I’ve been doing a lot of work involving text in general and there’s nothing more important in working with text then making it look stylish and attractable obviously. I decided I want to get better at including an elegant feel to my text and went off to find some tutorials. Well, I found some quite good one as soon as I started searching. But, then I thought some people may not have as much luck at finding good tutorials as others. So, I went ahead and gathered a few to post on here.

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Dynamic Recessed Watercolor Typography in PS

Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect

Colorful Glowing Text Effect

Gold Text Effect

Glassy Text Effect

Fonts, you need letters for almost everything, except when you use numbers. But, a lot of graphic design, and a extremely large majority of web design, counts on fonts. Now, there are many, many, good fonts out there. But, how do you know which one is right for you? Most that are right for you are more than likely a font that requires you to buy it. Fonts can have amazingly unrealistic price, so, I decided to gather up a few free, high-quality fonts.

52 Free, High-Quality Fonts

65 Popular and Professional Free Fonts for Creative Typography

40 Free, High-Quality, Hand Drawn Fonts

I just recently finally got a Playstation 3, and I wanted to share my trophy information with my friends on forums and other sites. Unfortunately, I’m very unsatisfied with the designs that are given with the real ID cards available by playstation.com, so I found one on a website called Playfire. All I had to do was, since I’m in the US, was login on eu.playstation.com and click update Personal ID, and then Playfire becomes able to access your account to make a card out of it. All you have to do to update the card is update your account. It wasn’t too hard, and they have a lot of designs for the cards. Unfortunately, I wasn’t pleased with them. They were good, I just didn’t like them. SO, I made a template of the cards to make my own design since they let you upload custom designs. ANd, I decided I would post that here. As of now, the icons aren’t on the template and it’s only available in one color. But, I will work on it more to bring more colors.

Click Here to Download the PSD File

Have you ever wondered how some of the coolest looking images on the internet were created? It’s actually pretty simple, they were modified in Photoshop. Recently, a friend told me that I should try making posts about photo manipulating, and I decided to take that advice. So, I went around to gather up some photo manipulation tutorials for Photoshop wherever I could find them. Another reason why I made this post is because, I know you don’t wanna have to search all over the web to find something that can help you, when you can just get ‘em all at one site.

Photo Manipulation Tutorials

17 Photo Manipulation Effects from YouTheDesigner

30 Photo Manip Tuts from Vandelay Design

28 Incredible Photo Manipulation Techniques from SpeckyBoy

30 Photo Manip Tutorials from Naldz Graphics

27 Photo Manipulation Tuts from DzineBlog

Amazing Photo Manipulations

53 Dark Photo Manipulations to Scare your Pants Off
^^^That’s a really good inspiration^^^

40 Examples of Incredible Photo Manipulations

35 Amazing Photo Manips by Aaron Nace

80 Excellent Examples of Photo Manipulation

As you may know, not all people can just go off and start their dreams in design, whether it be painting, digital artist, graphic design, or anything else. Some people need inspiration, so, at least once a month, I will be posting a collection of various inspirational artists that work in various forms of art.

Feng Zhu
Digital Artist
Portfolio

Steve Stahlberg
Digital Artist
Portfolio

Aya Koto
Photo-Manipulator
Portfolio

Ema Rolos
Photographer
Portfolio

Simon Powell
Photographer
Portfolio

Still, I continue to customize my PC. I’ve gone through the theme phase, now I’m into the icon phase. Now, you know you can’t have an “attractable” computer if the icons don’t look good. So, I’ve been looking through some sites, and I’ve rounded up a list of some of the best icon sites that I could find.

IconFactory
IconArchive
deviantART
WinCustomize
IconsEtc.
FreeIconsWeb
FreeIconsDownload
IconStick
DryIcons
IconPot

This was extremely cool to me, I love the style and I hope you do to.

If you would like to view the tutorial just go here.

I saw this on PSDVault and I thought it was really interesting, so I decided I would share it with you.

Tutorial

I think this would be really interesting to anyone who uses GIMP.

Tutorial

Final Outcome