In this tutorial we will draw a battery icon in Photoshop. The key here is layer style Gradient Overlay. Using this layer style we can add lighting into the battery and give it a 3D look. Preview First, let's take a look at icon we will be creating. Step 1 Create a ...

Photoshop is a very useful program. Some of you might know it as an image editor. Well that's true, 5 years ago! Earlier version of Photoshop is so powerful that you can create almost anything with it. I do a lot of icon designing lately and it's all done in ...

I'm sure that who chooses to work as web designer makes a choice of heart, a choice of love. He/she decides to bet any given day on his creativity and his ability of producing an idea and of making it tangible, visible and perceptible for all. These crazy men have ...

This tutorial will teach you how to create a grungy icon and save it as a transparent png file. You can see the final result below and, as usual, you can also download the PSD source file.

In this last period on PV.M Garage we have described many trends of the modern Web Design and many techniques for creating stunning and impressive web sites. In one of our tutorials we learned how to realize a nice 3D ribbon and how to play with the drop shadow in ...

During these months I've learned an important lesson as blogger. If you want to start an activity on the web with a blog, magazine or a general website, you must plan a clever action on the Social Networking and Bookmarking websites. Often it's an hard thing to interface a website ...

By this time I'm sure, the superheroes don't have particular superpowers. The crisis are still running and I certainly cannot save the world, dammit! But... I've coded the PSD Template makingSEO and in this post you can read some quick tips used in the psd-to-html conversion (in case you missed ...

I often think at the actual economic crisis, I am a man in a constant precariousness and I look for some good solutions to improve my daily connection with the world. Well, I have a only solution: create things, make unique stuff. I apologize. I don't know the secrets to ...

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I noted that retro is still very popular trend in web design, and my passion for this style is evident. Today I want explain a super-simple way to create a nice retro logo with an appropriate background. The final result, that you can see below, is adaptable for many uses ...