Today we will be making a 2010 Olympic Gold Medal similar in style to those used in the current Vancouver Winter Games. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an interesting warped metal effect using the Gradient Mesh Tool. You’ll also learn some interesting ways to create and use masks while we construct this gold medal. For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com Author: Joshua Bader Joshua Bader is a graduate of [...]

This Quick Tip tutorial will guide you through the process of making a vector portrait rapidly. A picture will be used as a guide for black and gray paths. We’ll review some shortcuts that will allow you to achieve good quality results with few steps and minimum fuss. Author: Getulino Pacheco Getulino is a brazilian illustrator and designer. He uses all his know-how to use computer as an artistic medium and is considered a pioneer [...]

Welcome to this video tutorial! We will learn how to take a Photoshop created web page layout template and slice it into individual pieces and then export it with an HTML file. We will cover user slices, layer based slices, auto slices, naming slices, assigning links to slices, alternate text for slices, creating multiple slices at one time, previewing our file in a web browser, saving individual slices as gifs or jpgs from the same [...]

In this tutorial, we’re going to teach you how to replicate Apple’s iPod Nano. Not only will we recreate it’s signature body form, but also the headphones and put them in a unique setting that makes it pop. This an easy to follow step-by-step tutorial, and altering the final appearance should be a piece of cake. Changing the appearance is only a metter of picking a few different colors or adding your own textures as [...]

Creating a Realistic Torn Photo Effect – Image Preview In this tutorial you will learn how to take a standard photo of a girl and tear it into pieces using some stock images and some nifty Photoshop techniques. The image on the left is what your finished product will look like. OK, lets get started… Before we start, you should download the source files… Torn Photo Effect Source Files (ZIP) Step 1 – From the [...]

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 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 love designing really cool, grungy backgrounds for my tutorials [...]

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 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 [...]