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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.

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Photoshop Tutorial: Smarter ways to use colour in your art

Wednesday 01 Feb 2012
Feature image Bringing digital colour to hand-drawn art is a common task – and Jessica Fortner has some neat tricks to get the job done

Tips: Print techniques

Tuesday 31 Jan 2012
Feature image Laura Snoad hears the experts’ tips for getting more from the printed page

Photoshop Tutorial: Digital tricks for 'hand-drawn' colour

Monday 30 Jan 2012
Feature image Gabz shows how easy it can be to brighten up a pencil artwork


Photoshop Tutorial: Create semi-transparent artwork

Wednesday 25 Jan 2012
Feature image Man-Tsun shows how plastic can be a great medium for creativity

Tips: Problem-solving tricks

Tuesday 24 Jan 2012
Feature image Laura Snoad hears the experts’ tips for solving those creative problems

Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Create a garden of sinful pleasure

Wednesday 18 Jan 2012
Feature image Illustration supremo Phil Wheeler ‘gets wicked’ with different textures and approaches in a poster-sized image

Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Organic texture and shape effects

Wednesday 11 Jan 2012
Feature image French illustrator François Leroy explains how he created the textured organic shapes in his Isolation composition

After Effects Tutorial: Top 5 After Effects tutorials of 2011

Thursday 05 Jan 2012
Feature image From motion type to character animation, we take you through our reader's favourite After Effects tutorials from 2011

Illustrator Tutorial: Top 10 Illustrator tutorials of 2011

Wednesday 04 Jan 2012
Feature image In 2011, we showed you how to create a myriad of artistic styles in Adobe's vector art tool. Here are the ones you've loved most.

Photoshop Tutorial: Create retro poster effects

Wednesday 04 Jan 2012
Feature image Ollie Munden and Harriet Seed get shipshape with techniques for tattoo-style art, based on 50s rockabilly and navy motifs

Photoshop Tutorial: Top 10 Photoshop tutorials of 2011

Tuesday 03 Jan 2012
Feature image From cosmic effects and beautiful lighting to digital painting tricks and emotionally affecting portraits, we bring you the 10 most popular Photoshop tutorials of last year.

Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Master Illustrator's Blend tool

Wednesday 28 Dec 2011
Feature image Radim Malinic has a recipe for success to help you create great type art using Illustrator’s little-used Blending tool

Photoshop Tutorial: Turn a city into a dinosaur illustration

Wednesday 21 Dec 2011
Feature image Andy Council has made a name for himself transforming street scenes into prehistoric monsters – here’s how the illustrator does it

Photoshop Tutorial: Smarten up your fashion drawings

Wednesday 14 Dec 2011
Feature image You may have toyed with sketches of haute couture models – now it’s time to give them a touch of class, as Abby Wright explains

Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Digital Mixed-media techniques

Wednesday 07 Dec 2011
Feature image Simon Brader reveals how handmade textures, Illustrator curves and Photoshop effects all went into the creation of The Donor Trail


Photoshop Tutorial: Paint a multilayered surreal portrait

Wednesday 30 Nov 2011
Feature image Rob Shields walks you through the creation of an inspirational artwork that also reveals much about composition and lighting

Photoshop Tutorial: Eroded fashion portraits

Monday 28 Nov 2011
Feature image Pete Harrison radically reworks a fashion shot till the whole look begins to unravel before your eyes

Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Colourful type art

Wednesday 23 Nov 2011
Feature image Blend objects in Illustrator, then fuse them with type and colour in Photoshop, says Michael Kammerer – the results are fascinating

Illustrator Tutorial: The secrets of beautiful caricatures

Wednesday 16 Nov 2011
Feature image Drawing people is not the most obvious application of vector imagery, but Stanley Chow shows it can deliver brilliant results

After Effects Tutorial: Animate a picture book

Tuesday 15 Nov 2011
Feature image The key to producing simple but effective animation is to grasp the basic principles, as Lesley Barnes and Bruce Cameron explain