Learn how to draw an awesome Vista style vector pen using the Photoshop Pen Tool and Blending Options. You can view the tutorial here.

 Learn how to give your car a whole new paint job by using a number of selection and fill techniques in our latest Photoshop Tutorial.

 This tutorial is going to teach you how to draw and color an awesome Vista styled mouse in Photoshop using the Pen Tool by applying some various shading and highlighting techniques.

As look forward to the new year 2009, we thought we’ll show you the most popular tutorials we published in 2008! We hope that you enjoyed reading these as much as we enjoyed writing them.

Flash ActionScript Tutorial

The most popular tutorial which was published in 2008 was our famous Flash XML Image Gallery, with close to 100,000 page views on its own, this tutorial teaches you in a detailed step-by-step guide how to create a Flash XML image gallery using ActionScript 2.0 which you can update and configure by manipulating the XML file.

Creating a Basic Flash Website is probably the most sought after subject ever, our tutorial will teach you how to create your first full-Flash website using ActionScript 3.0.

3D Studio Max Tutorial

Another basic tutorial which was viewed thousands of times is the tutorial on how the poly modeling technique  to create a fine pen in 3D Studio Max. This technique could be utilized in all sorts of projects.

This tutorial will teach you an advanced technique for creating a missile animation that tracks a target object by using the Particle Flow Source System.

Photoshop

Learn how to create your own Patters Using Photoshop and then apply it for the Paint Bucket, Pattern Stamp, Healing Brush, and Patch tools, as well as in the Layer Style dialog box.

Create funky Rich Flame Swirls using the Blur and the Shear Distort Filters. 

Website of the Year

Out of the 12 selected “Website of the Month” winners, we are blown away by the awesome website of Samuel Eschiavo. It won our hearts by its innovative concepts and nice integration of video, vector graphics, and sounds.

These were our ultimate highlights of the year 2008, we wish you a happy new year and the best of luck in 2009!

(You can view our last year’s list here)

 This Photoshop tutorial will teach you a simple technique to enhance the colors of your image making it more vivid and alive. The image is going to be retouched using Layer Blending Modes and a slightly visible Gaussian Blur.

 This is a popular Photoshop trick that is easy to understand. In this tutorial, you will learn how to take a photo and single out one object to create that classic mono color look.

 In this tutorial we’re going to talk about an optional color cast removal technique and the Photo Filter option in CS3, as well as painting with Layer Masks to control the filters applied.

 Here’s a little Photoshop trickery to convert your digital photos using shapes and layer styles. This is a handy technique for spicing up your website or creating custom cards for special events and occasions. Click here to view the tutorial.

 Here is a fun tutorial on how to create a Forum signature in Photoshop to impress the rest of the members of the community.

 This tutorial will demonstrate yet another technique for converting your color photographs to black and white using Photoshop’s powerful new Camera Raw tools.