October, 2007

Create A Leopard ‘X’ in Photoshop

With the recent release of Mac OS X Leopard, I’ve decided to create a tutorial where you can create your own ‘X’. This tutorial is a great exercise in using the dodge and burn tool as well as working with selections.

Add Focus To Your Photo & Grab Attention

This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to take a photo that has great potential and turn it into one that will stop people dead in their tracks and have them gazing at the photo. First off, I got this incredible photo of the puppy free off Flickr. This particular photographer ny156uk has some great photos for commercial use. You can find more free photos for commercial use on Flickr by doing an advanced search.

Create SEO friendly Text Images Headers

In designing Tutorial Dog, I had the logo as an image with the text included, but I want to have the words “Tutorial Dog” in the HTML with the h1 tag (ie. Tutorial Dog). Why would you want the h1 tag with text instead of an image?

15 of The Best OS X Icon Sites

I really like the OS X Icon scene out there. There are some really unique and original art out there that are made from icons. Today, I’ve highlighted some of the best OS X icons out there (in no particular order). All the artwork are credited to their respective owners. These site offer free icons to download so you can use these on your computer and enjoy!

A Guide To Exporting to The Web in Photoshop

While it may be overlooked with high bandwidth connections becoming ever so common, it still is important to optimize an image. If you visitors can’t load your web site quickly, they will leave because it is easy to find another website to look at. Reduce image sizes to the size it will appear at on the web page!

Photoshop Banner

This tutorial will show you how to create a banner graphic banner in the same vein of medieval graphics. For this tutorial you will need Adobe Phothoshop CS or better. The tool we will use are the pen, text and shape tools. This tutorial will test your pen tool skills and ability to play around with shapes and layer styles.

Photoshop Text Ticker

I saw on CNN of all places a cool ticker graphic which I would like to show you how to create. This graphic is a great exercise in patterns and the motion filter. This tutorial will have you exploring Photoshop up close pixel by pixel to get the results.