Family trips, holidays in distant lands, weekend trip to beaches? All good reasons to make our cameras go snapping’. And when we do get these pictures back on to our PC, here’s a unique way of making them into something totally cool!

You will now learn how to make a 3D ball out of photos of nature, family or pretty much anything that’s sitting lazy in a folder in your hard drive. The 3D ball can be placed on any background to create an amazing album cover. So here we go!

This is an easy technique that helps you to create a ripple effect in your image. This is possible using some simple tools on Photoshop.

Any object can be used for this effect, but an object with well defined edges would no doubt make your job much easier. In this example, we have selected a feather as the object around which we will create the ripple effect.

Now you can create your very own amazingly cool Flash 3D carousel. They are an appealing way to showcase different aspects of your website. It’s a great way to show off your stunning photographs, display products, list menus, and even show-off your beautiful portfolio and galleries. Some WordPress templates include nice slideshows and there some sites offer a plugin for 3D Carousels and galleries, but for a fee, of course. Your options will be limited, so take total control over the functionality of your carousel and take pride in your work.

I think anyone who owns a digital camera has many photographs that might be nice but needs a little something extra to make it special. Of course there are many one or two step processes for those quick adjustments, but is that enough?

Today we would like to share with you some Photoshop tutorials that can really make a difference in some of your everyday plain pictures. When you try out the tutorials, get creative and tweak one or two of the techniques for your own special effect.

Valentine’s Day is approaching quickly and for those design enthusiasts, there is no better way to say, I love you to that special person than to create the perfect Valentine message with these tutorials.

The basic techniques from these tutorials can be applied so your artistic gift of love will truly be unique. To be even more adventurous, you may want to use one of the I Heart Brushes.

Web design is a dynamic profession. Web designers usually don’t stick around at one position for the pension benefits. More than most professionals, they move around a lot, whether between different studios or between different projects. That means they get to experience the agonizing process of a job interview more than the regular Joe Schmoe.

[This tutorial is appropriate for the beginner level.] Bored with your same old desktop wallpaper? Tired of searching for cool new wallpapers? It’s time to make a change and to start making cool wallpapers on your own using nothing but Photoshop … and this tutorial, of course.

With a little bit of creativity and a little knowledge of Photoshop, you can decorate your desktop in your own unique and cool way.

I’ve produced hundreds of truly regretful HDR images over the years…and a handful of good ones. With the benefit of 20/20 HDR hindsight, I’ve figured out some of the things that I did — out of laziness, stupidity, oversight or cluelessness — to produce my worst HDR images.

Images of chandeliers or any other light source look beautiful just because of a simple starburst. Adding a starburst effect to a digital image is a simple and yet effective way of making photos look better. Applying the effect in Photoshop is easier and looks far better than the one with adjusted camera settings. You can control the brightness of the star burst and can also erase it off in the areas where it overlaps with some other part of the image.

In following this tutorial, you would be able to make the text elements stand out with just a few quick steps. While designing images with text elements, flat text makes the image appear rather dull and uninteresting.

A subtle reflection of the text goes a long way into attracting attention at that portion while adding flavor to the design. In this tutorial, you will learn how to do just that in simple steps that even a beginner at Photoshop can accomplish with the greatest of ease.