Mole End Design - Graphic Design Tutorials

	This is Mole End Design's Tutorials Page. We have put together a few tutorials which may help visitors with general topics. We'll add to these as time goes by, resulting in a library of tutorials to improve the quality of your artwork, images, graphics and logos. For more detailed tutorials, see our Links page. Here you will find links to download free software, or links to buy software. If you have an idea for a future tutorial, please feel free to contact us. Click on the titles of the tutorials to enter.
	Resize Jpegs with Adobe Photoshop	Taking pictures with quality digital cameras can sometimes produce massive images. If you intend to email an image to a friend or use it in a project, whether for the web, or print, they will need to be resized and saved as a smaller file. This tutorial will show you how to do it using Adobe Photoshop. The tutorial is designed to be used on a PC but if you are working on a Mac simply use the apple/command key instead of the control key.
	Resize Jpegs with Irfanview	Pictures taken with quality digital cameras can sometimes produce massive files. If you intend to email an image to a friend or use it in a graphics project, whether for the web, or print, it will need to be resized and saved as a smaller file. This tutorial will show you how to do it using a freeware programme called Irfanview. To download this programme click on the icon
	Resize Jpegs with Gimp	Another tutorial to resample and save your images. This tutorial will show you how to do it using a freeware programme called Gimp. To download this programme click on the icon
	Adding a dropped shadow to an image using Photoshop	Are you bored with plain images or standard borders? This tutorial shows you how to add a dropped shadow to an image using Adobe Photoshop. The tutorial is designed to be used on A PC but if you are working on a Mac simply use the apple/command key instead of the control key.
	Making a Vignette using Adobe Photoshop	Online Video Tutorial from WatchAndLearnPhotoshop.com This video is a relatively simple tip on two different ways to create a vignette for your photographs. A vignette in this instance is basically a soft-edged border around a photograph or image or simply a fade off of one or more edges. Vignettes can either follow the edge of an image or be curved. This is a very simple effect to achieve and can give a bland or uninspiring image more interest.
	Making a Panorama using Adobe Photoshop	Online Video Tutorial from WatchAndLearnPhotoshop.com Have you ever wanted to take a panorama but couldn't find your wide angle lens? In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to make a panoramic image out of a few separate images using a little recoloring, retouching and blending.
	Making Changes Across Multiple Images	Online Video Tutorial from WatchAndLearnPhotoshop.com Ever wanted to resize a group of images or add a watermark to a group of images, but you just didn't have the time to do it? Well, with Photoshop's Batch processing capabilities, you can make changes to multiple images all at once. In this video, you'll learn how to add a watermark to a collection of images all at once.
	Problems with Rotating Animations in Flash	Online Video Tutorial from LearnFlash.com Creating an animation of an object rotating is very easy to do, whether you do it with tweens or in Actionscript. Unfortunately, sometimes the rotations don't occur exactly how you would want them to, because by default, the anchor for the rotation is the centre point of the object being rotated. In this tutorial, you will learn how to change that anchor point for both tweened animations and Actionscript animations.
	Creating Basic Buttons using Flash	Online Video Tutorial from LearnFlash.com Creating buttons in Flash may seem fairly straightforward--and it is--but there are a few things that many Flash novices don't realize about making their buttons interactive. For instance, did you know that there are two places where you can add your actionscript for your button? Watch this video to find out more.
	Successful Animation Setup in Flash	Online Video Tutorial from LearnFlash.com Creating an animation of an object rotating is very easy to do, whether you do it with tweens or in Actionscript. Unfortunately, sometimes the rotations don't occur exactly how you would want them to, because by default, the anchor for the rotation is the centre point of the object being rotated. In this tutorial, you will learn how to change that anchor point for both tweened animations and Actionscript animations.
	Text Gradient Fills in Flash	Online Video Tutorial from LearnFlash.com Unfortunately, applying a gradient fill to text in Flash isn't as easy as selecting the text field and then choosing a linear gradient from the Color Mixer panel. So in this video, you will learn two different methods to achieve this effect.
	Lightning Effects using Adobe Photoshop	Online Video Tutorial from WatchAndLearnPhotoshop.com Realistic lightning seems like it would be difficult and time-consuming to create in Photoshop. It is actually much simpler than you might think. In this tutorial, we show you how to use a few filters and tonal adjustments in order to achieve a very realistic lightning effect that will look a little bit different every time you attempt it.
	Plastic Text Effect using Adobe Photoshop	Online Video Tutorial from WatchAndLearnPhotoshop.com EOne of the most widely used text effects in Photoshop design is the plastic text effect. There are hundreds of different plastic effects you could come up with, and in this tutorial we will show you just one of many ways to add some plasticky depth to your text.
	Censoring a Photograph using Adobe Photoshop	Online Video Tutorial from WatchAndLearnPhotoshop.com Want to blot out your ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend's face from an otherwise perfectly good picture? In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to censor parts of an image in just a couple of very simple steps in Photoshop.
	Check back soon for more tutorials. If you have something specific in mind, please contact us and we'll try to accommodate.