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I think anyone who owns a digital camera has many photographs that might be nice but needs a little something extra to make it special. Of course there are many one or two step processes for those quick adjustments, but is that enough?
Today we would like to share with you some Photoshop tutorials that can really make a difference in some of your everyday plain pictures. When you try out the tutorials, get creative and tweak one or two of the techniques for your own special effect.
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 Flash is not your forté and you are working on a web design, tips, tricks and tutorials can save you a great deal of time and frustration. Have you ever thought how you could make an image glow in your banner or how you can have your text appear as if it is being handwritten?
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.
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.
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.
