This Photoshop tutorial will teach you the basics of tweening in Photoshop.

1. Open a new document in photoshop cs3
2. Type something, right click the text layer and rasterize it.
3. Open the animation window, window -> animation
4. Duplicate layer in the animation window

   

5. Duplicate the text layer

   

6. With the duplicated layer selected, add some effects. I used ripple (filter > distort > ripple).
7. In the animation window, select the first frame and set the second layer with the effect to invisible
8. Next, select the second frame in the animation window and set the layer without any effects to invisible and the layer with effects to visible.
9. Click on the button shown below, next click on tween.

   

10. Use the following settings

    

11. Using the button where you selected the tween option click on ‘Select all frames’ next click on ‘Copy frames’. After that click on ‘Paste frames’ -> ‘paste after selection’.
12. With the pasted frames still selected go back to the animation button and click on ‘Reverse frames’,
    this will make your animation a little neater if you loop the animation forever or multiple times. :)
13. My final result (I edited the text a bit):

    

Of course there are much cooler effects you can make now that you know how to tween in Photoshop.

This Illustrator tutorial will teach you how to draw those cute paper notes.

Open a new document in illustrator
Using the rectangle tool draw a rectangle. Set the foreground color to light gray and the border to 1px and a darker color gray. (border: #EDEDED, foreground: #f7f7f7)

Draw a tiny black circle like this:

Hold down ctrl + alt and mouse click while dragging the circle beside a little to the right as shown below. Click on ctrl+d so it gets copied at the exact same length. You could also just copy and paste every circle on its own but this makes sure they’re all the same length.

Select the circles and the paper, go to pathfinder and click on the subtract form shape button:

Using the pen tool draw a straight line. Set the border color to #EDEDED

Hold down ctrl+alt and drag down the line exactly as done in step 3. You could also copy and paste the line if you find that easier. Use ctrl+d to repeat the steps. Final result:

This Illustrator tutorial will teach you how to make cute clouds in Illustrator

Draw a circle, white foreground + black border so you can still see the circle on the white background.

Make more circles so it resembles a cloud.

Select all circles, go to pathfinder and click the weird shape below:

Get rid of the black border, with all circles selected go to effect -> stylize -> inner glow Set the color to a nice shade of blue, I picked #0092FF. Mode is normal, opacity: 32, blur: 50px and select edge.

With all circles still selected go to effect -> stylize -> outer glow. Set the glow color to black, Mode: screen, opacity: 10%, blur: 5

Final result after copying the cloud, enlarging it and placing it behind the first cloud:

This Illustrator tutorial will teach you how to draw skulls in Illustrator

This isn’t required but I like to scan in a quick sketch of whatever I’ll be drawing in Illustrator.
You don’t need a scanner to do that, I usually just snap a picture with my digital camera.
It’s a lot faster and since you’ll need to add a new layer of line art, the quality of the sketch doesn’t really matter much.

Drag your sketch to illustrator, set the transparency to 50% and lock the layer

On a new layer, select the pen tool, set the foreground color to nothing and the border to black. Set the border to 2pt.

Draw over the sketch with the pen tool. It doesn’t have to be perfect, after finishing one of the bones I just copied and pasted it to the other corners. :)
The eyes can be drawn using the eclipse tool.

Hide the sketch, color the skull (I used: #f9f9f9) and bones (I used: #ebebeb) by selecting the specific part of line art and giving it a different foreground color.

Create a gray (#707070) circle under the black circle of the eyes, move the black part to the right so that a gray corner is shown on the right as shown below:

Select the entire drawing and use a different brush of your choice, this will make it look a bit thicker and natural. I used a calligraphic brush set to 1pt.

Add a few shadow lines to the bones (#D8D8D8), mine look a bit messy but you could make it look a lot better if you put more time into details. :)
I used the pen tool to draw the shadows.

Final Result:

Ignore my messy version, this tutorial was meant to point out the steps. :)

This Illustrator tutorial will teach you the basics of drawing eyes for cartoons and illustrations.

1. Open a new document in Illustrator
2. Draw an empty circle, no foreground color and no border

   

3. Select the gradient tool and fill it with a radial white, slightly darker white and very light gray color like this:

   

4. Draw a black circle with a dark gray border set to 3px inside and position it somewhere on the eyeball

   

5. Draw a tiny shine on the black circle using the pen tool

   

6. Copy the eye and paste it beside your first eye as shown below

   

7. Select the eyeballs (not the black circles), go to Effect -> stylize -> drop shadow and use the following settings: mode = screen, opacity = 60%, X offset = 0, Y offset = 4, blur = 1, color = black, click ok

   

8. Draw two eyebrow shapes with the pen tool

   

9. Your cute cartoon eyes are done!