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18. Cotton Seed Oil Tour

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20. DNA Web Agency

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Organized by creative strategy consultant Richard Smith, the Dollar ReDe$ign Project is soliciting ideas for the dollar bill of the future. “Our great ‘rival’, the Euro, looks so spanky in comparison it seems the only clear way to revive this global recession is to rebrand and redesign,” the project notes on its website.

Fisher started the project in with the intent of “trying to find a catalyst to restart our economy” he told Fox News. The recent competition is now closed, and voting ends on September 30. “This has touched people’s hearts,” Fisher said, and “people feel the dollar touches their lives.”

The leading vote-getter for this year’s competition (pictured below) was submitted by British duo Dowling Duncan, which features a unique vertical design.

Relative Value : Dowling Duncan

“Why the size? – We have kept the width the same as the existing dollars. However we have changed the size of the note so that the one dollar is shorter and the 100 dollar is the longest. When stacked on top of each other it is easy to see how much money you have. It also makes it easier for the visually impaired to distinguish between notes.

Other entries include:

America Today : Mark Gartland

The Great Compromise : Reid Collier/Evan Cotter

“Despite some recent successful progressive ideas resonating in this country, there are still some significant conservative elements to our nation’s identity. A good example of how this conservative element effects our daily lives is this very project; we have seen only very small changes in our currency over the years. With this idea in mind, I decided to take a pragmatic approach to the redesign. I tweaked the relationship between all of the graphic elements on the current notes but kept the president’s as they are currently featured.

Game Over : Jose Hernandez

“The idea behind these was to create currency that reflected the United States in the 21st century as well as keep it’s heritage and “‘brand’ of the Dollar intact. By brand I mean the look and feel of what Americans are used to seeing as the United States Dollar. For the past few years and decades American currency hasn’t kept up to the changes the country has made.

That’s Amore : Riccardo Cerrone

Clair Tinajero

Bluebacks : Juan Arreguin

“We have a lot of tourists in our country and one thing to keep an excitement about locations is buying/purchasing items from well-known locations. Keeping this in mind, I felt like money is traded yet is just used as an item of trade. Using the Dollar bill we can educate those who are not familiar with our culture. One important fact is that our country has a lot of history that we can share.

And the winner is:

Full Chorus : Gardiner Moody : Dollar ReDe$ign

Gardiner Moody is the technical director/webmaster at http://www.belslowstudios.org, a non-profit organization whose main goal is to spur creativity in the surrounding areas of Belfast, Maine. They are also leading the restoration of the Belfast Opera House.

See more of these amazing designs at the home of the Dollar Rede$ign Project

Read more about Philip here: http://www.heronproductions.co.uk/

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1. Creating an Abstract Watercolor Wallpaper

There are plenty of ways to create a Watercolor Effect in Photoshop. Some are very cheesy and you can easily tell that a simple filter has been used. In this tutorial, we will be using Layer Masking. It is one of the most fascinating and powerful Photoshop method, to use layer masks in your designs.

2. Creative Photoshop Animal King Photo Manipulation

In this photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to mash up a series of photos in a highly creative poster based on a famous painting from the 1800’s.

3. Photo Edit Color Effects

This easy to follow tutorial gives you some great tips for cool Coloring Effects in Photoshop.

4. Alien Invasion

It’s always fun to talk about aliens (even if the x-files isn’t on the air anymore). In this tutorial you’ll learn how to transform a relatively benign picture and a few other elements into a horrifying alien invasion!

5. Realistic Break-Apart Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you’ll learn an interesting technique used to produce realistic break-apart/disintegration effect in Photoshop by using debris brushes, with a watercolour background attached.

6. Creating Energy Spheres

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to transform a photo into a fantastic photo of someone throwing around orbs of light!

7. Fantasy Art

Here’s a tutorial by an amazing artist named Lorelei – “The requests for Fantasy Art tutorials are enormous, I still get emails and Pms from people asking to do more Fantasy Art tuts, so here is one more, called “Plasma” (Star, not the TV!) which I hope you’d enjoy.”

8. Add Realistic Rainbow To A Photo

In this Photoshop photo effects tutorial, you’ll learn how to easily add a rainbow, even a double rainbow, to a photo.

9. Dark Art Picture Style

Here’s a How-to that will teach you howe to combine a couple of stock images and some Photoshop techniques to create a really cool Dark Art Picture

10. Retro Comic Book Effect

How about a fun effect for your incredibly boring photo albums? Creating a old comic book effect for your photos is easy and the results are visually appealing. More fun is achieved when adding captions to your photos using comic book fonts and design elements.

This tutorial will show you how to give a comic book look to your photos using a couple of filters and some additional decorations.

11. Robotic Frog

Half robot, half frog. In this tutorial, I am going to show how I took a regular frog and opened him up to reveal a mechanical skeleton.

12. How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces

Applying texture to a flat surface, or flatly applying a texture across a whole image (as a means to age it or degrade it) is simple stuff. Realistically applying a texture to an uneven surface is much more hands-on (more so than simply overlaying a texture and changing the Blending mode).

13. Mental Wave Explosion Effect

How to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto’s (X-Men) ability with Peter Petrelli’s (NBC’s Heros) power.

14. Age Progression

Here’s a little tutorial showing you how to basically age a woman’s face in Photoshop.

15. How to Turn Humdrum Photos into Cinematic Portraits

There are a plethora of ways to treat a portrait for a myriad of uses, but that is for another feature. Let’s tackle adding drama or a cinematic quality to a regular, humdrum portrait. Let’s even throw in a little bit of faking HDR. That way if you work on a project that requires a stunning shot without the stunning photography, you’ll be able to cobble something together using your mad skillz!

16. Adding Reflections To Sunglasses

How to add reflections, or at least, different reflections, to sunglasses.

17. Grunge Photo Edges

In this Photoshop tutorial We are going to show you a quick and effective way to create a cool photo edge effect using a single Photoshop grunge brush and a series of clipping masks.

18. Create a Dynamic Scene with a Fallen Angel Theme

If you want to take your Photoshop Manipulation and creative composition skills to the next level, then we have an exciting tutorial for you. Discover how to draw fuse, wings, and digital renders into a fallen angel! As usual, loads of great tips and techniques in this tutorial!

19. Create a Divine Angel Montage in Photoshop

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to use create a photo manipulation of an angel lighting her way through a dark forest using stock photographyin Photoshop.

20. Create an Amazing A.I. Robot Woman in Photoshop

Here are some photo manipulation techniques that will show you how to design a dramatic image depicting an “Artificial intelligence” concept.

21. Dance Photo Manipulation Part

We wanted to write a tutorial showing how to reproduce some of the really common elements, regularly found in graphic design these days, almost cliche elements. In doing so you’ll produce a stunning piece of art.. This is a useful tutorial for users of all levels.

22. Creating a Rocking Silhouette in Photoshop

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1. How to Make an Old Western Wanted Poster in Photoshop

In this graphic design tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a stylish Old Western themed Wanted poster using some excellent Photoshop techniques such as how to weather paper, how to create realistic nail heads, and more.

2. Create a Rugged “Old West” Design

Using nothing more than a so-so snapshot, a free vintage photo in the public domain, and Adobe Photoshop, you can whip up a powerful layout suitable for print or the Web. Source files are included in this tutorial.

3. How to Put Smokin’ Bullet Holes and a Wanted Sign into a Piece of Wood

Ok, so this tutorial is like three tutorials rolled into one. We’re going to make an awesome wood emboss effect, put bullet holes into the wood, and finally smoke ‘em up to a gnarly Wyatt-Earp-just-walked-past look.

4. Creating an Old West Photograph

This tutorial will walk you through the techniques used to make this photograph appear to be an old west photograph.

5. How to Create a Large Header with a Simple Western Scene

6. Create A Wild Western Scene

In this video tutorial, you will learn how to create a wild western / desert scene using adobe photoshop.