Rich Gates’ Recently Popular Tutorial Posts
Feb 22
Creating Your Own WordPress Permalink Structure For Custom...
The latest feature I have added to WPVote is a page that shows you all pages submitted to the site for a specific domain. Below I will show how I created the custom permalink structure without creating custom pages.
May 19
Create a Killer Gig Poster
A lot of people are making them. A lot of people suck. We don’t suck, and neither do you. This tutorial requires NO drawing talent… so don’t trip folks. You will however need Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or higher and Illustrator CS2 or higher.
Apr 4
Turn an Ordinary Photo Into an Extraordinary One
Great tutorial for taking a common photo and making it very interesting.
Oct 7
Create Your Own Office 2007 Style Buttons
As many people may have noticed, Office 2007 Beta has the new, refined, and shiny look to it. I decided to make a button design inspired by it, and I liked it so much that I decided to share how.
Jul 17
Customizing K2: Part 5
The last in the series of K2 modification tutorials by Paul Stamatiou. This one is all about optimization.
Jul 17
Customizing K2: Part 4
Paul keeps it going with part 4 of his customizing K2 for WordPress series.
Jul 11
Sidebar Tabs for K2 in WordPress
A great tutorial on how to create a tabbed sidebar similar to the one used at http://www.alwaysbeta.com
Jul 6
Layer Masks in Photoshop
One of the better tutorials I’ve seen on layer masks in Photoshop. It’s written so even novices should be able to apply the techniques right away.
Jul 6
Remove a Tanline
Sure, this tutorial may not be something you would ever need, but it does show you some very useful techniques dealing with differences in color and making natural look adjustments.
Jul 6
Smooth Skin
A really good tutorial on how to use the healing brush in Photoshop to improve a model’s appearance. The nice thing is that it shows how to do more of a subtle change than what you see in most of today’s magazines.
Jul 4
Copper Cartooning
Have you ever wanted to know how to create a comic strip from sketches to inking and everywhere in betwen? If so take a look at this tutorial from Kazu Kibuishi.
Jun 30
Illustration, From Sketch to Finish (Part 3)
In the final installment of this series Veerle puts the finishing touches on her illustration and shows you the power of Adobe Illustrator when used along side your own sketches.
Jun 30
Illustration, From Sketch to Finish (Part 2)
In part two of this series, Veerle takes the sketch she brought into Adobe Illustrator and gives it some color.
Jun 30
Illustration, From Sketch to Finish (Part 1)
In part one of this three part series, Veerle takes one of her sketches and shows how using Adobe Illustrator, you can turn a simple sketch into a very nice vector image.
Jun 30
Illustrator Art Brushes
Veerle shows how she takes sketches and brings them to life using the brushes available in Adobe Illustrator.
