Tutorials have become an abundance in today’s web 2.0 world. New blogs are springing up each and every day with new tutorials on web design, graphic, design, Photoshop, Illustrator… nearly every piece of software and programming language you can think of! Now the levels of usefulness and professionalism in these tutorials varies from blog to blog, but I do hold my prejudices on certain blogs.

Web Designer Wall is one of these blogs, hosting tons of really useful and great tutorials. I have collected 30 of my personal favorite tutorials on graphic and web design, and hopefully they can help you with honing your digital artistic skills.

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For the technical savvy, internet web forums are the coolest places to hang out. You get to meet tons of new people, share ideas openly with intelligent comments, and you can express yourself in many different ways than you would be able to in real life. Common among these expressive areas, especially with vBulletin Forums, are avatars and forum signatures.

Many of you know I also run a Kingdom Hearts social network while still holding true to be a huge fan of the game. Well I also frequent a site called KHInsider, and love hanging out on their forums. They have a contest called Signature of the Week, showcasing the best signature that week voted on by the members.

I’ve collected around 20+ great signatures that showcase talent in Photoshop and graphical arts, and really shows how impressive and inspirational these signatures can be. If you’re a fan of graphic design or signature creation, check out KHInsider’s contest for even more inspiring forum signatures!

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When first upgrading from Adobe Photoshop CS3 to CS4, there were some obvious changes. The colors of the toolbars and everything had been turned into a generic grey, which united throughout all of the CS4 software. A lot of the menus had also been changed, and new tools and image manipulation items were added.

The one new thing added that really annoys me is tabs on every Photoshop window. Even worse, Photoshop tabbed windows are enabled by default! Now if you haven’t tried CS4 yet I am telling you now, having tabs on your Photoshop windows seems like a good idea, but I’ve found that it actually slows down my progress. My workflow suffers, and I’m sure many of you are facing a similar problem.

It’s pretty easy to turn off this feature, and if you continue reading I’ll show you how to traverse the Photoshop menu’s and disable tabs. In this way, you can finally reclaim Photoshop to be your own again and not put up with these haphazardly placed and annoying tabs.

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We have all worked with Photoshop before, at least a little bit. There are countless tutorials online to learn how to use the basics of Photoshop, and even many intermediate and advanced tutorials, too. These are all great to follow as a beginner, and learning to use Photoshop is a huge part of being a successful website designer.

In this tutorial, I’m going to break down how to create a Template seller design in Photoshop. We’ll be creating a design for a shop called Template Guru, and it will be a site similar to Template Monster and Dream Template. So starting from scratch, learn how to create this amazing web template mockup stating below! Continue reading…