Tutorial Blog

Quick Tip: How to Create a Love Heart Greeting Card for Valentine’s Day

January 26, 2012 Tutorial Blog No comments

On Valentine’s Day, a holiday of people who are in love, everyone gives greeting cards to each other. This day is a good opportunity to show your feelings with an unusual gift. I’ll tell you how to create a vector-card for this holiday of love. This artwork was created by my student Eugene Nikandrov.

Make a Tower Defense Game in AS3: Aim and Fire

January 26, 2012 Tutorial Blog No comments

Hey Flash developers! In this Tutorial series we are going to go through the process of developing a very basic Tower Defense game. In this first part of the series, we’ll learn how to deploy turrets on the game field, give them the ability to aim at an object (in this case, the mouse) and make them fire particles.

Create a Medieval Battle Axe in Photoshop

January 26, 2012 Tutorial Blog No comments

Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This Tutorial is part of a 25-part video Tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak will begin by teaching you how to draw in Photoshop. At the conclusion of this series you will know all you need to produce your own concept art and matte paintings in Photoshop.

Quick Tip: How to Create a Simple Price Tag Icon

January 23, 2012 Tutorial Blog No comments

In the following quick tip you will learn how to create a simple price tag icon. It’s another Tutorial that focuses mainly on the Appearance panel. First, you will need some basic tools and shape building techniques to create the starting shape. Next, using the power of the Appearance panel and a nice, free font along with some basic effects and techniques you will create you own price tag icon. Let’s get started.

An Introduction to the HTML5 Gamepad API

January 23, 2012 Tutorial Blog No comments

As HTML games begin to gradually increase in popularity, vendors are starting to introduce some exciting new APIs to make gaming that little bit sweeter for both us developers and our end players. One of these is the GamepadAPI, which allows you to connect your good old console gamepad into your computer and use it for browser based games, plug and play style. Let’s dive in!

Photo Manipulate a Cute Flying Pig Scene

January 17, 2012 Tutorial Blog No comments

In Tutorial, how to create Photo Manipulate a Cute Flying Pig Scene

Quick Tip: How to Create a Mosaic Text Effect

January 17, 2012 Tutorial Blog No comments

In the following quick tip you will learn how to create a Mosaic text effect. It all start with the background. A simple rectangle filled with a flat color, a radial gradient plus a Film Grain effect. For the text you will use a nice, free font. After you expand it you will add the final colors and some basic effect. Give it a try and you might learn some new tricks about Illustrator’s 3D options. The final effect is easily edited so you can add your favorite colors or effects.

Highly Customizble Minimit Gallery jQuery Plugin

January 17, 2012 Tutorial Blog No comments

Minimit Gallery is a highly customizable Jquery plugin that does galleries, slideshows, carousels, slides… pratically everything that has multiple states.

Using Minimit Gallery you have more time to focus on the ideation and the dynamics of your interface, all the logic functionality instead is managed by the plugin. It’s designed for advanced Javascript/Jquery programmers because you need to code all the animations and the css of the gallery. It has been tested on IE7+, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.