This is a good tutorial for Photoshop users who know their way around a bit already. You don’t have to be an expert in Photoshop, but you should know some of the basics before you try this tutorial out.

This tutorial takes you from a rather normal image (a picture of an eye; you’ll find all the links to the source files in the tutorial) to implementing more pictures, like a rock wall and a butterfly, to merging them into the final version you see below.

The reason we only recommend this tutorial to somewhat experienced Photoshop users is that while every step is explained quite well, the author uses language like “…lighten the top of your rock with the dodge tool and darken the bottom with the burn tool.”

If you have no idea what he’s talking about, you might want to try some easier tutorials first. If you’re familiar with these tools, and you don’t need them explained, this tutorial is for you!

This is the final image you get after completing this tutorial:

…and here’s the link to this tutorial. Enjoy and beeex happpy!

It’s still January, but you know what, we don’t care! Neither does Bittbox: after a 2-day server downtime due to a senescent hard drive (honestly!), they reward us with three very ’summerish’ vector sunflowers for Adobe Illustrator!

As you may have noticed……Beeex.net featured quite a few things from Bittbox in the past. Now, to be honest, this kit isn’t one of their best ones, but we still decided to feature it. Although it only contains three sunflowers, they are not bad at all, and they can be quite useful indeed.

These sunflowers come as EPS vector files, you can use them with either Illustrator 10 and up or with another vector graphics editor like Inkscape. Alternatively, you can also download the SVG version of the sunflowers.

You can download this .zip file right here. Enjoy!

Your girlfriend has brown hair. You’d absolutely like her to try dyeing her hair blonde, but she won’t do it because she is afraid of the results? Here comes a marvellous solution for your problem: show her how she looks with blonde hair in Photoshop! Like this:

This is Kristin Kreuk from the TV series Smallville before and after tweaking her hair with Adobe Photoshop. Do the same with a picture of your girlfriend – or boyfriend, of course! – with this 8-step tutorial!

This is a very good tutorial on changing hair color in a photograph. The technique you learn is almost essential knowledge and a must-be for Photoshop artists. Here is another example using a photograph of Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives).

Oh, and don’t take our little story too seriously… As a matter of fact, I myself prefer brunettes

You can view this tutorial here!

Pixel fonts are becoming more and more popular. While Adobe Flash developers know and use them for some time now, pixel fonts find their way into static design more and more. Here are our 10 favorite free pixel fonts for free download!

Usually, pixel fonts are for use with a setting of 8 points, or a multiple of 8 (16, 24, …). Some fonts in this list use a setting of 10 points – you can see this in the readme file.

• When you use pixel fonts, you should position the text on whole x and y values, otherwise it will appear blurry!

All typefaces come with a free license, so you can use them for your designs, as long as you don’t sell them. For more information about a font’s license, you can go to the source page listed with each font.

You can download a typeface (.zip) directly by simply clicking on ‘Download’.

Enjoy!

Did you notice our new, cute little button at the bottom of Beeex.net? It’s right under the Firefox 2 Badge and it says “We love Beeex”. Do you know how we made it? Here goes:

You might already have come across these buttons or badges while surfing the web. They are usually used for displaying meta and stats content. Now, you can easily make your own – using this free online button generator!

Of course, you could use Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, or another graphic program to design your own button. But this is a quick and easy way to generate them in just a minute. You simply fill in your preferred text, define border and background colors, and the button generator creates a badge for you to download and use on your site.

You can go to the Online Button/Badge Generator here.

This is a goodie! If you run a website and you want a certain page to be password protected, this is what you need. Sometimes, you just don’t want to go through a CGI Script. So here comes the easier JavaScript solution!

This is an encrpyted password protection generator, fully web-based and free. It gives you JavaScript code to copy&paste into your HTML source code.

This is how it works: name a password of your choice, hit ‘Generate’, and the JavaScript code is being generated. You get code to copy&paste into your HTML file.

Using this script, you have to have a starting page to call the form (where the user has to input the password). Only if the correct password has been entered, the target HTML page opens. Plus: the JavaScript code is encrypted, so nobody can see the password by opening the HTML source.

You can go to the generator here.

We’ve talked about tracing a photo in Illustrator and creating an illustration using simple gradients in this post: How to Trace a Photo in Illustrator. What if you have a sketch or a hand drawing you’d like to trace and enhance?

This time, we use Photoshop. This is a good, very extensive tutorial on how to do just that. It’s not the shortest one, so be sure to take some time to complete it

You can view this tutorial here.

You probably know how to manually create a path around an object you want to separate from its background. Photoshop’s Magnetic Lasso Tool can speed this process up a little for you.

You need to know a few tips though, all provided in this tutorial.

You can view this tutorial here.

This is great. Here come 12 free Photoshop Brushes of grungy, destroyed wall textures – all are as big as 2500 pixels.

If you don’t know how to install Photoshop Brushes, you might want to read this post first.

The brushes look like this:

You can download this kit right here. Bittbox also delivers the PNG source of the brushes!

Here are some very nice and inspiring retro background patterns for your website. They are all tileable and come ready for download in GIF format for both Windows and Apple.

Go to this site here.