Photoshop tutorial: Create surreal montages
Cut-&-paste creativity has always had a bad press – but digital artist Mike Harrison shows that it can be used to generate inspirational surreal images.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Explore new-folk illustration styles
Jonny Wan’s distinctive, fresh illustrations manage to seem both mechanical and handmade: their characters are composed of intricate, symmetrical vector shapes so that they seem almost clockwork, yet the finishes he applies remind us of woodcuts.
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Life & Style tutorial: Design a character for a T-shirt print
Speakerdog creator Ben the Illustrator, guides you through your own character creation – from screen to printed T-shirt.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create retro poster art
The retro aesthetic of the 1950s and 1960s is currently back in vogue and it’s set to be a great trend for 2010. It’s not hard to see why retro design is so enduringly popular: the bold, blocky colours, simple imagery and vivid typography make this a striking era of design.
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After Effects tutorial: Master particles in After Effects
Shatter and Card Dance are two of After Effects CS4’s most underrated particle effects. Both were created by Brain Maffitt’s Atomic Power Corporation, before being bought by Adobe to include in After Effects.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create dynamic lighting
Dynamic lighting isn’t new – far from it. The 16th-century Baroque art movement saw artists such as Giovanni Baglione use chiaroscuro (Italian for light and dark) to add a sense of depth, atmosphere, and emotion to their work. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how the same lighting principles can be applied to your photo manipulations.
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Photoshop tutorial: Transform lolly sticks into textures
Are you inspired by the mundane? The seemingly normal everyday things you come across? If not you should be, because what may appear to be nothing, can be turned into something unique.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create distressed textures for digital paintings
Are your images slick and polished, when you’re after a rougher, more urban feel? Mess things up a little: David and Sarah Cousens show you how.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create a children's book illustration
Learn how to give a soft edge to composited images with help from Photoshop
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Photoshop tutorial: Design striking stencil art for posters
Digital artist Ian Keltie reveals how to composite elements in Photoshop to create a striking, stencilled art poster with an industrial edge.
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Printing tutorial: Design for vinyl wall stickers
Ben the Illustrator shows how to prepare artwork for making trendy wall decals
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After Effects tutorial: Make an animated 3D pop-up book
Design a stylised, 3D-looking pop-up book using 2D elements and Adobe After Effects
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Photoshop tutorial: Master 3D type effects
Nik Ainley of Shiny Binary shows you how to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools.
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Photoshop tutorial: Design a Twitter page with a tiled background
To get noticed not just for your tweets, but also for your style, try creating your own custom tiled (or patterned) background.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create dynamic backdrop lighting
Take your lighting effects to the next level, creating a deep, rich background for this fantastic rising sumo wrestler image.
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Life & Style tutorial: Design self-promotional postcards
Character-maestro Andrew Groves shows you how to use Illustrator to create your own promotional postcards.
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Photoshop tutorial: Design a custom Twitter page
In order to get noticed for both your tweets and your style, you'll want to create your own custom background. Here we'll show you how to create one that looks as good as your creative work.
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Photoshop tutorial: Speedy 1980s text effects
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create flashy type-based art quickly by making cunning use of Photoshop’s layer styles, which are easy to composite into other artworks.
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Photoshop tutorial: Turn sketches into fantastic digital paintings
Digital artist David Cousens reveals how to develop a sci-fi art sketch in Adobe Photoshop using the airbrush and a few nifty tricks.
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Photoshop tutorial: Master skin tones
Use light and shade to bring a Photoshop drawing to life.