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Sitegrinder on Photoshop

Sitegrinder on Photoshop

An excellent Photoshop plugin used widely even by professional webdesigners is the Sitegrinder2. Essentially it allows you to build your site based on your Photoshop creations.

In this tutorial we are going to go through the basic principles of creating a site using the Sitegrinder2 suite.
To begin with you do not need any coding knowledge to build a CSS standards compliant site and …


Creating a Glass effect

Creating a Glass effect

In this tutorial we’re going to have a look on how to create a glass effect to any shape or text. Start by opening up a new work space.

Click any shape you want. Make for instance a circle, remember to hold down shift to make a perfect shaped circle. You can use any colour you want for this tutorial. Once …


Creating a Fire text

Creating a Fire text

In this tutorial we will look closer on how to create fire letters using Photoshop.
First, open up a new document and fill it with black as the background. This is important so make sure that the background color is black. Now, type in the text you wish to apply the tutorial to, we’ll use the text “Photoshop” as you can see below.

Now, …


Create a glossy magazine cover

Create a glossy magazine cover

On today’s tutorial we are going to show how to create professional looking magazine covers, there are several professional plugins that can help you like Pagework produced by Boxwork Corp. The principles shown here can also be applied using the Boxwork plugin tools!
Starting off our tutorial we will need a close up picture like the one in our example. And by …


Turn your friend into a statue!

Turn your friend into a statue!

First thing we need to do is extract the photo we want to work with into photoshop.
A good way to extract the photo is by using the pen tool and zoom in by 400% and by fine tuning you can draw up the exact picture you want to extract.
A quicker way of doing this but also more sloppy is by going to …