Assortment of Graphic Tutorials

Years ago I started creating tutorials in image form so that whole tutorials could be downloaded and people would have them available whether they were online or not. So on the page for each of these tutorials, you can view or just download the tutorial. Your choice.

 
Noise Animation 

In the sample image above the use of noise animation is very subtle but produces a nice effect just the same. The main reason it might be a little hard to see the effect in the picture above is due to the fact that the noise is placed over portions of the white areas of the signature. If used on other colors or darker colors, it is more noticeable. NOISE ANIMATION TUTORIAL


Rain Animation

 

I think that the rain animation makes for a nice effect. The tutorial is pretty simple, in my opinion, and hopefully will be easy to follow along. RAIN ANIMATION TUTORIAL

Glitter Text

This tutorial will show you how to make animated glitter text with a transparent background.

You will need an animated glitter file to work with for this. You can make your own, if you like, or you can download one from the net. I'm using this one for the tutorial:

If you want to use the one above, save the glitter file to your computer then open it in Image Ready to separate the layers.

Transfer the layers to Photoshop. Once in Photoshop, click EDIT > DEFINE PATTERN. That will set the visible layer as a pattern for your BUCKET tool. Select each layer of the glitter file and set it as a PATTERN by repeating the DEFINE PATTERN process. Once you have all three layers of the glitter set as patterns you are ready to begin. Basically any glitter file will work though some glitter files have a lot more animation frames than the three this one has.
You can now close the glitter file animation as you no longer need it.

In Photoshop, open up a new transparent file. In this example, I started with a 500x200 image. That just gives you extra space to decide what size text you want to add.

Add text and make sure that Anti Alias is set to none .

Mozilla Themes - Focal Point Size

The pixel size for themes (previously referred to as Personas) is 3000x200 for the header graphics and 3000x100 for the footer graphics. In one of the Firefox updates a while back, the footer area is not seen by default so these days quite a few people don't even bother creating a footer graphic. I still do and will continue to do so because I have mine set to see the footer area.

So let's take a look at a sample 3000x200 header graphic.

So when I'm creating a design, I have a blank template file saved on my computer. One of things on the template file is a size guide (which I call Marker). Default screen resolutions have gotten bigger over the years. My screen resolution is 1920x1080. I remember when the main screen resolutions used were 800x600 and 1024x768. So my size guide is 1024 wide, like so:

I have the marker available there so that when I'm creating a design, the focal point is within that area. That's not to say that my design always stays within that area though. I've created designs that went the whole way across the image and you can too. You'll just need to keep in mind that the amount of design you or anyone else will see is dependent on their screen resolution. But at least using some sort of marker you know, especially if you are adding text, that the majority of screen resolutions will be able to see it as it is intended to be seen.

What I'll Use This For

For now I'm using this blog to post tutorials that I've created or ones I'll create in the future so that if I ever need to explain something to someone else, I'll be able to refer back to this blog. Would save me from creating the same tutorials multiple times (which I have done).  :)