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Today’s inspiration comes from LSD s.r.l., a great Italian photography and image manipulation studio.

The quality of the images they produce is exceptional and everyone in the design community should be familiar with their work.

For more creative LSD s.r.l. images visit lsd.eu

To help you prepare for this year’s Halloween celebration we present this collection of free Halloween-themed Adobe Photoshop tutorials.

Freakish Zombie in Photoshop

Learn how to create Freakish Zombie in 11 steps. [

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Draw Halloween Pumpkin in Photoshop

This tutorial teaches you to draw Halloween Pumpkin. [

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Zombie Photoshop Tutorial

Zombifying Mandy Moore in Photoshop. [

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Halloween Cartoon Witch in Photoshop

Drawing a halloween cartoon - The witch in Photoshop. [

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Halloween Pumpkin Wallpaper in Photoshop

Create Halloween pumpkin wallpaper in Photoshop. [

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Creating Realistic Blood in Photoshop

Learn how to create realistic blood in Photoshop. [

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Halloween Pumpkin Background in Photoshop

Learn how to design abstract Halloween pumpkin background. [

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Photoshop Ghost Effect Tutorial

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to look at a way to give a photo a more “ghostly” appearance. [

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Chocolatized Skull Photoshop Tutorial

Just in time for Halloween, a chocolatized skull tutorial. [

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Grunge Manipulation in Photoshop

Learn to create your own ‘grunge’ manipulation in Photoshop. [

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Carved Pumpkin in Photoshop

Learn how to use a photo of a pumpkin to carve a jack-o-lantern in Adobe Photoshop. [

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Funny Ghost Animation in Photoshop

Creating a funny ghost animation in Photoshop. [

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Scary Pancakes Photoshop Tutorial

Learn how to turn a stack of pancakes into something you probably wouldn’t want to find on your plate. [

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Devil’s Eye Photoshop Tutorial

Learn how to create Devil’s Eye in Photoshop. [

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Photoshop Texturing Basics

This tutorial will show you how to use textures to dramatically change the look of pictures in a few easy steps. [

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Halloween Pumpkin Photoshop Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to create JackoLantern using some very simple technique. Just combine a few shapes and some layer styles. [

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Creating Zombie in Photoshop

This Photoshop CS2 tutorial will show you how to rot people’s face, expose their skull and turn them into zombie. [

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Stitches Text Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Zombie Text effect that works great for Halloween flyer’s, pamphlets and forum signatures. [

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Zombie Photoshop Tutorial

This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create a zombie with some easy steps. [

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Halloween Pumpkin Wallpaper in Photoshop

Halloween is near! So let’s take a pumpkin image, carve it up, and light it for this coming holiday. [

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Settling in for a long flight… (somewhere in Iraq) -

This chopper means business (it can be a Decepticon, for all we know) -

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Here is how that flush toilet ended up in the middle of the desert:

Much needed equipment:

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“A hard drill makes an easy battle” (General A. Suvorov)

This looks painful….

Question in his eyes -

Chinese paramilitary police, photo by REUTERS/Stringer (China)

Confidence training in Finland:

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Strange rituals:

New Zealand military learn from the warrior dances of Maori (see video, this time it’s a ‘Powhiri’ welcome dance) -

(Photo by Corporal Chris Moore)

Elements of yoga:

Knights of the New Crusade? No, Chinese’ paramilitary police method of improving posture:

image credit: REUTERS/Stringer (China)

Sleepy classes…

(image credit: Reuters)

There are better days:

In the end - sheer triumph!

(image credit: Reuters)

“In all seriousness” (these guys are unimpressed) -

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il poses with the soldiers of People’s Army, photo AP

Propaganda never slumbers, nor sleeps:

See more cool posters here

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Who Will Rise to Defend the Motherland?

The answer is everybody, of course! - anybody who can hold a gun, that is:

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Problems? Challenges!

Military equipment gets wrecked, twisted, burned and generally mistreated in these - appalling! - photographs. Here are two Russian fighter jets, fighting over a runway:

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We know how birds are a huge problem for airplanes, but apparently bees are not welcome on F404s, either:

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I can almost feel the pain of getting this wire mess off…

“A Georgian Port Authority employee passes in front of a Russian rocket on August 11, 2008 in Poti, Georgia. The rocket landed on the Georgian Military Police car…” -

(Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

Compare it with the size of WWII bomb:

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Outrageous Ammunition and Weaponry

If you guessed that anything can be converted, or serve as a weapon, you guessed right.

India also has some security force (Corps of Border) riding camels, more info.

Guess what this is… looks like a normal truck, but look closely - this is DIY rocket launcher!!! (made in Iraq, of course) -

The strangest tank… bike… something… that we’d ever seen (any info?)

Photoshop section: Here is how the myths about Russian Army super-weapons get born:

This one, however, appears to be legit:

Why not?

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Watching the Girls Go By

Not just watching…

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Good Crowds

Some vintage photographs… they don’t make them like that any more:
(click to enlarge, obviously)

This is a fragment of much larger picture (see here)
Life-Guards The Emperor of Austria’s Kexholm Regiment. [L.-Gv. Keksgol'mskii Imperatora Avstriiskago polk.] 3rd Guards Infantry Division. Warsaw. 1903

Truly a landship - British Mark IV tank, 1916 -

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Imperial Japanese Armada at Nagato, 1929:

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Militia, Police, Security - they need to have fun, too

Jumping & running around:

Weight lifting:

Dealing with some unique characters:

Helmets are appreciated:

(images via ArtLebedev, Exler)