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.

For the nearly 1.5 billion Chinese people in the world, it will be the year 4708 and their New Year will be celebrated on February 14, 2010. This will be the Year of the Tiger. Each Chinese zodiac sign has specific traits and the tiger is their symbol for bravery, competitiveness and unpredictability.
In honour of this auspicious time, we would like to share with you beautiful drawings, paintings and photo manipulations of the tiger.

If you heart Photoshop brushes as much as I do then you will certainly enjoy this collection of beautiful brushes to create the most spectacular drawings, posters, cards and other illustrations your imagination will allow. You will find different types of hearts, roses, flowers, swirls, lace and much more that will compliment and provide inspiration for your graphic design needs.

The winter holidays are approaching faster than many of us would like to think and we are still cleaning up from Halloween. Photoshop brushes can be quite helpful for designs and save a lot of time when you have the resources handy.

Today, we are sharing with you 25 new and free concrete textures. Usually when we think of concrete, a well-maintained sidewalk comes to mind. What we do not always consider is the erosion, cracks, paint, rust stains and any other imperfections that could give character for your designs.

One can never have too many resources for freebies such as textures, patterns or even preset gradients. Today we would like to share with you some textures from photographs of different woven styles and patterns.

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!

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.

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.

It is simply amazing to watch artists paint with digital software programs or the real deal. What you are about to see is not quite ‘Speed painting’ but lime-lapsed videos of created digital artwork from start to finish. You will observe countless layers, masks and colors used by extraordinary artists. Each painting took a great deal of time

Some will begin by using a scanned sketch or one drawn on one of the many digital drawing programs. In the first video, the artist starts with a skeleton adding muscles, skin and hair then turns rapper 50 Cent into a Terminator. Take a look at the different applications and techniques used to achieve their stunning end results.