When creating webpages, there are many ways of making the design look professional and easy on the eyes. This tutorial will teach you to make one such element, the glow button, which can be used for easy navigability of the page. Using this tutorial, buttons of various shapes and colors can be made but here, we would be sticking to a pill shaped button using the tool “Rounded Rectangle”. By following the simplified steps outlined below, you’ll end up with a kick-ass button ready to be implemented in your site.

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.

[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.

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.

If you want to provide an instant flashback to a bygone era while letting your creativity shine through, few techniques are as versatile as giving a vintage effect to a digital photo.

Learning how to create a vintage effect in Photoshop is easy. A vintage look gives your image a classy, antique feel. This effect tends to work best with photos with vivid colours. There are many ways to achieve this effect but they involve a lot of steps.

The neon glow effect can be seen in time lapse images, night time photos or in jelly fish. This effect can be used to create light paintings or recreate any of the mentioned scenes. It can be produced in Photoshop using just the simple tools. These tools when applied carefully and patiently can have a really big impact. Following is the tutorial to recreate a neon effect in any of your images for your graphic design needs. Make sure that you choose a good image that can highlight the effect to get the most out of it.

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!

Sometimes we can just sit there and gaze at a finished project but the pizazz just isn’t there. You can liven up that project by intensifying the image or text with a glowing effect. It may just be the right thing for you. As you can imagine there are many different methods to make your text and illustrations glow. So we would like to share with you 10 tutorials that will walk you through their own steps to achieve some amazing effects that will give that ‘wow’ factor to your own design.