In this tutorial you’ll learn how to add a worn look that works well with cartoon-style graphics. Different flavors of grunge styles are very popular all over the Web.

A high-end Web design using a crisp, thin font, gorgeous background images, and clever use of space and layout. You can easily use the technique to create your own unique designs.

This tutorial covers the key areas to focus on when creating a Web site design. This is a blog style design, but the techniques and strategies used in this design could be applied elsewhere across the Web as well.

This tutorial will show you a short but attractive way to create a graphic for backgrounds, wallpapers, greeting cards, designs, and all that other good stuff.

This tutorial is about making a “mac” style background image. You can use these in all sorts of situations, including the obvious – your desktop – as well as part of your designs or for corporate work.

Since Web 2.0 hit the internet, footers have become more important than ever. This tutorial will show you how to produce a sleek looking site footer in Photoshop.

This tutorial will show you some very easy Photoshop techniques, gradients and layer styles, that we can use to produce nice subtle 3D effects in our web designs.

This tutorial will show you how to make a semi-transparent Vista-inspired menu using gradients, shadows, and blurring to produce a stunning modern effect.

Learn how to create this text effect using very basic Photoshop tools and layering effects.

Learn how to make an awesome wood emboss effect, put bullet holes into the wood, and finally smoke ‘em up to a gnarly Wyatt-Earp-just-walked-past look.

In this tutorial we’ll create a rather cool-looking grass text effect using a photo of grass, the Pen Tool and a bit of patience.

Learn how to create a fire effect similar to when a spaceship or comet enters the earth’s atmosphere. The image we’ll be creating is inspired by a Nike Ad.

Learn how to use a photograph of fire to set text to the match. We’ll render the look on a nice dark background with a gorgeous text effect to complete the image.

Tutorial on how to create a smoky night effect on text to give it an eerie supernatural sort of feel. It’s a good exercise in using the Wave distortion filter.

How to create some really sharp-looking glow effects using a combination of layer styles, the Pen Tool and Color Blending. The end effect is quite stunning and hopefully you’ll pick up some tips you didn’t know before.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to take an image and give the appearance that it is entirely composed of vector shapes. Along the way, we’ll use some fairly basic techniques, including clipping masks and displacement maps, to achieve a unique effect!

Nik Ainley walks us through the process of making a spectacular image. This tutorial focuses on the big picture steps taken to create this image. Get a view into how Nik creates beautiful photo-manipulation based images.

Learn how to create a break-apart, explosion effect, to break apart a body, then add some awesome lighting and glow, and nopattern style, to finish the image off.

Learn how to put together a sunset image mixing some vector shapes and dusky lighting effects to produce a slick image that would make a nice album cover for a chillout mix!

Learn how to create a spectacular space scene featuring two planets colliding.

In this tutorial, learn how to spice up a fairly dull and flat photograph. It’s very easy and fast! Go from flat photo to a uniquely lit style.

Learn how to create explosion effect in Photoshop. We will use images and filters to produce this wave explosion effect. Even though it may look like a difficult tutorial, it’s really not that hard.