We have recently published some really cool icons and wallpapers to cover autumn and a couple of major holidays for the next two months. What we have in store for you today are tools to make your own illustrations for Halloween. Backgrounds should be fairly easy. You cannot go wrong with black and adding a bit of texture or design just might make the difference between a good design and a great one. Experiment with different colors and make your masterpiece one to remember.

You’d be surprised as to how much you can pull off using simple tools in Photoshop. If you’re an intermediate or even an upper-beginner Photoshop user, you’ve probably used these techniques and tools in your works; this is just a simple experimentation with them.

This isn’t a tutorial for anything specific per say, it’s just an amalgamation of some basic ideas. Hopefully you can build on it to create something truly awe-inspiring!

Adobe Photoshop has endless possibilities for text effects and we’re always looking for different techniques to apply towards our own projects. With the holidays quickly approaching, it could help you create some pretty amazing text effects. You can use a similar background and general effect on the text itself, but sometimes even the position of light itself can make the difference between night and day.

We have all seen some totally cool effects with people using Flash on the internet and often wonder how they are created. Today we would like to share with you some new, fresh Adobe Flash CS4 video tutorials. This is a two part tutorial showing you how to tween a rectangle into the letter ‘A’. It’s an interesting process and can be quite challenging mainly because of the gap in the ‘A’.

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.

I cannot express enough how valuable good quality brushes can be. When you work for a company big enough to employ an entire art department that supplies everything you need for your project, you are quite fortunate. However, a large number of us working in a marketing department with limited resources or those who are independent contractors are not afforded the luxuries or the time. This also applies to those who do artwork for their department or school making posters, newsletters, and even reports. Saving time without compromising quality is important to all.

With that in mind, we would like to share with you a variety of abstract brushes for use in Adobe Photoshop. These brushes are available for download at the artist’s website. As you appreciate the quality and the long and hard hours put into making these brush sets, please read and adhere to their requested conditions and give appropriate credit to the author.

Motion tweening in Flash CS4 is different from CS3 and previous versions. In the previous versions of Flash, there were two types of tweening, shape and motion. You had good flexibility with them and now you have even more. Flash CS4 features three types of tweening, shape, motion and classic. Shape tweening is the same and has not changed. What users once considered motions is now called classic tweening. The new motion tweening has a very powerful tweening engine that allows you to easily update your animations. It is also the feature you will use to animate your 3D objects in Flash.

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.

As a graphic designer, I often find myself transferring my work from Adobe Illustrator to Adobe Photoshop for 3D rendering. Opening programs, copying and pasting, importing, etc… all things that make the work become tedious and tiring. After doing this for a while, it was time to find something that assists in the day-to-day of a graphic designer. They say we can do the whole process from design to render flat in Adobe Illustrator? Let’s evaluate the possibilities.