Create stunning abstract renders, this very detailed tutorial makes it easy.

This quick tutorial will help you create nice looking buttons for your website or you can apply the glass effect to other graphics. I use Macromedia’s Fireworks 8 for my graphics just because its an easy graphics package and I don’t really need all the features of Photoshop, although I have that as well. You can use just about any graphics program to create these button images.

Sometimes you want to take your photos and reduce their colors to grayscale.  This is done easily with one of two methods.  First lets get a photo to transform.

This tutorial is about drawing mushroom in illustrator. Its very simple. and takes about 10 minutes. I’ve used Illustrator CS3

Photoshop can be used for a great variety of graphical tasks, including original content creation, interface design, and texture mapping. At the heart of its functionality there are, of course, also tools for photo manipulation and compositing - many of which are overlooked by the casual user. The aim of this tutorial is to detail ‘vector masks’, a handy Photoshop feature which allows you to ‘cut out’ objects from their background, but without any actual loss to the original source picture. The major advantages to this method will quickly become apparent, and soon you will wonder how on earth you ever coped with the traditional ‘eraser’ technique.

Photoshop is full of handy tricks which allow you to create nifty effects with little more than a mouse and a modicum of patience. When it comes to abstract creation, these effects can add enviable depth and undeniable complexity to an image. In this tutorial I will describe a simple technique to create exceedingly detailed wire frames using little more than default Photoshop tools and a basic knowledge of Photoshop tools.

This tutorial shows again which great things you can do easily with The Gimp.

This tutorial will show how to create a reflective environment in Bryce. For the tutorial this will be the reflection map used in all the examples. 

Animating a Lightning Bolt

This tutorial will show one way to animate a lightning bolt in Bryce (5 or 4).
It uses Bryce 5, Photo Impact 5. 

In this easy tutorial we will learn to create postage stamps using Inkscape

HowTo about creating the rubber stamp above with Inkscape.

We will go for a more realistic and free form approach to illustrate a Palm tree. Though I say realistic, it is relative - as in vector art, you usually simplify and reuse shapes.

Create a Layout in Fireworks CS3

Illustrating objects to give it a 3D look requires a few transforms, unions, differences & most importantly the gradient. Here is a simple circle you can draw. The technique used here applies only for basic shapes and that too for particular orientations.

Drawing hairs in Inkscape
This Tutorial is to show a possibility to create complex structures such as hair with Inkscape.