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Combining Illustrator and Photoshop can produce some dramatic and intense effects. Illustrator has the powers (and tools) to easily create abstract shapes, whereas in Photoshop, although possible, this can take up a lot more of your time.

Happy Valentine’s Day! In celebration of the day of love here is an Adobe Illustrator tutorial in which we are going to look at how you can create your own Valentine’s Day heraldry Illustration.

In this tutorial, we’re going to be creating a monkey character illustration using Adobe Illustrator. You’ll be using basic Shape Tools, the Pen Tool and various other Illustrator techniques to create the illustration. Let’s get started!

More and more we see people using horizontal sliding panels on their websites. And they usually look very nice! Some will put a contact or login form in there, others will put some information about them and their website, or even things like a tag cloud or social networking buttons.

CSS2.1 provides for a lot of ways to use fonts creatively, and with CSS3 (which we’ll talk about next week), we’ll come even closer to full design control over our typography!

There’s certainly no shortage of smoke brushes out there, but by creating them yourself you’ll learn a lot and be able to ensure a really high quality result.

I love Photoshop. I guess we all do. But there are some times when I like to design using Adobe Fireworks instead. After all Fireworks was created with web-designers in mind and it allows us to quickly prototype and design for the web, so let’s see what it can do.

In this Photoshop tutorial we’re going to learn how to create a double-sided business card that features Bokeh and abstract effect.

This tutorial will show you how to build creative hover animations for buttons using sprites. The particular effect illustrated in this tutorial is inspired by the “Download” buttons on Tutorial9.net.

In this PS tutorial we’re going create a chocolate-looking website layout, As we go through the different steps, we’ll deal with many techniques, some big typography, wood texturing, and so on.