Carpet Texture

Learn an easy method to create a basic carpet texture effect for an image.

Laminated Wooden Texture

In this tutorial you will find out how to very easily create a laminate (or wood texture). It's a very easy and impressive way and the result is just fantastic! So, make a cup of coffee and do it!

Modern Style Gradient

This tutorial unleashes the secret behind the unique modern style gradient often used as a background for navigational text on professional web layouts.

Metallic Background

This is a very simple techique to creating a metallic textured background.

Road Texture

The purpose of this tutorial is to quickly and easily make a road texture, which can be useful for avoiding the studio car renders. You don't have to follow it word for word as many things can be done in many different ways.

Asphalt Textures

Wood and rock textures are undoubtedly very popular on the internet today, and you don't have to go very far to find vast libraries full of outstanding natural beauty. Man's creations, however, enjoy far less popularity and some artists have found it rather difficult to find appropriate resources for city scenes. One particular texture that is hard to find is that of asphalt, and recreating an asphalt texture (complete with road markings) is the subject of this remarkably simple tutorial.

Seamless Tiling

This tutorial will show you how to create a texture that will tile seamlessly. Works well as a website background.

Carbon Hood

Some people even considder this pimping... anyhow, use this tutorial to transform your hood into one made by carbon fibre!

Snow Brush

This tutorial will show you how to create heavy snowfall.

A Barcode

Finally the simplistic tutorial that teaches you how to create those weird barcodes that everyone uses...

Photorealistic Clouds

A simple tutorial which goes through the process of creating realistic clouds.

Wood Texture

Learn how to create an exceptional wood texture finish using Photoshop. Transform your background like wood finishing.

Gradient Shadow to Transparent

Another tutorial on request on how to make gradient shadows to transparent.

Large Diagonal Background

In this tutorial I will show you how you can make a large diagonal line pattern for your background image in just a few easy steps.

Adding Stars to Images

Learn how to add dazzling stars to any boring night photograph, stars add so much to the image.

Diamonds

This tut will show you how to Draw Diamonds and a Platinum Chain.

Thick Diagonal Lines

Everyone knows, or can guess how to create, simple diagonal line patterns in Photoshop. That is... the 1px line patterns. If you need them to be thicker, it gets a lot harder. Take a look at the right for an example of a 1px and a 5px diagonal line pattern.

Instant Texture with the Texturizer Filter

Instant Texture with the Texturizer Filter:See how the texture filter works and how you can apply it to your images.

Logo Embossed in Metal Sheet

In this tutorial we’ll create an effect of a logo embossed in a metal sheet. Start by creating a gradient background. We used green to white to green.

Old Paper to Web Background

Nothing beats old paper to create texture and "soul." Sometimes a battered piece of blank paper will do, but I love the feel of actual writing or print on old paper, but, without careful attention it can compete with your new text and drive your readers away. If a page has writing on one side only, you can use the quickie method in the right sidebar. You can't do this with all old paper -- people frugally wrote on both sides. So what I try to do is fade the ink without bleaching away the tex