I’ve tried to collect a few photo effects tutorials that are very much centred around one subject rather than a complete photo manipulation.

I saw this old sort of vintage tag on a bed and thought damn that’s awesome, Download it for free

I’ve collected some great examples of space and lighting effects that are quite commonly used in web design these days as inspiration, usually accompanied by vivid colours and streaks of light, which is currently one of my favourite styles.

This is a collection of my favourite Photoshop text effects that look pretty sweet in, I would recommend experimenting with these styles if your looking for some thing a little bit different

You may or may not know I’ve been working on a little side project and now its ready to be launched so here it is Texture Lovers, and a little bit about it...

The new project is actually almost finished and ready to be released its sort of like a directory for textures from around the web but only for free textures that can be used for commercial and personal use without giving attribution, but i need your help!

In total there are 15 high resolution Concrete textures, with the extra details such as oil stains, dirt and grime. ideal for adding some fine detail to a piece of work.

So i say these are ink, and they do look like ink but there actually food colouring / dye , they give the same effect pretty much , but i wanted to give them a watered down feel with strong pieces of colour in some places and lighter in others.

Felix from RichWP has agreed to give you all a special treat he has activated a discount code specially for Design Shard readers to get 15% off any of his themes till 30th of April 2009 just use discount code designshard, you can also win 6 of his themes!

There a lot of space tutorials out there some are better than others, i have managed to try and select a few of what I think can allow you to get great effects that look like they belong and don’t look completely Photoshopped.

I’ve been experimenting with tea bags and water to create some custom grunge stained paper textures

I closed the competition on Saturday to allow for any more entries, There has been a great response to this theme both about the design and the admin features, so the guys over at Obox / from the couch can be really proud of them selves.

Hash One is the first theme to come out of the Obox Signature Series. This theme is aimed at those who want their personal blog to stand out well above the rest with a unique design which has a subtle, stylish impact on your visitors.

Big Cartel offers an excellent resource for indie t-shirt lines looking for a quick and easy social online store. However, as of this posting, there were well over 4,000 shops at Big Cartel. The majority of these serve up some t-shirts and we wanted to share 12 of our faves?

Please excuse the title, Wings can be one of the hardest things to draw other than the human figure, well Gomedia have been very busy and only yesterday released one part of set 14, these had to be hand drawn wing vectors!