35 Collage Photoshop Tutorials for Beginners (and Experts)

Posted by Harshad

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 08:01 AM PDT

If you love making collages with scissors, glue, mom’s magazines and dad’s subscriptions when you were growing up, there is no reason to stop now. Collage is a specific technique of art that is made from different pieces of artworks which create a new, improved, sometimes perfect look. These days, you can make an awesome Collage with Photoshop!

Here are 50 excellent Collage Photoshop Tutorials that will teach you to combine photography with hand-drawn elements and turn an otherwise ordinary image into awesome photo manipulation. You'll get to know how to incorporate lots of objects into one stunning image.

Recommended Reading: How To Create A Painting Effect – Photoshop Tutorial

Who knows, later on you might be able to create gift cards, postcards or even a beautiful cover for your own book. Let’s get inspired!

1. How To Make A Photoshop Montage

2. Free Psd Premium Tutorial: Create A Mixed Style Collage

3. Learn How To Design A Charming Collage Composition

4. Create A Nature-Inspired Digital Illustration In Photoshop

5. Futuristic Collage

6. Photoshop Tutorial: Create A Stunning Pin-Up Collage

7. New Premium TUT – How To Create A Digital Collage With 3D Shapes, Patterns, & Colors

8. Surreal Collage Creation

9. Premium Tutorial – Recycle Vintage Images To Create A Photoshop Collage

10. How To Create An Abstract Photo Manipulation

11. Create A Mock-Retro Poster Concept

12. Photoshop Tutorial: Create A Digital Collage From Hand-Drawn Elements

13. Photoshop Tutorial: Create An Amazing Summer Flyer Design

14. Creative Collages And Mixed-Media Effects

15. Photoshop Tutorial: Advanced Compositing Techniques

16. A New Take On Cityscape Collage

17. Be Clear Through Abstraction

18. Construct Beautiful Distortions

19. High-Rise B-Movie Poster Case Study By Falcon White Design

20. Design An Awesome Urban City Photo-Montage In Photoshop

21. Create Atmospheric Digicollages

22. Case Study “Deadliest Catch”

23. Create A Surreal Urban City Montage with Lightning Effect in Photoshop

24. Collage Of Polaroids

25. Create A Grunge & Textured Mixed Collage In Photoshop

26. Photoshop Tutorial: Making of "Color Combustion" A Photo Manipulation

27. How To Create A Fantasy Photomanipulation In Photoshop

28. Photoshop Tutorial: Retro Collage Techniques

29. How To Create An "Alice in Wonderland" Inspired Artwork With Photoshop

30. Add A Vintage Feel With Custom Brush Strokes

31. Add Depth To Mixed-Media Collages

32. Construct A Kaleidoscopic Collage Effect In Photoshop

33. Create An Abstract Collage effect

34. Digitally Collage A Camouflage Paper Jacket

35. Create A Striking Collage Fusing Ancient And Modern

A Look Into: CSS Border Corner Shape

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 06:01 AM PDT

This article is part of our "HTML5/CSS3 Tutorials series" - dedicated to help make you a better designer and/or developer. Click here to see more articles from the same series.

We have been seeing several new CSS3 features that are widely implemented, such as Rounded Corner, Box Shadow, and Text Shadow, just to name a few. Still, there are several features that are experimental, such as what we are going to discuss in this post: Border Corner Shape.

Border Corner Shape allows us to manipulate element corners further. While we can create rounded corners by using border-radius, the Border Corner Shape allows us to form beveled corners, scoop-style corners, and rectangle-notch corners.

How to Use it

We use border-corner-shape to define the shape. At the time of the writing, it accepts four predefined shapes with the following values: curve, scoop, bevel, and notch – it is also proposed that we use cubic-bezier for forming custom shape (see the proposal here).

It is worth noting that the border-corner-shape only declares the shape, while the length of the shape is specified using the border-radius property. So, to be able to see the result, when forming the shape these two properties should be declared together.

 .box { background-color: #3498DB; border-corner-shape: scoop; border-radius: 30px; width: 200px; height: 200px; }

Given the example of the above style rules, we will get a result as shown in the following screenshot.

Let’s take a look at one more example. This time we specify the corner shape to bevel, and set the border radius for 50% except in the bottom right corner, as follows.

 .box { background-color: #3498DB; border-corner-shape: bevel; border-radius: 50% 50% 0% 50%; width: 200px; height: 200px; }

The above style rules will give us the following result.

It is quite fascinating, isn’t it?

Thing to Note

Sadly, as I said earlier, the border-corner-shape property is experimental, and has not been implemented in any of the current browsers. So, it is not (yet) applicable. But, you can preview the demo, and play with the property syntax from this app, created by Lea Verou.

What do you thing of this CSS feature? Do you want to see it implemented in the future? Are there any cases that this property can be very useful? Share your thoughts in the comment box below.

25 Fantasy Wallpapers For Your Desktop

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 03:01 AM PDT

Have you ever imagined yourself living in a fantasy world, in floating cities, mysterious forests, hidden temples or a fortress carved into the side of a mountain? A world made with stuff that dreams are made of, where pixies and fairies, and flying ships and magic spells are as normal as night and day.

It is amazing how powerful imagination is especially when creating an environment as unbelievable as what you are about to see here. Let your imagination run wild with these 24 wallpapers depicting various forms of the fantasy realm for this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday. Feel the magic and enjoy the serenity.

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Atlantica World. Available in various sizes.

Atlantica World