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This Photoshop tutorial will give you some idea to create a multi color web graphics which will be very useful for your next?? website template project.

Here is a cool idea for creating a Hardware customer support website background. you may also use it to create a business flyer or for free website layout.[1]-First of all Open New Document of Custom size, Height & Width 500�500 Pixels, Resolution 72 and Mode RGB COlor

Premise for Photoshop Tutorial Series: You are a web designer at a small agency, and a client has called to request that you prepare a mock-up for a new home page for is company that sells gifts in Victoria. This Tutorial series was perfected and used in College Web Master classes by Author/Instructor Scott Frangos. Now you can build your Web Graphics skills in Photoshop, as you learn your way through this classroom tested series on preparing Art for the Web.

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In this tutorial we will be learning how to use the 960 Grid System to design a website template in Photoshop. We will be learning some really useful techniques for positioning elements and mocking up elements such as borders and type. The final result will be a very clean and stylish website template that can be used as a blog or a general site

Excellent tutorial, this is exactly what I needed. I re-designed nuttersmark.com for the umpteenth time recently and chose to focus first on type, layout, and coding first before adding the polish, and after reading this tutorial I went and added some of the elements you talk about. There's a lot more work to be done but it's coming along nicely. Thanks!

Photoshop is often the right tool for web design, especially if you're creating a design using numerous images and brush effects. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a complete grunge home page design. We'll design the header, sidebar, body, footer, and style everything to work together in a heavily textured and worn design.

10 High Quality Theater images that can be used in any projects but not commercial use. Designer or not, this is a must have collection of theater images with a 300 DPI resolution.

@ Boring_me - At first i thought your comment was going to be negative with the name you used, but im glad these analysis of designs can help generate some good ideas, just because there focused on brown doesnt mean most aspects of the design cant be used on other projects, good luck, thanks for the comment.

A few months Ago we published 25 Websites With Beautiful Background, this time we are featuring another set of Websites With Beautiful Background for web design inspiration series

A few of you have been asking, so here it is: An overview of how we put the Viget Inspire background together. The driving philosophy behind real-texture stuff like this is to fake as little as possible. No matter how many brushes you have or how good you are in Illustrator, there's a quality of unpredictability in real photographs and real, physical elements that adds great subtle qualities to any design.

About: Niel Quisaba's Based in tropical Philippines, produces designs for snowboards, tshirts and even web designs his style of squid like tenticles and bubbly illustrations sets his unique style apart from most illustrators.

As always, it's been a busy month for design blogs. Here is my collection of the best articles and resources I've come across this month.

Common banner sizes. As you browse a number of websites, you notice that banners come in all different proportions, but most of them are standard sizes. The Interactive Advertising Bureau has established standard sizes to be used for online ads. While a website owner can sell ads of any dimension, it is usually advisable to stick to the standards because potential advertisers likely already have ads designed for those sizes and would be more likely to buy if spaces of the same sizes were available. Web designers should know the ad dimensions that clients want on their websites.

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Departika is pleased to announce the launch of Mediaslap, a new online resource that sells Photoshop brushes created by the Mediaslap team and hand-selected artists from around the world. The new website provides Photoshop brushes of the highest standard to designers, scrap bookers, photographers, design agencies, and do-it-yourselfers.

Finalize this layout by adding the principal menu, the previews and next buttons and also the logo of the website you are creating.

Graduated in Graphic Design at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2001 and has 8 years of working experience in illustration, web and interactive media, packaging design and abstract illustration with a grunge feel.

Great post, Smashing! This study on vivid imagery really showcases the power of placement, continuance, isolation, contrast, and proportion for establishing emphasis in design. I do agree that the inclusion of �sex appeal� is a little on the trashy side, but sex appeal sells, and is often an important undertone in advertising. Think about all the commercials of luxury cars under silky sheets, slo-mo videos of juice being splashed into a glass, or strawberries being dropped into chocolate. All of those visuals are about creating lust/desire in the same way as the images of the scantily dressed women above. It's a touchy subject, but you can't argue that it's not a part of design.

Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo, a 24 years old designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. I work as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobbie for me since 1999. At Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you guys... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! Cheers! *Now on Twitter.

Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo, a 24 years old designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. I work as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobbie for me since 1999. At Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you guys... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! Cheers! *Now on Twitter.

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Interesting tutorial. My question is: What makes this �Web 2.0?? Web 2.0 has nothing (or little to do) with the look of a site. What you're talking about here is design, or just the look of a site. That's it. Flickr.com is a web 2.0 site, and really uses none of these principles. Also, Facebook is very simple, doesn't use drop-shadows, rounded corners or �slightly cartoonish and bold� fonts, but yet is a web 2.0 site. Also Wikipedia�. etc�

It looks great, Tom. I enjoy every piece of photoshop I can learn. That was going to be my question, how do you code it? For me it would be a great idea if you wrote some tutorials about CSS, and how you can change the appearance of your design by tweaking the codes in the one you already have. for example, if I wanted to keep my current design, but just change the sidebar to look something like the one you've created. I have tons of questions about CSS. In fact, you were one of the first bloggers I started socializing with (if not the very first) , and the fact that you're a designer, able to work from home, independentlly, inspired me to want to be one I hope to get to go to school and get my diploma one day, it seems like something I would really enjoy doing

Lucas Hirata is a Brazilian designer from the state of Bahia, and has been designing since 1996, but in 2006 he started working to Globo, and it's been doing awesome interfaces for them since them. If you enter Globo.com, you'll get to see his major work. Besides Globo, there are also some cool pieces, check them out here. Hope you all enjoy these. Cheers! ;)

Might as well add another minimal gradient touch to our design. Create a new layer and place it below everything in our document except for our background layer. Drag a white to transparent gradient from the top of the document to about half-way down the document.

My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through Abduzeedo. Also you can follow me on Twitter or my personal site at http://fabiosasso.com.

My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through Abduzeedo. Also you can follow me on Twitter or my personal site at http://fabiosasso.com.

Rob Palmer has to be one of my favorite webdesigners to date.?? I love his work so much so that I have beenw orking with him on a number of my own projects.?? He will be the one responsible behind the top secret design of the new Outlaw Design Blog update on 4/20.?? I just thought I would share with you some of his amazing work! website

Thanks to Simon of Project 5 for the great artwork he did for the invitations, booklets, wine bottle labels, place cards, menus and slide show/DVD for our 20th Birthday events.???

The follow guide below attempts to give you an idea how to design a nice sleek tab menu in Photoshop, Web 2.0 style.

The whole may be more than the sum of its parts, but without the parts, there is no whole. Lest that sound like some weird philosophical meandering to you, take comfort in observing the finer aspects of creative and appealing user interface design.

There are a thousand beauty retouching tutorials out there, but just because someone writes a tutorial, it doesn???t mean that they necessarily teach you something good. I have recently browsed through a list of 40 beauty retouching tutorials in a long article at PSDTuts and I was astonished by the amount of nonsense published there. Now, don???t get me wrong, I love PSDTuts, they have great tutorials, but this particular article was low standard. It???s enough to look to the preview images to see how amateurish the Photoshop effects are.?? The good tutorials ??? I could easily count on one hand. Therefore I decided to make a list of the most common misconceptions and amateurish techniques in beauty retouching. And their cure. Maybe this will help reduce the amount of plastic face spread all over the internet (and not only).

This is a collection of baroque style (ornamental) design, this style originates from baroque styles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the word baroque can also simply mean that something is elaborate with many details. [Further Reading]

This theme is for those who still adore the ???web 2.0? look of neat outlining, strips and juicy colors. Shvat a great looking theme that will suit any blog, ready for 125*125 ads and has a very interesting organization of the?? comments section.

Well i hope this post provides people with enough grunge resources to either be inspired or get some useful resources to create your next epic grunge design. Don???t forget to stumble this page and add a tag such as �grunge� so you don???t loose it when you need it.

With the release of my 300+ hi-res grunge texture pack i thought id do a nice quick simple video tutorial to create a stunning grunge background using the colours from a photo on deviant art and a texture from the texture pack,

Wow! Those are seriously creative websites. Thats such a challenge to sell yourself/business on a single page. But they did it, and did it well. Thanks for the post.

Yes, that's right as the title says it is my 'First' web design tutorial so the description and everything might not be as perfect as the professional tutorial writers. But, I tried my best to give you all the clearest important, after all the effort you put into a work to give out the best example is what counts no? Anyways, enough with my talking go check out the tutorial and give it a try. I will be a lot more appreicated if I see some results from the viewers, please leave your comments too. Bye for now.

You may get .psd* file of "White notebook style for web site design." Photoshop tutorial by making a donation. Put the tutorial title in "Add special instructions to seller" line of PayPal and it will be sent to you shortly.

[...] IRIS Design ?? Archive ?? Web 2.0 style buttons shows how to create Web 2.0 styled button using Adobe Photoshop CS2 (tags: photoshop tutorial web2.0 glossy button glassy) [...]

Editor's Pick of April, 2009 A fairy-tale sight drawn by means of digital brushes and Photoshop techniques can easily become a clear reflection of your imagined image.

Use the Slice Tool to draw boxes on your image. Click File > Save for Web, choose Jpeg, Quality 60, and each box will be saved as a separate image.

12. In this last step I've just added a map of the world using the font webdings (this letter u) with this color #f9f9f9... Some demo text was also included to show off how the coded website would look like! Enjoy and have fun with the layout!

11. I've also inserted a simple title with a nice font called parkavenue bt (size is 50px). The blue in the title is #00add5. And there you have your layout! I know the text is not looking good but that's just done very quickly and can be easily optimized! You could use this for everything you like! A blog, a business site,�

36. Your template should be finished by now, thanks for following this tutorial, I hope it helped you understand the basics of creating a web template and if you have any comment/question, don't hesitate to leave them below.

Add your content to each of the three content boxes. Im just going to add a quick image and some small text, in the CSS version of this layout the boxes will be used for text.

After you will load these custom shapes, you can add some on the layout like in the following image. I will make them with different colors. it will be easier for you to see how it's made

Such effects can be used in creating silhouette compositions in web design or source files for flash animation. Please check a nice example below:

In your smaller content box add a sample form including text fields and labels. Above your smaller content box add a rounded rectangle with the wording "free quote" on it. Press CTRL+T to rotate the box and lettering slightly. The layer styles for the rounded rectangle are the same as the yellow text in the title.

Hey! Today is tutorial day. What we're gonna do today is pretty simple yet again, but you'll have created a nice and sleek web layout at the end of it all! So let's not waste more time, and get right into it!

Use the Eraser tool, choose one of the splatter brushes, set tool Opacity to 10% and randomly erase the edge. Then paint some brown color overlay the icon to give the dirty effect.

Lots of times if you can't find your favorite DVD's at the store, you choose judging by the cover. Some covers are simple, some are too fancy. With this tutorial you will learn how to make a colorful, full of live design with Adobe Photoshop. Be careful what picture you will choose for the support. For me this one looks good.

Now add 2 arrows from the custom shapes library and your navigation text. (the arrows used have the same layer styles as the navigation bar apart from it has a different color).

15. To fill up the rest of the banner we can add a summary for what our website does and add a nice icon. You can use the icon that I used by downloading the source files at the end of the tutorial.

After you open this image, go to Edit > Define pattern. Chose a name for this pattern and click OK. You can close this small image. We will return to our hand drawn layout. Select the white shape, and add the pattern we have created on this layer.

After that grab Rectangle Tool, and create a big shape in the middle of your layout. use the following color : #dddddd

In the next part we'll prepare the "psd" for html implementation. We slice the "psd" file. Take a look in the next picture and you can see what parts of layout interests us:

Now you have the pictures for your site, you have the site design and using a program like Macromedia Dreamweaver or Adobe GoLive (or others programs of course; this two are simple to use for a beginner), you can make a nice site for your company or for personal use. If you don't know how to make the implementation please check the Layout Design And Implementation tutorial to learn how to do this.

Modern-style web design, also known as the "Microsoft style" has become the most common form of web design these days. It presents web page elements not as realistic images, but as neatly arranged diagrams. This tutorial goes through the steps to making a website in this style.

9. In this final step we're going to add some menu bars to the dark grey box on the left so the visitors can navigate your site! First of all you should create a new layer (layer - new layer) Select your rectangular marquee tool again and select a box like this (mine has a height of 20px but if you want bigger ones or smaller ones you'll have to experiment a little bit with the rest of your layout)! Then fill the selection with #3d3d3d and start duplicating that layer a few times!

Using your text tool type in your navigation links. Use font Arial, regular, 11 pt, none and #8E7DE5 for color. When typing your navigations use | for your spacers.

In your layer palette create a new layer set, name it Footer. In your main toolbar, set your foreground color to white and background to #8E7DE5. In a new layer create a 908 x 29 pixels, marquee selection at the bottom of your canvas. With the select intact, choose your gradient tool and apply a linear gradient effect.

The idea in their head seems like the best web design concept ever, but when it finally gets onto the screen, it doesn't come out as planned, and ends up looking very amateurish.

In your web editor, insert the images. I'd recommend using the font colours and styles I've used in this diagram. I'd also recommend that you make up your own text. :)

Rounded corners are nothing new in web design. It became trendy then died down a little bit, I think, because it's hard to program for (I'm a web developer), but with some new solutions popping up, they're becoming easier to deal with.

Web 2.0 is a term coined by O'Reilly describing the new trends in design and development appearing across a flood of innovative websites. This tutorial will show you how to create some of the more popular "Web 2.0" design effects using Photoshop.

Create a new document 800x800, select the colors #2c2d2e & #47474a (or something similar) and drag a linear gradient over your canvas.

Make sure the background is transparent, then go to "edit > define pattern" give your pattern a name. Head back over to your layout select your navigation layer whilst holding the Ctrl key this will make a selection. Create a new layer above your navigation layer and fill with your pattern. Set layer opacity of the lines to 25% and blending mode to overlay.

Now add your website title, slogan and logo to the right of the layout, add a simple outerglow to your text.

In the top left hand corner add your website title and slogan, on the right side add some RSS information, the icons i have used are from dryicons.com and the color code for the orange is #f1a904. Here's mine.

The next stage includes representing the primary layer of the site's page of white color, selecting previously the Rounded Rectangle Tool (U)

Just take a look at some of these tutorials� You're on the right track but you have to slice your design and export it to an html file + images! After that you can edit it with dreamweaver or other smiliar software! You can also look on pixel2life or good-tutorials and search for �slicing dreamweaver� or just �slicing��

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Web 2.0 are those cool icons which you see every where, but do you no how to make them? This tutorial will explain how. Click on any of the images for the full version. Stuff you will need: Photoshop (or Similar) Step 1) The first step is to create you canvas, this can be any size you want it to be. Step 2) Add a shape to your canvas to a new layer and colour it. Step 3) Apply Bevel and Emboss to the layer using Size: 200, Highlight white at 100% opacity and a dark blue shadow at 75% opacity. Step 4) Apply a stoke around the shape, in the base colour you picked, size 4. Step 5) Apply an inner glow, white, size twenty. Step 6) This part becomes a little tricky, you need to create a new layer, right click and create this into a clipping mask. Apple a white to transparent gradient. Adjust the opacity as necessary. Step 7) Slightly rotate the layer so its at an angle. Step 8) Again, do this the same for a darker shadow at the bottom, adjust the opacity as necessary. Step 9) One of the defining points of web 2.0 icons is the reflective shadow. The method I used is to copy the layer, and remove anything except the white, and reflect it as shown. Step 10) Apply a layer mask to reveal all. And then add a black to white gradient, this hides parts of the image, leaving only the shadow. Step 11) As shown you have a cool web 2.0 icon which you can use on your websites. The cool features of having a simple and effective logo is that you can scale the image to any size. Kinda cool don't you think. Leave your comments, with your web 2.0 creations.

Play around with this simple layout design, create new images, change colours and edit the CSS. Take a look at my final design.

Create some kind of banner for offer like free web hosting or 25 off or sale banner for your website company

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A beautiful handy resource that helped me fine tune my skills. Thanks Jason "The Designer Man" for this impressive suite :)

This year has seen a big increase in grungey / textured / hand-drawn styled website designs. By nature I tend to design a cleaner look myself, but I thought I'd try my hand at grunge today and write up a tutorial on creating a simple paper texture from scratch in Photoshop then marrying it with a web layout to create a neat design.

In this detailed tutorial you will learn how to design a web 2.0 style template easy to customized for any type of website.

Learn to create every aspect of the web design below. The design screenshot below is the resulting image of this tutorial, you will learn to create the small cars, reflections, navigation, logo, using guides properly, clipping masks, layer masks, and much more! Click below to view the 20 minute web tutorial.

12. Let’s add a slice of lemon. Use this great tutorial from PSDTuts to create a slice of lemon, or create the circle and then cut it in half. Create the lemon slice in a separate document, then save a flat copy on a transparent background and drag it in your glass-of-water document. Place the lemon slice right under the Bubble folder in the Layers palette. Switch the opacity to 90% so it looks like it’s submerged.

Here you will be taught how to make a web interface similar to what I used on one of my older website layouts.

Let's try and insert the badge into a web template. You can change the text and the color of your badge to matches your website design

Today, we will be creating a wicked cinema/theatre billboard effect that you may have seen before - either in print advertising or online work.The effect incorporates many cool techniques such as creating a star-burst, working with multiple layers, positioning, and other awesome styling queues. Feel free to subscribe to our RSS feed to be alerted when we update the blog, and in particular, add more Photoshop and other tutorials.

Do you own a resell web hosting account for managing your websites? design a clean hosting template and sell your free space. Full View

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Google recently released a great new tool for webmasters. Google Ad Manager is a hosted ad management solution that can help you sell, schedule, deliver, and measure all of your directly-sold and network-based inventory. Learn more - Devember 31, 2008

In this photoshop tutorial you will design a Sleek template fit for a web studio company also easy to customized for any type of websites. Continue Reading

Modern-style web design, also known as the "Microsoft style" has become the most common form of web design these days. It presents web page elements not as realistic images, but as neatly arranged diagrams. This tutorial goes through the steps to making a website in this style.

Click File > Save For Web. Choose Jpeg, Quality 60. If necessary, also save a one-pixel wide vertical sliver of that picture, as shown above. After you've done each area, use the History to undo your steps, until everything is uncropped, and you have your original image.

This tutorial demonstrates one of the simplest ways to make a decent-looking website and avoid any risk of having bad graphics.

If you'd like to design a site that's a bit more elegant than the standard business web design style, follow along with this tutorial.

Buy. Download. Create. Get Adobe Photoshop now at the Adobe Store. Find Photoshop CS4 tutorials and videos on our Photoshop CS4 Tutorials Page. Try before you buy. Download any Adobe product for a free 30 day trial. Photoshop Web Template ? Web Site Design Tutorial [a list of free wesbsite design resources can be found at the end of the tutorial] Many people new to web design are confused by slices and Javascript rollovers and end up abandoning their projects out of frustration. The point of this Photoshop web tutorial is to keep things simple by creating a web page that uses only 2 graphics. Website Plan We'll create a banner and place it in a table that will contain 5 rows and 1 column. The banner will be placed in the top row. The next row will contain the text for your site and any photos you may wish to include. Row 3 will hold a separator, row 4 will be for your text links and a copyright notice, and row 5 will hold a second separator. Let's Get Going I'm going to name this site Designer Girlz Network. The next step is to find a graphic for the banner. You might find a good image at one of the free stock photo sites (I've listed some below), but I was looking for something a little more professional, so I tried the iStockPhoto galleries and found an illustration by Vinaya Prashanth that cost only $3. Sweet. That's a reduced version of it on the right. Choose A Website Color Scheme The colors of the banner and the website will be taken from the various pinks used in the image. There are 3 pinks I want to use ? a dark pink, a middle pink, and a lighter pink that I made myself from a shade of the darker pink. I find that by using the opacity slider on a sampled color you can create a nice variation. Open a new document and copy and paste the main graphic you've chosen into it. Now from the toolbox select the eyedropper tool and sample a color by clicking on it in your graphic. This will change the foreground color square in your toolbox. Now open another new document and in the Background Contents select White. Click OK. With this document open, create a new layer by going Layer> New> Layer. Then go Edit> Fill and select Contents, Use: Foreground Color. This will fill your document with the color you just sampled. The trick here is to lower the opacity using the slider and to keep playing around with it until you find a nice shade. When you settle on one, flatten the image by going Layer> Flatten Image. Use the eyedropper tool again, this time to change...

Using the custom shape tool (u) . And make sure that the Ellipse Tool is selected. Draw the object that measures 150 x 150.This will be a pretty big icon

1. Start off by creating a new document in Photoshop. Make it 780px wide and 600px high. Press Ctrl+A and then select the paint bucket tool. Fill the entire page with #E1E1E1 (light grey). Go to View >> New Guide. Enter the following. 2. Create a nother guide like above but this time use the following. 3. You should now see two blue lines going vertically down your page. These are guidelines which we can use to make sure the design stays a decent size. Now create a new layer and call it "centerBG". Do this by going to Layer >> New Layer and then type in the layer name and click OK. 4. Now using the Rectangular Marquee tool select evrything from the right hand side of the first guide and the left hand side of the second guide. This should select everything in between the two guidelines. 5. Now select the Paint Bucket Tool. 6. Set your foreground colour to #FFFFFF (white) and then fill in the selected area. You should have the following. I have shrinked my image down though so yours will be full size. 7. Right-click on your mainBg layer and go to Blending Options. On the left hand side click on Drop Shadow and give it the following settings. 8. Now select Stroke on the left and give it the following. 9. You should now have the following. 10. Next we need to create a new guide. Just like before go to View >> New Guide and give it the following. This will create a horizontal guide across the top. 11. Using the Rectangular Marquee tool select everything within the top box. By this I mean everyting between the two vertical guides and above our new horizontal guide. Create a new layer and call it "topbar". Using the Paint Bucket tool fill in the selected area with #B2B2B2 (medium grey). You should then have the following. 12. Create another guide. Give it the following. 13. Now using the Rectangular Marquee Tool select within the two vertical guides, from the first horizontal guide to our new horizontal guide. Then select the Paint Bucket tool. Fill in the selected area with #EFEFEF. Right click on the headerBG layer and go to Blending Options. Then on the left hand side select gradient overlay and use the following. 14. Right click on the topbar layer and Duplicate it and call it botbar. Make sure that the botbar layer is beneath the header layer. Then simply drag the bar down using the pointer tool so that it is just below the header. Only have it so a tiny amount of it is showing. 15. Create a new guide using the following. 16. Using the marquee tool select ev...

Editor's Pick of March, 2009 A business card is a classical way of brand promotion and while everyone is competing in Google races you can easily attract new customers for your web design studio the old good way.

Here's a bunch of ideas that can help you make web design look appropriate and special for the upcoming holiday. Go creative as Christmas is a holiday for your imagination, feel yourself a kid a bit and express those feelings through web design.

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Firstly, thanks for visiting YourPhotoshopSource! In this easy, step-by-step Photoshop tutorial I'm going to be showing you how to design some nice, wooden tabs (navigation buttons) for your website. Similar to the ones shown in the below image:

In this article I'll show you how to make an unusual background on your web-page.

Do you want to place your favourite photo in a beautiful and original frame? Then this tutorial is for you. In this article I'll try to show you all possible frames. I made 14 versions of frames and that's why I divided this tutorial into two parts. Let's begin.

The GIF89a format also supports 'animation'. This is just a multiplicity of same-sized images with a pre-set delay between showing each - all stuffed into one GIF file like a flip book.

Today I'll tell you how to create an unusual but beautiful effect - how the lava comes out from the water.

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In this article I'll show you how to make the realistic scars on your photo like in the pic.1. Do you like it? Let's begin.

A lot of websites look unprofessional because the designer has tried too hard to make the graphics look good, without knowing what they're doing. If they just hadn't tried as hard, the site would have looked a whole lot better.

We've taken time to write up a short list of things to remember when designing a web 2.0 application or website.

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Create a new document 1024 x 1000px with a transparent background.

Using the Pen Tool (), i'm going to go over all the walls of which i'm choosing to 'paint'. Use the following images as an example of I'm doing this.

Create a new document 1000�1355 select the colors #2493b0 and #23454c, select the gradient tool and with a linear gradient fill your background. Lightest color at the top. Now select the rectangular marquee tool, draw a rectangle the width of your canvas and about 50-150 pixels in height, fill with the color ##222223. You should have something like this.

Create a new document 850�900 pixels with a black background, on the background layer we need to add some noise so goto �filter > noise > add noise. Use the settings in the image below.

Before we start grab this �wood� texture, just save it your hard drive somewhere as we'll be using it later in the tutorial. Right lets get started, create a new document 850�1060 pixels, fill your background layer with the color #e9e9e9. Open up your wood image then drag it over onto your canvas. Press �CTRL + T� to free-transform the image. Just resize the image a little bit so the wood texture is nearly the same width as your canvas, if you hold down the �shift� key on the keyboard whilst dragging the anchor points the aspect ratio will stay the same. Move the wood texture to the top of your canvas.

Fill your selection with any color then add these layer styles.

2 ? Should I choose gif or jpeg, and what quality?

Now right underneath that we'll create a small section of �newest templates�, where we will showcase the latest added templates. So grab your rounded rectangle tool again and make a tab like you did with the navigation, giving it a color of #c7e1e8. After creating that align it on the left, and add a text layer over it of Armada Light (Download here). I am using a darker color, doesn't really matter what you use and just type �Newest Templates�. You'll get something like this:

Select the Magic Wand Tool (), we're going to use this to make selections. The selections are going to be the colours that we are going to transform. Using the Magic Wand Tool simply click the selections, you wish. If there are more selections that you wish to change or that weren't picked up in the first/original selection or to add the same colour at the same time simply hold shift or select and continue to select other places as shown in the pictures below:

Normally a clean web 2.0 layout should not take you more than 30 - 40 minutes.

Preview full size layout

Should we write a tutorial for real beginners on http://www.nettuts.com ?

Unfortunately reality is extremely different.

HOLY SHIT THAT METALLIC THEME IS SO AWESOME.

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Do you want to look at the atomic structure without a microscope? In this tutorial I'll show you how to create it.

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1. Open a picture you like to make effect, Press Ctrl +J to duplicate layer, Go to Filter ~> Brush strokes ~> Spatter (Radius = 10, Smoothness = 5), choose mode = Lighten, Use Eraser tool (choose Soft brush) to remove spatters put on the picture.

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Whatcha think? pretty sexy huh? So if your ready to make something like that then this tutorial should be the right one for you. So lets get down to business yo! ^^

Step 1: The background

For designing web pages, you should always choose RGB Color.

This article, the first in the series, will cover the basics of setting up your file's size and resolution. The next article will cover color modes and backgrounds. In other words, in these two articles, I'll answer the question, "What should you select when you say "File, New" in Photoshop?"

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