Ahh, Illustrator; the promised land. Free from the hackles of bitmap… stretch out your vectors until you run out of screen….and beyond. How many times you wanted to take a piece of design and make it bigger? How many times did somebody say: “hey could you make that like…10 times bigger?” You can! Not with raster art though. It needs to be vector. Which brings us to a first issue. Just what the heck are vectors? Aside from stuff related to rockets and missiles and such, vectors (when speaking about graphics) are scalable pieces of art. A notable difference between raster and vector would be that you can “stretch” a piece of vector art as much as you want without having ugly jaggies invade your drawing. The technical explanation is out there…but for now suffice it to say that vectors can be scaled up without loosing quality.

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to do gaussian blur overlays using The GIMP. This is an interesting technique that intensifies and saturates the colors in the image, increases contrast, and adds a slightly hazy, “dreamy” feel to the image.

The basic technique is to create a duplicate layer in the image, lighten it and blur it, and combine it using a layer mode with the original.

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a “digital” neutral density (ND) filter for your image in The GIMP.
 
Seasoned photographers are familiar with the split-ND and graduated-ND filters (example at right). These filters have the effect of reducing the exposure over part of the image being taken in either a graduated or abruptly graduated (split) way.

Here, I will show how to make 3-d model furniture glass-top table.

Here we’ll create a wooden woman.

Audio players are very popular these days on the web. Flash audio players have added functionality (and visual effects) not possible in standard streaming audio players - giving you the ability to create your own customized players with any design you can imagine. Sure, it’s easy enough to turn audio the audio off by using the ‘stopAllSounds’ action, but what about letting the viewer increase or decrease the volume of the audio? Easy, make a volume control slider!

Besides creating a simple Master Page, your document can also utilize multiple Master pages at any time and anywhere in your document. Follow along with these helpful tips.

This is an easy and nice GIMP trick, so easy that anyone can follow it just with a bit of patience, and I try to present it in to the very detail for beginners.

Text glow without filters in Paint Shop Pro

A friend of mine requested that i make a simple yet cool Vista style button tutorial for gimp, here it is.

Easy reflection tutorial for Gimp.

a great blog theme design created in gimp.

This tutorial is going to show you how to create a heartbeat electrocardiogram animation just like the ones that are generated in medical observation equipment. The idea behind this tutorial is based on a masked motion tween that is duplicated several times. Of course this heartbeat animation is not exactly realistic in terms of a normal human heart, but you are going to learn the concept of creating such an affect through out the tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to create modern photo effect using the mask and some special flash tips and tricks. You don’t have to use action script code to make this tutorial. This effect is very attractive, but in the same time very easy for create.

Flying Pig and Magic Wand - Create funny animation and Magic Wand loop