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Design a Stylish Mail Icon in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a glossy mail icon that can be used for your apps or websites.

How to Create an Abstract Vector Design in Illustrator

by Cris Spooner
A great looking abstract design can be created from the simplest of shapes. Let’s take a look at compiling various geometric shapes and objects to form a dynamic composition in Illustrator, then polishing it all up with some transparency effects to create a trendy vector illustration.

Create a Five-color Magazine Cover using a Spot Metallic

by Mark Mayers

This is an advanced tutorial commissioned especially for Graphic Design Week. I’ll demonstrate how to integrate a spot-color metallic ink into your workflow using InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat Professional. Let's get to it!

Tileable Fabric Photoshop Pattern Set

by WebTreats ETC

Format: .PAT (Photoshop Pattern Set)
Size:512px by 1024px
License: Free for personal and commercial use - no attribution required

Abstract typographic art

Create amazing type-based elements in Illustrator and rough them up in Photoshop, with brilliant techniques from Mike Harrison.

Tire Textures

Guns and Bullets Brushes

Squirrel Love Spirograph

by Joe Guy Allard

File Type: EPS
License: Creative Commons

Create a Rain Effect in Flash Using ActionScript 3.0

by Carlos Yanez

In this tutorial we'll create a dynamic rain effect using ActionScript 3.0. The effect can be customized in many ways by just changing a few lines of code. Let's get started!

How to Create a Landscape Wallpaper for your Desktop

by Brent Nelson
Want to spruce up your desktop and at the same time impress your friends? Why not create a vector landscape wallpaper? In this simple tutorial, you will learn how to create an eye-appealing wallpaper quickly and effectively. Let's get to it!

5 Free Vintage Wallpaper Textures

This is a set of textures I've wanted to do for a long, long time. Unfortunately I don't have access to any cool, old wallpaper around here...so I just had to make my own.

Colorful Spirograph Poster

by Ross

In this great tutorial we will be learning how to create a spirograph effect in Photoshop, yep that thing that you played with when your a kid that made you feel artistic. Then we’ll be using the effect to create a very stylish poster design with some smart typography and wait for it… rainbow gradients! So give it a try and I’m sure you’ll learn a bit.

Cloudy Text

by Fabio Sasso

Following our Quick Tips series, in this tutorial I will show you how to create a text with clouds, using brushes and other few interesting light effects.

How to Make a Detailed 3D Vector Tire in Illustrator

by Nuruzzaman Sheikh

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a vector tire with very easy tools and techniques. The important and trickier part of this tutorial is the tire stripes, but we'll solve this simply and we'll give it a great final look. The tutorial instruction is provided in Adobe Illustrator CS3.

How to convert a photoshop mockup to xhtml / css

Follow this walkthrough of coding up a graphical website layout into valid, standards compliant XHTML and CSS. Starting with the initial process of exporting the individual images from the Photoshop document through to building the complete page.

Create a Game layout - Clan Layout

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a nice looking game layout, or a clan layout.
If you love playing games and if you want to create a clan website together with your friends, then follow my tutorial and you will see how you can create a website like that.

How to Create a Sparkling Fantasy Photo Manipulation

by Oliver Cereto

In this tutorial, we're going to create a photo manipulation using different techniques. We'll be adjusting each layer and element to make a compact final image. We'll be using multiple photos and a handful of effects to create this work.

Assemble a Nifty Twitter Widget using Flash and the Twitter API

by Shane Johnson

Flash will work neatly in combination with the Twitter API to create a Twitter widget for any webpage. Follow Shane Johnson (@ultravisual) as he demonstrates building an interface, pulling in specific XML data and tackling cross-domain policy issues..

Metal Texture Pack