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Last September, I created an image for the International Compost Awareness Week poster contest. I planned to take a stock photo of a person cupping compost in their hands and having an actual tree (in small scale) growing from within the compost. I spent a lot of time looking for stock photos with trees on …

Today I’m going to walk you through the steps to create a StickyNote paper with realistic shadow using Photoshop CS3. This tutorial will work with any version of the Creative Suite too, you’re tools may be located slightly different however. I also have the Photoshop CS3 file for download at the end if you’d prefer …

I recently searched for a Polaroid Image template to use for a project and found a tutorial for creating a collage of Polaroid images from one stock image. This gave me an idea on how to integrate their idea within my design. I quickly lost interest in the tutorial as it was overly complicated and …

I’ve been playing around, taking pictures of objects and I like the look of this Logitech Wireless mouse. I decided to give away the full-resolution image as a Stock Photo for you to use. The photo is 2329 x 1814 at 180 dpi (roughly 13 in wide x 10 in tall) Download: (985 KB ZIP)

I was surprised recently when I couldn’t find any hi-res leather textures for a project that I was working on. As a result, I got my hands on some actual leather hides and started photographing them. I wanted to share these with others who may also need leather textures for one reason or another. I …

Media Militia (www.mediamilitia.com) is a great place for tutorials and freebies; and they have really outdone themselves this time with a 75-pack of free smoke textures! Simply amazing is how I describe it! Check it out here: http://mediamilitia.com/smoke-pack-75-free-images/