• Text Effects
• Web Design
• Illustration
• Icons
• Logos

Text Effects

Green Type Treatment – everybody now is thinking Green.  Here’s a nice way to implement green style into the design – a great Illustrator tutorial on Green type. Perfect for design elements and logos.

Grunge Effect – a simple tutorial on how to apply grunge effect to text. This technique lets you get a text scaled to any size retaining its clarity.

Old-School Type – a tutorial explaining how to achieve an old-school or vintage text effect. Note that the process for creating the logo is not included. You can apply this effect to any font or typeface.

Web-Design

Wood Texture – this technique requires Graphic Pen effect, Warp Tool and Twirl Tool. This can be easily applied for creating icons, logos, or interfaces.

Wood Grain – a simple way to create wood grain effect using the warp tools.

Glassy Button – a quick 3-steps tutorial on how to make glassy button using Adobe Illustrator.

Glass Button – a strait-forward tutorial shows how to make a basic vector glass button in illustrator CS.

Water Texture a relatively quick and simple technique of creating cool water texture using Illustrator’s Effects, Offset Path, Simplify, and bright colors.

Funky Background – is a simple tutorial on how to make one of your own funky background.

Seamless Swirls – a cool tutorial on making swirly a seamless pattern.

Abstract Background – a very simple tutorial on how to make an abstract background in hi-tech style with Illustrator Blend Tool.

Illustration

Wine Glass – a tutorial on how to create an almost realistic object using gradients and layer blends. Besides, you’ll find out how to create glass-like materials with the help of gradients and layers.

Shiny Realistic Hair a simple tutorial that shows how to easily create shiny vector hair. It starts with creating S shapes for constructing natural looking hair. This tutorial is intended for those who possess a basic understanding of Illustrator tools.

Dog Tags – this tutorial explains how to make stylized  vector dog tags with layer blends and gradients.

Grunge Style Skull – a cool tutorial on how to create a grungy skull illustration. You’ll need an image and some freebies from the Web. You’ll learn how to apply this technique to other grungy illustrations.

Vector Wings – a tutorial about how to create really cool detailed wings. You’ll need to find a reference photo of a feather with a good curvature.

Sketchy Hand-Drawn Camera – this tutorial teaches how to create a hand-drawn image on textured paper. This image can be created using both Illustrator and Photoshop.

Realistic Vector Fire – this tutorial reveals the power  and simplicity of Adobe Illustrator. It can be applied to other elements other than, for example, fire.

Hand-Shaped Vine a step-by-step tutorial on making a a fairy-tale inspired magical vine in the shape of hand. This tutorial is aimed at  intermediate to advanced artists.

Glowing Abstract Light – teaches how to create light abstract effect. This technique doesn’t require any raster effects. You’ll use gradient meshes, blends, and different blend modes. You can apply this effect to other illustrations.

Chinese Bamboo -a simple tutorial that shows you how to draw Chinese bamboo using Mesh Tool and Illustrator Symbol Sprayer.

Icons

Vector RSS Icon – a tutorial on creating one of the most recognisable icons on the Internet.

Film Slate Icon an easy tutorial about how to make a vector film slate icon. It utilizes some gradients, basic shapes, and  a blend.

Envelope Icon – a quick tutorial that requires only the basic Illustrator tools such as rectangle, gradient, pathfinder and line.

Camera Lens Icon – a tutorial on creating a natural-looking camera lens. This image can be used as logo, a software icon, or just implemented in any design.

Vector Safari Compass – a detailed tutorial on how to draw up a vector Safari inspired compass with intricate details using Adobe Illustrator.

iMac Graphic – an Adobe Illustrator step-by-step tutorial on creating a vector based icon of Apple iMac computer. It requires the usage of simple shapes and tools.

Logos

Logo Design – reveals the entire process of the logo design creation, from conception to completion.

3D RSS Logo find out how to create a 3D gradient logo just in minutes. This technique can be used for making 3D graphic objects and icons.

3D Logo – a simple tutorials aimed mainly at beginners.

Even if you have never done anything in Photoshop before, you can use these detailed step-by-step tutorials created by professionals with years of experience. Awesome results are guaranteed. We made a hand-picked collection of Photoshop tutorials. For your convenience, we divided them into categories.

Photo Editing

Perfect Skin shows how to remove unflattering marks, blemishes, pimples,or scars by just using several tools.

Facial Retouching shows how to repair image noise from a low-quality photo. Using this technique you can smooth out a person’s face retaining a real and natural look.

How to Create Your Own Clones is a detailed tutorial on how to create your own clones using a digital camera, tripod, and  Adobe Photoshop, of course.

Makeup Makeover shows how to retouch skin, and apply makeup. This tutorial is for all skill levels.

Remove an Object is something Photoshop can’t quite automate. Find out how to do it realistically.

Change Eye-Color – a really easy tutorial on changing the eye color. It works only on iris of light colors such as green or blue.

Make Eye-lashes Thicker – an easy step-by step tutorial on making the look more appealing.

Apply Eye Makeup – an easy tutorial shows how to add eyeliner, eye shadow, and mascara to any model.

Intensify Photography

Image Editing

Old Photo Effect an easy way to create an old photo “sepia tone” look.

Selective Sepia shows how to selectively add a dramatic sepia effect. This effect works with both CS3 and CS2.

Tweaking a Photo a great tutorial that describes how to turn an ordinary photo into an extraordinary. This one is not for beginners.

Movie-like Effect shows how to give your photo a movie-like look using Photoshop.

Photo Transfer Edge shows how to create a cool old photo transfer edge effect. You’ll need an alpha channel and the burn and dodge tools, and a piece of stock photography.

Beautiful Lady Effect shows how to to make a beautiful lady effect combining some brushes and color adjustment.

Aging a Photo – a quick and easy tutorial on adding “age” effect.

Basic Graduated Neutral Density Filter shows how to make a sky more dramatic.

Drawing

Layered Glowing Text Effect shows how to create awesome glowing effect using basic Photoshop tools. Simple even for a beginner. This effect requires a heavy use of computer’s memory.

An Illustration from a Photo create cartoony vector portrait.

Old Comic Book Effect shows how to create a comic book look from your photo. You’ll need several filters and some decorations.

Creating Smoke is the easiest way to create smoke in Photoshop. It will take you not more than 30 minutes.

Magic Lighting Effect shows how to create a light and magic effect. Using this tutorial you can create amazing light effects. The process takes about 35 minutes.

Swirl Mania shows four ways of creating swirls. You’ll learn very powerful techniques that will allow you to easily make different styles of swirls.

Interface Orbs – shows how to create shiny glass element which is so popular for web interfaces.

Grass Text Effect – a great tutorial that shows how to create a cool-looking grass text using Photoshop, a photo of grass, and Pen Tool.

Alien-looking Water is a detailed and very well explained Photoshop tutorial.

Painting Grass – a small tutorial shows the methods of creating grass with Photoshop 5.5.