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The Artists Guide to Photoshop

Follow step-by-step as the world’s best illustrators reveal the secrets of their best work – so you can produce yours.

Tutorials

Photoshop Tutorial: Add narrative to a painted illustration

Wednesday 16 May 2012
Feature image Lucy MacLeod shows how a single, balanced artwork featuring traditional and digital elements can sum up an entire tale

Promotional Tutorial: Make the most of After Effects CS6’s new 3D engine

Thursday 10 May 2012
Feature image Creation and rendering of raytraced objects in After Effects CS6 positively screams with NVIDIA technology

Illustrator Tutorial: Create promotional artwork that sells you to new clients

Wednesday 09 May 2012
Feature image Ben the Illustrator shows how to excite new clients with your work


Photoshop Tutorial: Create a deep-sea feel using blending modes

Wednesday 02 May 2012
Feature image Jono Hislop demonstrates effective ways to meld elements from outer space into an image with a distinctly subaquatic feel

Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Create a psychedelic illustration

Wednesday 25 Apr 2012
Feature image You may need to try numerous variations before you hit upon the optimal composition and colour scheme, says Steve Scott

Illustrator Tutorial: Create seamless repeating patterns using Illustrator CS6's new tools

Monday 23 Apr 2012
Feature image Explore how to quickly create beautiful patterns using Illustrator CS6.

InDesign Tutorial: Master InDesign CS6's new Content Collector tool

Monday 23 Apr 2012
Feature image The Content Collector allows you to quickly repurpose page elements for new parts of a design project.

Adobe Flash Tutorial: Create a sprite sheet using Adobe Flash Pro CS6

Monday 23 Apr 2012
Feature image Easily generate a sprite sheet from one or more animations for a gaming project.

Dreamweaver Tutorial: Use CSS3 transitions for form highlights in Dreamweaver CS6

Monday 23 Apr 2012
Feature image CSS3 transitions can be fiddly to hand-code from scratch, but Dreamweaver CS6 makes it easier.

Tutorial: Premiere Pro CS6's new Three-Way Color Corrector tool step-by-step

Sunday 22 Apr 2012
Feature image One of the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6's highlights is the improved Three-Way Color Corrector.

After Effects Tutorial: Animate an indie graphic novel

Wednesday 18 Apr 2012
Feature image Lois van Baarle details how she brought Julian Hanshaw's graphic novel The Art of Pho to life online.

Photoshop Tutorial: Apply authentic-looking vintage effects to photos

Monday 16 Apr 2012
Feature image Graham Boyd has a great recipe for ageing digital images

Promotional Tutorial: Real-time colour correction in Premiere Pro using NVIDIA Maximus

Thursday 12 Apr 2012
Feature image NVIDIA’s Quadro and Tesla hardware lets you use Premiere Pro’s colour-correction toolset in real time, with mixed resolutions, and with no rendering

Cinema 4D and Photoshop: Create liquid 3D type

Wednesday 11 Apr 2012
Feature image Craig Minchington and Gareth Roberts look at 3D type

Photoshop Tutorial: Add textured ornaments to hand-drawn art

Wednesday 04 Apr 2012
Feature image Andreas Preis looks at how you can use Photoshop to combine hand-drawn illustrations with ornaments to create stunning posters


Photoshop Tutorial: Create amazing water-drenched photomontages

Tuesday 03 Apr 2012
Feature image Nik Ainley shows you how to make a splash, blending two very different images to create this amazing dissolving figure of a man.

Photoshop Tutorial: Design a highbrow horror-movie poster

Wednesday 28 Mar 2012
Feature image Karim Fakhoury explains how to create a creepy, unsettling piece of poster art

Photoshop Tutorial: Swap the colours of details in photos

Monday 26 Mar 2012
Feature image Tigz Rice reveals how you can change gold into silver

Photoshop Tutorial: Discover Photoshop CS6's new 3D tools

Thursday 22 Mar 2012
Feature image Photoshop CS6 allows you to import 3D files, texture them, apply lighting and render objects better than before. Find out how.

Photoshop Tutorial: Video editing inside Photoshop CS6 step-by-step

Thursday 22 Mar 2012
Feature image Photoshop CS6 gains a basic timeline, aiming to be a functional video editor for digital SLR owners. We show you how to cut.