For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a stunning and high-impact retro-style typography poster that’s out of this world (literally). I will walk you through the steps for creating 3D text by combining the power of Photoshop and Cinema 4D. You’ll also learn how to create unique and detailed light streaks that give the typography poster its signature look. Finally, we will add [...]

Introduction 3D text effects are a growing and awesome design trend. They can add angles, lighting and interest that many 2D text effects can’t bring. Here is an awesome Showcase of 3D Typography that was put together a little while back by Angie Bowen. I’ve also been seen and been inspired by tutorials like 3D Text on Fire and this Fresh Text Effect. After some experimenting with what can be accomplished using Illustrator’s 3D capabilities [...]

Advertising is one of the primary markets for graphic designers.  Companies around the world rely on the talented and creative minds of designers to create visually impactful and memorable product advertisements.  Advertising differs from other forms of design, as you often have to incorporate a product, a logo, a company image and other details to meet the client needs.  Therefore, being able to manipulate results to match the color scheme, subject matter and target market [...]

Purpose: Have a sliding horizontal bar, highlighting your horizontal menu Difficulty: Intermediate In Short: Using simple actionscript to create the movement. Actionscript used: (sample) easeSpeed = 5; //slider_mc is your Movie Clip’s name, not the Instance Name. slider_mc.onEnterFrame = function() { this._x += (xMove1-this._x)/easeSpeed; }; button_1.onPress = function() { xMove = button_1._x; }; button_2.onPress = function() { xMove = button_2._x; }; button_3.onPress = function() { xMove = button_3._x; }; button_4.onPress = function() { xMove = [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I will use photoshop CS2 to make a womans boobs bigger. Its really simple, you get out the polygon Lasso tool and draw around the boobs(be sure to get some extra skin around the outside).