Tutorial Blog

Make a Freezing Cold Snow-themed Abstract Piece

Tutorial Blog — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:36:33 +0000

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a snow-themed large piece. You’ll learn how to plan the composition of the piece, to add elements into the composition, how to recycle the piece itself to generate more elements for the piece, how to incorporate pentools into a design and finally how to finish off and fine tune the piece to make it look great.

Display Data With Funky Animated Needle Gauges

Tutorial Blog — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:49:40 +0000

Creating appealing data visualization has always been one of Flash’s key features. It allows you to achieve eye candy results with real dynamic data; be it in a preloader, a game, or an office presentation.

This simple tutorial will show you how to build a needle gauge meter. You’ll learn how to apply a “gloss” effect, communicate with XML, and apply a tween engine to rotations.

Create an Abstract, Textured Artwork in Illustrator

Tutorial Blog — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:47:21 +0000

Ever wondered how to create a textured, abstract piece of art only using Illustrator. Well, here your challenge is to learn how to do it! We’ll be using mostly the Blend Tool, Paintbrush Tool and textures to enhance the image. A basic understanding of each and every tool is advised.

How to Design a Website with Fireworks: New Plus Tutorial

Tutorial Blog — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:43:51 +0000

In this week’s plus video tutorial, we’ll teach you how to design a home page for a website using Adobe Fireworks CS4. Over the course of the video, you’ll learn numerous tips and tricks to accomplish the final design, including how to work with a grid. Help give back to Nettuts+, and join Plus!

How to create 3D Love text composition

Tutorial Blog — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:42:23 +0000

In this tutorial, I will show you how to make a stunning 3D text effect using different textures to give it a unique look with Xsara3D & Photoshop.

Manipulate Visual Effects With the ColorMatrixFilter and ConvolutionFilter

Tutorial Blog — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:00:33 +0000

The ColorMatrixFilter and ConvolutionFilter can be used to visually transform your Flash objects. In this article, I’ll show you how easy they are to manipulate, using a cool tool I built for simple experimentation.

Quick Tip: Private Variables in JavaScript

Tutorial Blog — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:23:35 +0000

Because of JavaScript’s dependence upon globals, it might be easy to forget that creating private variables can be accomplished quite simply, thanks to closures. In just a few minutes, I’ll demonstrate two common techniques which allow for private variables and methods in your projects.

Quick Tip: Rapid Vector Portrait Process

Tutorial Blog — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:21:09 +0000

This Quick Tip tutorial will guide you through the process of making a vector portrait rapidly. A picture will be used as a guide for black and gray paths. We’ll review some shortcuts that will allow you to achieve good quality results with few steps and minimum fuss

Create an Image Rotator in Flash Using XML and ActionScript 3.0

Tutorial Blog — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:12:18 +0000

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a simple Image Rotator from scratch using Flash, XML and ActionScript 3.0.

Flip, Rotate and Mirror Designs and Patterns in Photoshop

Tutorial Blog — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:07:42 +0000

In a previous Photoshop photo effects tutorial, we learned how to create a simple mirror effect with an image by flipping the right side of the photo horizontally to create a reflection of the left side. In this tutorial, we’ll take the same general idea and go much further with it, creating interesting effects, designs and patterns by doing nothing more than flipping, rotating and mirroring the same image over and over again! We’ll also experiment with Photoshop’s layer blend modes to see how different blend modes can dramatically change our results!