Tutorials added on December 12, 2008

Making a Simple Photo Edition with Photoshop CS4.

A set of 50 ripple brushes for adobe photoshop designed by boying.

Instruction how design a computer speaker in Adobe Photoshop.

This is a timelapse preview of my coming tutorial on photorealistic digital painting called "A Portrait of Emily Rose." Painted in Photoshop CS2 with a Wacom Graphire 4 - Daniel Hammonds.

Jonathan Wong is a relatively new artist that has an abundance of potential in his art. Only 19 years old and already he has some amazing art that will surprise even veterans. In this interview, Jonathan gives us a glance at his ideals towards design; He also explains why every designer should use a Wacom Tablet. So lets get into the interview.

A set of 55 kaleidoscopic brushes for adobe photoshop designed by boying .

n this Photoshop photo effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to highlight the main subject of a photo with a simple outline. Once we've added the outline itself, which we'll do using a couple of Photoshop's layer styles, we'll enhance the effect by boosting the color saturation of the main subject while decreasing saturation in the rest of the image, and we'll throw in a blur effect to further reduce the importance of the background. This photo effect works great with sports and action shots, which is where the idea for this tutorial came from, but you can use it with virtually any image.

Design a colorful Christmas card for your friends and relatives, using some easy to follow Photoshop techniques.

The first of my photo retouching series from start to finish.

This tutorial will show you how to make a wrapped present from scratch.

In this tutorial, we’ll go over how to turn an average (read: boring) plain portrait, into a distinct one with heavy contrast and focus on details. To achieve this, we’ll be working with the Lucis Art plugin, Levels, and custom shadows.

For our first yearly wrap up we want to bring you the best 50 CSS and Flash website designs of 2008 handpicked from our website showcase, CLD Web Gallery.

Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a technology that allows for for highly-interactive and responsive browser-based applications. By leveraging the XMLHttpRequest object, seamless communication with the server can be achieved for a smooth and dynamic user experience. If you’ve ever wanted to learn about Ajax, there are many sites out there that’ll help you "grok" Ajax and the various technologies surrounding it. Here are 20 top-notch websites that cover the subject of Ajax.

Learn how to create a hosting server from scratch.

Photoshop users are able to benefit from the vast amount of high-quality resources that are freely available to the community. Brushes get a lot of attention, but custom shapes are also extremely useful in the right situations. Finding a custom shape that has already been created can save you some time and headaches in your design, and fortunately there is a very wide variety of custom shapes available. This post highlights 80 different sets of custom shapes (over 2,500 individual shapes) in several different categories. If you plan to download and use any of these shapes be sure to check to terms and conditions set by the creator of the shapes.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to build a photo realistic robot using metal textures to create it piece by piece.

Draw nice fireworks with tools, brushes and blending option. Wery easy but nice tutorial.

I’ve got another free font to release to the public. I call this one Baja California. The premium version is still being developed, but I thought I’d go ahead and release the demo since it’s far enough along to do so. The demo version contains the entire alphabet, upper and lowercase. Hope everyone likes it!

We will learn how to draw a colorful Christmas shiny background using some easy to follow Adobe Photoshop techniques.

I was going to add some logotypes of famous social web services, and i decided to draw some vector social icons, but was gladly surprised that someone already create such set! Thank you guys.