Archive for November, 2009

Free hot Christmas Collage Layouts

Free Christmas gift workshop - Design incredible photo collage with hot Christmas Collage Layout as Christams gift 2009 for your family and friends. Creative layout will give you good ideas and inspirations for creating fabulous photo collage!

Make a Sketchy Wallpaper for this Christmas

This tutorial will show how we can create a sketchy wallpaper for Christmas this year! We shall cover watercoloring, pencil sketching and some simple lighting effects. It will be good if you are working with a pen and tablet.

Create a wordpress theme in Photoshop - Theme available for download

Create a blog theme design for one of the most popular blogging platform - Wordpress - Theme available for download

Illustrator Tip: How to Remove White Background in Live Trace

A lot of raster images or logos have a white background and most of the time when you live trace, you only need the image with transparent background. So in this tip, I will quickly show how you can easily do away with white background.

Winter Landscape Photography Tips

Winter landscape photography can be both exhilarating and inspiring, but it takes time and practice to get the pictures just right.

How to Create a Metal Piece with a Graved Text on it in Photoshop

In this tutorial I`m gonna show you how to create a piece of metal with a graved text on it.

Along the way I`ll show you how to create effects like Metal Effect,Inner Graved Text Effect or Mirror Reflection Effect in Photoshop.We`ll use two custom elements:a Custom Font and an original Grunge Brush Set.

Check it Out!

Create realistic looking rainbow

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add a realistic looking rainbow to your picture. It’s very easy and simple if you follow all steps from tutorial.

Design a Cute Hamster Avatar in Illustrator

This easy, fun tutorial shows you how to harness pure rodent cuteness with a simple workflow.

Theming WordPress - Part 1

This series will teach you how to create a WordPress theme from scratch. In Part 1, we will create the Photoshop document.

Auto correction tools


Before we get into the manual corrections, we need to show you the different auto correction features in Photoshop. Auto Tone, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color are the areas we will be discussing in this tutorial. You will find most of the time, these 3 tools will improve your image, but most of the time if you manually adjust the settings you will get better results. If you are looking for a quick fix, these tools will do a good job (not a great job) at correcting lighting and enhancing colors. Along the way, we will show you how to even enhance a portion of the Photo!