Simple tutorial however it does give quiet a good foundation to those who are interested in starting metallic interfaces.
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In this tutorial you will learn how to design a product in Photoshop. The product is a RCA Lyra X3030 portable media player. Although the chances are, you are thinking “why would I need to make it?”, the reason for this tutorial is to teach people the techniques used for mocking up a product design.
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This tutorial shows you how to create an elevation using the Away3D 1.9.4 library or higher.
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Some Flash effects never seem to go out of style. One such classic is a zoom-blur effect used on photographs that’s much more eye-catching than simply zooming in or out on the image. In this tutorial, we’ll combine Flash CS3 with Photoshop CS3 to create a similar zoom-blur effect on a photo. These techniques can [...]

Agit8 as great article about a very very nice plasma effect. The demo has 3 sliders you can use to change the plasma effect your own, try it here. Also, he made the source available.

I’m putting this post on the tutorials cat, because it explains the procedures to make a nice fire effect. Although as the article is so simple, you can call it as a tip with source, lol.
Ricardo Cabello (mr.d00b ) posted the source at his blog with a little explanation(not much to explain, lol).

Instead of riding snow, this boarder is flying through flames. In this tutorial we’ll create fire and smoke without using any photos. You’ll learn how to combine both to create a flaming, dynamic image that jumps right at you.

One of the coolest digital artists around is Chuck Anderson, a.k.a. NoPattern. In this tutorial, author show you how to create a light effect similar to NoPattern’s Jumper Poster. At the end you will see how a technique like this can be used in a variety of different ways to make stunning images…

Great tutorial at FlashDB, taking you to programmatically create a fire effect with AS3. In 4 steps you can make an awesome fire effect.
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Great tutorial by Matt, explaining how to code a nice fractal effect with motion using actionscript 3.