Archive for Tutorials

• Light Glass Text

  So here's the info you need to create a Glass Look for your Text. It's all shown in the dialog box snapshots. This effect works best on a light background, but it could also work on a dark background. ...

• Fantastic Tree Tutorial

  Here's a really interesting 4 Page Tutorial about creating a cool looking landscape of a gnarled tree with dkeletons, flames, crows and other surreal looking artifacts - You can check out the whole Tutorial over at Alfoart.com Click here--> Fantastic Tree. ...

• Create a Surreal Night Scene

  I was inspired and here's the result of an image composition using an image titled "Carcassonne at night" that I downloaded from sxc.hu for this project. I was over in the PSD TUTS Premium area and was looking at "Creating a Magic Night Themed Template" which can be previewed HERE. -Well I wasn't in...

• Cool Looking Orbs

  Everytime I see a cool looking Orb, I just kind of really get into it. All those reflections, sometimes, just make them look sort of surreal and neat! But without sounding too bland — here's a little tut on creating an orb, just think of it as something to learn from. Try following along and then ...

• Chrome Text Effect

  So you want to create some cool Chrome Text effect but you aren't sure where to start? Well, here's a free Start file you can use to get your project going: Its easy when you know how! With a new layer containing Text, open the Layer style pallette by clicking the fx box at the bottom of ...

• 5 Cool PS Tuts

  So I decided to spend a few hours today looking for new and cool Tuts online and found some things that you may not have seen yet. These aren't from my usual 'Pool' of sites - so hopefully you can learn something cool today! Create an awesome speeding car effect from a car not in motion over at 1...

• Get A Cool Avatar!

  Post Updated: Check Out the User Submited Avatars at Bottom of this Post! So I frequent lots of sites and Blogs, mostly graphic sites - and I keep seeing these really cool Avatars! Well I just had to get one for myself. At first I thought they were something really special and had to be paid for....

• Magic Lighting Effect

  I was really impressed with the results of the magic light effect that I decided to give it a try, adding my own little twists to it. I'll include the PSD that I used to create this featured item. You can follow along with the Tutorial for this type of effect at the end of this piece. First let's ha...

• Color Pencil Drawing

  I spotted this little tutorial and changed it a bit to fit my needs. The original TUT used a rather light image and I wanted to see the effects using a more robustly colorful image. The only changes I made to my image were some of the opacity settings to get at my final image shown here: T...

• Digital Bokeh Effects Tutorial

  This tutorial demonstrates how to create what is called the Digital Bokeh effect in Photoshop. Available in step-by-step and there's a Video explaination at the end of the artivle. Go check it out from Abduzeedo in the Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials section. After a few tries,...