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5 Free Hi-Res Stock Picture Frame Images

I had some old picture frames laying around so took the opportunity to take photos of them and remove the backgrounds in Photoshop and create some stock transparent .png images for you to use in you art work.

Yup that’s right they have transparent backgrounds so they are pretty much ready to be used, check them out below and download them. You can view them all on Flickr too

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Free to use for commercial and non-commercial work no credit or link back needed, but please don’t redistribute or sell them as your own.

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16 Great Photoshop Light Effect Tutorials

I’ve selected various Photoshop tutorials that I’m liking at the moment for light effects, some have quite cool techniques on how to achieve the end result that can be applied to a million different designs (try and experiment with them), check them out below.

Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper

Windows Vista Aurora Effect

Design a Vibrant Blackberry Inspired Ad

NoPattern “Jumper” Effect

Mysterious Lighting Effect

How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks

Creating a Mac-Type Background

Luminescent Lines

Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect

Abstract Dust And Spray Effect

Make a dreamy abstract background

Digital Bokeh effect

Abstract Lines Background

Abstract Light Rays

Drawing an Abstract Lightbulb

How to create 3D abstract circles

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Do you have any favourite tutorials that you have seen for light effects?

25 Examples Of Light Effects In Web Design

Some examples of how people use light effects to enhance their web designs either by giving it more colour or by giving it more depth, check out my selection from around the web for some inspiration.

You might also enjoy: 25 Examples of Light and Space Effects In Web Design

Trent Cruising

Squarespace

Theater Website Services

Serj

Mediocore

Macalicious

Yourt Web Job

Jamison Banham

Alcomi

Us trendy

Poolie Studios

Pixel-House

Twiistup

Source Bits

Sergey Stanchev

Icon Dock

Graphik

Future Tap

Fernando Sergio

Feels TV

Digimurai

Design Disease

Causecast

Box Wish

Code Art Media

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Seen any more light effects in designs any where feel free to leave a link in the comments.

11 Great Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials

I’ve tried to collect a few photo effects tutorials that are very much centered around one subject rather than a complete photo manipulation. If you don’t like the finished product I’m sure you’ll find some cool techniques to do certain effects in these tutorials.

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Texture Lovers has some great free textures for use in your photo manipulations too.

How to Turn Humdrum Photos into Cinematic Portraits

Dance Photo Manipulation

Water Effect Photo Montage

Create A Vibrant Image Using Photoshop

Creating a Vector Composite Effect from a Photo

Beautiful Lady Light Effects

Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation

Create a Sparkling Fantasy Photo Manipulation

Electrifying Energy Beams

Create dynamic distortion effects

Disintegration Effect

Use lighting Effects To Make Photos Sparkle

This one isnt really a tutorial beacuse it doesnt supply any of the assets to complete it, but i thought id ad it here to serve as inspiration.

25 Examples of Light and Space Effects In Web Design

I’ve collected some great examples of space and lighting effects that are quite commonly used in web design these days as inspiration, usually accompanied by vivid colours and streaks of light, which is currently one of my favourite styles.

If your interested in creating space effects you might want to check out the space and planet Photoshop tutorials post I put together.