40 Photoshop Tutorials for Amazing Lighting Effects – Part Two

One of the most popular posts of 2008 on this blog was 40 Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting and Abstract Effects. Since it has been close to a year since that collection was put together, a number of excellent tutorials for working with lighting effects have been published. With this post I’d like to present the second edition of tutorials.

Flying Girl in Photoshop

11 Tutorials for Business Card Design

Business card design can be tricky if you’re not familiar with the process. As you’ll see in these tutorials, there are a number of different programs that you can use to create business cards, but setting up the layout properly and getting it ready to print can be the most challenging part.

This selection of tutorials will show you some techniques for designing business cards, as well as give you all the information you need to get set up the right way to make the design a success.

Design a Print Ready Business Card for Designers

This tutorial from Chris Spooner will show you how to create a two-sided business card using Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.

Design Inspiration: Lighting Effects

A few weeks ago I posted a collection of 25 websites with lighting effects. While these sites can be excellent inspiration for working with light effects in Photoshop, they’re not the only source of this type of inspiration. You can also find some great pieces of work by simply browsing through graphic design portfolios. In this post you’ll find 50 examples of inspirational lighting effects.

25 Outstanding Magazine Style Website Designs

One of my favorite styles of web design to take inspiration from is the magazine style. Creating a well-designed site that looks good, allows for good usability, and features a lot of content without cramming items onto the page is a very difficult task.

Blog theme designers can often put some of this inspiration into practice in their own work, as blogs often face the challenge of displaying a lot of content while still trying to look good.

Clutch Magazine

Tutorial: Set Up a Client’s Site to be Editable with Cushy CMS

If you design websites for clients you know that most clients these days want the ability to update the site themselves. Fortunately, content management systems make this possible. However, depending on the types of clients that you work with, you may find that sometimes going with a full-feature CMS is overkill for a client that only needs to update a few pages.

Each client has there own unique needs, and there may be times when you come across someone who is not interested in anything fancy, but they want a small website that will allow them to change the content of pages.

60 Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Touch-Ups

Photoshop has tons of potential for improving photos in one way or another. No matter how much experience you have with Photoshop there is probably more that you can learn in these areas. This is a categorized collection of tutorials that will show you some new tricks for photo touch-ups.

Also see 60 Photoshop Actions for Photo Touch-Ups and Enhancements at DesignM.ag.

Skin:

Airbrushing – Natural Smooth Skin

Theme Giveaway from Theme Galaxy!

Premium WordPress theme developers Theme Galaxy are giving away two free licenses to their newest theme, Lyra. This new theme (shown below) features a creative illustrated design that may be just right for your blog.

25 Incredibly Artistic Websites – Part 4

Artistic and creative websites with interesting background images and/or headers seem to be more and more common all the time. I’ve done a few roundups of this style in the past, but great new examples keep popping up, so here is part 4.

Madame Surto

35 Photoshop Tutorials for Realistic Results

Sometimes it’s amazing how realistic a Photoshop creation can look. In this post we’ll feature 35 tutorials for creating realistic effects in Photoshop. Some will show you how to illustrate an object from scratch, while others teach how to edit photos with realistic elements, such as water or snow.

Create a Realistic Blackberry Style Mobile Phone from Scratch

WordPress Tutorial: Category Trick for WP 2.7

A lot has been written about the recent release WordPress 2.7, and I think most WordPress users and developers understand that this release adds some significant features that open up some new options for theme development. I did a little bit of experimenting with one of the changes and I wanted to write a brief tutorial that demonstrates a real-world situation for taking advantage of a new feature.