Michael John Burns
Role: Designer / Design Guru
Michael is a Web & Graphic designer based in Philippines. He started designing during his teenage years and most of his skills and knowledge are self taught. He's dating with Photoshop for about 4 years now and been flirting with HTML & CSS from 2011 to present. Other than that he loves Coffee and his Girl.
Recreate Google+ Pages Using Adobe Photoshop
Google Plus fans out there all know that Google+ got a redesign that makes it prettier and simpler to navigate. We are going to recreate the whole design. Imitating a design is a way to learn new things and apply it to future projects. What beginner’s will learn from this are how useful Direct Selection Tool(A), Pen Tool(P) and Shape Tool(U) can be in making a website design in Photoshop. If you haven’t added yet 1stwebdesigner into your Google+ circles add it now!.
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Create a Web Hosting Landing Page in Adobe Photoshop
In this week’s tutorial we are going to create a Web Hosting Landing Page layout for Besthost as an example. The template will have a simple logo, navigation, slider gallery, package, about us, services, testimonials and footer. Let’s combine these all together to make an awesome template. I will try my best to make it easy for you to follow this tutorial.
So let’s get started!
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Snickles: Create A Modern Business Template In Adobe Photoshop
Good day! Today we will be designing a modern business template in Adobe Photoshop.. This template will contain a header, slide show, service area, video, about us, testimonials, and footer. What you will be learning from this tutorial are how to achieve that 3D looking interface in just a few simple steps, creating patterns, combining textures, colors, alignments and many more. So get ready and let’s get started!
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Create An eCommerce Landing Page In Adobe Photoshop
In this week’s tutorial we are going to create an eCommerce landing page using Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial is intended for new designers who are planning on designing an eCommerce template. So what are we waiting for? Ready your workspace and let’s get started.
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Artthatworks: Create A Beautiful Portfolio Landing Page In Adobe Photoshop
Hello readers! In this week’s tutorial we will be making an awesome, beautiful portfolio in Adobe Photoshop. The landing page will contain a header section, slider, an eye-catching about you text, what you do, a section for your current project, a footer that will contain about you, latest news, and latest tweets. This tutorial will be detailed so that beginners can follow through. Let’s get started!
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Yana: Learn How to Create an Awesome WordPress Blog News Theme
Let’s say that it’s your first time creating a news blog template and you don’t have any idea what and how to do it. Well, this tutorial will help you create a WordPress blog news theme in Adobe Photoshop. The theme will include a header section, a slider that will contain featured posts, recent news, display posts by category, sidebar, and widgets. If you’re really a beginner you can read and follow the step by step instructions, but if you’re not, maybe you’ll get some ideas from this tutorial. So let’s get started.
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GD Auto Service: Learn How to Create an Awesome Landing Page in Photoshop
In this week’s tutorial we are going to create an awesome landing page for GD Auto Service as an example. The template will have a cool logo, search bar, navigation, slider gallery, login panel, blog, services, testimonials and footer. Let’s combine these all together to make an awesome template. I will try my best to make it easy for you to follow this tutorial. So let’s get started!
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GD-Gaming: Create a Simple Gaming Layout in Photoshop
In this week’s tutorial we are going to create a simple template for a gaming website. You will learn how to create basic highlighting, color combination, alignment, what background works, and many other important things. I hope you can follow me from start to finish.
You have two options: to follow the tutorial and acquire all the techniques listed here, and soon you can design something relevant to this. Or you can just download the file, but I promise you that you will be confused if you just download the file. The best thing to do is to follow the tutorial, it takes less than 30 minutes!
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Template Show: How to Design a Gallery Layout in Photoshop
In this week’s tutorial we will create a gallery layout. I will not be using the 960 grid in this tutorial, the purpose is to show beginners out there how important the Ruler Tool is when you are designing in Photoshop. We will also tackle how to create and use patterns and using mask and filters.
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