Create a Vectorized Folder Icon – Illustrator Tutorial Check out this nice little tutorial on creating a fully vector, shiny, folder icon using Adobe Illustrator CS4. This tutorial is compatible with older versions of Adobe Illustrator as well. We will talk about using gradients and subtle shadows to create the illusion of depth in an...
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 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!
How To Create a Clock & Calendar – Actionscript 3.0 Hang around and create this nice little date and time clock/calendar using Actionscript 3.0! We will cover grabbing the correct time from the user’s computer and punching that info into dynamic text fields. This tutorial should be pretty easy to follow so spend a few...
How To Style Tags With CSS – Dreamweaver Tutorial Learn all about styling tags and how to write CSS code in Dreamweaver. By the end of this tutorial you will have a good understanding of how to write CSS, how CSS works, and how you can write your CSS code in Dreamweaver.
Create a Perfect Gel Button With Letter Press Text – Photoshop Tutorial We start with a simple blurred color background and step-by-step create a perfect gel button. The beauty of this button is that it is entirely Layer Styles so it is an effect that can easily be transferred to other shapes or other buttons....
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 Growing and Expanding Vines & Flourishes – Flash CS4 Tutorial In this tutorial we will use Flash to create the oh-so popular growing vines animation look. We will do it in two different ways; first, we will do a quick masked shape and shape tween under the mask after that we will do it...
Create a Spry Collapsible Panel – Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorial In this tutorial we will learn about a very cool widget in Dreamweaver CS4 that will allow you to create a very cool and easy to edit Collapsible Panel which basically allows a user to click and tab and a content box drops down below it...
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 a Cool 3D Ice Effect – Photoshop Tutorial Another tutorial taken right from the August September Tutvid newsletter. Here we go ahead and work with Photoshop CS4 Extended, specifically the 3D construction and editing engine. We will create a cool abstract 3D shape which is different every time you make it and we then...
Create a Drag-able Mask with Actionscript 3.0 Here we have a tutorial taken from the Tutvid.com July August newsletter. We will use Flash and Actionscript 3.0 to create a mask that can be dragged around to reveal an image underneath. Very cool, very easy, and very easy to edit as well.