Aenigma fonts are offering a collection of about 180 fonts for free both for personal and for commercial work. All of the fonts were designed by Brian Kent.
Their archive includes some very nice fonts, some of them may not be useful for everyday work but they are definetely fun. My personal favorite is Code of Life.
Check them out
Aenigma Fonts

Just a quick link for today. Check out the fonts at Smeltery.Net. Some amazing fonts for free.

I have mentioned Misprinted type earlier in my Free Photoshop Brushes post. However, besides brushes Misprinted type offers a nice selection of freeware fonts. A total of 19 freeware fonts are available for download. Most of the fonts offered are grungy and have a vintage feeling.

Here is an example of two of my favorite fonts from Misprinted Type (Diesel and Selfish)

You can find the whole collection here

With this tutorial I am going to show you how to give a retro look to your images.
I am starting with an image bought from Dreamstime for just 1$. The image is copyrighted and that’s why I have watermarked it so noone downloads it from here. Also keep in mind that I am working on the full resolution image which is 6 MP while the images posted here are scaled down.

Copyright � Photographer: Kateryna Govorushchenko Agency: Dreamstime

First of all we are going to desaturate the image. Go to Image-> Adjustments -> Desaturate or hit Shift+Ctrl+U

Then we are going to increase the contrast. I increased contrast by +40 and I got this

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With this tutorial I am going to show you a way to create a speeding text effect like this one


1) Let’s start by creating a new file. Select the “Type Tool”, make sure the color of the text is set to white and type your text.

2) We are now going to duplicate our text leayer. Go to “Layer” -> “Duplicate Layer” (Or hit “Ctrl-J”)

3) You should now have two text layers, select the bottom one and go to “Filter” -> “Stylize” -> “Wind”. A message will come up saying that the layer needs to be rasterized to apply the filter, click ok and continue. Leave the method to “Wind” and the direction from the right.

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I am going to show you an easy way to put your images inside text with a slightly different and in my opinion a more versatile way than the most common ways people use to achieve this effect.

1) Start by opening the photo that you want to place inside your text. For this tutorial, I am going to use this photo.

2) Select the “Horizontal Type Tool” (T), type your text and place it on top of the part of the image that you want to include inside your text.

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With this tutorial I am going to show you how you can add reflections to your text, shapes or isolated objects. This is a very common (and easy) technique and is used a lot, especially in web design.

As an example for this tutorial I will add a reflection to text, however as I said before you can also use the same technique to add reflections to shapes or isolated objects.
Let’s start our little Photoshop training session .

I have created a new document and just type PS Reflection as you can see in the screenshot below.

The first step is to duplicate our text layer. You can do that by simply pressing Ctrl+J or by going to Layer -> Duplicate Layer.

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You may have noticed that I have added a Free Video Tutorials Page. These Tutorials are provided for free from Watch and Learn Photoshop (one of the sponsors of this blog), a company that offers affordable Photoshop training video tutorials, and a new free video tutorial is added every week to the list. This week’s video tutorial explains how to add a reflection to a 3d object such as a box, a process that is a bit more complicated than adding reflections to 2d layers like text or shape layers.
Here is the link for the 3D Reflection Tutorial

With this tutorial, I am going to show you how to achieve a page curl effect in just a few easy steps. This tutorial use the Warp filter so it’s for Photoshop CS2 only.

Let’s start by opening the photo you want to apply the effect to. I used this stock photo

The first thing that we are going to is to unlock the background layer. To do this simply double click on the padlock icon besides your photo thumbnail in the layers palette.

Now select the Rectangular Marquee Tool

and select a rectangular area in the corner that you want to apply the effect. In the screenshot below I have highlighted my selection.

Now select the gradient tool and draw a black to white gradient in your selection. In this case I drew the gradient from the top right corner to the bottom left corner.

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Another one of the excellent free video tutorials from Watchandlearnphotoshop has been released. This tutorial explains how you can add smoke to an image, as the title clearly suggests.

Want to make your motorcycle photo gallery a little more exciting by adding a little smoke to your pictures? In this video tutorial, you’ll learn how to create smoke in Photoshop using filters and blending modes.

Watch the tutorial