around the software. In this three-hour video, Dan Scott, an Adobe certified instructor for Envato Tuts+, walks you through everything you need to get started. There’s no need for any previous Photoshop knowledge, or photography or design skills for that matter. If you want to jump ahead, the different sections and timings are all listed on the YouTube page.

02. Learn Photoshop in 5 minutes: beginner tutorial

Pushed for time? There are many short and sweet Photoshop tutorials for beginners out there, and here's one of our favourites. In just five minutes, Julian Ball of Flow Graphics walks you through the basic tools and interface, and gives you a good idea of what the software is all about.

03. Get to know Photoshop

Part of a series of Photoshop tutorials produced by Adobe itself, Get to know Photoshop teaches you the basic tools and techniques of the software. You'll be introduced to the work area and will learn how to open and save your images, zoom in and out, and undo mistakes. 

04. How to resize an image

Image resizing is probably one of the first things you'll want to do as a beginner, and here's one of the best Photoshop tutorials to explain it. How to resize an image on Photoshop teaches you how to change canvas size, use trim and more, all without compromising too much on image quality. 

05. How to work with layers

Layers are one of those fundamental concepts you'll need to get your head around, and here's another of Adobe's own Photoshop tutorials to walk you through the basics. How to work with layers teaches you what layers are and how to use the Layers panel, how to resize the contents of a layer, and how to add images to a layered file.

06. How to adjust image quality

Discover how to adjust image quality with this most succinct of Photoshop tutorials. This series of four videos will teach you to enhance brightness and colour, and improve the quality of your images in Photoshop.

07. How to make selections

Some Photoshop tutorials help you master vital skills quickly and easily, and here's a great example. How to make selections reveals how to create a selection, work with selection tools, and fine-tune the edges of a selection.

08. How to retouch images

How to retouch images is a trio of Photoshop tutorials in video form. They walk you through how to remove unwanted objects, add objects by cloning, and fix other imperfections in your images with retouching tools in Photoshop.

09. How to add text and shapes

This collection of four Photoshop tutorials demonstrates how to add text and shapes. When you do so, they remain editable, and you can customise them down to the smallest detail.

10. How to use the Photoshop Pen tool

In one of Creative Bloq's own Photoshop tutorials, Mark White explains how to use the Photoshop Pen tool, a simple selection feature that enables you to fill, stroke or make selections from whatever you draw. 

11. How to use the Brush tool

In another of our Photoshop tutorials from Mark White, you'll discover how to use the Brush tool in Photoshop. This step-by-step guide includes helpful guides to what each of the icons in the Brush palette mean.

12. How to make a photo collage

Learn how to combine images to make a simple photo collage in Photoshop with this tutorial from Matt Smith. You can use this technique to create your own collages from photographs, and perhaps eventually build on your compositions to create more intricate design collages from your own creations.

13. How to apply filters

Learn how to apply filters, allowing you add quick effects to an image. Filters can also be combined to create unique results, as these two related Photoshop tutorials demonstrate nicely.

14. Edit your first photo

Photoshop tutorials for beginners can be found on a range of subjects, and this one teaches you how to edit your first photo. Bring out the best in your images with the useful techniques outlined here. 

15. How to use Photoshop layer masks

One of Creative Bloq's own Photoshop tutorials, How to use Photoshop layer masks will help you streamline your digital art workflow. As any beginner will quickly learn, layer masks are one of the most fundamental parts of the software: without them your work will look flat. Follow these tips and shortcuts to work more quickly and easily. 

16. How to remove a background in Photoshop

Another of our own Photoshops tutorials takes you through several different ways to remove a background in Photoshop. Jo Gulliver starts off by taking you through how to use the Magic Wand tool and Quick Selection tools to remove a background, before moving on to more advanced techniques.

17. Create your first design

Create your first design is a series of Photoshop tutorials that introduces how to work with layers, combine images, use layer masks, and add creative graphics, text, and effects. You can then use these skills to combine design assets into a simple, unique composite for print or online use. 

18. How to make a meme in Photoshop

Social media’s all about memes these days, and making them is a useful skill to have. In one of our most recent Photoshop tutorials, How to make a meme in Photoshop, Matt Smith explains how to make multiple memes in moments.

19. How to use Photoshop layers: 6 top tips

This tutorial, How to use Photoshop layers: 6 top tips, will teach you to use Photoshop's layer system; the key to unlocking the software's versatility. Here, you’ll find out how to create layers, lock them, group them and adjust opacity. 

20. Digital painting with Photoshop CC for beginners

Digital painting with Photoshop for beginners breaks down the process of creating a simple digital painting, from start to finish. If you can work on a canvas with paints, then many of the same painting techniques you use will transfer directly over to digitally painting in Photoshop.

Next page: Intermediate Photoshop tutorials

21. How to Photoshop on the iPhone

Want to use Photoshop on your mobile? In one of Creative Bloq's most popular recent Photoshop tutorials, How to Photoshop on the iPhone, Jason Parnell-Brookes walks you through three ways of doing so. Each technique uses a different, free app: Photoshop Express, Photoshop Mix or Photoshop Fix.

22. How to flip a layer in Photoshop

Discover how to flip a layer in Photoshop, and then blend the results with the original. In another of his excellent Photoshop tutorials for Creative Bloq, Matt Smith walks you through the process in six easy steps.

23. How to add fonts in Photoshop 

Whether you’re on a Mac or a Windows, adding fonts in Photoshop is nothing to be daunted by. In this tutorial, How to add fonts in Photoshop, Matt Smith explains how to go about it.

24. Create an old-school anaglyph effect

An anaglyph effect is the vintage style of 3D where you have to wear red and blue glasses to appreciate the content. One of last year's best Photoshop tutorials, Create an old-school anaglyph effect, explains how to achieve this classic effect using base images, shading and textures.

25. How to Photoshop someone into a picture

Editing a photo of somebody into an illustrated scene is a useful technique. In this most easy to follow of Photoshop tutorials, How to Photoshop someone into a picture, Matt Smith explains how to do so in six steps.

26. Visual development tips in Photoshop

Learn how to hone your storytelling skills and use them to create a visual development scene in Photoshop.  This workshop focuses on creating a pre-visual development, which is about painting gorgeous scenery. 

27. How to create masks in Photoshop

Crafting your own digital art masks can seem daunting at first, but once you start using them you’ll never go back. In How to create masks in Photoshop, Paul Canavan offers tips to get you started.

28. Create textures with the Pattern Stamp tool 

Photoshop's Pattern Stamp tool can be a godsend when you want to create ideas and concepts as quickly as you can. In this most visually inspiring of Photoshop tutorials, Lino Drieghe explains how to use the Pattern Stamp tool to create a variety of textures and colours and your own custom patterns. 

29. Six essential Photoshop layers to improve your images

In 6 essential Photoshop layers to improve your images, James Paterson outlines the six most frequently used Photoshop layers for image editing, and explains how you can use them to improve almost any photo.

30. How to use smart layers in Photoshop

When incorporating repeating designs and patterns into an illustration, smart layers are your friend. In this tutorials, How to use smart layers in Photoshop, Alix Branwyn teaches you how to use them to create a separate layered PSD that can be embedded into your original PSD.

31. How to manage colours in Photoshop

How to manage colours in Photoshop is a helpful tutorial in which Sebastian Bleak provides an overview for anyone new to colour management, with practical advice for managing colours in Photoshop. 

32. Get creative with Photoshop Blend Modes

Combining layers and images can allow you to create a huge variety of effects. For one of Creative Bloq's own Photoshop tutorials, Get creative with Photoshop Blend Modes, James Paterson explains how these effects work, and some of the wonderful things you can do with them.

33. Photoshop for web design: pro tips

There aren't that many Photoshop tutorials covering its use in web design, but here's a great one. In Photoshop for web design: 20 pro tips, David Everly and Dan Rose offer tips for being efficient when creating website graphics.

34. Make a composite in Photoshop

Make a composite in Photoshop is another in Adobe’s one-minute series of Photoshop tutorials. Here, you'll learn a quick way to make a composite in the software, in the time it takes you to boil a kettle.

35. Make an animated GIF in Photoshop

Who doesn’t love an animated GIF? Learn how to craft your own by following this video from Adobe on how to make an animated GIF in Photoshop. 

36. Get creative with Face-Aware Liquify

In one of Creative Bloq's best Photoshop tutorials, Get creative with Face-Aware Liquify, Luke O'Neill explores the Liquify tool. This has some powerful facial recognition skills, enabling it to detect areas of the face, such as the eyes, mouth and overall face shape, so you can adjust and warp them with impunity. 

37. Create style frames in Photoshop

This tutorial teaches you how to create style frames in Photoshop. A style frame is a snapshot of a finished frame as it would look within a longer animation. It aims to capture the overall look and feel of an animation, but in a still image.

38. Make a double exposure in Photoshop

Here's aother of Adobe 60-second Photoshop tutorials under the 'Make It Now' banner. Make a double exposure in Photoshop shows you to create an impressive double exposure effect.

39. The Refine Edge box tool explained

Learn about the seven main features of the Refine Edge tool in this Photoshop tutorial, The Refine Edge box tool explained. If you've ever tried to change the background of a person with frizzy hair or a horizon dotted with bushy foliage, you'll know just how intensely time consuming this can be. Luckily Refine Edge is here to make your life easier. 

40. Combine traditional and digital skills to create a comic cover

Combine traditional and digital skills to create a comic cover shows you how to draw an illustration by hand, then take it into Photoshop to colour and light it, then add eye-catching filters.  If you like working with traditional materials, this is one of the best Photoshop tutorials to help give your work more impact. 

41. Rapid site prototyping in Photoshop

Photoshop offers a comprehensive toolset for mocking up websites quickly and easily. In Rapid site prototyping in Photoshop, Antony Kitson explains how to use the key features to get an idea across to a client or developer.

42. Age a photograph in Photoshop

Another of Creative Bloq's most popular Photoshop tutorials, this will teach you to age a photograph in Photoshop using the duotone technique. This will help you turn a ho-hum, full colour image into something striking. 

43. How to remove wrinkles in Photoshop

Learning how to remove wrinkles is the kind of thing that Photoshop tutorials are made for. Here, award-winning photographer Jason Parnell-Brookes walks you through how to parse out some crow's feet and tone down some deeper folds, while keeping your subject looking natural. 

44. Make a poster from a template in Photoshop

Make a poster from a template in Photoshop show you how to make a poster from a template. Another of Adobe's super-short Photoshop tutorials (under 60 seconds), this walkthrough will have you designing posters faster than ever.

45. How to make a logo in Photoshop

Okay, so Photoshop isn't the ideal place to make a logo. You'll probably want to use Illustrator if you can. But if Photoshop's all you've got, then follow this guide to how to make a logo in Photoshop.

Next page: Advanced Photoshop tutorials

46. Colourise greyscale work in Photoshop

In Colourise greyscale work in Photoshop, one of his Photoshop tutorials for Creative Bloq, Stephan McGowan walks you through the techniques and tools he uses to create full-colour images from a greyscale line-art starting point, using Photoshop's default tools. 

47. Create a glowing neon text effect

Learn how to create a glowing neon text effect: it’s much easier than you might think, says Mark White. This Photoshop tutorial shows you how to do so using just one background image.

48. Use the Pen tool and textures to add depth

Here's another example of the great Photoshop tutorials you'll find on Creative Bloq. Follow along as Illustrator Charlie Davis shows you how to use the Pen tool and textures to add depth. He offers a series of core techniques for creating a peaceful countryside scene; you’ll also learn how to apply masks, and how to use textures from Adobe Stock to add depth and warmth.

49. Paint colourful art in Photoshop

In Paint colourful art in Photoshop, Randy Bishop outlines several key techniques he uses as an illustrator in Photoshop: rough concepts, clean line work, colour, light and shadow, and some of the pitfalls that people tend to fall into while working through an illustration.

50. How to add 3D art to a Photoshop image

Adobe Fuse offers a simple way to create and customise 3D characters in a matter of minutes. This has been the subject of many recent Photoshop tutorials, and here's one of the best. How to add 3D art to a Photoshop image explains how Fuse works, and shows how to combine 3D creations with a 2D image for a dramatic composite.

51. Master the Mixer brush in Photoshop

One of those advanced Photoshop tutorials that's actually pretty simple to follow. In Master the Mixer brush in Photoshop, Wangjie Li teaches you to quickly make brushstrokes in the style of a traditional artist. 

52. Seven essential Photoshop Blend mode tips and tricks

In 7 essential Photoshop Blend mode tips and tricks, James Paterson explores the most useful Blend modes and how they can help you in your day to day work. Whether you’re dodging and burning, hand-painting or portrait‑toning, this is one of those Photoshop tutorials that aims to make your life easier. 

53. How to use control points in Photoshop

This tutorial explains how to use control points in Photoshop. Most Photoshop users will be familiar with making selections or using masks to isolate areas for selective adjustments, but control points are different. You simply click on a point, adjust the circular area to fit over whatever you want to target, and the software will work out what you want to adjust by seeking out similar tones.

54. How to transform a pencil sketch

Another one of those Photoshop tutorials that delivers exactly what it promises. In How to transform a pencil sketch, Don Seegmiller walks through how you can make your hand-drawn sketches easier to work with in Photoshop. 

55. How to use Photoshop's 'Match Font' feature

This tutorial will teach you how to use Photoshop’s ‘Match Font’ feature. This helps take the legwork out of laborious tasks like scouring your font book, your type client, or online foundries to get the closest match to the typography sample you’ve seen. Luke O’Neill reveals how to get the best results from it.

56. Create painterly effects in Photoshop CC

Here are two video-based Photoshop tutorials from Adobe to help you take your Photoshop skills to the next level. Create painterly effects in Photoshop CC begins by Kyle T. Webster explain how to use the Mixer brush tool to add life to simple shapes. 

The second tutorial then shows you how to use Adobe Stock to add some context to your digital painting. You'll create painterly effects using Photoshop's range of Edvard Munch paintbrushes.

57. The ultimate guide to compositing images in Photoshop

Of all Photoshop projects, compositing images into one fantastic frame is perhaps the most enjoyable and creative pursuit. In this tutorial, The ultimate guide to compositing images in Photoshop, you'll discover how to shoot, build and finish off convincing  composites. 

58. Colour in Photoshop: top tricks

Here's one of the most colourful Photoshops tutorials to raise your mood. Colour in Photoshop: top tricks teaches you how to paint with muted colours and create a festival scene tinged with nostalgia, featuring Hong Kong’s Lion Dancers, using various Photoshop effects. 

59. Turn photos into 3D animations with Photoshop

Want to truly breathe some fresh air into your old still albums, using its timeline capabilities? Then here's one of the best Photoshop tutorials we can suggest. Turn photos into 3D animations with Photoshop shows you how to extra add depth to photos, or even animate the results.

60. Get more from custom Photoshop brushes

Get more from custom Photoshop brushes is a tutorial that shows you the endless things that can be done with custom brushes inside Photoshop's Natural Brush Media window. Learn how to manipulate your brush to create patterns, textures, hair, a painterly feel, happy accidents and so on.

61. Create a cinemagraph with Photoshop in 60 seconds

Cinemagraphs, which are basically a more sophisticated varient of the animated GIF, are all the rage at the moment. Another of Adobe's 'Make It Now' Photoshop tutorials, Create a cinemagraph with Photoshop in 60 seconds shows you how to do exactly that, in one minute flat. 

62. Depict light glowing through fur

When painting digital light in fur, Photoshop's strong light layer styles can help, and depict light glowing through fur shows you how to do it. By switching between Soft Light, Hard Light and Overlay, and seeing what works best, you can achieve that very particular kind of glowing light that appears when light is scattered through and between strands of hair. 

63. Photoshop tips: next-level lighting advice

Photoshop tips: next-level lighting advice is one of those Photoshop tutorials that does exactly what it says on the tin. Following these insights on lighting from Suzanne Helmigh will give your digital art an extra level of realism.

64. Turn day into night using Photoshop

How to turn day into night using Photoshop teaches you how to convert a sunny landscape into an atmospheric night scene. The simple step-by-step guide makes this useful digital art technique a breeze to put into practice.

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