Illustrator: The wizard's hat

Just in time for the bewitching month, learn how to create a very cool wizards hat icon using Adobe Illustrator! Another great tutorial sent in by IconShock September 30, 2010

Adobe Illustrator tutorial : Briefcase

There just aren't enough Adobe Illustrator tutorials on the web! I guess it's because the hacks can do easy stuff in Photoshop ... but Illustrator takes expertise and real work! Here's another one from our PS FAVE IconLibrary -- learning to make a shiny icon in Illustrator July 28, 2010

Hot Photoshop Text Effects Part 3

Here's the last of our hot, flaming, Photoshop text tutorials for a while... whew -- another set of tutorials for designing type with warm, glowing results. Enjoy July 13, 2010

Beware: Photoshop Stalkers

This special edition of Photoshop Madness is to alert you to a potential problem -- an evil situation that happened to me yesterday. As I always say, be alert, it's a jungle out there ... June 12, 2010

Blending Modes Words with pictures

Discovering a site that makes words with photographs that form letters gave us the opportunity to experiment with Adobe Photoshop Blending Modes to generate some interesting variations on Wordmark's photographic fonts April 28, 2010

Photoshop for Looney Tunes

This Photoshop tutorial answers a call for help from a Photoshop 911 reader, with a series of steps used to simulate the famous "Looney Tunes" logo screen -- while practicing techniques common to all versions of Photoshop -- that all Photoshop users should know April 28, 2010

Flaming Text Tutorials TWO

Last month's "Flaming Text in Photoshop" inspiration page was so hot -- the third most popular page in the site for March, we thought we would hurry up and get the second flaming, sparkling, burning, magma, inferno typography text effects page out there to re-ignite you on fire! April 28, 2010

Tutorial: adding color to black and white

This Photoshop 911 case called for adding a spot color to a black and white photo -- yes, the technique works, but -- Some Photoshop techniques just don't work if the photo doesn't lend itself to the effect! March 26, 2010

Record an action in Photoshop

Actions can save you tons of time and misery by automating tasks in Photoshop -- in this tutorial, use the Actions panel to record, play, edit, and delete individual actions. December 28, 2009

Photoshop for Fingerprinting

This Photoshop 911 reader requested information about using Photoshop to compare fingerprints -- while not generally used for law enforcement, this tutorial uses Difference blending mode and Hue / Saturation to compare fingerprints -- or any two images! Enjoy December 22, 2009