What We’ll Be Creating Lets Get Started! Create a new document (Ctrl + N) with the dimensions 800 x 600 pixels, change your background color to a color which will make the icon more visible. Select the “Rounded Rectangle Tool” (U) with a radius of 20px. Drag out a small rectangle in the middle of… Continue reading Carbon Fibre Style Metallic Icon Design
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How to Draw a Colorful Fantasy Dragon Battle Scene in Photoshop
Learn how to take a drawing of a dragon and turn it into an amazing painting. This tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop to create shapes from a hand-drawn sketch, apply shading, then finish it by applying color and texture. After creating the dragon, you will learn learn how to create the starry… Continue reading How to Draw a Colorful Fantasy Dragon Battle Scene in Photoshop
Creating a Smoke Fading Effect
Creating a Smoke Fading Effect Preparations We will need a close up image of a model, and also the awesome Smoke Brushes Set 1 designed by Falln-Stock. Click here to download the brushes. Click here to download the model image. All rights of these resources belong to their respective owners.. Step 1 – Setting Up… Continue reading Creating a Smoke Fading Effect
Rain, Lightning, Furious Ocean: The Perfect Storm!
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a perfect storm scene. The tutorial is divided into 4 different parts, each teaching you how to create one of the 4 elements needed for the final image: Clouds, Lightning, Rain and Ocean. For this tutorial I preferred to create my original image much larger and… Continue reading Rain, Lightning, Furious Ocean: The Perfect Storm!
Glossy Text With Reflection
In this tutorial I will show you some very useful techniques for creating glossy text for the web. You can use such texts for Logos, also for some titles on clips and different kind of projects. There have a lots and different tutorials on the web about that. The difference in my tutorial is that… Continue reading Glossy Text With Reflection
Create A Realistic Water Text Effect
Step 1 – The Background We will be needing a nice background to write out text in water on. You can pretty much pick whatever background you like as long as it suites your needs. I will go ahead and use scratched metal background. Feel free to download the image: Step 2 – Font &… Continue reading Create A Realistic Water Text Effect
HTML5 & CSS3: Take Your Design to Another Level
While both languages for HTML5 and CSS3 aren’t fully complete yet, taking the time time to familiarize yourself with some of the pointers in this post can really help you achieve that clean look and feel for your site. Let’s take a deeper look at them. HTML5 HTML5 is the latest version of HTML or… Continue reading HTML5 & CSS3: Take Your Design to Another Level
3D Gallery with CSS3 and JQuery
With 3D transforms, we can make simple elements more interesting by setting them into three dimensional space. Together with CSS transitions, these elements can be moved in 3D space and create a realistic effect. Today, we want to share an experimental 3D gallery with you that uses CSS 3D transforms. The main idea is to… Continue reading 3D Gallery with CSS3 and JQuery
Page transitions with CSS3
MARKUP The HTML will contain five main divisions: a header and the four content sections. Each of the content sections is going to have an ID and the class panel. Moreover, we will add another division inside which will have the classcontent. The first content section which is #home will only have the content class and will not… Continue reading Page transitions with CSS3
Create A Love Message On The Sand
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a love message on the sand using basic Photoshop filters, brushes and layer styles. Create a realistic “writing on sand” effect in Photoshop! Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Difficulty: Beginner Estimated Completetion Time: 20 – 30 minutes Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during… Continue reading Create A Love Message On The Sand
Photoshop: Snow Heart
Valentines Day is less than a week away, and you’re probably already looking to create some sort of Valentine’s related design. If you guys follow the official Photoshop Facebook page, you may have seen them post this image not too long ago, before their winter vacation. Reading through the comments, many of their users wanted a… Continue reading Photoshop: Snow Heart
CSS Buttons with Pseudo-Elements
Hola, amigos. For the last month or so, I’ve been experimenting with the power of CSS pseudo-elements, specially when it comes to mixing them with buttons and that way recreating some great effects that were only possible to do with sprites, in the past. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create buttons with… Continue reading CSS Buttons with Pseudo-Elements
How to Create a Professional Web Layout in Photoshop
Designing good looking clean and functional Web layouts is an essential part of a Web Designers life. In this tutorial we are going to create a clean and professional Web layout in Photoshop from scratch. Along the way you can learn useful methods to create designs. So get started! Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5… Continue reading How to Create a Professional Web Layout in Photoshop
Ice Text Effects
Hello dear visitor, and Welcome to Ice Text Effects Tutorial. Today, we’re going to practice a dozen methods of: how to archive a frozen look on a desired text in Photoshop. So let’s get started, right away! First of all, create New Document with sizes of: 720×700 px and color the Background in #434343. Grab… Continue reading Ice Text Effects
Create an Unique Surreal Photo Manipulation with Nebula Effect in Photoshop
Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completetion Time: 1- 2 hours In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create an Unique, Dark Surreal Photo Manipulation with Nebula Effect in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be a bit tricky, but why… Continue reading Create an Unique Surreal Photo Manipulation with Nebula Effect in Photoshop
Creating an iOS-like Home Screen with CoffeeScript
Today we are going to create an iOS-like home screen using CoffeeScript – a new JavaScript based language, and the jQuery library. CoffeScript has a clean syntax that lies somewhere in between Ruby and Python. If you haven’t used any of them, don’t worry – it is not required. However you will need to be… Continue reading Creating an iOS-like Home Screen with CoffeeScript
Design a Contemporary Poster
Create this simple poster created with layers of photos and shapes. In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to use a combination of Photoshop brushes, images, and custom shapes to create this contemporary poster. What you will need Architectural ornaments brush set A few splatter brushes Step 1 Create a new document with… Continue reading Design a Contemporary Poster
Making a jQuery Countdown Timer
When building a coming soon or event page, you find yourself in search for a good way to display the remaining time. A countdown gives the feel of urgency, and combined with an email field will yield more signups for your newsletter. Today we are going to build a neat jQuery plugin for displaying a countdown timer.… Continue reading Making a jQuery Countdown Timer
Create a Web Hosting Landing Page in Adobe Photoshop
In this First of the Year 2012 tutorial we are going to create a Web Hosting Landing Page layout for Besthost as an example. The template will have a simple logo, navigation, slider gallery, package, about us, services, testimonials and footer. Let’s combine these all together to make an awesome template. I will try my… Continue reading Create a Web Hosting Landing Page in Adobe Photoshop