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.

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!

Photoshop Model Tutorial

This is what you get in this Photoshop tutorial. Learn how to use the airbrush in Adobe Photoshop to remove skin irritations, to brighten up the eyes and to get stunning, beautiful results in the end. It’s not too hard at all. The Photoshop tutorial is by Mizuno and it’s one of our favorites, as it teaches essential skills for Photoshop users. Try it out yourself!

BEFORE: This is the sexy girl you’re going to retouch in this Photoshop tutorial.

AFTER: And this is the direct comparison of the before and after. The girl has been turned into a glamour model, ready for top shelf at your local magazine store. All with this Photoshop tutorial:

Since we last posted this Photoshop model tutorial here on Beeex.net, the site with the tutorial has removed the page for some reason. But we did some digging and found it on another site. So what you get here is a large screenshot of this Photoshop tutorial.

The JPG is 1.9 MB large. You can either click on the link and view the screenshot online, or right-click and download it.

View or download this Photoshop Model Tutorial

Disclaimer and Copyright Notice: We are not the copyright holders of this tutorial. Unfortunately, we were not able to identify the owner, or we would have linked to the original source. If you are the owner of this tutorial and object to this feature on our site, or wish to identify yourself for proper crediting, please notify us immediately. Thank you.

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!

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.

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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.

You see the little icon in your browser’s address and tab bar, left to the name of the website? That’s a favicon. All you need to know about Favicons, you can find in this post. About, Create, Install – all of it at your fingertips!

This well written tutorial covers all you need to know to make your own favicon. Note: you don’t necessarily need Photoshop to put this tutorial to use!

You can view this tutorial here. If you want to read about Favicons on Wikipedia, you can go here.

Also, read our post about the Mandatory Favicon Generator, web-based and free.

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!