www.mickm.com Tutorials

Visible Watermark
A handy tip for all designers out there. How many times has your work been ripped? Well, not anymore after you paste your own watermark on it.

Random Metal Text
This tutorial will show you how to achieve this random metal-effect.

MickM.com Bubbles
Create the bubbles used in the layout for version 6 of MickM.com. Make easy orbs with a nice smooth shade.

Indented Text
Make this very easy indented text to make it look like a piece of the text has been cut out to make room for the other text.

Cracked
How to create realistic cracks in an object. Learn how to draw your own broken object and draw simple cracks to make your object look like it has had it's glory-days...

Pattern Background
This nifty tutorial will teach you how to make repeating pattern backgrounds. This tutorial will use standard shapes only, so everyone can make it.

iPod-nano
Learn how to create the newest iPod: the Nano.

Anime Eyes
This is a perfect, but hard tutorial, on how to draw eyes for your anime-drawing. This may take some time and effort, but after this tutorial, you can experiment and make up your own variations.

Tracing Cartoons
When you have a screencapture of bad quality, what do you do? Find another? NO, you remake it even better. Use this tutorial to RE-draw you favorite cartoons to give them that vector look you always wanted.

Airbrush with the Mouse
This is a very tough tutorial on how to airbrush someone. I normally use a Wacom for this, But I will show you that you can also simply make one with the mouse and the Gaussian Blur-filter! It may take some time, but the result is nice.

Upgrade your Art
Make your dull doodles look even cooler with this WoW-like concept art technique. You only need to change the background and the mood it set.

Shadowing Anime
After coloring Anime, now we are gonna shadow it. With shadows, it will look even better. This is a very simple tutorial if you know how to use the pen-tool.

Carbon Fibre
Learn how to transform your hood into one made of carbon fibre, just like in NFSU2.

Layer Palette
This is a must-see for every newbie in Photoshop. This tutorial will teach you all the buttons, actions and benefits of the precious layer-palette.

The Pen-Tool
Pick up some pointers regarding the pen tool.

Vector Melon
This technique was used to create the logo of a company. Now you can learn how to make those vectorized melons.

Gnarls Barkley Inkblots
Everybody has seen the video Crazy... here is how to achieve the vector-inkblot effect that was used in this video from Gnarls Barkley.

Smooth Edges
Learn how to get rid of those nasty sharp edges.

Dragonball
Learn how to create the Dragonball from the cartoon DragonballZ.

Flash Logo
Recreate the Macromedia Flash orb.