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  • A Basic Guide to Photoshop’s 3D Tools

    October 3, 2011

    From opening a 3D file to rotating, scaling and moving it, working with meshes, creating textures or even materials, adding lights, and more, this tutorial covers most of the secrets of the useful feature 3D Tools of Photoshop CS4 Extended. If you have it, why don’t you try? I can assure you that you will…

  • Photoshop Brush Tool: A Basic Guide

    October 2, 2011

    This time I’ve got for you a really basic guide, which is useful for beginners and people interested in learning a little bit more deeply the power of Photoshop’s Brush Tool. Every single Photoshop user has dealt with the brush tool at least once, but not everyone knows how to explode its full potential. In…

  • Create a Floating Over-Grown “Tree House” in Photoshop

    October 1, 2011

    hotoshop is great because it allows us to create scenes that wouldn’t otherwise be possible in real life. In this tutorial we will combine several stock images to create a floating over-grown tree house in Photoshop. View Tutorial

  • Create Animal Textured Typography

    September 30, 2011

    In this tutorial we are going to create fun, realistic, animal textured, 3D typography in Photoshop using CS5′s Repousse tool. Let’s get started! View Tutorial

  • How to Turn Humdrum Photos Into Cinematic Portraits

    September 29, 2011

    There are a plethora of ways to treat a portrait, for a myriad of uses, but that is for another feature. Let’s tackle adding drama or a cinematic quality to a regular, humdrum portrait. Let’s even throw in a little bit of faking HDR. That way if you work on a project that requires a…

  • Create a Stormy, Electric Type Reveal

    September 28, 2011

    This tutorial gives a different twist on how to use the powerful form plugin. Learn how to use it to create a mysterious and electric type reveal. View tutorial

  • Create a Breakup into Particles Logo Transition

    September 27, 2011

    A very popular request is how to make a logo breakup into particles and reform into another logo. There’s many ways to achieve this and most of them require a full 3D application, but in this tutorial we learn how to achieve it all in After Effects using a 3D particle systems and a few…

  • 24 JavaScript Best Practices for Beginners

    September 26, 2011

    As a follow-up to “30 HTML and CSS Best Practices”, this week, we’ll review JavaScript! Once you’ve reviewed the list, be sure to let us know what little tips you’ve come across! View Tutorial

  • Quick Tip: How to Communicate Between Flash and JavaScript

    September 25, 2011

    In this Quick Tip, we’ll look at how to use the ExternalInterface class. This allows us to write AS3 which can run JavaScript code, and vice-versa. That means you can use Flash to alter parts of the webpage in which it’s running! View Tutorial

  • Quick Tip: Resizing SWFs using BrowserCanvas

    September 24, 2011

    Have you ever needed to resize your embedded SWF based on the user interaction/input, like how Newgrounds allows you to resize certain Flash games to fit the screen? This can be done using JavaScript and the ExternalInterface class in ActionScript. But what if you don’t know JavaScript at all? Well, lucky for you there’s this…