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.

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 come some free nice, glossy and shiny vectors for you. They are glass/metal buttons, or icons.

Thanks to Bittbox for these! As they are vectors, you need a vector program like Illustrator or Inkscape to use them; but they also come as SVG and PNG files – ready to use.

You can download the .zip pack including AI, EPS, SVG and PNG files from here.

This is a follow-up on our previous post about how to make glass buttons in Illustrator. While that covered basic, round buttons, this tutorial is about making more sophisticated buttons, and bars.

The tutorial also includes the vector source file for Illustrator.

View this tutorial 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.

Learn how to make a stamp in Illustrator in 3 simple steps. You need to have an artwork for this, or a picture or photo which you can use as the stamp image. Here, you get to know how to make a stamp out of it.

Thanks again to Nick La of Ndesign Studio for this tutorial!

You can go directly to the tutorial here.

This is a very easy, 3-step tutorial on making stylish glass buttons in Illustrator.

There are different ways to do glass buttons, using different programs like Photoshop, but we prefer this way.

You can view this tutorial right here!