Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Get started with type art
Wednesday 10 Mar 2010
Pomme Chan shows how to take your first steps in letter-based illustration using Photoshop and Illustrator.
Classic Photoshop Tutorial: How to create digital collages without filters
Monday 08 Mar 2010
Artist Scott Rhodes reckons that it is layers – not filters – that can create a perfect mix between illustration and digital collage.
Illustrator Tutorial : How to paint using the Gradient Mesh tool
Friday 05 Mar 2010
Illustrator's Gradient Mesh is a grid-based painting technique that enables advanced colouring of vector objects with smooth and malleable colour transitions.
Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Create striking photo and vector mash-ups
Wednesday 03 Mar 2010
Neil Duerden shows how to jazz up straightforward model shots with help from stock photography, Photoshop and Illustrator.
Classic Photoshop Tutorial: Create surreal montages
Monday 01 Mar 2010
Cut-&-paste creativity has always had a bad press – but digital artist Mike Harrison shows that it can be used to generate inspirational surreal images.
Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Explore new-folk illustration styles
Wednesday 24 Feb 2010
Jonny Wan’s distinctive, fresh illustrations manage to seem both mechanical and handmade: their characters are composed of intricate, symmetrical vector shapes so that they seem almost clockwork, yet the finishes he applies remind us of woodcuts.
Classic Illustrator Tutorial: Design a character for a T-shirt print
Monday 22 Feb 2010
Speakerdog creator Ben the Illustrator, guides you through your own character creation – from screen to printed T-shirt.
Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Create retro poster art
Wednesday 17 Feb 2010
The retro aesthetic of the 1950s and 1960s is currently back in vogue and it’s set to be a great trend for 2010. It’s not hard to see why retro design is so enduringly popular: the bold, blocky colours, simple imagery and vivid typography make this a striking era of design.
After Effects Tutorial: Master particles in After Effects
Monday 15 Feb 2010
Shatter and Card Dance are two of After Effects CS4’s most underrated particle effects. Both were created by Brain Maffitt’s Atomic Power Corporation, before being bought by Adobe to include in After Effects.
Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Learn gorgeous new shading skills
Wednesday 10 Feb 2010
One of the hardest parts of Photoshop art – or indeed much other art – is creating subtle, detailed shading. However, layer masks make the process much easier, allowing you to select and modify certain areas without affecting the rest of your canvas.
Photoshop Tutorial: Create dynamic lighting
Monday 08 Feb 2010
Dynamic lighting isn’t new – far from it. The 16th-century Baroque art movement saw artists such as Giovanni Baglione use chiaroscuro (Italian for light and dark) to add a sense of depth, atmosphere, and emotion to their work. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how the same lighting principles can be applied to your photo manipulations.
Photoshop Tutorial: Transform lolly sticks into textures
Wednesday 03 Feb 2010
Are you inspired by the mundane? The seemingly normal everyday things you come across? If not you should be, because what may appear to be nothing, can be turned into something unique.
Classic Photoshop Tutorial: Create distressed textures for digital paintings
Monday 01 Feb 2010
Are your images slick and polished, when you’re after a rougher, more urban feel? Mess things up a little: David and Sarah Cousens show you how.
Photoshop Tutorial: Create a children's book illustration
Wednesday 27 Jan 2010
Learn how to give a soft edge to composited images with help from Photoshop
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Classic Photoshop Tutorial: Design striking stencil art for posters
Monday 25 Jan 2010
Digital artist Ian Keltie reveals how to composite elements in Photoshop to create a striking, stencilled art poster with an industrial edge.
Illustrator Tutorial : Design for vinyl wall stickers
Wednesday 20 Jan 2010
Ben the Illustrator shows how to prepare artwork for making trendy wall decals
After Effects Tutorial: Make an animated 3D pop-up book
Wednesday 13 Jan 2010
Design a stylised, 3D-looking pop-up book using 2D elements and Adobe After Effects
Classic Photoshop Tutorial: Master 3D type effects
Tuesday 12 Jan 2010
Nik Ainley of Shiny Binary shows you how to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools.
Photoshop Tutorial: Design a Twitter page with a tiled background
Wednesday 06 Jan 2010
To get noticed not just for your tweets, but also for your style, try creating your own custom tiled (or patterned) background.
Photoshop Tutorial: Create dynamic backdrop lighting
Wednesday 06 Jan 2010
Take your lighting effects to the next level, creating a deep, rich background for this fantastic rising sumo wrestler image.
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