Photoshop tutorial: Create abstract poster effects
Make your mark with strong but simple shapes and bold, read-my-lips colours: Danilo Rodrigues shows you how.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Make vector portraits from photos
Eelco van den Berg lets you behind the curtain to see how he creates his incredible vector portraits by turning a photo into a ‘poppy’ vector illustration.
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Dreamweaver tutorial: Build an iPad portfolio app
Take advantage of the iPad’s web-app capability to create an impressive offline website to act as your portfolio
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Photoshop tutorial: Discover inspirational painting techniques
Create a subversive pastiche of Chinese propaganda posters using Photoshop.
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Photoshop tutorial: Master the urban halo effect
Want to mix beauty with the grittiness of an urban environment? Digital artist Neil Duerden breaks out Photoshop and shows you how...
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Photoshop tutorial: Create beautiful compositions with texture effects
In this tutorial we will be taking a look at masking and how you can give your work a sense of depth using this technique, as well as layering textures and elements to help lift your piece – in this case using paper to create rock and mountain-like elements.
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Photoshop tutorial: Transform your doodles into art
Turn your idle sketches into gold with amazing Photoshop techniques from Craig Shields.
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Photoshop tutorial: Design a pop-up illustration
In this tutorial Simon Wild explains how to combine Photoshop’s tools with traditional pop-up techniques as a starting point to plan, modify and transform your 2D artwork into a fully functional pop-up spread.
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Painter tutorial: Inking techniques revealed
When creating comics, few artists stop at the pencil stage – most then pull out the inks for a more dynamic black and white look. Here artist Douglas Sirois takes you step-by-step through how to turn out a piece with a pencil-drawn look.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create beautiful abstract mosaics
In this tutorial, Fabio Sasso will show you how to create a deconstructed image using a pattern made out of cubes. The idea is try to simulate a mosaic but with a more abstract and up-to-date interpretation.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Draw realistic liquids in vector art
In this tutorial you’ll learn numerous Illustrator techniques to create vector liquid, by playing around with Illustrator’s Mesh tool, Warp tool and layer blending properties.
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Photoshop tutorial: Vintage collage techniques
Layer found images and handmade elements with Photoshop and Illustrator techniques for a witty, retro style that’s got dozens of uses.
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Photoshop tutorial: Organic smoke and spatter effects
Create stunning images and compositions filled with movement and realistic textures with just a few easy tools and techniques
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Flash Pro tutorial: Create an anaglyphic 3D game in Flash
Learn how simple ActionScripts can produce hip anaglyphic 3D within Flash CS4 or later
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Photoshop tutorial: Surreal digital portraits
Learn how to create surreal digital portraits using Photoshop, as Ratinan Thaijareorn -- aka Ise -- takes you through the process of how she creates her incredible artworks.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Master the basics: Perspective drawing in Illustrator
Learn how to draw in 3D using the grid tools available in Adobe Illustrator CS5.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Remix your art
Learn how to create character-based artwork that represents a synthesis of styles
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After Effects tutorial: Watercolour Video Effects
Music video styles drawn from the early days of MTV are all the rage, but it’s pretty time-consuming, so we show you how to bring a stylised, painterly look to your footage.
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Photoshop tutorial: Classic effects reimagined - Vintage halftones
Fabio Sasso shows you how you can put a stylish spin on one of Photoshop’s most hackneyed effects, Color Halftones
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Photoshop tutorial: Create stunning art using seamless layer masking
Give surreal or fantasy images extra pop using advanced compositing techniques, layer masking and custom brushes.