Monthly Archive for August, 2007

Smooth Mac-like Backgrounds in Photoshop

This tutorial is about making a “mac” style background. You can use these in all sorts of situations, including the obvious – your desktop as well as part of your designs or for corporate work (powerpoint presentations, flash work etc).

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Transparent Glass Lettering in Photoshop

“In this tutorial we’re going to use some super layer effects and a bit of extra magic to make a lettering style that looks transparent and stunning. Because there is so much use of layer styles you need to download the sample PSD from the link on the right to follow along.”

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To all good things?

So this site is coming up on two years now and as many of you may have noticed in the past year, I’m not nearly posting the level of content as I once was. My job keeps me very busy and I hardly have time to relax, let alone blog about all things creative.

I told myself, I’d give the blog the two years and see where it is then. So if there are any of you out there that would like to see this blog continue, now is the time to tell me. I’m seriously thinking of pulling the plug on it in the next month or so.

Please let me know what you think.

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Numbering tickets (stickers) with InDesign CS3

Numbering tickets (stickers) with InDesign CS3. Serializing made easy. (Via creativebit.)

The 11 Best Movie-Effect Photoshop Tutorials

11 of the best tutorials that make your photos look like the movies. From Scarface to Pirates of the Carribean to ‘300′ to A Scanner Darkly. It’s all here.

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Creating light motion trails & glowing sparks

Creating light motion trails & glowing sparks. (Via Veerle’s blog.)

Why Flash Sucks

The Adobe Flash Player is a multimedia application created by Macromedia (now a division of Adobe Systems). If you ’re reading this website, you probably know all of this. What you might not know is that Flash sucks. It is the bane of the Internet, and it needs to go away.

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