Adobe Photoshop can do a lot of different effects depending on the techniques used by the designer, and resources like textures or brushes can make them even better, but the first step is to know how to create some nice visual effects.

For example, this free online photoshop tutorial teaches how to create a realistic ripple effect in just a few steps, as it is a very simple technique to master, yet a very useful technique that can be used almost everywhere.

To create this nice looking image effect you will need to use some simple tools provided by the application itself, so you don’t need to download any additional resources or apply difficult image filters.

Link: Photoshop tutorial

Along with crystal transparency, water reflections are one of the most used Photoshop techniques and can be used in almost every project so it’s a very good idea to master these techniques and as we all know, there is not any better way to do it than with photoshop tutorials, so here it is a nice realistic reflections Photoshop tutorial.

This online tutorial will teach you how to obtain water reflections in any image with water on it, in an easy way for you to start practicing if you don’t have much experience with photo editing and image manipulation.

Well explained and practical, this is a must see tutorial.

Link: realistic reflections tutorial

It’s very important for graphic designers to learn how to add watermarks to their projects in order to protect them from being used without their authorization.

With Watermark.ws you can do it quite easy, as this online application doesn’t need any installation or whatsoever to add watermarks to any image you upload, and you don’t even need design knowledge or experience as its very simple.

But then again, by saying simple we are not saying it is not a complete application, because you have plenty of options for the watermark, including font size, font style, watermark position and watermark color among others.

With Watermark.ws, you will be able to add easy watermarks in only three basic steps.

Link: Watermark.ws

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As a designer, it’s very useful to have an application for screenshots as they save time and get better results already with some degree of compression, ready for the web and emails.

PicPick is one of these applications designed to capture everything that is on the screen, no matter if it is a game, a video or just some web browsing, but it also has an image editor built in, for quick image editing and continue saving time.

But you can also define an area for the screenshot instead of the whole screen, so you don’t have to crop the image later on.

A very simple to use yet powerful free tool.

Link: Picpick

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