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.

If you’ve ever had trouble choosing between the time-honored and the modern, you’ve come to the right place. Even though a web developer has a limited number of font choices to choose from, ill-thought font selections often cancel out all the hard work that goes into a site’s design.

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.

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.

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.

There is no better way to learn than to read, watch and practice. If you are not too familiar with Action Script 3.0 or not familiar at all, take some time and go through tutorials. In this particular video tutorial, you will be utilizing several features including the new 3D tools, motion tweening engine and Action Script 3.0 to design an animated business card.

As with many things, there is not one set way to animate objects with Adobe Flash CS4. The style is completely up to you. Even though this tutorial is designed for the intermediate user, beginners should be able to understand and replicate.

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.