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.
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Painter tutorial: Draw and shade with digital pencils for a comic-book look
Take inspiration from graphic novels and recreate the roughed-up look adopted by comic artists using Corel Painter and your computer.
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Photoshop tutorial: Design repeating T-shirt motifs
Get stuck on repeat with a selection of great tips from Ollie Munden; helping you design T-Shirt motifs.
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Photoshop tutorial: Put a cutting edge spin on the lens flare effect
Learn how to present exciting variations on an old theme through changing the position of the lens flares and creative use of the blending modes, brush tools and colour.
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Illustration tutorial: Creating convincing characters
Illustrator maestro Alexis West demonstrates how to magic up appealing characters using a pencil, a computer and bags of imagination.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create a stunning pin-up collage
Create a vibrant illustration that puts a modern spin on the classic pin-up style.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create amazing psychedelic art
Rob Carissimo reveals how to use Photoshop to create a hazy, dreamlike effect that’s straight from 60s California.
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Photoshop tutorial: Paint 80's airbrush effects
In this tutorial, design duo KittoZutto show you how to create beautiful, dreamlike, paintings full of subtle detail but boasting an 80s colour scheme.
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Illustration tutorial: Create beautiful repeating patterns
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.
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Photoshop tutorial: Pendulum's Immersion album cover art step-by-step
Discover how Polish artist Valp composited this stunning artwork for the cover of the Pendulum’s recent Number 1 album
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Give personality to character art
Learn how to create character art from scratch; taking inspiration from Aaron Miller and his food-themed delights
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Photoshop tutorial: Paint with fire
Transform a simple model shot into a spitting, crackling, beacon of fire by following Neville D'Souza's practical tutorial and making the most of Photoshop's Adjustment Layers and Blending tools.