A friend of mine ask me a favor to transform his work into something like a gold medal, it was 1 o'clock AM and I'm a little sleepy and since I'm only waiting for my download completion I decided to kill some time.

He send me a bitmap file and told me that he made it using Microsoft paint, I do already have an idea on how to transform and make it more metallic, but I'm not a kind of person who receives a lot medals so I need to research more about how it looks like. (joke)

Anyway here's a copy, you can use it for this tutorial.

This is my list of Web Design Articles and Tutorial for May 2009, I'll be sharing my list every month and categorize them every six months by CSS, typography, Flash , photoshop and Web Design in general.

I might have missed some of them but for sure these listings are worth reading for, if you like my list then you might want to bookmark this and stay tune for my List of Web Design Article and Tutorials for April 2009.

When your client can't provide a vector base logo or even a high resolution raster base format everything seems to be delayed, sometimes they have it hand drawn on a paper and you are asked to recreate it digitally, and its a big time lag. (unless it was really part of the job.)

There are plenty of ways for recreating a logo, one is using vector magic as what I have written on my previews article about recreating raster into vector (but that wont work if the original copy really are in bad condition), second would be tracing it using vector base software such as illustrator and the third one would be recreating the logo using high resolution raster base software.

What we are going to do here is converting the logo into a vector after you produce the high resolution raster copy.

If you are into graphic and web design I'm sure you've bumped into something like Raster and Vector images, photograph are example of Raster images, they are also known as bitmap or Jpegs, the original animated cartoon on it's raw file are actually a vector base but when they are converted into a movie file they became raster images.

Until now the war between raster and vector base hasn't been settled specially when it comes to logo, I'm in favor of using vector base software when creating a logo specially if the clients are asking for a quality that will be printed out as brochures and/or into a 20 foot high billboards.

After I decided not to post anything because of sluggish server struggling for almost 2 weeks I finally came back, and now I'm going to teach on how to convert a green landscape into a semi winter, we don't have winter season here so I don't really know how it looks like but I guess this is more like it so bring out some photos and we are going to transform those into winter landscape.

I use a photo I found on flickr under CC license by Other Neither.

This is my list of Web Design Articles and Tutorial for APRIL 2009, I'll be sharing my list every month and categorize them every six months by CSS, typography, Flash , photoshop and Web Design in general.

I might have missed some of them but for sure these listings are worth reading for, if you like my list then you might want to bookmark this and stay tune for my List of Web Design Article and Tutorials for May 2009.

Ok! on this tutorial we are going back to basic, yep this is definitely a basic tutorial on how to add a soft focus and brings you a rich color improvements, it has been used a lot on wedding photos , using this effect alone can make all your photo looks great, your client will surely be amaze and astonished as long as your client didn't saw the process. (lol)

First download the photo of Japanese Cherry blossom also known as sakura on flickr, or you can use your own, it could be a wedding, vacation trip or your love one.

We used to see this icon on a lot of DVD's and CD's, there is a T for teens, E for everyone, M for mature and A for adults, it was the ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board) content rating icons, this icon was so simple yet where ever you paste it what ever the background color was, It magically fits any theme.

If you want to look at them you can find them on google image search.

On this tutorial I'm going to show you how you can create a look a like design of ESRB icons.

On this tutorial I'm going to show you how to create a simple yet amazing way to add frames on your photos, you can use feathers, marble, flowers ,leaves and the like, just be sure it fits the ambience so it won't look weird.

As for this tutorial we will be using ‘Grass' as our frame and Wedding as our theme, for sure flower suits our theme so make sure to have one ready.

First, download our grass which I found on flickr, This was the best grass texture I found on internet considering it was a free to use under CC license.

Then grab a nice wedding photo, I also found one on flickr which by chance fits the theme perfectly.

Preloaders are one of the most significant element that a flash designer should always consider; approx. 10% of people leave your site when it takes more than 10secs to load, And 70% of people step away on flash sites when they saw an ugly preloaders, preloaders reflects the entire site, that's one of the main reason why we should make our preloader looks simple and interesting.

In This tutorial I'm going to show you how to make a simple preloader and since this is a preloader I then decided to include an invisible content which equivalent to 1mb, this is for the sake of previewing the preloader.

If you want to preview the preloader once more you need to clear your cache.