One thing to keep in mind when you go looking through the tutorials, is that each tutorial teaches you how to do something a certain way. It could very well be that you are looking at the final product of the tuts and saying to yourself that "that is not what I want" and then move on to the next. While it is also most likely that while the final result is not to your taste, it does not mean that you cannot learn something of the techniques used within the tutiorial to create something completely different. There are MANY great tuts here, but you do need to look at what they are teaching you, as opposed to what they produce in the end. You might like the final style or not, but you can still learn something of a new way to do something that you DO like.

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