A lot of designers are going out of their way to create something special in the CSS of the wordpress theme that will make an impact. But the fact remains, no CSS trick will ever compete with what Photoshop (or Illustrator) can provide in web layout, especially in such a competitive area like wordpress themes. [...]
This tutorial will teach you how to create a stylish and eye-catchy Surfing Fashion Label Tag. As I live in a country where surfing is quite popular, I can confidently assure you that surfing fashion is different from other fashion brands, you will never mix a surfing fashion store with any other, both by color [...]
There are quite a few trends in web design right now. Some still use a lot of twirly flowerly ornaments, others, following the trends dictated by psdtuts.com and abduzeedo.com have proceeded to glowing lines and starry psychedelic effects but the problem remains with creating the shape in the first place. While some designers, like myself, [...]
Most people don’t use Photoshop to its fullest capabilities. Here are just ten uses to which you could put this highly versatile software. Even a simple domestic use of Photoshop in your leisure time can do wonders, and let’s see how.. 1. Restoring Old Photographs. Have a look through that old family photo album – [...]
This tutorial was originally posted on loreleiweb.com but due to technical reasons moved to pswish.com. The tutorial remains a copyright property of Lorelei (me!) The requests for Fantasy Art tutorials are enormous, I still get emails and Pms from people asking to do more Fantasy Art tuts, so here is one more, called “Plasma” (Star, [...]
This is yet another very small freebie made in Photoshop in less than 10 minutes, but I am sure the outcome will be used on hundreds of blogs! All I did was drawing a circle, applied styles I previously posted and added a bit of a gloss. That’s all. The feed shape itself was a [...]
We are going to create a very cute, fluffy, marshmallow-like text effect. This is an ultra easy tutorial for newbies and of course you can implement the same technique for shapes and elements in your web design. PSD file is available to download for learning purposes. So this is what we are going to do [...]
This tutorial was originally published on loreleiweb.com and moved over here for technical reasons. Again a very easy and basic tutorial that doesn’t require much knowledge and experience with photoshop. Create a new layer, dark brown or any hue. Select the typing tool and type any word / letter on it. I have chosen to [...]
There are so many tutorials and guides online that teach you how to make effective use of the web 2.0 design. While most these tutorials are useful, at the same time they kill the originality in web design. For example, most “guides” tell you that web 2.0 is about having a glossy badge, stripes background, [...]
After the successful release of “Precious Heart” on my other blog, I decided to make a sister icon with a clover leaf. When I was in Prague last time I saw such an impressive variety of Swarovsky glass and it inspired me to make a graphic with similar structure, deep and subtly sparkling. Anyway, the [...]
