I really love this kind of style, so I thought just I’d share another tutorial with you guys (and girls, of course) on how to design something like what I’ve shown below, a kind of glossy, carbon fiber navigation set For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com 1. Grungy Background Creation I know this navigation set will most likely be going on a clan website design or something like that, but I really [...]

Today Transfuchsian brings you another tutorial that shows how Illustrator can perform design tasks generally reserved for Photoshop or other raster programs. Photoshop is going to be easier to use for this effect, but it doesn’t mean you can’t get the same results in a pure vector format. So, today I bring you a lighted text effect tutorial in a new segment I like to call “Anything Photoshop can do, I can do…also”. In this [...]

We can greatly improve every portrait in which the subject is smiling by applying a little digital tooth whitening. In this easy to follow tutorial you will be whitening teeth in minutes. We will  first select the teeth and soften the selection, to avoid a visible line between the areas that are lightened and the rest of the image. Although there are many ways to make a selection in Photoshop, using the Quick Selection Quick [...]

For this tutorial you are going to need to download the following brush: Tech Brush Set V5 by Z-Design Step 1: Start with the size wallpaper you want. I’m using 1024×768 with 72dpi with a black background. Press D to get your default colours (black and white), create a new layer, then go to Filter > Render > Clouds Step 2: Select Filter > Pixelate > Mezzotint, make sure that the type is set to [...]

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a really cool and super easy typographic portrait in Photoshop. We will use the Displace filter and some Blend Modes to achieve the effect. The whole process is quite simple but it might take you some time to add the texts and elements, but once you do that the rest is very straight forward. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document. I used [...]

These [tag]texture[/tag] are available under the creative commons license. Please do not repackage, redistribute or direct link to the download. If you would like to share these textures please link back to this page. I took these images on a recent trip I took to Bangladesh. They are available for download at a nice high resolution of 3008×2000. I hope you find some good uses for them in one of your next designs. Download Textures [...]

In this tutorial we will learn to create abstract an compositions of dots. This will help you to create interesting effects for backgrounds. Let’s learn to simulate a surface of any complexity. Author: Lazunov Iaroslav My name is Lazunov Yaroslav, I am a graphic designer from Zhytomyr, Ukraine. I love Illustrator. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS3 Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 30 minutes Step 1 Open a new document (800 by 800 [...]