Tutorials added on February 10, 2009

This is an annotated timelapse tutorial video that explains how to make a girl beautiful through manipulation and retouching.

This tutorial demonstrates how to create glowing orbs through both a video and text instructions. This process can be extremely quick for tablet users, and there's instructions for non-tablet users as well.

In this timelapse tutorial video, a girl's face is adjusted to more ideal proportions. The changes appear subtle, but are striking when the images are viewed side-by-side. I also give instructions for how I created this work.

This tutorial demonstrates how to use digital painting with a drawing tablet to create the illusion of lip gloss on bare lips. Excellent retouching technique and digital painting exercise.

This tutorial explains how to create flawlessly smooth waves/streaks of light. You'll also add a glow.

A quick, simple tutorial that shows you one way to vignette a photo.

Valentines day is just around the corner and geeks like us are mostly clueless about the gifts and about the whole thing generally. Here is a list of things that might help you impress your geek-chick on the valentines day, what follows is up to you! These Valentine's Day related applications can help you decide if you want to buy an iPhone if you are in two minds about it. After viewing more than 100 iPhone Apps in different categories I put this list together which I consider as the best iPhone Applications based on Valentine's Day theme, their functionality and popularity.

In this tutuorial you will see how is possible to represent the wallpaper, having a photo only.

This tutorial will teach you some important techniques to help create high impact images. Follow the steps to create your own high impact Skateboarding poster.

5 days left until the day that the whole world turns romantically red! Are you ready for that? Create a warm holiday atmosphere on your desktop. In this post we present 40 Beautiful Valentine’s Day Wallpapers. Happy Valentine’s Day!

In this tutorial we are going to create a photo manipulation inspired by Valhalla, one of Mariusz Karasiewicz`s works. He is an amazing artist and his work is absolutly stunning. I want to thank him for allowing me to write this tutorial.

Sample file from building photoshop brush pack, full set can be found at stockgraphicdesigns.com

Beautiful curly photoshop brushes by green-eyed-butterfly.

Collection of ribbon brushes created in photoshop cs3/cs4 by Rozairo.

Sakke is an extremely talented designer residing in Helsinki, Finland. He attributes his style to old retro movies like Tron and various images he recalls from growing up in the 80's. His illustrations consist of vibrant colors and bizarre images that are unique and very well executed. In this interview, Sakke explains how he thinks a freelance designer should build up a client base, and a lot more. So check this one out.

10 very high-res corkboard textures in a pack. Use them for some great effects on your designs!

Design a Mock-up of Skypes Layout Design!

Lots of artist would like to improve their skill on painting. Now, you will learn a new style technique to paint your character. The skill of painting eyes, hair & fur will be specifically described. After you tried with this, you can start to paint your own character. Have a try!

This week we present you another great artist. His name is Martijn van Dam, he is from Holland and he insists on having some mind blowing pieces of art. Here are just some examples.

Inseparable Wallpaper by VladStudio!