This tutorial inspired by all the sci-fi movies where radiation glowing circles are pictured in great details; so we are going to make very vibrant, glossy and realistically curved text effect with extremely beautiful and original glow circles, that no other text effect has. We will be working with a lot of Contour settings, so this tutorial is for more advanced users. So, let’s get started. Create a new canvas, we are using 600 x 370 pixels here. Fill it with any background color and for best effect, fill it with background texture. Simply double click the background in Layers Panel, and Layer Style’s menu will pop up. Go to Pattern Overlay mode and fill with, preferably floral, pattern. Here we used Damask pattern which...

To photograph the sunrise is a great challenge. Every photographer has wanted to capture the beauty of a sunrise. There are many tips such as the camera lens, position; angle and lighting that you will need to keep in mind to produce a great picture. Every camera is unique, and each has its own set of requirements to perform while taking a sunrise photograph. You can capture a sunrise with any type of camera but an LCD camera is the preferred choice.  A photographer is able to hold the camera closer which helps to reduce shaking while taking the shot. If the photographer is concerned about shake, he can always use a tripod to eliminate the problem. You will want to take sunrise photos that will highlight the natural colors of the morning...

When the older generation were young, and needed to create a school design or anything that involved cropping letters, we often cropped them first from an old newsprint, before proceeding to work with a colored paper. So this is pretty much what I wanted to create here — a newspapers cropped draft! Let’s begin with making a new canvas and fill it with any solid color, our choice was #2b362b: To give it a bit of depth, while the background is still selected, go to Layer Styles (Layer >> Layer Style >> Gradient Overlay) and apply the following settings.. This will give a lighter spot in the middle of the canvas that normally gives nice depth. Now, find online or scan any newspaper pager. We couldn’t find one...

Typography on a web page is as important as it is in any other medium, it does not matter whether you are typing for packaging, publishing television or signage, and all designers must take into account the medium they are using and the techniques they will use to suit that medium. You want your work to be easily read and be pleasing to the eye. This being said an example is that of an article written in a magazine compared to that of a poster. While a magazine is read at close distance and within arms length, the typeset can be small and still be easily read. Whereas a poster is larger and seen in a more oblique manner, you would want to space the words so they are easily discerned by the viewer. When designing for a webpage there is a...

People are aware of the purpose of a wordpress theme, but what they are not aware of is how to identify a good wordpress theme. This is a prominent problem with majority of the people who require a wordpress theme for their blog. In order to completely achieve the purpose of using a wordpress theme, one has to select the right wordpress theme for one’s blog. In this article, you will know about some essential things that must looked for in a wordpress theme that you are searching to be used in your blog. Flexibility is the essence of a good wordpress theme. This means that once it is installed on your blog, customizing it should not give you any difficulty. If the theme lacks flexibility in usage then it would make it cumbersome...

As we promised about a month ago, we will be releasing more freebies , so here is one small but useful freebie — Photoshop action that makes a very nice vintage effect. This action will not only add washed effect and sepia  tone to your photo, like most standard actions do, it will also fix any dark areas you have on the photo (like the black dress curves you see on our example), will add a few layers on noise, one standard and the other imitates small mild scratches. Moreover, there are a several layers of colorization, which allows our action to output a photo as close as possible to the professional photography of the past decade. We hope you will enjoy this action and please do leave feedback, as always we appreciate any...

As you probably know, today is the famous Valentine’s Day, when all the loving couples celebrate and spend time together, or singles confess about their love. It’s also the Chinese New Year (for those of you who are traditional enough to celebrate), so we decided to gather some resources that will help your design skills to celebrate these merry occasions.. Enjoy the freebies and most important — the day itself! See also 28 Free Cards – Sweet Valentine Greetings & Chinese New Year eCards Free Valentine’s Day Icons: Learn Photoshop…? Happy Valentine’s...