The very well documented step-by-step approach makes learning new methods and techniques a breeze.
How to Make Your Tracks More Interesting
You’re a unique artist with ideas you want to express and music you have to share. So how do you make sure that you’re keeping your tracks interesting and fun for your audience to listen to?
Mastering: You Can Do It Yourself (Part Two)
In the last post we covered a description of mastering and a couple of its basic operations, level and frequency balance. This time we’ll cover some equally important but often overlooked elements, namely editing, spreads, and exports.
How to Make the Vector Character “Cactus King”
In this tutorial I show how I create a character I’ve named the “Cactus King.” My normal approach to designing is to create a sketch on paper first, scan and then build in digital form. However for this character project I wanted to explore creating in vector right from the get go.
How To Create An Abstract Body Portrait – Part I
In this two part Psd Plus tutorial, we’ll take a look at another popular web topic. While the entire piece will be build around the main subject, we’ll add lots of eye-catching detail by using self made photos, free online resources, and hand drawn ornaments.
Create a Jobs Board with CodeIgniter – Part 1
In this two-part series we’ll be creating a basic ‘Jobs Board’, similar to FreelanceSwitch Jobs and Smashing Jobs, using the CodeIgniter PHP framework.
Create a Jobs Board with CodeIgniter – Part 2
In part two we’re continuing development on our ‘Jobs Board’ by implementing categories in the listings and coding the ‘Add a Listing’ page – complete with form validation checks.
How to Create More Expressive MIDI Music
A MIDI orchestra isn’t a real orchestra. That might not sound very helpful: you know that MIDI is no replacement for the power and humanity of real musicians. But it seems that despite this reality, many people waste their time trying to force their music to sound as “real” as possible by obsessing over the nuance of every single note and beat.
How to Make the Most Out of Your Vector Illustrations
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to take your vector illustration and prep them for many uses, style them uniquely, and prepare them for sale on micro-stock sites. Let’s get started!
Build a Custom CMS Using PHP and MySQLi
In this video tutorial, we’ll be building a custom Content Management System (CMS) using PHP and MySQLi. We’ll start off by pulling our content from a MySQL database and then build a CMS admin panel to manage our content. For easy content management, we will be using TinyMCE as our editor. I hope you enjoy the screencast.
Illustrate a Sensitive Subject Using Poser, Cinema 4D, and Photoshop
In this tutorial I’ll walk you through a hypothetical brief on creating a magazine illustration. To start off, I’ll show you how to painlessly export/import Poser meshes into Cinema 4D, where you’ll perform a Boolean operation.