I have collected some really cool Photoshop tutorials around the web for beginners. as you can see there are 10 essential tutorials listed below. Please note that descriptions has been taken from the tutorial page just to make understanding the idea easier for you.

Idiots Guide to Small Planets

The aim of this tutorial is walk you through the arduous process of creating a “perfect” small planet. It is instead to give beginners and intermediate users the chance to realise how easy it should be to be creative with there photography.

10 Step Lighting Effect

When I added a “buy me a coffee” featured on my blog I decided to use an image I had done when I was showing my cousin how to do the Magic effect. Instead of using a hat I used a coffee cup and the process is basically the same, however this time I will explain it in more details.

Silhouettes and Gradients

Sometimes a print or online project needs an outline-type silhouette instead of an actual photo, in order to illustrate a project. By using the Threshold tool and the Gradient tool, we can make a few unique effects to complement a print of online design.

Craft a Vintage Fifties Letter

It seems everyone wants to learn how to make something look vintage or grungy. In this tutorial, I go over how to create a fifties love letter with stamps, bent corner, and a a retro border using the brush engine, rectangle tool, layer styles, blend modes, and several intermediate techniques that are sure to propel you skills to the next level.

3D Pixel Stretch Effects

Stretching a single line of pixels is an easy way to create special digital effects in graphic design. By taking this technique a step further, we can create wonderful, vibrant 3D effects right in Photoshop!

Design a Glossy Download Icon

The difficulty in designing web graphics is not so much in the actual execution of the design, but more in the planning of it. At the same time you want the graphic to be eye-catching, yet smooth and small enough so it doesn’t dominate your layout. This tutorial will teach you how to create a graphic that does just that.

Add Visual texture in 3 Easy Steps

The use of textures in design are incredibly important in defining a surface. While we can not create actual tactile textures in digital design, we can create the visual illustion of 3D texture. This Tutorial aims to show you an easy way to do just that.

CD Burner

An interesting post about making your own CD cover. Start right now!

Smoke Type in Photoshop in 10 Easy Steps

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a smoke typography effect playing with some brushes and adjustment layers. It’s a very easy tutotial and you will be able to do the whole process in 5-10 minutes.

Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper

Today we’ll create a wallpaper in Vista style. A black background will be filled with stylish gradients decorated with blue and green abstract curved shapes. The techniques used in this tutorial are scalable. It’s easy to turn the final design into different sizes to fit various monitors. Let’s learn how to do it.

Bruxelle (Belgium) is celebrating a yearly event in August for the “La Fete De La Fleur” which means the celebration of the flower. You can see a really huge carpet made by flowers. And we have got some photos let’s see the them.

Don’t count them there are 70 little Anacondas! ;D

With these 6 add-ons you will know how easy graphics can be for you as a designer, it’s easy to install and be notified with newer versions and updates. lets see how cool they are!

1. FireShot
FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages.
Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers.

2. GridFox
Enter GridFox. GridFox is a Firefox extension that overlays a grid on any website. If you can open it in Firefox, you can put a grid on top of it. It’s easy to customize, allowing you to create the exact grid you designed your layout around.

3. Palette Grabber
Creates a color palette for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Flash, Fireworks, Paint.NET, or OS X based on the current page.

4. Web Developer
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. It has a variety off essential tools that allow you to code quality websites and troubleshoot problems easily.

5. Window Resizer
The Browser Window Resizer is useful for testing different screen sizes. It accurately resizes your browser so you can test to see what a web page looks like in all of the standard resolution sizes.
Supports the 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1600×1200 resolutions.
Resize the current page via the Context menu, Tool menu or Toolbar button.

6. ColorZilla 1.0
With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily. And there’s more…

Bill Gates the founder of Microsoft and Steve Jobs the founder of Apple in a face-to-face debate. It is a very interesting debate, full of fun and information.

Enjoy your watching.
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A few days ago, Microsoft launched the first beta version of Windows 7. It comes with many improvements compared with Windows Vista. And here are some screenshots for the first Windows 7 beta version.

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A lot of people are getting bored of cleaning their houses, including me but Roomba 580 is the solution!
It’s a robot but not a normal one .. It can clean your house automatically, it’s an electronic vacuum !

Pics

Advanced Features

• Automatically returns to its self-charging Home Base to dock and recharge between cleanings
• Wireless Command Center allows you to steer and control Roomba from across
  the room.
• New Virtual Wall Lighthouses (3) confine Roomba to one room until the entire floor is vacuumed before Roomba moves on to the next room.
• Faster counter-rotating brushes with improved design pick up more hair, debris and dust and are easy to remove and clean.
• Improved filter captures more dust and allergens while a larger bin holds more debris
• Schedule up to seven cleaning times per week for Roomba to clean when it’s most convenient for you
• Improved anti-tangle technology keeps Roomba from getting stuck on cords, carpet fringe and tassels
• Improved side brush makes Roomba even more efficient at cleaning edges and corners
• 1 Silver Faceplate (to change Roomba’s appearance)
• 4 Beater Brushes
• 4 Bristle Brushes
• 3 Sidebrushes
• 7 Extra Filters

Video

Photo By: Mazda6

I have collected some great Police cars around the web .. We don’t have these cars here, So maybe it’s normal to you .

Well, That’s how they deal with traffic offenses in China, Make it easy make it simple .

Last photo is from retriever-na.com

A short time after we knew that Mozilla is willing to launch a mobile phone version, The version has been released and named “Fennec” additionally runs on PCs too !

For testing mobile Firefox you can use Nokia’s N810 which is an MID tablet, Don’t have a N810 ? take it easy, Mozilla is going to release other versions for Mac, Windows, Linux to get the max users test .

Code Base
The surprise is that Fennec uses the same code base just like Firefox 3.1 beta full-fledged computers.

Fennec Features .
here is some features which are support in this alpha version .

• touch-screen support
• password manager
• pop-up blocker
• Firefox-style tab-browsing interface

Here is a video has been recorded by the Fennec developers .