How To Create Smooth Fire Sound Wave – Photoshop CS5 Tutorial We’re going to start with a blank Photoshop document and walk through everything you need to know to build this smooth-looking fire/sound wave color effect. While building this effect we will cover a number of different effects and techniques which can be used in...
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Create Messy Type-Based Poster Artwork – Photoshop Tutorial
Create Messy Type-Based Poster Artwork – Photoshop Tutorial In this video tutorial we will take a look at creating a poster with a bunch of different color and text effects on it as well as implementing some cool textures which are available for download online. Go ahead and grab a few textures for yourself from...
Create Realistic Neon Tube Effect – Photoshop Tutorial
Create Realistic Neon Tube Effect – Photoshop Tutorial In this tutorial we are going to create some really awesome looking neon tube text from scratch. We will use a simple photography as our background and change the mood or “feeling” of the image and create some great glowing neon coming out of the wall. Learn...
Create 3D Light Zips – Illustrator Tutorial
Create 3D Light Zips – Illustrator Tutorial I’m sure you have seen them, but maybe did not know how they were made. Today we take a look at those cool glowing, color changing, fading, bright, neon-like, fanning spread of glowing colors. Not really sure what you want to call them, but I am going to...
Create a Colorful Aurura Effect – Photoshop CS4
Create a Colorful Aurura Effect – Photoshop CS4 Sit back and enjoy this tutorial on creating a streaky colored Aurura effect with a wispy smokey effect smudged on top as well. Learn about the techniques used to create those glowing vibrant color effects that you see so often in web design these days!
Streaking Special Effect Explosive Color Swath – Photoshop Tutorial
Streaking Special Effect Explosive Color Swath – Photoshop Tutorial Be sure to follow along with this quick tutorial because every time you do it you will get something different, sometimes the results will be awesome, other times not so awesome, but any way you slice it you will get some cool artwork. We will talk...
Create a Warm & Grungy Background – Photoshop Tutorial
Create a Warm & Grungy Background – Photoshop Tutorial Here we have a great tutorial on creating a textured grunge style background for web and photo use and even create a little place-holder for images form scratch. We will talk about applying texture to colored layers, a little dodging and burning, Smart Objects, Custom Brushes,...
Create the Twilight Text – Photoshop Effect Tutorial
Create the Twilight Text – Photoshop Effect Tutorial Here we go again creating a cool effect in Photoshop. This tutorial was originally written for the July-August Tutvid.com Newsletter and finally I am getting it uploaded! We cover creating text and converting that to paths and editing those paths to create a custom typeface. We also...
Streaking Athlete Motion Color Effect – Photoshop CS4
Streaking Athlete Motion Color Effect – Photoshop CS4 Starting with a simple stock photograph we will transform this image into a very cool composition combining 3D motion type streaking colors to imply motion and some cool brushing here in Photoshop to create this very cool image effect. Learn about lots of cool features in Photoshop...
iPhone Slide To Unlock – Flash Actionscript 3.0 Tutorial
iPhone Slide To Unlock – Flash Actionscript 3.0 Tutorial In this video we will use Flash to take this iPhone look-alilke and make that little slide to unlock slider actually work. When you click and drag it across it will enter the icon interface of the virtual iPhone. This is a cool technique you can...
Create a Vector Metal Metallic Text Effect – Illustrator Tutorial
Create a Vector Metal Metallic Text Effect – Illustrator Tutorial We are using Illustrator CS3, although CS2 should work fine as well with this video, to create some metal text that is fully vector. We will apply various strokes, expand strokes, work with effects, groups, and gradients and more!
Learn How To Mask – Illustrator Tutorial
Learn How To Mask – Illustrator Tutorial Learn all about masking and create two effects in this tutorial! Create a simple Reflection effect and also create a “Techy” effect. Both are very easy to replicate with some simple masking techniques. Have fun!