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Posted on | August 24, 2008 |

• 45 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Wallpaper : One of the best ways to experiment and try new things with Photoshop is to create wallpaper. The huge canvas size will give you plenty of room to try anything you want, and there really is no limit to what you can create. Here are 45 tutorials that can help you to learn new tricks while designing wallpaper.

• Web Design Ideas - 12 Ways To Improve Your Websites Design : There are lots of ways to improve your sites web design but sometimes you need help thinking of new ideas. So we have collected a list of creative ideas to help you come up with ideas for your designs.

• Photoshop Text Effects Round-Up: 51 Text Effect Tutorials Every Designer Should See : Text and the way it looks is a major part of any design. A great design can be cheapened if the text on the page looks wrong. Any logo is almost entirely text. From water to fire, these 51 tutorials will show you how to create any style of text you want.

• Grunge City Collage Backgrounds- Free : Salutations fellow designers- today’s free graphic design resource is a collection of grunge city collages that can be used to graphically enrich any print or website background.  These five city collages are textured with a desaturated overtone to accentuate that urban city/industrial look. This free graphic design collection contains a total of five high resolution jpeg images- copyright free art that can be used on any personal or commercial work.

• How to Make Cool Icon Set : The one having a website is always concerned by the question “How can I possibly make my website look better?” One of the ways to refresh a website without making big and significant changes is to re-design the icons on you web-page. On templates.com you can possibly find the icon sets you may need. This tutorial will be describing actually how to make cool icon sets. I will show you how to draw an icon, and then we will draw other icons basing on the one we already draw.

• Create a Stylized Semi-Realistic Wine Glass : In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to create a semi-realistic object with gradients and layer blends. Also, we’ll learn more about the Blend Tool and how to create glass-like material with gradients and layers.

• Create a Ghostly Effect in Photoshop :  This tutorial will teach you a couple of techniques I use to create ghostly effect as those you have seen in The Suicide (second row, first image) or in Exodus of the Birds.  In order to follow this tutorial you need to have basic knowledge of Photoshop (working with layers, using the tools, etc.). I am using Photoshop CS3 and a tablet, but you can achieve the same results using a mouse and some older versions of Photoshop as well.

• Chuck Anderson Style Light effects in Photoshop : If you have not seen Chuck Andersons work then you really need to head over to nopattern.com and check it out. His unique style vision for design is amazing and inspiring. This tutorial goes some way to deconstructing one of his designs. This may not be the exact same way that he creates his designs but it will give you enough information to start playing around with your own images.

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