Articles in the Tutorials / How To's Category

[Posted 09/08/2009 at 12:01 AM | No Comments]
Tutorial: Circular Fading in Photoshop.

In this tutorial, I will teach you how to make a really cool fading background using circles. You can do the same thing with triangles, squares, rectangles, or any other shape you desire. The idea is simple, create a brush, scatter it, and add a single layer (or more if you need) for your fading techniques. After you do this tutorial, make sure you check out my Aurora Effect.

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[Posted 08/10/2009 at 12:01 AM | No Comments]
Tutorial: Brick Wall

Designing a brick wall in Photoshop, for some, may be a very tricky or hard thing to accomplish. In this tutorial, I will show you how to do it very easily. A brick wall could be very useful for a splash page for a website. This tutorial will have a lot of steps but when it is done, you will love the effect you get.

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[Posted 08/05/2009 at 12:01 AM | 3 Comments]
Tutorial: Make yourself look thinner!

Adobe Photoshop is an extremely powerful tool. Many of us already know the idea that magazine company already photoshop tons of their pictures to make the woman, or men, look better. This simple and easy to do tutorial will show you how to make yourself look thinner and even touch up unwanted areas.

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[Posted 08/02/2009 at 12:01 AM | 3 Comments]

When designing a website, you may want to use your own custom made buttons. However, in the older days, you would write a lot of HTML code just to get the rollover to work. Sometimes, it wasn’t even worth the trouble. But with the new days of CSS – life is much easier. This tutorial will describe, and show you how to do a rollover effect with using CSS. This would be perfect if you have an image gallery in your website, menu buttons, or whatever you decide to use it on. Most of you know what this would be like when doing normal text, but with an image, you can do just about anything.

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[Posted 08/01/2009 at 12:01 AM | One Comment]
Tutorial: Aurora Effect

This awesome effect is seen in many places. If you have Vista, you have a screensaver that animates this same effect. If you read the news at MSNBC, they have it in their banner. This effect could be used for anything you want, but would look best in a banner with a black background. In this tutorial, I will show you how to many this extremely easy design – and you only need two layers!!

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[Posted 07/31/2009 at 12:01 AM | No Comments]
Tutorial: Rust Text Effect

Rust text may be tricky if you are not aware of a new simple techniques to use. This text can be used for just about any application or any type of website. This would be perfect on a clan website for a video game, or you might want to re-work your logo to this cool text effect.

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