If you need something really noticeable and prominent for your poster titles or web designs, you may want to try out this effect. Fortunately, it is not that hard really to setup your own styled bright sparkles for text. In this special guide, we will show you the step-by-step process in achieving this. Let’s start!
The initial step is of course setting up your background for the text effect. This effect wonÕt work well for lighter backgrounds. So once you setup your new document in Adobe Photoshop, you have to create a dark dynamic background for your design.
Of course avoid plain black. Use a gradient color matching the theme that you want to establish. In our example we used the gradient tool to add a dark blue to darker blue radial color gradient to the background (#41768b – #152328)
In this tutorial we will learn how to create a visually appealing mock advertisement for a bottle of water. We will utilize different types of brushes and effects to achieve the final look :

Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator are the two apps at the heart of almost every designer’s workflow. If you haven’t gotten up to speed with Adobe Photoshop CS5 or the many new, powerful features the version brings, here are 40 tutorials that’ll help you do just that in no time.
In fact, even if you’re a Photoshop pro, I bet you’ll find at least one tutorial in here that’ll teach you something you didn’t know.
Digital painting is a beautiful art that requires too much ability and discipline. It also drawing techniques in these days, we can see the best examples of digital painting in gaming and animation industry. I’m always amazed by the incredible talents we see on this area.

So today, we have selected 25 Digital Painting Video Tutorials which useful for beginners and advanced painters. Enjoy and practice!
In my current role I work on 300 page plus booklets that have a lot of tables (for example, the annual report for JB HI-FI – a publicly traded company in Australia). Because of the amount text used in these documents the tables need to be able to move up and down with the text should the client change it.

As the style these days is shifting more towards rounded edges on just about everything, rather than square, the need for tables in InDesign with rounded corners came about.
Here is an example of what I’m talking about:

The question is how would you do this in InDesign, given that tables only have a square edge.
Well, hopefully my tutorial below will help solve the mystery of Rounded Edges in InDesign, once and for all.
Create a text box in InDesign, to whatever dimensions you need, e.g. 100mm x 100mm.

In this tutorial our main goal is to learn how to professionally retouch our photo and keep our model from looking overly artificial. You will learn how to retouch your fashion photography, which will include removing blemishes, wrinkles, fly away hair etc, how to lighten your photo and how to enhance makeup and eye color. This tutorial is compatible with Non-Photoshop programs such as The Gimp and PAINT.NET (some tools may differ).
Those who are into photography know that it takes more than just a camera and a model to create a stunning portrait there are a lot of key factors involved. Even if you do capture that perfect photo you may find out that your photo still needs a bit of work. Most if not all photographers edit there photos to get that wonderful glamorous fashion capture and to make your fashion photography stronger.


