Monthly Roundup – September 08

October 1, 2008 in Articles by Steve Tolley

September has been a crazy month for me, getting prepared for university, trying to maintain this website, starting university and getting stuck in as well as releasing a second website it has all really kept me on my toes, hence the reason for the lack of posts/tutorials over the past week or two, hopefully things are settling down now and I can resume normal posting, roll on october…

Text Quickie – WireFrame 3D Text

September 30, 2008 in Text Effects by Steve Tolley

This is a quick text effect tutorial on how to make a 3D wireframe effect, I will show you the basic principle of how to get the effect and will then leave you to experiment with the other letters,

Best of The Week – 15th To 21st September

September 21, 2008 in Articles by Steve Tolley

As of this week every sunday I am going to produce a ‘Best of The Week’ Selection where I will look through the weeks top Tutorials, Articles and Resources and produce a list of the best ones found, This being my first some feedback in the comments would be appreciated to say whether or not you like the idea,

The ‘Creativity’ Wallpaper

September 18, 2008 in Designing, Website News/Updates by Steve Tolley

This tutorial is possibly one of my favourites as I love the outcome, we are going to create a desktop wallpaper with a bit of a difference, we will use a range of techniques and most importantly we are going to use our imagination and creativity skills,

Advertising on Photoshop Tutorials

September 17, 2008 in Website News/Updates by Steve Tolley

Yes that’s right, Buysellads accepted me into their beta period to try out their advertising scheme, so what’s available I hear you ask, well…

Top Designers and THEIR Inspiration

September 16, 2008 in Articles by Steve Tolley

In the 2nd part of my design inspiration article series I asked 2 TOP Designers/Photoshoppers to let me know what inspires THEM in order to see how they come up with their ideas and what artists, websites, sources etc…they use, here are the answers that I got,

Creating A Retro Grunge Poster

September 12, 2008 in Designing by Steve Tolley

This tutorial is an add on from the Poster article the other day, we will create a Retro/Grunge style poster using the pen tool some textures and playing with text to make it look more retro,

Design Inspiration – Posters

September 10, 2008 in Articles by Steve Tolley

This article will get your desiging juices flowing, Part 1 in a series of design inspiration articles, this one will look at modern and old posters, I have hand picked the ones that I believe are the best at giving you ideas, they have certainly given me some,

Paint Splodge Text

September 9, 2008 in Text Effects by Steve Tolley

This is just a quick text effect tutorial, This will show you how to simply create a paint splodge looking text using blending options and the pen tool it will take only around 5 minutes to complete (Depends how much detail you add).

15 Of The All Time Best Text Effects

September 5, 2008 in Articles, Text Effects by Steve Tolley

This article is rammed full of the 15 BEST text effects around at the minute, it has taken me a while to filter out the best text effects from the not so great ones, even though there are alot of fantastic ones out there they can’t quite compete with the quality of these ones, and yes the majority are from sites such as PSDTuts and Tutorial9 as these do produce tutorials of the highest quality so here we go…

Creating A Grungy Banner

September 4, 2008 in Designing, Web Graphics by Steve Tolley

This tutorial will show you how to create a grungy style banner that can be used on posters or on websites, it is a very simple process and therefore quite a short tutorial but offers techniques which can be used on any project,

Creating A Vector Style MacBook From Scratch

September 1, 2008 in Designing by Steve Tolley

This tutorial is quite a long one, so I would go get a drink now if I were you, OK we are going to make a MacBook Pro in Photoshop using shapes and different blending options, combining these two simple things we get a realistic vector outcome which can be used in many different situations, so…let’s begin,