This simple tutorial for Adobe InDesign is about wrapping text around images – and making it ‘change-safe’. This applies when you place an image in InDesign, wrap text around it, and then modify the image colors. If you use dynamic wrap without paying attention to this useful tip, you may find that InDesign created a new dynamic wrap around your image, using the new image settings. This can turn your layout into a total disaster.

This is also of importance for prepress. When you send your press-ready documents to your printer, and they make color adjustments before printing it, the alpha channels of your image might change, resulting in an altered dynamic wrap path for your copy.

Luckily, we have the possibility of preventing this. And it’s quite easy, as well! All you have to do is change the dynamic wrap into a custom path. “Make it un-dynamic”, so to speak. You can do that easily by following this tip!

You can go to this tutorial here.

In this post, we have a great tutorial for you about how to create your own brushes in Photoshop. It is a part of a series, the other parts are:

The differences between brushes and patterns in Photoshop,
Photoshop Brushes: install and create,
Photoshop Patterns: install, create #1 and #2.

How to create your own Photoshop brushes

In this part, we cover the basics of creating your own, custom Photoshop brushes from a pre-existing photograph or image. The tutorial by Bittbox covery not only the basics, but also gets into details about using the right settings and parameters, and also which common mistakes to avoid.

This tutorial is very well written detailed and enough to give you the knowledge you need to make your own brushes. Take a look at all of the possibilities you’ve got with custom brushes!

You can view this tutorial here. You can also find the other parts of this series on Photoshop brushes and patterns at the top of this post. 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.

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Here come 28 nice swirls and swooshes for Illustrator. The brushes are in an .ai file ready for use.

Download this kit here!

We also have a very interesting post on creating your own Illustrator brushes. View it here.

This post is about creating and applying custom patterns in Photoshop. It is a part of a series, the other parts are:

The differences between brushes and patterns in Photoshop,
Photoshop Brushes: install and create,
Photoshop Patterns: install, create #1 and #2.

How to create and apply Custom Patterns in Photoshop

Here are two quick and easy tutorials on creating a grid effect in Adobe Photoshop by using custom patterns. You can use this technique to make your own patterns.

Both tutorials are quite the same, only the pattern varies. We included both into this one post to show you the power of Photoshop. You can create just about anything using this technique!

Tutorial #1:

View this tutorial here.

Tutorial #2:

View this tutorial here.

Here comes the 2nd set of free Illustrator Swirls and Curls from CreateSk8! You can find the first one here. This time, the kit contains ‘elementals’.

To use in Illustrator, simply open the contained ‘brushes’ file and save the palette for future use.

You can find this free brush kit here.

Here come 22 beautiful curly, swirly and swooshy Illustrator Brushes for your convenience! You’ll need Adobe Illustrator to use this kit.

Once you open the .ai file in Illustrator, the brush kit is loaded onto your brushes palette atuomatically. You just have to save it in the options menu of the palette to access the brushes every time you open Illustrator.

You can download this kit as zipped AI or EPS from here.

If you’re looking for a Illustrator Brushes, you’ve come to the right place. This is a hair brush kit from jlw design.

It comes in different files for all Illustrator versions 8+. The files are the brush source. Once you open the .ai file, you’ll see the brushes on your artboard. They are also in the brushes pallette; all you have to do is click on the palette options menu (to the upper right of the palette) and select “Save library as…”. Now, you can access the brushes from every other document by opening this library.

Download these hair brushes in a .zip file here!

Ever wanted to know how to make brushes in Illustrator? Expecially these trendy swooshes and swirls? Take a close look: Bittbox explains it to you step by step.

This tutorial is very good for starters, but you should already know a few basics about Illustrator. You can find all you need here on Beeex.net, by using the menu to the right and clicking on the Illustrator category.

You can view this tutorial here.

Are you looking for fancy header designs? Look here! Glassy, Swirly and swooshy – yet very decent and subtle they are… And of course, just like everything on Beeex.net, completely free!

These come from Bittbox and are perfect for customization: they come as vector files (AI and EPS). Also included are SVG and PNG files for direct usage. Download below.

You can download the .zip package file here.