This tutorial will show you how to create somewhat-realistic dog tags from scratch,including the chain, using nothing more than a couple of marquees, layer styles and a few nifty tricks.

While it is intended for beginners, you’ll need to know your way around the basic tools and windows before attempting this tutorial and should take around half an hour or so to do the first time around. Read more…

Web 2.0 design isn’t as hard as it looks. With this tutorial, we’ll go through the process of creating a very trendy, abstract header design used on many girl-oriented websites. It doesn’t mean you can’t use this tutorial for other kind of sites. All you’ll need to do is tweak the colors.

This tutorial will go through various effects: creating trendy clouds, texturing, layer styles, glowing sparkles, trendy drips and even how to create a city and using funky fonts. Read more…

This tutorial will show you how to take an image and split it into two personalities. One side will be dark and evil, the other light and sparkly. I won’t go into extensive details about brushes and such but with minimal Photoshop experience, you should do just fine.

This is a very trendy form of artwork and the tutorial should take about 20 to 45 minutes to complete. If you have any questions, drop a comment and I’ll do my best to help you out. Read more…

Here’s a fairly complete tutorial I wrote a few years ago to get you started with dark art. It should be detailed enough for a beginner to follow, but if you have any questions, just drop a comment and I’ll see if I can help you out.

You’ll need some basic experience with creating layers and know how to get around Photoshop. The rest should be covered.
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Here is a simple method of creating grunge borders for your websites or designs. This tutorial is aimed at beginners, but more advanced users might just learn something.

Once you get the hang of this technique, you will be able to produce jaggy, grungy edges in less than a minute with excellent results. Read more…