Photoshop Tut, OS X Effect

recreating the os x wallpaper eye candy

Making a Message Strip in Photoshop

A Tutorial on how to make a message strip using Photoshop
by Collis
In this tutorial we’re going to make a little message strip in Photoshop that you can place in the top right corner of a design. These little strips look very trendy and web2-y, particularly in web designs! It’s quite an easy effect to do [...]

Create Monster Character in Illustrator – Flying Bat Ghost

A tutorial on how to make a simple character using Adobe Illustrator
by spoon

I’m in a monster character illustration mood this month, after the creation of Frankenspoon I thought it would be cool to create a mini-series of tutorials on how to create a set of simple monster characters. Hopefully these will be easy [...]

Photoshop Explosion Effect

A Photoshop (and Illustrator) Explosion Effect Tutorial
by Fabio
What We’re Making
You can download the original image I used on this project at www.sxc.hu.

Step 1
Create a new document, it can be any size, I used 800×600px. Fill the background layer with black. After that place your photo in the center of the document.

Step 2
Select the [...]