1. Vector Based Badges

2. Create A Vector Based Zune With Photoshop

3. Cafe Style Coffee Art in Adobe Illustrator

4. Draw A Classy 3D Poker Chip in Photoshop

5. Render a Realistic CD in Photoshop

6. FireFish Photoshop Tutorial

7. Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial

8. How To Create A Clean 3D Notepad in Photoshop

9. 3D Wooden Box Photoshop Tutorial

10. Design A Realistic 3D Baseball Cap in Photoshop

11. Design A Simple Snowman in Photoshop

12. Design A Vintage Radio Icon in Photoshop

Tutorials From Vector.TutsPlus

13. How To Create An Electronic Piano in Illustrator

14. Create A Set Of Shiny Character Eyes

15. Create Colorful Layered Paper Type in Illustrator

16. How To Create A Vector Goldfish in Six Steps

17. Tracing A Vector Face From A Reference Photo

18. Deaign A Vector Audio Speaker Icon in Illustrator

19. How To Create A Photo realistic iMac and Magis Mouse

20. Create A Twitter Style Bird Mascot

Tutorials From PSD.TutsPlus

21. How To Create A Stylish Pair of Headphones

22. Create A Slick Black iMac in Photoshop

23. Illustrate A Traffic Cone Icon in Photoshop

24. How To Create A Fun Red Haired Boy Character

25. Create A Realistic BlackBerry Style Mobile Phone From Scratch

26. Create A Shiny Earth with Photoshop 3D Layers

Tutorials From Vectips

27. Create A Cute Panda Bear Face Icon

28. Create Sketchy Style Vectors

Tutorials From SpoonGraphics

29. Create A Rolling Stones Inspired Tongue Illustration

30. How To Build A Vector Clock Graphic in Illustrator

31. How To Create A Detailed Apple iPad Icon in Photoshop

32. How To Create A Cute Vector Bear T-Shirt Design

33. Create A Cute Furry Vector Monster in Illustrator

Tutorials From NDesign-Studio

34. Halloween Pumpkin

35. Adobe Bridge CS2 Icon

More Great Tutorials

36. How To Create A Cute & Adorable Twitter Icon in Photoshop (NaldzGraphics)

37. Make An iPod Classic or The New Nano (AvivaDirectory)

38. Designing Loox Pocket PC (Tutzor)

39. Create A Realistic Video iPod Nano in Photoshop (Slodive)

40. Create A Zoomed In Effect in Photoshop (SixRevisions)

41. Illustrating Briefcase (Designm.ag)

42. How To Create A Vintage Camera in Photoshop (WebDesignerDepot)

43. How To Design The Apple iPad in Photoshop (CircleBoxBlog)

44. How To Make A Professional Buddy Icon in Photoshop (DesignStruct)

45. Create Lady Birds Insect Tutorial Using Adobe Illustrator (TutorialLounge)

46. How To Design A Beautiful Google Calendar Icon (PSDFan)

47. Design A Cute Hamster Avatar (CuteLittleFactory)

48. Create A Realistic Candy Bar in Illustrator (WebDesignerDepot)

Below is a wonderful collection of vintage effect tutorials that will help you achieve that beautiful effect for your photographs and designs. There’s no need for you to be a Photoshop expert to do these tutorials, they’re easy and fun.

1. Photoshop Vintage Effect Tutorial

2. Old Photo, Vintage Effect

3. 3 Vintage Effect Tutorials

4. Pop Art Inspired by Lichtenstein

5. Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect

6. Create a Wicked-Worn Vintage Pop Art Design

Photoshop Actions For Vintage & Retro Effects

1. Vintage Action

2. Polariod Generator V1

3. Adobe Photoshop Action 06

4. Photoshop Dream Blur Action

5. HolgaRoid Generator COLOR

6. Tanner Morrow’s Holga Action

7. Photoshop Action 013

8. Photoshop Action 6

9. Action 8

10. Action 01

Great Examples of Bokeh Photography

Wonderful & Free Bokeh Textures

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How To Create The Perfect Bokeh Effect

Step One: Creating the Brush

Create a new document that is 900 X 900 pixels in size with a transparent background.

Go to the Elliptical Marquee Tool and go to the very top-left of your document and Click+Shift+Drag it to the very bottom-right to create a perfect circle (The “Shift” is very important here). Fill it up with a black #000000 color, and then remove the selection.

Go to Bending Options on your “Circle” layer, and adjust your settings so they are the same as the ones below:

Now, in order to make this image a brush, go to Edit/ Define Brush Preset and name it anything you like, I named it Bokeh.

Step Two: The Gradient

Create a new document about 900 X 500 pixels in size, you can change the size if you’d like. Now using the Gradient Tool, fill up the document with a two-color gradient. You can choose any two or even three colors you like, I will be using two colors; Dark Pink: #BE2A62 and Dark Purple: #5E29A5. To fill your document, use Shift+Click+Drag down. Here’s how my document looks like so far.

Step Three: The Bokeh Group

Create a new folder by clicking the “Create Group Tool” at the very bottom of your layer’s display. And call it “Bokeh” (Double click on the name to change it).

Add a new layer to the group, and call it “Bokeh 1“, now go to the Brush Tool and select the brush we made earlier.
Change the brush settings as shown below. Set the color to white #FFFFFF and draw a few circles in “Bokeh 1″, and then go to Filter/ Blur/ Gaussian Blur.






Here’s how my image looks so far.

Create another layer in the group and call it “Bokeh 2″, use the brush a few times, and then right click on the layer and go to Blending Options, and select the Outer Glow option. Change the layer opacity to 50%.

Finally, create a third layer “Bokeh 3″ and draw more circles, open the Blending Options again and select the Outer Glow option. Then duplicate the layer.

Step Four: Add A Little Light

Create a new layer and drag it outside the group, go to your Brush Tool and choose a normal 400 pixel round brush. Select the white color and draw a circle on the right of your image.

Step Five: The Final Product

And there you have it, add a little text, and you’ve got the perfect Bokeh effect using Adobe Photoshop.
(Click here to view the final image).

Further Resource

I’ve found this wonderful tutorial by Abduzeedo.Com explaining how they made their wonderful Bokeh Wallpaper. So make sure you check it out, it shows you how to make the same effect in our tutorial, but with a very dark background, bringing the colors of the circles alone!