Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of December. You’ll find everything from a Minimalistic Poster Designed in Photoshop, to creating a Clean 3D Notepad. So what are you waiting for…why not try one out?

Text Effects

Realistic Golden Text in Pixelmator

Create Colorful, Layered Paper Type in Illustrator

How to Design a Print-Ready Flier with Photoshop and Illustrator

Colorful Glowing Text Effect in Photoshop

Beautiful Xmas Wallpaper in Cinema 4D and Photoshop

Basic Candy Cane Text Effect in Photoshop

Great Gooey Photoshop Text Tutorial

Wallpaper and Poster Design

Minimalistic Poster Design in Photoshop

How to Create a Retro Hippy Van Poster in Photoshop

How to create abstract colorful rainbow background

Create a Google Phone Styled Background in 6 Easy Steps

Logo Design

Abduzeedo 2010 Logo Design

Reader Tutorial: Geometric Flower Effect Logo in Illustrator

Photo Manipulation + Effects

How to Make a Melting Camera Scene

Create a Vivid Themed Illustration Using Simple Hand-Drawn Elements – Part I

How to Create Cityscape Concept Art

How to Create Glass Transparency in a Cute Photo Manipulation

How to Create a Colorful Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Realistic View Water Reflection

iPhone Gift Ribbon

Web Layout Design

How to Make a Highly-Textured Site Layout in Photoshop

Create a Watercolor-Themed Website Design with Photoshop

Create a clean elegant wordpress theme

Create a clean psd layout using Complete Designer Set from ArtBox7.com

Create a Fashion Web Layout (PSD Template) Using Photoshop

Create a sleek layout with Complete Designer Set from ArtBox7.com

Portfolio Layout #12

Design a light wordpress theme in photoshop

Car Layout #6

Hosting Layout #3

Create a company/business web layout using Photoshop

Icon Design

How To Create a Sleek Audio Player Interface in Photoshop

Creating a Set of Digital Painting Icons Part 5 – Cityscape Display Icon

Creating a Set of Digital Painting Icons Part 4 – Digital Tablet Icon

How to Create an Envelope Icon in Photoshop

Creating a Modern, Glossy Mouse Icon in Photoshop

Creating a Set of Digital Painting Icons Part 2 – Camera Icon

Create a Zoomed In Effect in Photoshop

How to Create a Clean 3D Notepad in Photoshop

Creating a Set of Digital Painting Icons Part 3 – Paint Brush Icon

Use Inkscape to Create a Grunge RSS Box Icon

Monitor Icon Design

Design a Simple Snowman in Photoshop

How to Create a 3D Marker in Illustrator

How to Design a Beautiful Google Calendar Icon

Creating a Set of Digital Painting Icons Part 1 – Sketchbook with Pencil Icon

Character Design

How to Create a Curious Owl in Illustrator CS4

Use Illustrator to Create a Fun, 3D, Character Logo

How to Create a Slick Anime Character in Photoshop

Draw a funny snowman in Illustrator

Turn a sketch into a Crazy Santa illustration

Draw a nice punk kid in Illustrator

Drawing and Design

Master special finishes

How to Create Vector Folk Buildings Using a Digital Tablet and Tracing Techniques

Illustrations

Learn to Create a Financial Crisis, Vector Illustration

Draw beautiful christmas bells in Illustrator

Creating a Surrealistic Hand-Drawn Illustration

How to Make a White Holiday Scene in Illustrator