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Creating Sparkly New Year Text in Photoshop

A beautiful Tutorial and a heartwarming congrats to the world, for the Happy New Year to come. Stay fine, everyone. More »

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Create a Surreal Scene with a Cool Snail that Flies

Learn how to create a surreal mother nature photo manipulation. This Tutorial will show you how to create a completely surreal scene by combining stock photos and blending them seamlessly. You’ll also More »

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How To Design A People & Stars Web Layout

This new Tutorial for Photoshop is useful once again to help you to create a layout for your website. This template is dedicated to websites regarding stars and showbiz. You are now More »

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How to Create a Mysterious Floating Box in a Desolate Land

Create a mysterious floating box in the middle of a desolate land. This though-provoking image can be created using a variety of texture photos and a few Photoshop brushes – and we’ll More »

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Create an Amazing Surreal-Style Treehouse in Photoshop

Create this beautiful treehouse artwork using a combination of photo manipulation and painting techniques. Find out how to easily draw a surreal-looking tree easily using the Brush tool, clouds from scratch, and More »

Quick Tip: Apply a Vintage Effect to Several Images Using Actions

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Have you ever wanted to apply the same effect to several images at once? This is an issue that most designers face at some point in their career. In some situations, you might be able to apply an effect individually one photo at a time. That takes time however, and if you have dozens or even hundreds of images to process, that is simply not possible. The solution is to create an action and apply it using a batch process. In today’s quick tip Tutorial we will demonstrate how to create an action and apply it to several images using Photoshop’s batch process function.

Create a Magic Glowing and Sparkly Wood Scenery

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This is a Tutorial which will help you to create a lovely, magic looking wood full of glowing flowers, golden insects and nice birdie covered in glossy feathers. We’ll make all these creatures from a single source image- stunning picture of Gold Interior taken by Hilleke.

Quick Tip: Pure CSS Text Gradients

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With the latest advancements in CSS, we now have access to powerful styling techniques, including box shadows, rounded corners, background gradients, etc. However, we don’t currently have the ability to apply gradients to the text itself. Luckily, with a bit of trickery, we can force this effect — at least in webkit browsers! I’ll show you how in today’s video quick tip.

How to Create a Social Media UFO Icon

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When we design websites or user interfaces, often times we need to create unique and creative icons. Most websites these days have some sort of social media presence; with a link to their Facebook or Twitter pages prominently displayed on their front pages. With so many sites linking to their social media profiles, it’s not surprising that many sites are simple regurgitating the same icons. In today’s Tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a completely unique UFO inspired social media icon based on a theme. Let’s get started!

Create a Realistic iMac Icon in Photoshop

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There is a lot that you can do in Photoshop with just a few select tools. Today, we will demonstrate how to create a realistic iMac icon in Photoshop that includes a 27-inch screen, a keyboard, and a mouse. Let’s get started!

How to Create a Dynamic 3D Puzzle Effect in Adobe Illustrator

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In the following Tutorial you will learn how to create a nice looking puzzle effect. Using 3D Extrude, Bevel and Map Art options you will learn how to hand craft the individual pieces of the puzzle and arrange it into a dynamic layout.

How to Create a jQuery Bookmarklet

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I suspect many of my readers have written at least one jQuery Plugin / Script. In this post, I’d like to show you how to get the most out of that script by also releasing it as a jQuery Bookmarklet. Below, you’ll find two examples of utilities that are ripe for bookmarkleting, as well as a prepared jQuery Bookmarklet file that you can easily modify for the purpose.

Quick Tip: Getting Offline Access with HTML5 Application Cache

Just when you thought you’d seen all the cool features of HTML5, I’m here to bring you yet another one. The internet is no longer about just websites; it’s about web applications. Often, our users are on portable or mobile devices, and they won’t always have access to a network. With HTML5’s Application Cache, you can provide them with all or some of the functionality they would have online, no matter where they go.

Making a Book of Magical Playground Scene

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This Tutorial will show how to create a fantasy book scene. We will be using various advanced Photoshop techniques to make the composition as realistic as possible.