Creating art using the golden ratio
Thursday 08 May 2008
For centuries artists and designers have used a sum – the golden ratio – to achieve proportion. Here’s how to make it work for you.
Creating distressed textures in Photoshop
Wednesday 07 May 2008
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.
Making a Photoshop crystal ball
Wednesday 30 Apr 2008
Learn how to deal with shiny surfaces, refractions and curves, with some handy pointers from Photoshop guru Mark Mayers.
Abstract poster effects
Wednesday 23 Apr 2008
Make your mark with strong but simple shapes and bold, read-my-lips colours: Danilo Rodrigues shows you how.
Create cool neon effects
Wednesday 16 Apr 2008
Photoshop expert Tony Ariawan shows you how to use warping, layer masks and simple colour tweaking for a high-tech look that’s out of this world.
Create amazing photomontages
Tuesday 08 Apr 2008
Nik Ainley shows you how to make a splash, blending two very different images to create this amazing dissolving figure of a man.
B-movie poster art
Wednesday 26 Mar 2008
Prepare to shock! Terrify! Amaze! Mark Mayers demonstrates how to recreate the shlock B-movie posters of cinema’s golden age.
Animating characters
Wednesday 19 Mar 2008
Alexis West shows how to bring your vector characters to life in Flash, turning an Illustrator image into a cool interactive animation.
Vintage collages in Photoshop
Wednesday 12 Mar 2008
Layer found images and handmade elements with Photoshop and Illustrator techniques for a witty, retro style that’s got dozens of uses.
Advanced track and clone in AE
Wednesday 27 Feb 2008
Visual-effects specialist Angie Taylor shows how to use After Effects’ Clone Stamp tool to add to moving footage.
Creating convincing characters
Wednesday 20 Feb 2008
Illustrator maestro Alexis West demonstrates how to magic up appealing characters using a pencil, a computer and bags of imagination.
Create amazing psychedelic art in Photoshop
Wednesday 13 Feb 2008
Rob Carissimo reveals how to use Photoshop to create a hazy, dreamlike effect that’s straight from 60s California.
Exporting Illustrator layouts to Flash
Wednesday 30 Jan 2008
We reveal how you can use CS3 to smoothly transfer an Illustrator Web comp into a fully working Flash project.
Filter-free art in Photoshop
Wednesday 23 Jan 2008
In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll create a photomontage in Adobe Photoshop CS3 using only the layer palette.
Urban halos in Photoshop
Wednesday 16 Jan 2008
Want to mix beauty with the grittiness of an urban environment? Digital artist Neil Duerden breaks out Photoshop and shows you how...
Compositing 3D with a matte painting
Wednesday 02 Jan 2008
Matte painting master Sarel Theron reveals how you can create a photo-realistic 3D scene from a 2D image in a matter of minutes.
Photoshop montages
Wednesday 26 Dec 2007
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.
Repeat pattern swatches with Illustrator
Wednesday 19 Dec 2007
Patterns are everywhere. Look around and you’ll probably see one right now. It might be a pattern on a tie, pants, a shirt… the list goes on and on.
Creating cool background textures
Wednesday 12 Dec 2007
Take cut-&-paste further by compositing elements onto textured, colour backgrounds. Brian Grant shows you how…
Posterized illustration effects
Wednesday 05 Dec 2007
Photoshop’s Posterized tool is shamefully underused. Here, artist Baz Pringle shows you how to rediscover its potential…
