Shiny Lock Icon Design Tutorial

Hello to you all, we hope this following tutorial can be helpful in creating a good Icon design using Adobe Photoshop. The version I’m working with here is CS3. If you follow the following steps you will definitely find your self with the final result. - [Read more]

Tips for Better Summer Photography

The bright and sunny days of summer are often the worst time to take pictures. If you are photographing people in the middle of the day, the bright light can create dark shadows on their faces, or cause them to squint if they are looking into the sun. - [Read more]

Blue Print Layout: Converting a PSD to HTML Tutorial

A while back I did a tutorial called Create a rocking blue print website layout in photoshop which basically explains how to create a website layout in photoshop. Today I am going to teach you all how to take a photoshop document and convert it to HTML or an actual website. enjoy - [Read more]

Create a Colorful Artsy Portfolio Web Template in Photoshop

Hello and welcome to another tutorial here at Artbox7. Today I will create colorful web template which can be used for a product website, portfolio or for a corporate business. As usual you will only need Photoshop as well as some vectors from our Complete Designer Set or those of your own. - [Read more]

Creating A Contact Form In Flash Using AS3

This tutorial will teach you how to create a simple contact form which the users of your website can use to send you message directly from the website. - [Read more]

How To Create A Very Scary But Cute Monster In Illustrator

Monsters, they can be bad and ugly or they can be nice and cute. How is this monster you decide by yourself. This is a tutorial on how to draw a complex monster illustration, I tried to make it as easy as possible but knowledge of basing drawing tools is advised anyway. - [Read more]

The Problem with PHP’s Prepared Statements

PHP’s prepared statements (for database access) are fantastic. Not only do they help secure your database queries, but they’re also particularly more efficient for larger products. - [Read more]

25 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques you Must Know

This industry moves fast — really fast! If you’re not careful, you’ll be left in its dust. So, if you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed with the coming changes/updates in HTML5, use this as a primer of the things you must know. - [Read more]

Give personality to character art using Adobe Illustrator

What’s tastier than an iced doughnut with sprinkles? A whole plate of yummy cakes, that’s what. If you’re looking to create a series of characters based on a theme, what better one to sample than one of Aaron Miller’s delightful confections? - [Read more]

CodeIgniter from Scratch: Profiling, Benchmarking & Hooks

In this 15th episode of the series, we are going to learn about three subjects: Profiling, Benchmarking and Hooks. You can use these tools to analyze your CodeIgniter applications performance, and figure out what part of the code you need to optimize. We are also going to make even further improvements to the Profiler library to suit our needs. - [Read more]

How to Use CakePHP’s Access Control Lists

If you’re building a CMS, you’ll probably need different user roles—superusers, admins, users—with different permission levels. Too complicated to code? Enter CakePHP’s ACL (Access Control Lists). With the right setup, you’ll be checking user permissions with just one line. - [Read more]

Interior Photography Tips and Techniques

Taking attractive photos of interior spaces can be challenging but it’s a skill that any photographer can develop. Struggling with challenging lighting, dealing with a rapidly changing landscape and unknowing subjects are part of the fun and difficulty of interior photography. - [Read more]

Creating Custom Fields for Attachments in WordPress

Custom fields in WordPress make it easy to customize your theme in a variety of ways; plus, they are simple to implement for posts and pages. Attachments, on the other hand, take a bit more work to implement, requiring you to read through and decipher core source code in order to make them work. We’ll be walking through the use of a couple undocumented WordPress hooks in this tutorial to make this process much easier. - [Read more]

Building a Stylish Blog Design Layout in WordPress

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been through the process of creating a stylish blog design in Photoshop, coding it up into a static HTML and CSS concept, and now we’ll put the whole thing together as a fully working WordPress theme. Follow this step by step walkthrough of the various WordPress theme files, and see how the HTML is split up and injected with PHP tags to provide the complete blogging functionality. - [Read more]

Quickly Create Surreal Scenary via Combining Landscape Images in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you how you can quickly and effectively Create Fantasy Scene via Combining Landscape Images in Photoshop. Some steps can be a little tricky for beginners, but why not have a try! - [Read more]

Flash and Ambient Light Photography Tips

Why just use available light alone if it is not sufficient. This article will explain some essential techniques that involve mixing ambient light with flash to help you create great images. - [Read more]

Spring Flowers Wallpaper Photoshop Tutorial

Everything was blossom. So, I decided to make an wallpaper that will have the colors of the flowers. In this tutorial I’ll show you how I’ve done it. - [Read more]

Design an Abstract Photo-Manipulation Using Adjustment Layers

Learn how to work with adjustment layers in order to construct an abstract photo-manipulation. You will learn how to layer adjustment layers and apply the effects to specific parts of your composition. - [Read more]

Design a Modern Portfolio Layout

Learn how to design a modern portfolio layout, utilizing techniques such as a unique lighting-effect text effect, a cool background pattern and attractive calls to action - [Read more]

Wood/Texture text effect

Here we are going to show you how to create wood/texture text effect using layer styles. This tutorial also serves to show one way in which you might create type effects that matches the surrounding photograph. - [Read more]