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.

Somebody call the fire brigade, ’cause there’s a fire running wild. It’s too late to tell who started it, but whether it was Apple or Adobe doesn’t matter anymore. It’s on. Flash is currently proving to be a dominant force in web design, breaking all limits of visual creativity and allowing more and more people to experiment with building websites easily. At the end, the answers might come from the web design community, if it decides to fight for the right to Flash.

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.

If you find your photographs like mine, far from perfect, then I bet you have the need to edit. One of the main problems from digital cameras today is the amount of noise you will have in your photograph. Even while using a tripod, you may still experience movement. This is one of the first corrections I make in Photoshop, as 99% of my photos are hand-held. I’m sure I’m not alone.

Enhance your website and light that text on fire using a different techniques from photo manipulation to creating 3D text with fire coming from inside. The final outcome for each of these five fiery text effect tutorials will be different and adding your own tweaks can make it even more interesting.

You will find a fiery inferno of fire, a retro-looking burn in flames, beautiful text combined with photo manipulation, a glossy fire reflection, and a very realistic approach with Flames shooting out of 3D text and crackling background.

Have you ever had flat or 2D objects within an illustration or design that you wanted to appear 3D? Now you can create glowing light streaks which appear to wrap around objects giving you a more 3D effect. There are different techniques you can use with Photoshop to make your 2D and even 3D objects really pop. The process is very easy and in just a few minutes you can make a huge difference with your project.

In this tutorial, you see step-by-step how you can colorize isolated objects in black and white photos. This is a pretty cool technique when you want something in your photo to stand out and even cover-up minor errors.

I decided to use a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge I took while in San Francisco. It is probably the most famous bridge in the world and could very well be one of the most photographed. That means your every day purist-type picture looks like the million others, a little dull. Add some spice to your photography and try different techniques.

We often forget the importance of the text style whether it is for print or web. Today, we would like to share with you five pretty cool tutorials showing you how to create 3D text effects.

Have you ever come across a design and wondered what techniques were used to come up with the end result? In some cases, if you miss a step, your design may greatly differ from the one you tried to replicate. On the other hand, experimenting with the features of the application you use can result in a masterpiece.