In this week’s compilation we’re having a tutorial from Smashing Magazine. Yes, they’ve written it and it’s a great one. Besides it there are 19 more from which one is a incredible text effect written by Wojciech Pijecki, a great designer and tutorial writer. After you get along with these two, you’ll be following two icon tutorials, two web design ones and the rest are going to go graphic design on your ass.

Create a Simple Vibrant Light Effect in Photoshop

Starting away from the computer, we’ll use a few household objects to create some photographic resources. Then follow this Adobe Photoshop tutorial to manipulate the images with various tools and techiques to produce a vibrant design made up of intense light streams effect.

How to Create A Glowing Neon Girl in Photoshop

In our Photoshop Tutorial, we will create a Glowing Neon Girl from scratch. Throughout this tutorial, you will simply learn how to make some cool Glowing Effects in Photoshop. This is quite a little long so patience is a virtue.Take a look at the Preview of our Final Image.

Design a Retro Futurism Space Scene

Learn how to design a retro-futuristic space scene, using a variety of lighting effects and photo manipulation.

Create Destructive Black and White Lettering with a Dramatic Splash Effect

Today, I’m gonna take you into the beauty of black and white design. We’ll make some expressive lettering, which includes thoughts connected with a central word. We’ll turn standard text into a stunning, destructive illustration, and give it a final unique look. So, let’s rock this one and learn all about the cool techniques included here!

Space Explosion Photoshop Tutorial

Digital space art is one of the most inventive and beautiful art genres of this era. This tutorial shows you how to create your own space scene using three stock photos and Adobe Photoshop. The majority of the effects use the brush tool, layer effects and the filter gallery. You may want to set aside an hour or two before starting this tutorial because it requires quite a bit of work to accomplish. So get those creative juices flowing and let’s get started!

Coloring Hair in Photoshop

Alright, the hair tutorial is up! This is undoubtedly what I get the most questions about–how to color hair–so I hope this is kind of what people were looking for. I also included how I color black and white hair, as I did get some requests for a tutorial on how to do that. Be forewarned, as always, that my style is not meant to be completely realistic and that I *do* use the Dodge/Burn tools quite liberally with hair. If that’s not a style you like, then this tutorial may not be all that helpful for you.

Breaking Apart – Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create a breaking apart effect using some simple, but effective, techniques in Photoshop.
One of the greatest tools in Photoshop which is often overlooked is layer masks and when used correctly, they can blend images together seamlessly, giving that professional touch.
We are going to combine the masks with brushes to compliment the original source image with subtle elements.
Once you have completed this tutorial you can experiment with your own findings and combine the techniques used to create a unique and inspiring work.

Sweet Radio Station Advert Design

In this tutorial we’ll be using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (versions CS3) to create/design a beautiful radio station advertisement. We’ll just be using Illustrator to design a few simple elements, so if you don’t have it or don’t know how to use it, you can easily download some cool design bits.

Professional technique for creating icons

In grammar school when you wrote a paper your teacher probably expected you to write a rough draft. In fact, your teacher probably expected you to write many drafts. So you slaved away on your papers; asking questions and making revisions until you finally had something that was worth handing in. . .right? Well I?m going to let you in on a little secret. . . design in the professional world is the same thing!

In this tutorial I’m not going to deal with specifics as much as I am with general work flow and process. So don’t be surprised if I don’t include every color hex value or opacity level. Just play around with the settings until you find what feels right.

Tutorial Site Blog Design tutorial

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a sleek, and professional tutorial blog. If you have any questions about this tutorial be sure to ask in the comments. Also, remember with all the tutorials, the psd is available for download.

Color hair locks Photoshop tutorial

Are you getting bored by your hair colour or do you want a dramatic makeover in your photographs in just few minutes……then this tutorial is just the thing for you.

Photoshop Atlantic Snowfall Wallpaper

Today I will tell you about How to Create Photoshop Atlantic Snowfall Wallpaper.

Making of Lida digital art tutorial

Design an Elegant Abstract Site Header Image in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the processes I used to design this really cool, abstract style site header image in Photoshop, similar to the one I currently have on psdvault.com.
Personally I can see an increasing trend of having a big and eye-catching header image for website/blogs, especially since broadband has become a commodity amongst the majority of the population.
Along the way, we will practice the use of Pen Tool, various image adjustment options, free transformation tool, layer blending styles and filter effects. Hope you enjoy it!

White notebook style for web site design

Painting – Photoshop

This style of colouring resembles traditional painting because the brush strokes are still visible. It doesn’t matter that much if the line art is kept or not but I prefer to thin or paint it out to give more of a painting feel ^_^ I suppose it is possible to paint with a mouse but there’s less control over brush pressure and stroke placement compared to a tablet/graphic pen. So I highly recommend using a tablet for digital painting. This page has a lot of images on so may take a while to load.

XP Style Money Icon Photoshop tutorial

A simple starry Web 2.0 ad

A couple of days ago I recieved an advertisement from a store that has just opened his doors. Normally, I would throw those things directly away, but the simplicity of the design did draw my attention. I wanted to recreate the Web 2.0 looking ad and here I’ll show you how.

Creating shining hair like shown in shampoo ads

Web design Layout #8 Photoshop tutorial