Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Add depth to vector art using shadows and glows
Jonny Wan shows how to keep your compositions fresh
Tutorials
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Photoshop tutorial: Create an abstract impression of London
Learn how to visually and conceptually express the overall feel of London, using a few hints of landmarks and abstracting the rest of the composition. The focus is to emphasize the dynamism of an ever-developing and changing city.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create super psychedelic artwork
Ollie Munden explains how to create 70s-inspired poster art using sketching and multi-layering techniques in Photoshop
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Illustration tutorial: Process photos using Aperture
When it comes to processing photographs, Photoshop isn't necessarily the answer to everything. Mark Wood shows how you can do the same using Aperture.
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After Effects tutorial: Stabilise your footage using After Effects CS5.5
Use the new Warp Stabilizer to steady your footage
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create a summery photomontage
Jennifer Cirpici explains how to add gradients, blurs and adjustments to combine vectors and photos for realistic results
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Photoshop tutorial: Photo retouch techniques: brighten tired eyes
Using channels to retouch photos can save you time and give great results with every image, as retouching expert Tigz Rice explains.
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Photoshop tutorial: Master stylish light effects in Photoshop
Lighting effects are often used cheesily, but here Fabio Sasso turns the spotlight on techniques to achieve an original look
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Design hip music art
Gordon Reid shows you a slick psychedelic-influenced cover by adding a unique twist on a few simple filters.
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InDesign tutorial: Take a design from print to iPad
Here, we’re going to show you how simple it is to use InDesign CS5.5 to create a range of digital publications.
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Interactive tutorial: The secrets of soft and hard proofing
Proofing on screen and hard copy requires balancing light sources using a process called soft proofing. It can work miracles and here’s how
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: The secrets of cute character art revealed
Bubblefriends-creator Sascha Preuß teaches the art of designing colourful cartoon characters and reveals the principles of cuteness
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Photoshop tutorial: Surreal mixed-media illustration
Sachin Teng details how he finds references to underpin his artwork and the techniques he uses to blend contrasting components that are slick and clean with those that are grainy and organic. The idea is to explore the whole spectrum of art and graphics and find common ground to link all the underlying pieces together.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Digital type art techniques
Jorge Restrepo explains here how to modify characters in your own work to create a type-based illustration for an editorial layout
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Photoshop tutorial: Use lighting effects to make photos sparkle
From fashion shots to portraits, here’s how to add a touch of magic with Photoshop lighting effects.
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Interactive tutorial: Use QuarkXPress to prepare iPad-ready publications
A quick, cost-effective way into publishing via the App Store
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After Effects tutorial: Design and animate a stylish 50s cartoon character
Illustrator and animator Ben Mounsey describes here how to create a character in Illustrator that's specifically designed for animation in After Effects, and then give it a classic cel-animation walk
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Photoshop tutorial: Fashion-inspired illustrations
In this tutorial, up-and-coming creative Bram Vanhaeren shows how you can transform fashion photography into edgy, enigmatic illustrations in just a few steps.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Type thats fit to eat
Radim Malinic shows you how to create the semblance of words spelt out in melted chocolate. You’ll be encouraged to speed up at times, while at other times you’ll need to linger over tiny details to create that ultra-realistic look, fit for any advertising campaign or logo.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Add vector flair to model shots
Recreate this brilliant image with tips from Camilo Bejarano