Tutorials added on February 4, 2009

This tutorial will walk you through the steps of blending various photos into one, realistic magical piece. You’ll work with blending modes, lighting and color adjustments and compositional planning.

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we will try to cover as much as possible.

Rob Palmer has to be one of my favorite webdesigners to date. I love his work so much so that I have beenw orking with him on a number of my own projects. He will be the one responsible behind the top secret design of the new Outlaw Design Blog update on 4/20. I just thought I would share with you some of his amazing work!

Nurture is a Social Bookmark Icon Pack created exclusively for the viewers of Tutorial9 and Smashing Magazine. The icon pack was designed for digital creatives who want to add a unique, lively, and green touch to their blogs and other web-projects. The set includes 10 icons featuring the logos of popular social bookmarking sites. Nurture includes 512?512, 256?256, 128?128, and 64?64 icons in .png format.

Wonderful photo art work, mostly nude photography by Klaus Kampert.

Most people who uses Photoshop love doing a photo manipulation. Its really fun specially if your creativity are really working well and come up in some pretty good results. Talking about Photo Manipulation, Here is a tutorial where you will learn how Create a Cute Green Apple by manipulating some photos.Here’s a quick preview on our tutorial for today.

Ready to have some fun with Photoshop? Let's open those folder of digital pictures you have buried somewhere in your hard drive and start a little makeover on them. Check out this list of photo editing and photo effects techniques you can try to make your picture looks more interesting. Some are common effects like sepia tone coloring, B&W effect and some are new effects you probably never try before..so, check it out!

Lately I’ve been trying to build up my library of design inspiration. I picked up some very cool books last time I was at the museum, and my collection is steadily growing. So I was very excited when Radim Malinic of Brand Nu contacted me about his new inspirational book release. If your not familiar with Radim, I suggest you check out his extensive portfolio. He has some very amazing work, and has produced designs for some huge clients. This book is basically a collection of recent designs. The work ranges in topic, but it is all beautiful and inspirational! Radim was nice enough to send me a copy, so below I’m attaching some shots I took of the book. For more info, you can visit Brand Nu’s Site.

There are 100s of websites providing 1000s of logos but to fetch the spark of inspiration & enough creativity, only one logo can do. To find that special one you will have to spend the whole day searching, researching the best of best from the 1000s of logo gallery. Am I right? To make your job simpler, Here webbyarts publishes “31 Spectacular Logos for your Inspiration” to boost up your inspiration.

In this video, Howard demonstrates how to enlarge and enhance breasts in Photoshop. Not recommended for kids!

1000+ Classic Icons/Icon Set for Free Download - The best of best collections of free icons collected mainly from the icon gallery sites and interesting articles. Webbyarts is glad to display the best list of icon resources for free icon set download. The download icon set includes icons in .png, .icns and .ico-formats. An .EPS vector file is available as well. So you need not worry about the vectors/ resolution problems. You can use the below icons for private and projects, blogs and web-sites for free, (However, Please read the copyrights before you download. Most of them are not allowed to sell or redistribute the icons without owners permission) These icon designers are really specialized in producing unique icon designs and give a fresh & lively look for it. These free icons are designed in standard sizes ranging from 16?16 to 256?256 pixels. All the free downloadable icons designed to project a clean, modern look and have consistency and classic perspective and color. Some of them containing editable EPS icons which don’t have rescaling/resizing problem and non-editable .ico/png/jpg/gif etc which will have resizing problem. so please apologize for those cases. The main purpose of this article is to build a resource store of icons, which will keep following in the coming weeks. So that a web designer, web developer, icon designer can download icon set, inspire the iconic designs, use the reference of the icon resource websites for any use. So make sure you use these resource to the most effective way.

You’ve just got to have a look on these art works. Their simply amazing. You can also browse through Shiny Binary’s deviantart page to see even more.

Browse 30 Fantastic Wallpapers.

Download Free Urban Vectors!

I simply love motors, and I currently own a Honda CBR 400 RR. I really want a more powerful bike, at least a 600 cmc. Here are some cool wallpapers with all the models of Kawasaki.

88 Free Beautiful PNG Icons 256?256.

I'm not gonna write any tutorial today. Instead I have a compilation of the best text effect tutorials on the web for all you text crazes out there. Some of them are a little bit complicated, a little bit advanced but really worth your time once you got the final effect. Follow the link to go to the tutorial page and enjoy trying new effects on your text.