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.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create manga art to view with retro 3D specs
In this tutorial, Mark Mayers' will show how to convert an existing image or illustration into a 3D image with help from Photoshop.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Design symmetrical character art
In this tutorial, creative duo LouLou & Tummie show you how to use Illustrator to create a symmetrical, character-filled banner. You’ll hone your use of the Pathfinder tool to build new shapes, and tweak lines to give them a sense of flow.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create summery poster artwork using Illustrator CS5
Adobe's Creative Suite 5 has recently arrived, and with it comes a new version of Illustrator, featuring some exciting tools. To give you a flavour of them, we asked Ben the Illustrator to put Illustrator CS5 to the test. He uses it to create a summery poster, as given free with the June issue of Digital Arts.
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Illustration tutorial: Create amazing T-shirt designs with Hydro74
US designer Joshua Smith -- aka Hydro74 -- shows you how to create a killer T-shirt design using a 3D object as a starting point in Adobe Illustrator.
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Photoshop tutorial: Master advanced warp effects
Kyle DeTella makes heavy use of Photoshop’s Warp and Burn tools to create an abstraction composition based on his current work.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create fashion-inspired photo 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: Add vector flair to model shots
Camilo Bejarano shows you how to hand-draw elements before scanning them in and transforming them into dramatic, colourful designs that interact neatly with the photograph.
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Flash Pro tutorial: Design kick-ass characters
Learn the tricks of character design using Adobe Flash
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Photoshop tutorial: Paint this gorgeous disco-inspired portrait
You’d be very world-weary indeed if your first reaction when looking at this portrait wasn’t ‘wow’. Knockout digital portraiture at this level takes skill, craft and patience – and here, Neville d’Souza guides you step by step through the painstaking process of creating this gorgeous portrait from scratch in Photoshop.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create hand-rendered art
Neil Duerden takes us back-to-basics with this stunning tutorial on creating personal art in Photoshop.