Life & Style tutorial: Colour effects and swirls
Add a dash of rainbow-brightness to your artwork with these amazing Photoshop tips from Neil Duerden.
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Typography tutorial: Create a colourful 3D text explosion
James Davies shares tips on how to blend vector images and Photoshop trickery to jaw-dropping effect.
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Life & Style tutorial: Create sci-fi poster art
Make art that’s out of this world with clever use of blend modes and some of Photoshop’s lesser-spotted filters.
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Life & Style tutorial: Design your own pattern swatches
Create your own cool repeating patterns from combinations of vector elements, using these tips from Drew Cain.
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Life & Style tutorial: Make your text 3D in After Effects
Make your message stand out by transforming text with 3D extrusions in After Effects.
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Life & Style tutorial: Experimental text effects
Twist your words out of recognition to create cool and unusual illustrations, with these great tips from Amenth.
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Life & Style tutorial: Knockout mixed-media techniques
Mix and match images to stunning effect, with these fantastic tricks from Mark Mayers.
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Life & Style tutorial: Cool neon text effects
Give your text a dynamic, other-worldly feel with these amazing neon tricks.
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Life & Style tutorial: How to create realistic skin tones
Create characters that glow from within, using these handy tips for painting realistic skin colouring.
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Life & Style tutorial: Seamless compositing
Learn how to fake unbelievable fantasy images, like this giant warrior lizard, using some clever Photoshop trickery.
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Life & Style tutorial: From sun to snow in Photoshop
Let it snow in the most unlikely of places, using Photoshop’s channels and layers.
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Life & Style tutorial: Creating surreal landscapes
When it comes to creating out-of-this-world images, the only limit is your imagination. Justin Maller shows you how to get flawless results.
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Life & Style tutorial: Make it rain with Photoshop Brushes
Learn how to create the look of a rainy day, even when your photos were taken in full sunshine. Tommy Maloney shows you how.
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Graphic Design tutorial: Making pictures with the wow factor
Sebastian Onufszak shows some nifty Photoshop and Illustrator tools for getting great results every time.
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Life & Style tutorial: DVD motion menu design
Creating multi-dimensional, interactive menus from pen-and-paper sketches is simple – we show you how.
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Life & Style tutorial: Creating art using the golden ratio
For centuries artists and designers have used a sum – the golden ratio – to achieve proportion. Here’s how to make it work for you.
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Life & Style tutorial: Animating characters
Alexis West shows how to bring your vector characters to life in Flash, turning an Illustrator image into a cool interactive animation.
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Life & Style tutorial: Advanced track and clone in AE
Visual-effects specialist Angie Taylor shows how to use After Effects’ Clone Stamp tool to add to moving footage.
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Life & Style tutorial: Exporting Illustrator layouts to Flash
We reveal how you can use CS3 to smoothly transfer an Illustrator Web comp into a fully working Flash project.
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Life & Style tutorial: Filter-free art in Photoshop
In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll create a photomontage in Adobe Photoshop CS3 using only the layer palette.