May, 2006
Woodgrain Texture
Here’s a quick Photoshop tutorial for creating a reasonably realistic loking woodgrain effect. It’s a quick technique that looks pretty good. Once you learn it, it can be accomplished in under a minute!
Pearls
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to make some great looking pearls by combining layer styles and simple brushwork.
Abstract Background
This is a very simple technique for creating those nice-looking abstract backgrounds you see everywhere these days. Start with a new document. I’m using 500px x 150px but any size will do.
Cloudy Sky
This tutorial will show you one way of generating reasnonably realistic looking clouds in Adobe Photoshop. There are probably better cloud tutorials out there, but this method is reasonably quick and easy to master.