If you're using Photoshop to create the design of a website, there should already be some paths that you're following -written or not-.

The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto For Web Designers is a guide for standardizing this process with good practices.

The suggestions are collected under several categories:

• external file organization
• internal file organization
• working with type
• working with images
• working with filters / before exporting

with titles like "use a grid", "don't stretch type", "store all assets relative to PSD" and much more.

Photoshop tutorials help a lot for improving the design skills. Besides learning something totally new, it is also possible to find out the other ways of creating the same effects.

Fire, flames or explosion are frequently used effects in everyday design. In general, they look hard to implement, specially to create a quality one.

Here are 25 stunning fire & explosion Photoshop tutorials which describe the steps well, have beautiful outputs & shows that such effects are not that difficult to create.

Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text

Hell Of Tutorial In Photoshop

Making Of Fire Dragon

Fiery Photoshop Space Explosion Tutorial

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