We will produce the effect of a magnifying bubble. You can really apply this effect on ANY image you want.

This tutorial will show you how to design an interesting football wallpaper. It will go over techniques such as transforming images and applying some great lighting effects.

Learn how to create a forcefield with distortion in After Effects.

In this tutorial you are going to learn how to create the rich flaming swirls you see below through following easy steps using Motion Blur and Shear Distort Filter as well as some Crosshatch brushing.

This tutorial is going to teach you how to create a blazing flame text effect in Photoshop using the Smudge Tool and multiple filters such as Wave Distort and various Blur operations.

Learn advanced techniques to blend two images together using masks, blend modes, and distortion filters.

In this tutorial, Mark Mayers guides you step-by-step through some ways to use Adobe Photoshop’s filters, distortion and polar coordinates – along with opacity and blending modes – to pull off this complicated effect.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw a flower easily using the Distort and Transform effect in Illustrator.

With so many new things in Illustrator, it's easy to overlook things that have been around for a while and forget what powerful tools they still can be. For instance, in this tutorial we are going see the precise control we can have on distorting an object by using Envelope Distortion.

This tutorial will explain how to use the great DistortionEffect/CubeEffect of Alex Uhlmann within a Flickr slideshow.