Tutorial Details Program: Fireworks CS4 Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 1 hour Benefits of Wireframing There are numerous benefits to creating wireframes as a separate stage in your website design process. Here are some of them: Wireframes are excellent for creating layouts, planning functionality, and organizing the information of your website. Wireframes allow you to explore numerous positioning, functional options, and how elements will work together on the page (or between pages) rapidly. Wireframes help [...]

This tutorial will show you how to effectively create the iTunes icon found on all iPhones and iPod Touches. This tutorial will walk you through the various filters and layer styles needed to create this very sleek icon. Step 1 First, open up a new document – 125 x 125 pixels at a resolution of 72 DPI. Fill your canvas with black. Step 2 On a new layer, grab the rounded rectangle tool. With the [...]

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Understanding the fundamental process of creating an icon in Photoshop can become a valuable skill to learn. Today we will be creating a chalkboard icon inspired the Icon Resource website by Sebastiaan de With, whom has given permission to make a tutorial inspired by his work. In this tutorial you will learn some important concepts as well as how to work with some third-party apps. Step 1 Create a [...]

I recently spotted an iPhone ad which inspired me to write this tutorial. It is a gift ribbon, consisting of various app icons, wrapped around an iPhone. This effect can be easily achieved with Photoshop Warp transform tool. If celebration times are around the corner and I hope you may find this tutorial useful for upcoming projects. Preview of The Final Image 1. Download The Source Files Download the zip file which includes the iPhone [...]

Original Source : http://csscreme.com/tutorials/photoshop-tutorials/avatar_photoshop_tutorial With this tutorial you can easily transform yourself into a Na’vi. I used Photoshop CS3 to transform to Jake. I hope you will like this Avatar movie tutorial. Step 1 – Creating Na’vi’s nose Import a photograph of your choice, just make sure that size is relatively large. Also, make sure that the person on the photograph is well lit (but not over lit) perhaps taken with flash, so that enough [...]

In this tutorial, you’ll learn to design a romantic Valentine’s Day card from scratch in Photoshop. Here is a simple tutorial for beginners in the spirit of Valentine’s Day which will explain how to use Pen Tool, Custom Shape and Layer Style to create a romantic card in Photoshop. Let’s get started! Final Image Preview Create a new document (File>New) in Adobe Photoshop with the size 1920px by 1200px (RGB color mode) at a resolution [...]