Friday, October 31, 2008

»» Photoshop Brushes - Part 4

1. Fractals Lite
In this design the lightening effect is well used and a smoke like effect at the end sides which is really cool. Try this out....



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2. Attack Brushes
In this brush the design is in such a way that it depicts shooting stars effect at the space. I think that's why it is called as attack brushes.

3. Smoke Brushes
The silky effect and the chocolate design are the things that I like a lot in this design.



4. Punk Brushes
I searched for the human design in the photoshop brushes and I found out this. Just check this out...

Thursday, October 30, 2008

»» How to Create Icons in Illustrator

1. Lock
In the following tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a lock icon with some effects, opacity masks, gradients, and simple shapes in Illustrator. Many of these techniques can be applied easily to other icon designs.

2. Box Icon
This icon tutorial will really help us a lot to know some basics about how to design a icon using the Illustrator. This design is really great especially the scribbling effect of the box.
3. XP Style Icon
You'll learn how to make your own Windows XP-style artwork, which you may end up using for Website graphics, software application icons, or in other projects.

4. Calendar Icon
Make a Handy 3D Vector Calendar Icon




Sunday, October 26, 2008

»» Photoshop Text Effects - Part 3

1. Plastic Text Effect
In this Photoshop text effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to use Photoshop's Layer Styles to easily make text look as if it's made out of plastic.

2. Clear Plastic
This is a quite simple tutorial to create a very nice plastic feel to your texts and shapes.


3. Tin or Aluminum Foil
Wrap your text in tin/aluminum foil without using filters.

4. Freezing Cold Text
In this tutorial, i'll show you how to make your text freezing cold. This tutorial will also show you how to use this ice text on any colored background.




Thursday, October 23, 2008

»» Useful Photoshop Tutorials - Part 4

In this post I am going to share some links with you all, which I have found out across the web. These tutorials will really help the beginners a lot to know much about the Photoshop. Just check this out and try it out and do something useful through it....

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

»» Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials - Part 2

1. Logo using Glassy Transparent Text
Adobe Illustrator is great for making Logo's and there are many things that people dont know about Illustrator even though its such a powerful software. This image below was made using Adobe Illustrator CS.

2. Grunge Text Effect
The Grunge/scratchy effect has grown more and more popular for t-shirt designs and I thought I would share one way of how here we recreated this design in Adobe Illustrator CS. Our Goal is to go from this plain looking piece of text to a stylish grunge design.


3. Website Text Effect
Just check it out in full size, it's a pretty cool effect you could use for your site or in some magazine if you have the possibility.


4. Distressed Art Effect
This effect is really nice since it just shows us the effect of damaged piece of wood and so on. So just try it out.....

»» Corel Draw Buttons

1. Glassy Rollover Buttons
In this design I really like the glassy effect of the buttons a lot.

2. Brushed Steel Interface
This button design contains a smooth shiny steel effect and the cool glassy look.


3. Glass Buttons with Refraction
In this design main notable thing is the bubble effect of the button, which just depicts the refraction effect.


4. Simple Button
it is a simple button tutorial which will really help the beginners.



Tuesday, October 21, 2008

»» Grunge Photoshop Brushes

1. Oil Stains
10 high resolution grungy concrete stains inspired by all the cracks, stains, and spots on the sidewalk and in the street.



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2. Cracks
6 Excellent high resolution sidewalk cracks to give you a nice grungy texture.


3. Soil cracks
15 brushes made with Photoshop 7.0. Those cracks look like soil cracks, but it’s just the paint on the door.

»» Corel Draw Tutorials - Part 6

It is really a nice experience to work with Corel Draw. But to know much about it, we have to be aware of some useful tricks and tips about using the Corel Draw. I have identified some useful Corel Draw Tutorials across the net. Check this out and make use of this...

»» Photoshop Icons - Part 3

1. Pencil
The Pencil is one of the visual metaphors most used to express creativity. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to draw a pencil icon. We'll have a look at gradients, selection tools, and basic transform operations. Let's have some fun with this.


2. Construction Helmet
Construction icons have always been popular on-screen, and although those dot-com "under-construction" pages have mostly vanished from our screens, the trusty ol' yellow helmet icon still has its uses. In this tutorial, we'll be creating our very own icon from a photograph.

3. Calendar
Now i noticed that a lot of people create some really nice icons on their blogs so i decided to actually create a general icon for a Calendar. Below is the outcome of this tutorial:

4. RSS
Ever wondered how to make your own Mac icons? Have you ever created an icon and had trouble making the icons fully transparent?

»» CSS Tips - Part 2

While browsing through the net I found out all these CSS tips. These tricks will really help the beginners a lot to know more about the usage of CSS while designing these things in Graphics. just check this out and make use of it.
  1. Rounded Corners
  2. Rounded Corners without images
  3. Creating a Netflix style star ratings
  4. Tableless forms
  5. Styling Lists with CSS
  6. 2 Column Layout Technique
  7. 3 Column Layout with CSS
  8. 3 Column Fixed width centered layout
  9. Printing with CSS
  10. Adding a CSS stylesheet to an RSS feed
  11. Footer Stick
  12. CSS Element Hover Effect
  13. Styling Horizontal Rules
  14. Clearing Floats
  15. CSS Popups

Sunday, October 19, 2008

»» Photoshop Patterns - Part 3

1. Rainy Effect
2. Renaissance
3. Wall Patterns
4. Blue Patterns

»» Beauty Retouching Photoshop Tutorials

Do you all willing to learn how to do beauty retouching in photos and how to make it more beautiful and attractive? Then fine here in this post I am going to list out some beauty retouching tutorials using Photoshop. Make use of this...

1.
Model Beauty

2. Pure Perfection


3. Phoenix Hair Effect


4. Retouching for Beginners

Friday, October 17, 2008

»» Web Design Tips - Part 3

In this post I am going to list some of the web site design tips that I have found out while browsing the web. Just check this post and make use of it...
All the web site designs are really nice and very helpful too. Try it out...

»» Corel Draw Tutorials - Part 5

1. Animated logos


2. Yahoo Style Buttons


3. Finding and replacing a color
4. Rings



»» CSS Tips

In this post we will see about some random collection of CSS Tips and Tricks... These tips will really help the beginners to know much about the usage of CSS in graphic design. All these tips and tricks are very much easy to get followed by all of us. So just check all these links and make use of it.
Enjoy your graphic design with more CSS tips....

»» Cool Web Designs

In this post we will see about some of the cool web designs. All are really nice and fantastic, especially the background effects are really awesome.


1. Pleasant Experience Layout
This theme is really nice and pleasant to our eyes. The main notable thing from this design is it contains very nice background texture, which gives a pleasant look to it.

2. Blue Moon
To tell some thing interest about this design, it contains nice background picture of a damaged wall. It seems to be really cool design and just depicts the old building.

3. Trust Your Buds
I came across this design while browsing for some game designs. Its is very cool and especially the layout. Check this out and enjoy the game..

4. Shopping Design
It is full fledged shopping site web design, which will really suit the shopping requirements.

»» Photoshop Brushes - Part 3

Check out all these cool photoshop brushes. All the combinations are really nice... In all these brushes I like the design a lot, especially the gradient used in the colors. Try this out....

1. Vein Shapes


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2. Eternity Brushes

3. Sparkles Brushes
4. Oil Spill Brushes




Thursday, October 16, 2008

»» Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials - Part 1

1. Old School Type
This Old School type text effect is really cool and it just depicts the perfect old style. Check this out....

2. Metallic Text Effect
Create a metallic text effect using Illustrator.


3. Swan Logo
The letter 'S' is changed in to a Swan like structure, which is really nice. 4. Peacock Logo
Sometimes its hard to think of logo ideas. Here I show you how to make an interesting peacock logo.







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