Tags: tutorial
Glossy Carbon-Fiber Nav Buttons
September 25th, 2008
I'm a gigantic tutorial whore when it comes to any of the Adobe apps... It can be the simplest thing, or the most complex task, but I love reading them and trying out new techniques all the same.
I can across this excellent tutorial today that discusses how to create the glossy navigation look for your site in photoshop.
Its short and sweet, and if you've never used these techniques before, quite cool...
Flash AS3 Pre-Loader Made Easy
September 18th, 2008
One of my favorites, the Flash Blog, posted a link a few days ago to this great tutorial on creating a very simple Actionscript 3 based Flash preloader that I think you'll find useful.
The tutorial is clear and concise, and as an added bonus its a video... 
Check it out!
Digital painting help and inspiration
May 28th, 2008
I'm a big fan of the web site deviantart.com for a whole lot of reasons, not the least of which is because it has a highly-active user community that fosters a high degree of cooperation and collaboration amongst users.
I was searching for a good set of Photoshop drawing brushes on the site (of which many exist and are free to use for non-commercial purposes, as long as credit is given to the creator) when I stumbled on this fantastic digital art tutorial by the user aquasixio. If you're like me, you'll knit-pick at the his spelling until you realize he's French and probably doesn't speak great English to begin with.
Anyhow, the tutorial taught me a lot of little things I thought I knew and really helped me get excited again about art in general and digital art in particular. Even better is the fact that deviantart is chock full of tutorials like this one, and although some are honestly of dubious quality or usefulness (an inherent weakness of peer-controlled content environments), all will serve to get your creativity going I'm sure.
And if you have time, stop by my little corner and say hi. 
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