Web 2.0 CSS Menu Generator

This free tool generates CSS menus in three easy steps. You can choose between a variety of horizontal, vertical and dropdown CSS templates, specify the number of links, and type in the titles and URLs. Once you hit ‘Download CSS menu’, you get a ZIP file with the CSS code, the HTML code, the GIF images of your menu, and a detailed installation instruction! Take a look for yourself… Continue reading Web 2.0 CSS Menu Generator

Posted on April 7th, 2008 in Generators | No Comments »

Photoshop Tutorial: How to make the Flare Effect

Take a look at this quick Photoshop tutorial on creating a beautiful flare effect, using, of course, Adobe Photoshop. The tutorial includes a free download of the WordPress logo (Hi-res). This effect comes in handy, not only for the example with the WordPress logo. You can use it in your graphic design art projects, e.g. for fantasy art. More after the jump. Continue reading Photoshop Tutorial: How to make the Flare Effect

Posted on March 27th, 2008 in Tutorials | No Comments »

Web Badge Generator – Web 2.0 and Colorful

Along comes yet another free online tool to create your own custom Web Badge! If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to make a typical Web 2.0 style badge (or button), you gotta hit this website. It gives you quite a few web badge designs to choose from, all colorful and poppy, according to the Web 2.0 trend which, although fading off a bit, is still up and about. Continue reading Web Badge Generator – Web 2.0 and Colorful

Posted on March 26th, 2008 in Generators | 2 Comments »

Photoshop Brushes: Hi-Res Light Strangs

Here comes a new set of high resolution Photoshop brushes by the Vibr8 Bros.! Using the right techniques in Photoshop, you can use these free brushes to create some beautiful design artwork.

What you get is 6 large Adobe Photoshop brushes for the famous design software. The brushes are up to 2048 pixels in size, so for any of you using a version other than Photoshop CS3 (CS2 also still works), you can ask the Vibr8 Bros. to scale them down or release the PNG version on their site. That’s because for versions before CS2, the maximum Photoshop brush size is 999 pixels (or even below that for earlier versions). For CS2+ users though, these brushes are perfect! You can jump to the free download below. Continue reading Photoshop Brushes: Hi-Res Light Strangs

Posted on March 25th, 2008 in Photoshop Brushes | 2 Comments »

Photoshop Tutorial: How to Create Smoke from scratch

In this fantastic Photoshop tutorial from Abuzeedo, you learn how to create realistic smoke from scratch. In 7 easy-to-follow steps, you go from creating your own custom shapes, over blurring them, to making this great effect you can see in the above screenshot. This is one of the better Photoshop masking tutorials, and it works for all versions of Adobe Photoshop. Continue reading Photoshop Tutorial: How to Create Smoke from scratch

Posted on March 24th, 2008 in Tutorials | 1 Comment »