Typography means a lot in any medium kind of presentation. Whether it’s a logo, banner or just a title; being able to inject creativity into it not only help in delivering the message across, it also leaves solid impression on the viewer. Good typography design is not easy, or should I say getting the type match and speaks for the product is often a very challenging job.

All these tutorials will be really help for you but do tell us by commenting which one was the best.

How to Quickly Create a Stylish Retro Text Effect

In this tutorial you will be designing a cool retro text effect, which is growing more and more popular in today’s design.

‘Bee Movie’ Text Effect

Most loved design last year, the one you’ve seen all over the place over the last few months?

Metal 3D Text in Photoshop

3D text shape and give it a high quality metal look using pure Photoshop

3D Text with Some Extreme Lighting

using Illustrator to create the object, then bring it into Photoshop to add highlights and shadows

Papercraft Text Effect

Wired Magazine introduced on the September 2008 issue a new headline design created by Mario Hugo. Here is This effect into a Photoshop tutorial. Although the effect is a bit different, all credit should be given to Mario Hugo.

Grass Text Effect

Cool looking grass-text effect using a photo of grass, the pen tool and a bit of patience.

3D Text Scene Using Photoshop

A realistic 3D text scene using Photoshop with a little help from Illustrator for the 3D text, Amazing

Reflective Liquid Effect

Realistic text made from water drops and looks like crytals

Fantastic Color to 3D Text

Some neat techniques covered here will allow you to bring your art to the next level.

Supernatural Text Effect

In this tutorial we’ll be creating a smoky night effect on text to give it an eerie supernatural sort of feel.

Advanced Glow Effects

In this tutorial, we’re going to create some really sharp-looking glow effects using a combination of layer styles, the Pen Tool and Color Blending.

Grunge Rubber Stamp

Simple method to create grunge brushes, and to detail how these brushes can be used to reproduce realism in our rubber-stamped logos.

Vanity License Plate

In this Photoshop tutorial designer will show you how to create a custom vanity license plate using a few basic Photoshop tools a piece of reference material and some creative layer stylings.

Wanted Sign into a Piece of Wood

This tutorial is like three tutorials rolled into one. We’re going to make an awesome wood emboss effect, put bullet holes into the wood, and finally smoke ‘em up to a gnarly Wyatt-Earp-just-walked-past look.

Old School Type

Chain Text

amazing chain and screws added in this text effect tutorial

3D Text Effects (Fresh)

aking 3D objects into Photoshop is going to get more popular thanks to the latest release of Photoshop Extended

Transformers Effect

In this tutorial you will learn how to make the Transformers movie text effect while learning to create 3D text and apply a series of layer styles.

Stunning Neon Light 3D Typography

A round, small brush and playing around with Size and Spacing jitter. You can also think a little about adding another light source with nice shadow effects

Milk Typography Effect in Photoshop

The idea is very simple, I used some stock photos and a very blocky typeface.

Smooth Glass Effect

Nice looking translucent glass type that’ll work great on any background, made completely with layer styles.

Bling text effect with photoshop

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to make a simple layer-style for your pimpin’ text in photoshop.

Text on Turf

This is the shizzle fo nizzle text tutorial, creating text on turf!

Wood Inlay Text

In this Photoshop tutorial designer will show you how to create a wood inlay effect using wood textures, layer masks and a few creative selection techniques.

Vibrant Typography in a Rough Cartoon Style

You will not only get an idea of how to create cool typography, but you will also learn how to give it a nice cartoon touch.

Gold Text Effect In Photoshop

In this tutorial, designer will show you how to create a gold text effect. He will use only Layer Styles, and once our new style is created, you will be able to save the style and apply it wherever you want.

Ice Text Effect with Photoshop

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an ice effect completely from scratch using special Photoshop Brushes.

Text Graffiti

Every image is suitable for this effect,  if there is a suitable structure (no smooth walls!)

3D Text on Fire

Swirl Text

Very useful logo tutotial for creating a unique logo for your website.

Here is tutorial to design an Atlantic snowfall wallpaper, If you like the post then please share with others or leave a comments

[2]-Now Open New Layer & then fill with ‘448ccb’color & then select Dodge Tool & highlight the following parts
with the help of Dodge Tool

[3]-Now select Burn Tool & create the following shading with the help of Burn Tool

[4]-Now select Brush Tool & then use the following Brush

[5]-Now Open new Layer & then select ‘2e3192′color in Forground & then create the following Patchs with the help of Brush
Tool

[6]-Now select Dodge Tool & then highlight the following parts with the help of Dodge Tool

[7]-Now select the following Brush

[8]-Now Open New Layer & then create the following snow land with the help of Brush Tool

[9]-Now select Burn Tool & create the following shading

[10]-Now select Dodge Tool  & then Highlight the following parts like as shown below

[11]-Now Open New Layer & then create the following selection with the help of Elliptical Marquee Tool

[12]-Now Fill the selection with ‘e3f3f9′color & then create the following selection with the help of Elliptical Marquee Tool
& then press DELETE

[13]-Now like this create the following selection & then press DELETE

[14]-Now create the following shading with the help of Burn Tool & your image should look like as shown below

[15]-Now go to Blending Options,select Inner Shadow & use the following settings
Photoshop Technique-How to use the Inner Shadow feature

[16]-Now set the 1 px normal Brush & then Open New Layer & create the following Shape with the help of Pen Tool,right click
select Stroke Path

[17]-Now use the following settings in Stroke Path

[18]-Now your image should look like as shown below

[19]-Now like this create the others & your image should look like as shown below

[20]-Now reduce the Opacity of this Layer

[21]-Now your image should look like as shown below & then Open New Layer & create the following shape with the help of
Pen Tool,right click select Stroke & in Stroke Path select Brush & then OK

[22]-Now select Erase Tool  & remove the some parts like as shown below

[23]-Now like this create the others & after that Open New Layer & create the following Shape with the help of Pen Tool,right
click select Make Selection

[24]-In Make Selection ‘Feather Radius’ should ‘0′ pixels,Tick on New selection & then OK. your image should look like below this

[25]-Now fill the selection with ‘00d3f7′color & then create the shading with the help of Burn Tool

[26]-Now select the following Brush

[27]-Now Open New Layer & then create the leaves with the help of Brush Tool & your image should look like as shown below

[28]-Now go to Blending options,select Drop Shadow & use the folllowing settings
Photoshop Technique-How to use the Drop Shadow feature

[29]-Now your image should look like as shown below

[30]-Now change the Brush & select the following Brush

[31]-Now Open New Layer[this Layer should above all Layers] & then create the snow with the help of Brush Tool

[32]-Now reduce the Opacity of this Layer like as shown below

[33]-Thanks for read this Photoshop Tutroial.I hope this is a good tutorial & u can use these Photoshop Techniques in your
Graphics Design Project

This Vector Plus Tutorial is Filled with Creative Instruction and Tips

For this tutorial, we’ll use simple shapes to create a cute robot. We’ll apply various shading techniques to give our vector illustration a 3D style. We’ll work from sketch the final illustration, and cover all the techniques used to make this character.

Tutorial Details

• Program: Adobe Illustrator CS3
• Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate
• Estimated Completion Time: 60 minutes

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This is a Fun and Professional Tutorial

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Adobe Illustrator is a best vector illustration application. Using illustrator you can create cutting edge graphics and give your artworks 3d effect too. May be illustrator is not the best tool to create 3d objects, as there are lots of 3d tools available, but still you can create realistic-looking 3D artwork.

In this post i have collected 35 Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for 3D artwork.

1. Design Gift Boxes Using Illustrator’s 3D Tools

Quickly make wrapped and unwrapped gift boxes using Illustrator’s built-in 3D Extrude & Bevel effect.

2. How to Create a Cute, 3D, Vector Robot

For this tutorial, we’ll use simple shapes to create a cute robot. We’ll apply various shading techniques to give our vector illustration a 3D style.

3. How to Turn a Client Approved Snack Label into a 3D Looking Snack Pack

Starting with a final label design, we’ll use Illustrators mesh tools to simulate a 3D package design. Let’s go ahead and do that!

4. Let’s Make a Playful Yet Robust 3D Letter Design

This tutorial is perfect for the advanced beginner who wants to take her skills to the next level.

5. Create an Open Book with Illustrator’s 3D Extrude & Bevel Tool

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an open book mostly with Illustrator’s 3D Extrude & Bevel Tool.

6. Turn a Boring Bar Graph into a 3D Masterpiece

In this tutorial, you’ll learn to plot an accurate bar graph using Adobe Illustrator’s Graph Tool.

7. How to Draw 3D Pencil

In this tutorial you will learn to create an impression of solid objects with the ease of Adobe Illustrator.

8. How to Make a Vector Military Cap Icon

This tutorial will show the intermediate-to-advanced Adobe Illustrator artist how to make a realistic military style cap icon using predominately gradients, blends, and the Gradient Mesh Tool.

9. How to Create a Rocketing, Vector Aircraft Shuttle

In this tutorial, you’ll be creating a illustration of a speeding aircraft shuttle.

10. Create a Vintage TV Set Icon in Illustrator

Nice tutorial on creating a vintage TV set.

11. How to Create Shiny, Vector Dice in Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will learn to create a set of vector dice using Adobe Illustrator and the Gradient Mesh Tool.

12. Create an Energy Saving Bulb in Illustrator

Here we’re showing how to create an energy saving bulb with the help of the Illustrator’s Mesh Tool.

13. Create incredible 3D type-based Infographic Art

Learn how to use Illustrator to create 3D technical-style illustrated lettering for artwork and infographics.

14. Spice up Pie Charts

In this tutorial you will learn to make 3d pie charts.

15. Create a 3D Push Pin and a Paper Note in Illustrator

In this tutorial, we’ll show the beginning Adobe Illustrator artist how to create a 3D push pin with the 3D Revolve Tool.

16. How To Create A Realistic Pendrive in Adobe Illustrator

Learn to create a realistic pendrive using adobe illustrator.

17. Create Can of Beans

Let’s tap into some of the 3D features of Adobe Illustrator. Though Illustrator doesn’t offer a 3D environment like a true 3D application, it does give you the ability to create 3D objects that can be modified within a 3D space.

18. 3D Flower Pot

Learn how to create a 3D flower pot with this tutorial, including soil and flower!

19. Craft a Delicious Chinese Food Icon

This tutorial will demonstrate how to craft a delicious Chinese food icon set.

20. How to Make a Detailed 3D Vector Tire in Illustrator

In this tutorial, you will learn to create a vector tire with very easy tools and techniques.

21. How to Create a Pencil and Paper Illustration

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a vector pencil and paper illustration with some pencil shavings and a sharpener.

22. Make a Shiny Gum Ball Machine with Mesh Gradients

In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to create a gum ball machine with mesh gradient.

23. Translucent IM Style Illustrator Icon

The shiny and glossy image of ‘Web 2.0′ is right at home when it comes to icons. Follow this Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a scalable vector Instant Messaging style icon with the impression of a glossy and semi-translucent surface.

24. Create a Vector Home Cinema Design

Learn how to make illustrations in perspective in Illustrator. It’s not that difficult to draw a Home Cinema.

25. Create a Fun Icon of Frozen People on Ice

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a fun, vector icon of a people symbol, frozen in an ice cube, from scratch. We’ll explore the usefulness of Adobe Illustrator’s 3D tools.

26. 3D Vase

This tutorial will show you how to create a 3D vase in 5 minutes with the Illustrator CS2 3D Revolve Tool. It is fun and easy!

27. How to Create an Hourglass Icon in About an Hour

With simple shapes, gradients, and vector textures, this simple tutorial will show beginning illustrators how to create an hourglass icon.

28. Use Illustrator to Create a Fun, 3D, Character Logo

In this tutorial we’ll use illustrators 3D tool to create text with depth. We’ll give the letters personality by placing them at angles and choosing a fun font.

29. Create a Milk Bottle with a Funny Cow Label

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a 3D milk bottle.

30. Create a Gearbox Settings Icon Using Simple Shapes

In this tutorial, we’ll create an icon suitable for portraying options, settings, preferences, etc., similar to OS X’s system preferences icon.

31. Make an Eye-Popping Vector Eyeball

Need to improve your Illustrator skills? Learn to make an eye-popping vector eyeball with this intermediate Illustrator tutorial.

32. How to Create a Stack of Poker Chips

This tutorial will teach you how to create a simple poker chip. Once the chip is created, we can change colors, stack them together, rotate, and whatever you want.

33. How to Draw A Realistic Vector Light Bulb From Scratch

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how I build a light bulb from scratch in Illustrator.

34. Make a 3D Vector Film Roll, Drawn In Perspective

In this tutorial, I’m going to share with you how to draw a realistic film roll, drawn in perspective.

35. Create and color an eco easter egg in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to prepare an eco colored egg for easter. Eco for there are no artificial colorants used.

Twisted Monkey Studio Mascot
In this tutorial author will explain the process that he followed at the time of designing by order the mascot in vector format for Twisted Monkey Studios, producers of horror films.

How to Create a Web Site Mascot
In this tutorial, author will give an overview of how developed a character from the initial brief through to the final site mascot and then to go on to create several poses for different parts of the site.

Create Your Own Monster
In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial author will take you through the process of creating a completely unique, memorable monster that’s not at all humanoid in form.

Adding Dimension to Your Characters
In this tutorial author will show you how to add the illusion of dimension to your vector illustrations by combining the effects of Adobe Illustrator’s versatile linear and radial gradients.

Creating Bart Simpson Vector Character in Illustrator
This is a short beginner tutorial. You will use Layers, utilize the Pen Tool and its sister tools, such as the Convert Anchor Point Tool, Direct Selection Tool, etc, to draw and colorize a vector Bart Simpson in Adobe Illustrator.

How to Create a Vector Illustration and Prepare it for Micro-Stock Sale
This tutorial details a professional workflow for creating vector illustrations and prepping the artwork for Micro-Stock Sales. Author also included a bunch of time-saving tools and tips as well.

Creating Convincing Characters
In this tutorial, you’ll learn some basic skills for converting your character from a pencil doodle to a complete, fully-coloured image – learning some crucial Illustrator skills along the way.

Symmetrical Illustration: Thug Bunny!
This tutorial will go through the method of using symmetry in your artwork. Learn how to do half the work but still get the full benefit from your artwork. We’ll also feature a plugin for AI that speeds up your build time and cover the topic of “Opacity Masks.”

Patch Illustration 2
The following tutorial will show how author go about creating a set of NBA licensed embroidery patches featuring portraits of many of the leagues greatest players.

Basic Shading and Lighting
This tutorial goes over the elementary fundamentals when it comes to shading and lighting within a digital illustration.

Create A Vector Art Twitter Bird Character Icon In Adobe Illustrator
This tutorial will walk you through the steps from sketch to vector in creating an original cartoon-style character vector illustration.

Vector Tutorial: Anime Coloring
In this tutorial will be detailed explain how in Adobe Illustrator coloring sketches, in this tutorial author will use anime sketch.

Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Bug Tutorial
Here is one more cartoon characters tutorial in Illustrator. This time you will learn how to create nice fly cartoon.

Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Tutorial with a Wacom Tablet
In this Illustrator tutorial author will explain how using Wacom tablet you can at first draw cartoon sketch and than create vector cartoon.

Adding Gradients to Illustrations in Adobe Illustrator
In this tutorial you will learn how to use gradient tool in Illustrator. Author will explain how to add gradient to illustrations.

Monster Character Series Part 1
First of two Spoongraphics mini-series of tutorials on how to create a set of simple monster characters. This is very simple tutorial, so if you beginner of Illustrator, you can learn some basic tools.

Monster Character Series Part 2
Here is second Illustrator tutorial from Spoongraphics mini-series of monsters tutorials where you will take a look at the Dumb Blue Sucker Monster! Again, using mostly the basic tools and shapes making the tutorial suitable for beginners to Illustrator.

Create a Twitter Style Bird Mascot
Using some basic shapes, effects, and gradients author will show you how to create a Twitter mascot for your blog or website.

Maintaining Rhythm and Flow in Vector Character Design
In this tutorial you will break down the basic process of creating a character from sketching through to the final vector file. Whether you’re interested in creating vector mascots for branding design, or making interesting characters to use in your animations, you’ll find these techniques helpful.

Create a Traditional Japanese Koi Carp Illustration
Koi Carp have been painted and illustrated by the Japanese for centuries and are familiar to people all over the world. This tutorial will take the intermediate Adobe Illustrator user through the techniques and processes needed to imitate what the Japanese have perfected.

A Cow As Chinese New Year Zodiac For 2009
At the begining of 2009 – Cow year, Kailoon.com create special new year Illustrator tutorial, where you can learn how to draw 2009 year symbol – Cow. Very interesting tutorial and result is amazing – very cute Cow .

The Making of a Chocolate Bar Character.
In this tutorial Author take the concept from sketch through to vector final. You will learn how to create sweet cartoon character – Chocolate bar character.

Character Illustration
The following tutorial will walk you through a project, a character design for Fanta soda to use in their Halloween promotion.

Ilias Sounas’ Condomunity Member Illustration Tutorial
It’s basically a character design tutorial like many others out there – just that Author wanted it to be more like an illustration and possibly also an rss icon. Author picked 5 illustrators to hand in an artwork in their own typical style.

How to Create a Cute, 3D, Vector Robot
If you want to learn how to create a rounded robot character from sketch to finished vector art, then we have an awesome tutorial for you.

Happy Sun Character
Learn how to create fun sun character tutorial in Illustrator. This intermediate tutorial is great for logos, children illustrations, and other projects relating to climate change. Moreover, you can easily apply this tutorial to other illustrations, logos, and projects!

Cute Baby Seal
Simple tutorial to teach you how to create a super cute baby seal. At the end of tutorial you will get really nice, cute cartoon seal character.

Cartoon Duck
This tutorial will take you through basic shapes, using basic tools ie pathfinder, knife and eyedropper tools to create a cute duck character.

Furry Vector Monster
Follow these steps in Adobe Illustrator to create your very own super cute fuzzy monster character. We’ll be working with the basic shapes to start, then use a variety of gradients to add depth. We can then finish it off with some detailed fur effects to really lift the design from the screen.

Stinking Zombie Flesh-Eater
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a cartoon zombie in Illustrator. Starting by creating a fresh corpse, we will then ‘yuck’ it up using a number of techniques.

Cute Hippo
This tutorial will show you how to create cute Hippo Character using simple shapes and a really simple effective drawing technique . This technique has been adopted from recent addition to the store of Animal Head Graphic Set , latest addition to the store.

Owl DiNG
In this tutorial we will walk through taking a pencil sketch into Illustrator and creating vector artwork. Then we’ll bounce over to Photoshop and add some details and give it a washed look.

LeBron James Cartoon Character
In this tutorial, you will learn how using Adobe Illustrator create vector cartoons. Learn how to create Lebron James Cartoon Character.

Leprechaun for St. Patrick’s Day
Create yourself a wee Leprechaun for St. Patricks Day 2009 with this Illustrator tutorial. Easy and interesting Illustrator tutorial.

Cartoon Character with Expressive Lines
This tutorial covers the necessary steps for creating a colored multicolor cartoon character that includes shadings.

Cute Emo Kid

In this tutorial we will go through the process of drawing cute cartoon character. The concept is based on the Emo trend, we will go trough all the steps from sketch to full color vector.

Cute Panda Bear Face Icon
How to create a cute panda bear face icon all from ellipses. The great part about this tutorial, is that you can easily apply the techniques to other icons, illustrations, logos, or other projects.

Gang of Vector Ninjas

Constructing a group of cool vector ninja characters using just the basic shapes and a variety of simple tools, making it a good start for Illustrator beginners.

Cute Bunny Vector Character
This tutorial uses simple shapes and gradients that are easy to apply to other character illustrations.

Cartoon Snail
Lean how to draw snail in Adobe Illustrator with some easy steps. Learn how to with Illustrator basic tools create cute snail.

Killer Chainsaw Bunny Character
This tutorial shows you how to build a Bucket ‘o’ Thought character and add a dynamic background effect.

Cute Vector Monster
Follow this Adobe Illustrator walkthrough on the creation of a cute little vector monster character, beginning with a quick pencil sketch on paper.

Grumpy Dude
Create grumpy dude in Adobe Illustrator with the brush tool. In this tutorial you will learn some digital drawing tips and how to fix little mistakes after you’ve drawn your stroke.

Fat Cat Vector
This tutorial aims to guide you from sketchbook to screen; a “Fat Cat” doodled with biro translated into a neat vector caricature. Intermediate knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is advised.

Freddy the Fish
Follow this tutorial to create your own vector character – Freddy the Fish.

Vector Pirate Cartoon Character
By firstly using the power of pen and paper a character design is created, which is then scanned into the computer to use as a base for tracing with Adobe Illustrator. The final outcome is a colourful cartoon character in vector format!

On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at the Macworld convention. It went on sale June 29, 2007 in the United States. It launched in Great Britain and Germany on November 9, 2007.

In the Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference held on June 11, 2007, an announcement was made that the iPhone will be able to support third-party applications with the use of the Safari engine. Third-party software companies will design Web 2.0 applications and end-users can access them through the Internet. So as the iphone became popular third-party software companies jumped in and started web 2.0 application for iphone. I tried to compile 40 best web 2.0 iphone applications and sites.

Checkout the 40 best web 2.0 iphone applications and sites below:

Please note that these are not listed in any particular order.

1. Mobileme

A new service for your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC.

2. iPhone SDK

Develop your application with the iPhone SDK and a wealth of technical resources in the iPhone Dev Center.

3. WordPress for iPhone

Introducing the only iPhone app that lets you write posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on your blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch.

4. Mint

Get your balances, budgets, alerts, transactions and spending trends all on your iPhone! Free!

5. Microsoft Tag

Microsoft Tag instantly connects you to more information and entertainment – without typing long URLs or texting short code.

6. 148Apps

iPhone Application Reviews.

7. TwitterFon

Simple, Clean, and Fast Twitter Client for iPhone and iPod Touch.

8. AppCraver

iPhone apps reviews and news.

9. Fresh Apps

Fresh Apps for the iPhone.

10. iPhone Toolbox

The best daily iphone resources.

11. Greystripe

Rich Media Flash Ads for the Iphone.

12. Please Fix the iPhone

PleaseFixTheiPhone is a technological ode to our favorite phone.

13. Outpost

Outpost brings the power of Basecamp to your iPhone or iPod Touch.

14. Firetask

Managing all your tasks and ideas in a single place.

15. Ego

Ego gives you one central—and lovely—location to check web statistics that matter to you.

16. Tic A Tac Poker

An amazingly addictive game based on the patented Tic A Tac family of games.

17. QuadCamera

The 4th release in the series of our ToyCamera, which you can take continuous shooting.

18. Gowalla

Gowalla is a location-based travel game that rewards you for visiting both everyday and extraordinary places with your iPhone.

19. Parking Apps

Avoid the costly tickets and towing that can result from expired meters.

20. FlightTrack

The easiest, most portable way to get updates on your flight’s status.

21. Mobrise

Top Floor is a mobile client for Highrise in your iPhone.

22. Transactions iPhone

Accept Credit Cards, Anytime, Anywhere, for Anything.

23. MindMaker

Mind mapping for iPhone and iPod touch.

24. Leaflets

Leaflets are small, mobile web-based applications you access from Safari on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

25. Tapku

Manage Tasks Quickly and Easily.

26. Borange

Borange is an iPhone app for sharing social availability.

27. EatRight

Eat right with a daily food diary.

28. Mashspots

Local search made easy.

29. SnapDat

Send & Receive your Contact Information in a Snap.

30. Retweet

Display the most popular retweets on Twitter on iPhone.

31. EyeKiwi

The legal and collaborative speed camera advertiser for iPhone.

32. Boombox

A new way to experience music on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

33. Blog2iPhone

Blog2iphone is a free service that seeks to offer to the user an iPhone version of his blog.

34. Relations Manager

Relations Manager for iPhone.

35. iCursor

The Mouse for the iPhone/iPod Touch.

36. flickr2iPhone

Flickr2iPhone allows you to export your flickr.com.

37. Adrollo

The Best iPhone Ad Solution.

38. Tag It

TagIt Like It’s Hot is a cross platform bookmarking service that provides free Social & Private Bookmarking.

39. i-Yo-Re-Mo

Logical game with a simple ultimate aim.

40. FlightCheck

Choose a country to view flight arrival and departure times.

Wikipedia says “A brochure or pamphlet is a leaflet advertisement. Brochures may advertise locations, events, hotels, products, services, etc…The two most common brochure styles are single sheet and booklet forms.”

Purpose of brochure may vary from business to business. Some are designed to display services, whereas others are focused on selling a product. Brochure is very important part of advertisement so every designer should know how to design a brochure? and it is important to focus on the quality of the brochures that you’ll produce. Therefore i have compiled list of 30 excellent brochure designing tutorials and tips.

Checkout the 30 brochure designing tutorials plus tips below:

1. Trifold Brochure Design Tutorial

This trifold brochure graphic art tutorial features illustrated and text advice for creating 8-1/2 × 11 brochure artwork.

2. How to Design and Layout a Brochure

Learn how to design and layout a brochure in this article for graphic designers.

3. Create brochures that help you sell in Publisher

Microsoft Publisher includes pre-designed brochure publications, set up specifically to provide information about special offers.

4. 5 Tips for a Great Brochure

With the abundance of available software tools that can facilitate brochure design, like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark Xpress, and Microsoft Publisher, many home business owners decide to create their own brochures.

5. Photoshop Corporate Brochure Design Tutorial

This tutorial will walk you through the creation of corporate brochure design for a communications company.

6. 10 Tips for Creating Professional Brochure Designs

The key to making a professional brochure is to stick to the basics. These ten tips will provide the crucial elements for creating a professional brochure design.

7. Adobe Photoshop Tutorial – Brochure Design Makeover

Designers help a publisher cook up a more professional brochure.

8. Making a corporative style – Corporate brochure style

This tutorial will show you how to make a corporate style brochure for some kind of imaginary company. Designer will be using Photoshop CS for this one.

9. Effective Brochure Design – How To Create Brochures That Get Action

What is the purpose of your brochure? Is your brochure an advertisement? Is it a detailed product description-marketing piece?

10. Corporate Brochures: Are Yours Helping or Hurting Your Company?

Desk Top Publishing software does not solve your copywriting and professional design/layout problems any more than owning a wrench makes you a qualified mechanic.

11. Designing a Professional Brochure

Writing a successful brochure is one of the more difficult design tasks. Unlike billboards and signs, brochures have to span three attention lengths.

12. Designing a Brochure Cover

Nice tutorial on creating educational brochure cover.

13. Custom brochure designer

HP application to design custom brochure.

14. The Complete Brochure Online Design Toolkit

Designing your own brochures online, while still a major task, is now very possible with what’s accessible through the WWW.

15. Create a Stunning Car Showroom Brochure

Use Photoshop to transform a digital photograph of your car into a flawless showroom brochure page.

16. Creating a Brochure Cover

17. Creating a Brochure in Microsoft Publisher

This tutorial is designed so that you can set up a brochure format before or during your lesson depending on your curriculum objectives and the age of your students.

18. Pro and Cons of Online Brochure Design

Designing a brochure has been made easier with the advent of online design and printing. There are several online sites that offer the service online and many advantages (and some disadvantages) in designing brochures online.

19. Brochure Design by Rob Kirby

There are infinite approaches to designing your brochure and an endless variety of styles a brochure can take.

20. Take the 5 Minute Brochure Design Trash Test

You only get one chance to make a favorable impression with your brochure design. An effective brochure design that communicates to your prospects isn’t about spending your entire ad budget on design and development.

21. 3D Brochure in Adobe Illustrator Creative Inspiration Tutorial [video]

22. Make a brochure design using InDesign and Photoshop! [video]

23. How to Create a Simple Business Brochure Using Microsoft Word

In this tutorial, designer is creating a brochure for a fictitious tutoring service business.

24. How to Make Brochures Using Word Publisher

Using Microsoft Publisher you can create any different types of banners, brochures, labels,web pages etc. It is very easy to use publisher, no advanced designing knowledge is required.

When ever you write something on your blog you always want to share it with others, even your blog readers want the same (if they like it off course) . To do this there are lots of wordpress plugins available giving readers the ability to bookmark your site to a number of social networking and bookmarking sites.

I tried to compile a list of more than 35 plugins that will let you make your WordPress blog more social. I suggest you do not install all of them just choose one which you like the most or think is the best.

1. Sociable

Sociable is a plugin which adds social media buttons to your posts, and does so easily, and beautifully.
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2. Bookmark Me

Bookmark me is a WordPress plugin made to add the “social bookmark buttons” on each post. It is different to other social bookmarks plugins because it’s focused on collecting non-english bookmarks site.
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3. Bookmarkify

The Social Media Marketing Plugin that lets you put social bookmarking links in your posts and other pages. Help your readers promote your blog and watch your traffic grow!
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4. ShareThis

This is very widely used plugin.
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5. PingPressFM

PingPressFM is a WordPress plugin which submits your posts to Ping.fm. A service which can update more than 30 snetworks from one source.
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6. obsocialbookmarker

obsocialbookmarker is a social bookmarking plugin which adds user-submission links at the bottom of each post for various social bookmarking sites.
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7. iBegin Share

iBegin Share is the 100% open source solution that makes sharing and spreading your content easier than ever, all while giving you complete control.
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8. I Love Social Bookmarking

I Love Social Bookmarking is a simple WordPress plugin that allows your readers to submit your content to social media services via a clutter-free drop-down list of attractive icons.
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9. Social Bookmarking RELOADED

The Social Bookmarking RELOADED plugin for WordPress adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts and/or pages that allow your visitors to easily submit them in a number of social bookmarking sites.
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10. Social Bookmarks

Gives you 50 social bookmarking submission icons to choose from including all of the major bookmarking services and lots of smaller ones.
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11. Social Dropdown

This plugin displays several social bookmarking options in a dropdown. Unlike other social bookmarking displays, this does not cause clutter and takes up little screen space.
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12. SociBook

A really simple plugin that will add bookmark links of Del.icio.us, Digg it, Slashdot, RawSugar, Yahoo! MyWeb, and many other links to your wordpress. You can decide which bookmark services you want to show and in what order. You also can define, a own iconset.
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13. SocioFluid

SocioFluid adds to your wordpress posts the buttons to the major bookmarking sites.
I am using this plugin on this blog. As i like its look and big icons display.
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14. WP PunchCard

WP PunchCard is a WordPress plugin for installing PunchCard into WordPress with extreme simplicity.
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15. ComplexLife

This is a lifestreaming WP plugin.
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16. Follow Me

The Follow Me widget allows you to display links to all your social media profiles in one, easy-to-access button or window.
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17. LifeStream

Lifestream displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it on many of the social networking sites.
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18. Meet Your Commenters

When someone comments on your blog and writes a comment with his/her URL, is leaving more information than you think. This wordpress plugin displays web pages and profiles of those users in the dashboard, so you can add them as friends if you are in the same social network
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19. Retaggr

Using this plugin you can make your virtual business card which links to your social networking profiles.
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20. SezWho

Using this plugin you can make your virtual business card which links to your social networking profiles.
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21. Social Homes

A WordPress plug-in which adds a sidebar widget containing a subtle list of all your social homes as linked favicons.
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22. Digg Digg

Digg Digg is a social vote button wordpress plugin, which including Digg, Reddit, Dzone and Yahoo Buzz buttons wordpress content integration.
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23. Digg This

Digg this wordpress plugin is a plugin that detects incoming links from Digg.com to your wordpress post and automatically display a link back to the digg post, for people to digg your story.
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24. DiggZ-Et

It automatically displays a “digg” button for each post/page.
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25. Dugg Widget

Displays your past 10 dugg stories and make it a widget.
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26. FriendFeed Activity Widget

The FriendFeed Activity Widget is a simple WordPress widget plugin that pulls your FriendFeed stream, pretties it up a bit and shares it with visitors to your blog. It’s essentially a lifestream plugin that requires just a few steps to set up.
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27. FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

This plugin will allow you to display on your own site the comments that people make on FriendFeed about your post.
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28. Stumble Reviews

Allows you to add the reviews that appear on StumbleUpon (StumbleUpon reviews) for a given page to be displayed on that page.
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29. Twitter Updater

The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post.
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30. WordPress Twitter Widget

Twitter Widget Pro properly handles twitter feeds, including @username and link parsing, feeds that include friends or just one user, and can even display profile images for the users.
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31. WP-Profilactic

The WP-Profilactic Plugin publishes your LifeStream or informs readers where to find you online by parseing your aggregated online activity feed from Profilactic.
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32. Hocus Pocus Buttons

Hocus Pocus Buttons is a WordPress-Plugin that provides sidebar widget with a widerange set of buttons for social bookmarking websites.
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33. KnxDT Bookmarks

With this plugin you can send and share your favorites posts (your readers can do this too) to popular social bookmarking services like Digg, Meneame, Delicious, Technorati, Yahoo, Google.
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34. Gregarious

The Gregarious plugin supersedes the Digg This Reloaded Plugin and allows for seamless integration between your WordPress Blog and social bookmarking sites such as Digg.com, Del.icio.us, Reddit and more.
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35. Hey Social

Hey Social is the coolest way to interact with the visitors of your blog,
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If you are already using anyone of above do comment about its usability and function.

There are lots of 3d tools to create 3d effects but creating 3d effects in photoshop is really interesting. Even if you want to create 3d object or 3d typographic design everything is possible in photoshop. So today i have compiled 50 amazing tutorials of creating 3d effect in photoshop.

Hope these tutorials will add up something in your knowledge and you become more passionate to learn more and more

1. 3D Puzzle in Photoshop

A step by step tutorial to create 3d puzzle in photoshop.

2. 3D Metal Text

Create 3D Metal Text with lighting ambience. Give nice effects and shadows to make realistic look.

3. Drawing The Linux Penguin

4. 3D Magnetic “A”

5. 3D New Year Text in Photoshop

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6. Designing with 3D Render Pack

Here is a tutorial showing how to make a 3D abstract art easily. Hope you guys will find this useful.

7. Virtual DJ Picture

In this detailed tutorial we will learn how to design this nice DJ smile.

8. Create a Slick Black iMac in Photoshop

A nice tutorial by Collis.

9. Designing a 3D Software Box

In this tutorial, designer is going to create a 3D software box using Photoshop.

10. How To Render a Dramatic 3D Wood Cup in Photoshop

An excellent tutorial by Alvaro Guzman.

11. MP3 Player Illustration

Design an MP3 player with this tutorial.

12. Create a Brilliant Vector Lighter

Knowledge of the Pen Tool is required throughout the initial steps.

13. Porsche Digital Rendering Photoshop Tutorial

Very nice tutorial from sketching to rendering.

14. Recreate Aquafina Ads

You may have noticed the new Aquafina© ad spots, but if not, go here www.aquafina.com to see what designer is doing here.

15. 3D Can Tutorial

This tutorial will help you create a three dimensional can in Photoshop.

16. Create a Realistic Blackberry Style Mobile Phone From Scratch

A wonderful tutorial by Jeremy Roux.

17. Nokia 5300 Cell Phone Interface

Tutorial on designing a cell phone interface.

18. Using Light and Shade to Bring Text to Life

Light and shade to make a rather impressive-looking text effect.

19. Web Video Player Skin

20. Mac Colorful Design

Learn in this tutorial how to design an awesome wallpaper with Mac logo.

21. Spectacular Grass Text Effect

This is the first of a five-part set of tutorials where designer use Photoshop to make text out of all sorts of things.

22. Graffiti with Photoshop

23. Transformers Style Text Effect

In this tutorial you will learn how to make the Transformers movie text effect.

24. 3D Mp3 Player

25. Zoom Player Skin Design

Learn to create a fabulous looking player interface in this comprehensive tutorial.

26. How to Create a Super Shiny Pencil Icon

Designer will show you how to draw a pencil icon.

27. 3D Textured Text Effect

In this tutorial, designer will show you how you can make a stylized 3D textured text effect using various textures.

28. Draw Funny TV

29. Design A Detailed Compass Icon In Photoshop

Another drawing tutorial for icon lovers.

30. Rendering a Striking Matchbox in Photoshop

This tutorial consists of creating a digital illustration in Photoshop of a box of matches.

31. Photoshop Electronic Torch Light Icon

32. Photoshop Scissor Icon

Designer is telling you about How you can Create Photoshop Scissor Icon.

33. Drawing Kirby

Designer will tell you all the ins and outs about creating this spherific ball of joy!

34. 3D Cliff Text

In this tutorial, designer will show you how to a text that look like it was formed by cliffs of mountains.

35. How To Illustrate A Delicious Ice Cream Bar

Throughout this tutorial designer will have a look at various drawing techniques.

36. How to Create a Classic Guitar from Scratch In Photoshop

Designer will be creating each shape and effect used to make guitar in Photoshop.

37. Green Apple Style Design

Learn in this tutorial how to create interesting and modern wallpaper.

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