This tutorial will cover a lot of ground (that may or may not be a bad play on words :) ). We will use both Illustrator and Photoshop to create a cool winter background. The focus will be showing you how to create custom patterns in Illustrator and custom brushes from these patterns in Photoshop. I think you’ll find a lot of these techniques very useful.

In this tutorial I want to detail how to create text along a path in an interesting way and apply it to a common application. Although the circular logo has been used forever, it can still be effective if done well, while mixing in some modern design. In this case, we are going to use some vector art, then grunge it up.

Illustrator is an amazing tool for building scalable vector art. With the sudden icon craze, it is ideal for creating these little doodads. Many of them are shiny, glossy, icons, but I must admit that I sometimes get tired of them. I’ve decided to see what you can do with texture within Illustrator. The results of this experimentation are summed up in this tutorial

I’m thrilled to announce this is my second tutorial that is a direct result of someone using the Community Suggestion Box. Big typography is a bit of a vague and challenging subject to write about, however it has always inspired me, so making a tutorial on this subject was something that I welcomed with open arms.

It’s very common these days to see swirls and flourishes within graphic design. You can use brushes or vectors to achieve this look, but if you want to customize your own you’ll have to dig in and spend some time creating them. This tutorial will cover some of the techniques you can use to create your own beautiful swirls and flourishes.

I’ve recently decided to dive head first into the world of vector art using Adobe Illustrator. This tutorial is the result of that experimentation. We will go through the steps necessary to create a typical web icon. In this case, a pretty nifty coffee mug.

This is part 2 of a 3 part series on designing and coding a website header and navigation. In this tutorial, we will take the graphic we created in part 1 and save the images so we can use them when we code the site in part 3.

This is the first of a three part series on the basics of how to create a website header and navigation using Photoshop and Dreamweaver. In this part we will be designing our fictional company’s header in Photoshop.

It’s quite trendy these days to use bright, vibrant colors with wavy lines and a silhouette of a person. This tutorial will aim to show you how to create this look. It’s the longest and most extensive tutorial I’ve written to date. I really hope you can learn from it; I know I did, by creating it!

A couple days ago I looked all over the internet for a good tutorial on how to create a glass window texture with a realistic reflection in Photoshop, but came up empty handed. I did see a couple of things on making glass, but not for the look I was after. This tutorial will aim to fix that.

After I wrote my four part series on textures, I received a few questions of how to tile them. This tutorial will walk you through how I would go about it. This is a very common task and is extremely useful if you have a texture or pattern that you need to repeat across an image or a website.

I just recently finished off my favicon and added it to the site. I should have done this earlier, but it’s just one of those things you tend to overlook. It is, however a very important part of branding and identity for your site. Plus, it’s so much better than the default icon!