Photoshop tutorial: Cut & paste cool background textures
Take cut-&-paste further by compositing elements onto textured, colour backgrounds. Brian Grant shows you how…
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Illustration tutorial: Create a portfolio slideshow in Apple Aperture 3
Apple's Aperture 3 features some seriously beefed-up slideshow tools. Here we show you how to take advantage of them to show off your creative portfolio in the best possible way.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create an iconic T-Shirt artwork
Joshua Smith, aka Hydro74, takes you through how he created his latest work, based around his regular motifs of skulls and swirls mixed with this spring/summer’s illustration icon, the owl.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create retro posterized illustration effects
Photoshop’s Posterized tool is shamefully underused. Here, artist Baz Pringle shows you how to rediscover its potential…
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Urban type art
London is hip again, and in this tutorial Holland-based designer Bram Vanhaeren shows you how he created a new piece that draws on all that’s great about the city – taking inspiration from the Olympics, underground club scenes and the city vista from up high.
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Photoshop tutorial: High-end photo compositing techniques
Kevin Roodhorst illustrates how to composite seemingly disparate elements in a cohesive way through the use of textures and lighting effects.
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Dreamweaver tutorial: Create a portfolio blog in eight steps -- without coding
In this tutorial, web designer Craig Grannell shows you how to make edits to your portfolio blog using a remote WordPress install.
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After Effects tutorial: Animate a 'falling-to-earth' zoom effect
Use Google Earth with Adobe After Effects to make thrilling ‘falling-from-space' sequences.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Discover tattoo illustration techniques
With his stunning tattoo-style designs, digital illustrator and ‘part-time thrasher’ Chris Parks shows you had to master line art and shading.
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Photoshop tutorial: Get political -- simple poster art techniques
Digital illustrator Anton Nelson shows you how to use simple painting techniques in Photoshop to create poster art with impact.
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Photoshop tutorial: Back-to-basics photo illustration techniques
Markie Darkie shows you how to master repetition and layering of shapes, and efficient use of simple colour palettes with the aid of Layer Style effects.
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Adobe Illustrator & InDesign tutorial: Design a geometric op-art poster
This tutorial explains how to create one of Simon C Page’s seemingly complicated posters via some nifty tricks in Illustrator and InDesign CS5.
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Photoshop tutorial: Photoshop's layer effects explained
Creating vibrant, eye-catching images like this one needn’t be a complex or time-consuming affair. In this tutorial, James White shows how to add a vivid retro flair to a striking model shot.
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Illustration tutorial: How to create stunning gallery prints
Learn how illustrator Ciara Phelan creates her incredible collage artworks, and follow her step-by-step as she shows how to print on a Canon PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II 10-ink A3+ pro inkjet printer to get results that you could sell in an art gallery
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After Effects tutorial: Animate 3D camera moves
Sam Hampton-Smith shows you how to give your still images the appearance of motion using After Effects’ lighting tools
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Photoshop tutorial: Master brush and layer effects for type
In this tutorial, Fabio Sasso shows you how to create a beautiful, watercolour-type effect – inspired by the work of illustrator Florian Nicolle – using brushes and layer styles in Photoshop.
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Photoshop tutorial: Speedy shatter effects
Give your photos an edgy, shattered makeover in under an hour, using layer duplication.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Composite photos and vectors for an 80s photo style
Recreating colourful, 1980s-style graphics isn’t hard – the tricky bit is updating them for the 21st century. Here, Karan Singh shows how to add an 80s twist to model shots.
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Flash Pro tutorial: Animate character art
Paul Shih introduces character animation in Flash, using his Hollow Threat series of rock-loving rabbits. Learn how to assemble structures and take create your first animation.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create incredible B-movie poster art
Prepare to shock! Terrify! Amaze! Mark Mayers demonstrates how to recreate the shlock B-movie posters of cinema’s golden age.