Fire text is one of the most classic technique that you can see in Photoshop tutorials. Here is another version here using real fire images, mix with filters and blending methods.

Short post on an effect that I have not seen before. They are shared on 10Steps.SG Flickr Group by Sandeep SB. Later then I realized that this weird effect is made by a plugin called Fractalius.

This tutorial is written by a young Belgium designer, Arno Van Waeyenberg. We are going to learn how to create simple smoke effect against a grungy background by using the Smudge and Warp tools.

This tutorial is inspired by the artwork ‘PAINT’ of Adnrey. It covers some basic techniques on the masking, brush painting and effects of the blending option.

This tutorial will show how we can create a magical 3D flowery text effect with the use of both Illustrator and Photoshop in just few steps.

This tutorial will show how we can achieve a face shattering effect with some simple techniques in combination with layers and blending modes.

One reader suggested that I should post a nuclear explosion effect, something like the one we saw in Heroes. So here is my attempt!