Seasons Greetings!

As the last week before the holidays winds down, I decided to look for some Photoshop tutorials for our staff and thought some of the user group members might enjoy them as well.

• How to create Festive Christmas card with Shining Decorative Star in Photoshop CS5
• 24 Free Christmas Photoshop Tutorials
• 60 Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials
• Festive Holiday Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials
• Photoshop: Christmas Ornament Holiday Tutorial (YouTube video)
• Holiday Greeting Card Photo Border In Photoshop
• How to create holiday card with Christmas balls on the abstract background in Photoshop CS5
• 50 Smashing Christmas Card Photoshop Tutorials
• Bright Tinsel Text Effect
• Glossy Snow Globe Text Effect
• Create Delicious Cookie Text Using Photoshop
• How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
• Christmas Night Magic Scene with Flying Santa
• How to create Happy New Year 2012 Colorful Greeting Card in Photoshop CS5
• How to create Neon Illustration Happy New Year 2012 in Photoshop CS5

Give some of them a try and let us know what you created. Looking forward to seeing you all in the new year! Faye

Phone Gap Apps for Android Devices

From Adobe Dreamweaver's Facebook page:

Want to know how to create and deploy PhoneGap apps for Android devices? Developer Evangelist Kevin Hoyt explains the steps to get started, and introduces helpful tools you’ll need along the way. http://adobe.ly/synDYn

30 Delightful Christmas Photoshop Brushes, Patterns and Vectors

I found a great holiday freebie from a site I always enjoy - Photoshop Roadmap. Their current freebie is 30 photoshop brushes, patterns and vectors. Here's what the site says:

"This set of Photoshop & GIMP brushes is composed of various vectors of common Christmas stuff. Includes an angel, candy cane, dove, gift, gingerbread man, lots of holly, some christmas lights and some holly that work great as a border (you can link them up together), “Merry Christmas”, a few ornaments, a reindeer, santa, a snowman, a star, a stocking, some snowy swirls, and lots and lots of Christmas trees!
They are all extremely high resolution, with an average size of about 2200 pixels.
If you’re not sure how to get them to show up in more than one color, check out my “Multiple Colors with Brushes” Tutorial in the tutorials section.
Oh, and if you’re looking for snowflakes brushes (the vector flakes are also available as Illustrator Vectors, too!) …"


Enjoy!