May 16 2009

How to create a nice Twitter icon using Illustrator and Photoshop

To create a twitter icon, you don’t have to be an artist or expert in illustrator. By understanding some basic principals of gradients and transparency, you can create an excellent modern twitter icon to use in your blog.

Before we dive in to the steps, look at the final version of the twitter icon we are going to create.

twitter-final

I’m going to show the basic steps of drawing in illustrator and we shall move on to refine and get the final output in photoshop.

May 10 2009

How to import blogger posts to wordpress?

To import posts & comments (almost all data) from a Blogger account to Worpress is an easy process. Well,  to do that we have to setup an account in a remote server (localhost worpress blogs won’t work for this and will throw a SSL error)
First of all, login in to your blogger account in a [...]

May 8 2009

A simple foggy banner for your blog – in 8 steps!

Here I’m going to show you how to create a simple foggy, grungy discolored banner for your blog/website.

The final composition will look like this:

Final Comp

Creating this kind of banners is pretty simple as long as we find some source images to work with. There are advanced montages which will turn in to surreal type, sci-fi and so on. But this one is a basic one so, we need only few images.