You can add flames into any image, but the realism can be shattered if you neglect whisps of smoke coming from the fuel source. This tutorial details a very simple method to create funky realistic smoke from scratch using very basic Photoshop tools.

Contrary to popular opinion, industrial metallic textures are not always easy to create from scratch in Photoshop. This tutorial details a relatively straightforward way to create diamond-patterned metal plates.

Learn how to create a clean logo and overlaying text for your company or design firm.

Even the best industry-standard printers have great difficulty printing more than 50 distinct shades of grey (i.e. 'Monotone'). To enhance this greatly and improve underlying tonal quality, a second color is often added, making the image 'DuoTone'.

This tutorial will teach you how to draw a small pearl in Photoshop using a very simple method.

One effect that people commonly ask about is how to turn a photo into a pencil sketch. This tutorial covers four different ways to accomplish this effect in Photoshop, with further commentary on how the results can be improved.

This tutorial will teach you how to manipulate the flow of particles from a shower head into a tub as particles collide with the surface of the tub in a water-like motion.

Tutorial to show you how to take a couple of images and blend them together to accomplish various effects.

Create an intricate MP3 player style interface.

Create a fantastic fractal effect in photoshop using various filters and blending options.

This tutorial will teach you how to quickly and easily create a brushed metal texture

Detailed explination of how the "Skate-or-Die" poster image was created from start to finish.

Learn how to quickly create a detailed industrial grunge border for your signatures, headers and banners.

A Photoshop tutorial to recreate a famous icon used by Mac OS.

A detailed tutorial to create a professional banner.

This tutorial will teach you how to create a control panel for your basic animations so that you can fast forward, rewind, pause and play the animation.

This tutorial will teach you how to model a basic LCD screen in Maya using some of the very basic tools such as the extrude tool, the scale tool, the move tool, and the split polygon object tool.

You can create a nice Icy Chocolate Effect for your text using some simple means.

Part two of a water drops tutorial which takes you through how to add them to photos

How to create a realistic water droplet effect on any image.