Under the Sea using Photoshop

Time to go under the sea ;)
Here's another wallpaper I've made using Photoshop only. You know what's really cool is that you can make any shape or image a brush. By making it a brush you can scatter the shape all over your image with different sizes.....And that's what I did here with the bubbles. It was an image of a transparent bubble that I changed to a brush to put it wherever I want in my wallpaper. To make it more realistic, play with the blur brush in some areas as shown.
As for the background, fill it first with dark green color & give it a cloud effect. Then with the brush tool use a dark pink color at the bottom with layer opacity 65% . With a dark blue brush color a line just above the pink area and make the opacity 65% (I know the blue color is not that obvious but it gives a very good transition between colors in the end).
My favorite part is the lighting effect under the water. This is made by adding a layer above all the previous layers and fill it with a gradient (make the gradient type "noise", roughness "100%", restrict colors & add transparency). Then make the layer mode "color dodge".
Last, but not least, the text. Type the text, make the fill 0% and then add bevel & emboss, inner and outer glow to give this cool transparent bubbly effect.
I bet this is the longest post I've ever did ;)
Hope you like it :)

BonaGraphic logo using Illustrator

Hey guyz....
This is another logo post using illustrator (I just LOVE this software). As you can tell I changed the blog's lame logo with the ordinary font of "BonaGraphic" as soon as I learned to make this folded paper effect. You won't imagine how simple this effect is done. You just type the word you want, and then expand it. Then with the pencil tool you'll draw the lines where you want the folds to be and merge them all. After that reflect each of the folded area inwards.
What gives a white piece of paper the effect that it's folded? The gradient of the folded part. Just give them a gradient from a light grey to white. And then give a light shadow behind them to give some depth.
You're free to give a background color with a radial gradient to give a little bit of contrast.
That's it! Hope you like the blog's new logo :)

Hershey's Chocolate logo using Illustrator

This is one of my favorites.......

I wanted to make a chocolate logo that would give the feeling of a delicious melting chocolate, and here it is :)

This logo was very easy to make. I only used both text and pen tools. I duplicated the text to make the one in the foreground in white and added some inner grey shadow giving it this creamy look.

As for the background text, I made it with a very thick chocolate brown stroke. I drew this extra dripping melting chocolate using the pen tool and added it to the text with the thick stroke. I also drew the lighting effect using the pen tool and made it with low opacity.

So here you go, a melting delish hershey's chocolate logo. I'll go grab a chocolate myself  ;) c u

Staring Owl using Illustrator

When I saw a tutorial about an owl......I just had to do it myself and post it. My friends and I have this thing for owls ;) so I had to do it and post it for them. It was real fun to learn and do the feathers. I made a simple rounded rectangle with a gradient (transparent to brown) and a beige stroke in the middle....And there you go....A nice feather that you can duplicate all over the birdie's body.
So here you go buddies.....our famous owl :)