Create a magical cartoon style sparkling effect on your favorite picture!

1. Document Creation Get started by finding a nice, suitable stock photo to work with. For this you'll want to use one of the following websites:

In this tutorial you will see howyou can curve some words on a wooden surface by the means of Adobe Photoshop.

This tutorial will show you how to create a realistic fire effect.

However in this tutorial I will show 4 ways to create swirls, and by mixing them you will learn some very powerful techniques that will allow you to easily make tons of different styles of swirls and crazy sperm vectors.

Without a doubt, the best new feature in After Effects CS3 is the Vanishing Point Exchange with Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. Creating very believable 3D movements from quite simple 2D digital photographs has to be seen to be believed, and the best thing is it's a pretty easy process. However, ther....

OK. So for those of you who want to do everything by yourself, here is the tutorial, or should I say - a recipe!

So, I tried to make this tutorial as detailed as possible, but wanted to keep it simple at the same time. Not quite sure if I succeeded but that's where you come in. Leave some feedback as I aim to make perfect tutorials - eventually :)

This quick tutorial is an extremely useful and easy way to give any object a grunge effect. Best of all you can move the grunge layer in real time until you are satisfied with the look.

Learn how to make this great techno-effect in photoshop.