SnagIt is one of the most comprehensive and powerful screen capture utilities available for Windows, offering advanced features and extra tools for organizing, simplifying, and editing screen captures... and now it's available for Mac, too! Today TechSmith annouced a public beta of SnagIt for Mac. Read more...

If you're looking for a unique, personalized holiday project idea utilizing your family photos, my Photoshop Snowglobe Tutorial has been a hit for several years now. Use it on a greeting card or give it as a framed gift. You'll need Photoshop 6.0 or higher to follow the tutorial, but you may be able to adapt the steps for other software, and there is a layered PSD file which you can open in Photoshop Elements or other software to customize.

Whether you go with the snow globe theme or not, if you're making your own greeting cards this year, you can get a head start with my free greeting card template and instructions for Photoshop.

Related Links:
• Photoshop Snowglobe Tutorial
• Create a Greeting Card with Photoshop
• Create a Greeting Card with Photoshop Elements
• 9-Day Greeting Card Class

This week's graphics challenge theme is Trim A Tree. Continuing with our holiday theme, this week you get to decorate a tree for the holidays. We have some starting images if you choose to use them or you can create your own from scratch if you wish. So get out the tinsel and lights and have some fun! Read more...

This tutorial shows you how to create a unique gift box for small gifts using Adobe Illustrator. These gift boxes are suitable for small gifts and gift cards and can be personalized for the occasion and recipient. Best of all, once you create one you can use it as a template any time you need a small gift box.
• Creating a Popup Gift Box in Adobe Illustrator