Various high resolution abstract light streaks.

Clouds and overcast skys, taken with a Nikon D40 camera. [English Translation]

This first set takes us to the beach. We’ve actually looked for good beach textures before, and they’re hard to find.

Learn to apply the Warp Tool effectively and a few other tricks to make smoke look like a skull. This technique has a variety of outcomes and works well with water, clouds and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Today we are going to take an object/text, change it from 2-D to 3-D and give it some realistic effects. We are going to be using Illustrator to create the object, then bring it into Photoshop to add highlights and shadows.

I would like to share one simple but interesting way to create cool textures for your website in minutes.

Wood textures can add more natural feeling to your artworks. Wood textures can be used as backgrounds or apply them to objects.

You can never have too many old paper textures.

Traditional Irish Pub web site, some flash but mostly HTML pages

There are plenty of ways to create a Watercolor Effect in Photoshop. Some are very cheesy and you can easily tell that a simple filter has been used. In this tutorial, we will be using Layer Masking.