Transform (Almost) Any Photo into Art
By Katherine Lum posted in Design Photography, Web Design Tutorials on 10-04-2010
We’re not all professional photographers with the top-of-the-line digital SLR camera … most of us use a crappy Nikon Coolpix (or perhaps something worse?) to grab snapshots of things that catch our eye. Actually, even those who use the fancy dSLRs have bad days and, like the regular folk, will take pictures that turn out to be rather dull.
Not to fear! It is possible to turn that blurry, poorly lit, excuse of a photo into something bearable.
Create Your Own Glossy Button Using Photoshop
By Aaron Vergisi posted in Web Design Tutorials on 28-03-2010
When creating webpages, there are many ways of making the design look professional and easy on the eyes. This tutorial will teach you to make one such element, the glow button, which can be used for easy navigability of the page. Using this tutorial, buttons of various shapes and colors can be made but here, we would be sticking to a pill shaped button using the tool “Rounded Rectangle”. By following the simplified steps outlined below, you’ll end up with a kick-ass button ready to be implemented in your site.
Create Amazing 3D Ball Photo Album In Photoshop
By Aaron Vergisi posted in Web Design Tutorials on 17-03-2010
Family trips, holidays in distant lands, weekend trip to beaches? All good reasons to make our cameras go snapping’. And when we do get these pictures back on to our PC, here’s a unique way of making them into something totally cool!
You will now learn how to make a 3D ball out of photos of nature, family or pretty much anything that’s sitting lazy in a folder in your hard drive. The 3D ball can be placed on any background to create an amazing album cover. So here we go!
Create a Simple Ripple Effect on Adobe Photoshop
By Aaron Vergisi posted in Web Design Tutorials on 10-03-2010
This is an easy technique that helps you to create a ripple effect in your image. This is possible using some simple tools on Photoshop.
Any object can be used for this effect, but an object with well defined edges would no doubt make your job much easier. In this example, we have selected a feather as the object around which we will create the ripple effect.
Create A Click and Zoom 3D Carousel
By Angel L. posted in Web Design Tutorials on 10-02-2010
Now you can create your very own amazingly cool Flash 3D carousel. They are an appealing way to showcase different aspects of your website. It’s a great way to show off your stunning photographs, display products, list menus, and even show-off your beautiful portfolio and galleries. Some WordPress templates include nice slideshows and there some sites offer a plugin for 3D Carousels and galleries, but for a fee, of course. Your options will be limited, so take total control over the functionality of your carousel and take pride in your work.
6 Photoshop Tutorials for Beginners
By Tom Michaels posted in Web Design Tutorials on 06-02-2010
I think anyone who owns a digital camera has many photographs that might be nice but needs a little something extra to make it special. Of course there are many one or two step processes for those quick adjustments, but is that enough?
Today we would like to share with you some Photoshop tutorials that can really make a difference in some of your everyday plain pictures. When you try out the tutorials, get creative and tweak one or two of the techniques for your own special effect.
10 Fabulous Tutorials to Enhance Valentine’s Day Designs
By J. Luzatto posted in Web Design Tutorials on 29-01-2010
Valentine’s Day is approaching quickly and for those design enthusiasts, there is no better way to say, I love you to that special person than to create the perfect Valentine message with these tutorials.
The basic techniques from these tutorials can be applied so your artistic gift of love will truly be unique. To be even more adventurous, you may want to use one of the I Heart Brushes.
Are You Prepared for that Web Design Job Interview?
By Sheer Ganor posted in Web Design Tutorials on 25-01-2010
Web design is a dynamic profession. Web designers usually don’t stick around at one position for the pension benefits. More than most professionals, they move around a lot, whether between different studios or between different projects. That means they get to experience the agonizing process of a job interview more than the regular Joe Schmoe.
Create Your Own Unique Wallpaper with Ease
By Aaron Vergisi posted in Web Design Tutorials on 12-01-2010
[This tutorial is appropriate for the beginner level.] Bored with your same old desktop wallpaper? Tired of searching for cool new wallpapers? It’s time to make a change and to start making cool wallpapers on your own using nothing but Photoshop … and this tutorial, of course.
With a little bit of creativity and a little knowledge of Photoshop, you can decorate your desktop in your own unique and cool way.
Why HDR Photos Suck (and what to do about it)
By Michael Holden posted in Web Design Tutorials on 09-01-2010
I’ve produced hundreds of truly regretful HDR images over the years…and a handful of good ones. With the benefit of 20/20 HDR hindsight, I’ve figured out some of the things that I did — out of laziness, stupidity, oversight or cluelessness — to produce my worst HDR images.
