This tutorial creates a website whose
buttons are islands that sink beneath the
waves. 1Sep
This tutorial goes through
the steps to creating a website featuring a beautiful skyline above a
grassy field. 24Aug
Create a scorched parchment texture, for a
website or wedding invitation.
7Aug
This tutorial demonstrates how to give a
button that pressed-down look, while the
mouse cursor is over it.
31Jul
By using a few gradients, and applying the
Wave filter, it's possible to make this
simple website layout.
24Jul
This tutorial goes through the steps to
creating a swirly, glittery website layout.
24Jul
This
is the transcript of an interview I did recently, posted here due to
requests from visitors. Please enjoy my very opinionated responses. :)
7Mar
Explanation of
screen resolution issues, and two different solutions for solving page
width problems.
This tutorial
demonstrates how to create a website with a
very nice, sparkling, sepia effect.
Follow along with the
steps I took to create the website for the "Slime Factory". This
website mixes metallic textures with gelatinous substances.
Part 1 -
Part 2
Answers to the most
common questions I'm asked about Photoshop, web design, and other
topics, such as web hosting.
This new template
has a nice wooden texture, and soft yellow highlights. You can
buy cheap website templates on the templates page.
This tutorial goes
through the steps of making a simple,
two-colour menu for a website in Photoshop.
This tutorial
demonstrates goes through all the steps of how
to make a website with a realistic tiger skin
texture in Photoshop.
A new website template is now
available for download. The Crimson Shadow template features a
dark red swirling texture, and a marble menu bar. The template
has been designed to be easily editable by the user. Just
download the template, edit it, and upload it to your web
hosting provider.
By popular demand... another complete
website tutorial. If you'd like to design a site that's a bit more
elegant than the standard business web design style, open
Photoshop and follow along with this tutorial.
Part 1 -
Part 2
If you're one of the many people who
are setting up, or about to setup, their first website, here's
some important information that will help you get started. Domain
names to buy, web hosting, keywords, and more.
A lot of websites look
cheap because the designer has tried too hard to make
the graphics look good, without knowing what they're doing. If
they just hadn't tried as hard, the site would have looked a
whole lot better.
This tutorial shows how to use
Gradient Overlays and the Gloss Contour option to change your
buttons and menus from play-dough to realistic silver and gold.
Just being able to do the job well
is not good enough. With the right business proposal, you have
an excellent chance of winning a contract, even when it's just
you, competing against a large firm.
By popular demand... Ever wanted to
learn how to use Adobe Photoshop, but had no idea where to
start? These thirty-minute Photoshop tutorials tell you only the
things you really need to know to get started.
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Part 3 -
Part 4
How to improve your link popularity
and your site's Google Page Rank. Implement your own link
exchange program, and find the best places to get inbound links.
A new website template has been
added for purchase. The Overgrowth template is straightforward, and has a
nice, viny, flowery theme.
Welcome to a world of sans-serif
fonts, monocoloured areas, objects that don't cast shadows,
colours that don't contrast, and text saved as picture files. :)
The most important graphical element
of any website is its header image. It's the image that will be
seen more than any other on your web site, so it's important to
get it looking good.
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Part 3
Ever put text over a picture and found
that you just can't get it to be readable, because you can't get
it to contrast with the multicoloured background? Try this.
Having your company logo design done
by a professional is usually not cheap. Why not use Adobe
Photoshop to create your company logo yourself?
With many web page backgrounds, the
tiling lines are very visible. This tutorial shows how to use the
Shear tool to create a line-less web page background.
The Nightfall website template
has been added to the Website Templates section. Once purchased,
you can then upload it to wherever your web hosting is.
This new addition to the Photoshop
tutorials section goes through the steps to making the various
layers of a nice gold-coloured web button.
Part 1 -
Part 2
Ever tried to make a realistic wood
texture in Adobe Photoshop? Here's how to make a wood texture for
your web design projects that looks a whole lot better than Adobe
Photoshop's sawmill wood texture.
In graphic design, as in nature,
things look real because of two factors - lighting and randomness.
Learn how to create both, and some nice wallpaper, using Adobe
Photoshop's Noise Gradient tool.
Tutorial added to Photoshop tutorials
section. This tutorial shows how to easily cut out the foreground
of an image, without leaving an outline or any jaggy edges.
A new
website template has been posted. Sandstone Forest was created in
Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and uses natural colours. It comes complete
with rollover buttons, and at $10, is rather cheap.
There's a new addition
to the web design tutorials section. Follow the steps I took in
Adobe Photoshop to create the fictitious "Piglet Factory" website.
Ever get lost on a
site? Over-complicated navigation structures are everywhere.
Here's how to avoid making your site a labyrinth of links.
I've created a new
Adobe Photoshop tutorial, on how to make realistic-looking
nebulae. They're ideal for use as desktop backgrounds.
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