Photoshop Madness Holidays

The holidays are upon us and chances are there will be a need for some holiday inspiration. OH NO … time for some Photoshop Madness to try locating some decent resources!

Photoshop Madness, Fred Showker surfs the web in search of good Photoshop stuff

PHOTOSHOP MADNESS for November The holidays are upon us and chances are there will be a need for some holiday inspiration. OH NO … time for some Photoshop Madness to try locating some decent resources!

PHOTOSHOP MADNESS is where you practically go mad trying to find the most useful stuff for Photoshop! This is continued from the previous ‘actions’ madness!

Photoshop visions for Thanksgiving

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You’ve seen these before — the site wants you to send in your photoshop files … this one had the title “Thanksgiving”
      This is a broad contest where you are asked to photoshop anything connected to Thanksgiving. Advanced Photoshop Pictures Gallery – 17 image entries
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Erin Reid Turkey PSD

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This is a Photoshop painting you can download — in the native Photoshop file format.
      I don’t know what Erin was thinking about, but this looks like one of the holiday turkeys out of the Dover collection. (Available in the Publishers’ Warehouse Loading Dock!)
READ THIS REPORT Full story : ravenarcana.deviantart.com
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November Seasonal Icons

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This Free Icon Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed.
      These are very good because created by the designers over at IconShock: 5 Icons in total including a Turkey, Pumpkin, Pilgrims, and the changing color of leaves.
READ THIS REPORT Full story : IconShock, via tutorial9
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FREE Thanksgiving and Holiday Photo Card Templates

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For the Holiday Season! You can always do some nice things with these files, and they’re free! Paper, frames, templates are nicely done and import directly into Photoshop.
      Pretty nice collection of all kinds of wonderful visuals. These templates, digital papers and letters are compatible with Photoshop and Elements! No artist is named.
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creativity for visual artists and designers Download file PCB-MCP-Thanksgiving-Paper.zip

Autumn Wings by cocacolagirlie

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You can download these new Wings in the Photoshop format … artist Wendy from Belgium, writes :
      “Since the Autumn has arrived i thought of some nice Autumn-wings to fit your Autumn-Fairy’s. Hope you like them”
Also see this one from Wendy Cocacola Girlie
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Realistic pumpkin tutorial

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Stephen Petrany is a graphic designer with experience in 3D modeling. in this tutorial, Stephen shows you how to create a realistic pumpkin icon with the help of Filters and Layer Styles.
      This tutorial is written for users who have a basic understanding of the tools and techniques used in Photoshop. It’s pretty good, but I wouldn’t call it “designing” a pumpkin.
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More Free Thanksgiving Icons

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Another set of Thanksgiving icons, this time from artists at ARSgrafik
      The Thanksgiving icons consist of a pilgrim, a pumpkin and leaves, a zany turkey, and an acorn. They are completely original and are free for personal and commercial work.
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creativity for visual artists and designers Download file, free-thanksgiving-rss-icons-ars-grafik.zip

Fall/Thanksgiving Sketch Brushes

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This is a 5-brush preview of my full 20- brush set. This includes hi-quality, original sketches of fall – autumn -thanksgiving items. This is perfect for your Autumn or Thanksgiving theme designs.
      This one from michaelmurdock.blogspot.com
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10 Free Photoshop Thanksgiving Brush Packs

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Author Amber Neely did a great job finding these brushes — unfortunately the site is so poorly designed, you can hardly read the tiny text. This article will point you in the direction of some interesting Photoshop Thanksgiving brush packs.
CAUTION Careful, this site has lots of screen spam, and Google ads sprinkled in the content stream.
READ THIS REPORT Full story : www.brighthub.com
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Vintage Thanksgiving Postcards

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Abduzeedo took the credit for this series of vintage Thanksgiving cards, but in reality, Paulo Canabarro, a Brazilian web designer, put it together.
      While not a Photoshop item specifically, it provides some good inspiration into “old time” holiday cards. (Note, we have many, many of these in the Phblishers’ Warehouse)
READ THIS REPORT Full story : abduzeedo.com
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Searching for good Photoshop images and tutorials amongst all the total madness out on the web Don’t let Photoshop Madness get you down!

There are always lots of spectacular Photoshop images and visuals out there! Share them! We’ll be back shortly with MORE Photoshop Madness … and please — BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU SURF … but when you do find a great Photoshop practitioner, or a good Photoshop tutorial, please share it with us! If you create Photoshop Tutorials yourself, please post your info here so you can be considered for a Photoshop Fave!

Of course, some of our favorite editions of Photoshop Madness can be found in the legacy Photoshop Tips & Tricks web site!
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thanks for reading

Fred Showker

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