Illustration tutorial: Master masks and selections in Photoshop
Derek Lea reveals ways to make compositing layers using layer masks, vector masks and alpha channels a doddle.
Tutorials
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InDesign tutorial: Create an interactive magazine for the iPad
Fredrik Oinonen explains how to create an InDesign layout for use in iPad apps built with the innovative Mag+ platform
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Illustration tutorial: Create a perfect portrait
Stanley Chow tells you how to capture the visual essence of your subjects.
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Animation tutorial: Make your animations funnier
The Brothers McLeod – aka writer Myles and animator Greg -- reveal how you can make viewers laugh harder
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Photoshop tutorial: Retro Collage Techniques
You might already know a thing or two about collage, but can you produce a look out of a 1970s poster? Tim Green explains how
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Illustration tutorial: 6 drawing tips from leading illustrators
Inkygoodness’ creative director Lisa Hassell asks six of her favourite illustrators to tell us how to get the most from drawing with real pens and pencils
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Photoshop tutorial: Give a portrait a cosmic makeover
Photoshop can make a simple studio shot look totally cosmic in just a few steps, as Karim Fakhoury demonstrates
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Animation tutorial: 6 animation tricks for After Effects
Angie Taylor reveals six routes to more creative animations for motion graphics, kinetic type and VFX
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Illustration tutorial: Adobe Illustrators 6 best little-known features
Typographer and illustrator Steven Bonner reveals six techniques for greater flexibility and creativity
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Photoshop tutorial: Make smashing glass effects
Master a convincing shattering-glass effect that has dozens of applications with this brilliant technique from Mark Mayers.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create punk poster art
This tutorial reveals how artist Dan Mumford creates a poster for a special show by the aggressive and spittle-flecked Watford punks Gallows.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create vector halftone effects
One of the hardest things to accomplish in vector illustration is a halftone. Here we show you how to create one in only four steps.
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Illustration tutorial: 7 horrifying Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials for Halloween
Learn techniques to help you create high-class horrorshow effects using Photoshop, Illustrator, pens and even a little human blood*
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Woodcut effects for type art
It’s easy and quick to produce vector art with a vintage woodcut feel, as Karan Singh shows – and custom brushes are the key
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Illustration tutorial: Shoot photos ready to be cut out
Photographer and retouch guru Steve Caplin reveals how to capture shots that are easy to cutout and keep
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Illustration tutorial: 5 tattoo design techniques
Ollie Munden on how to design a tattoo that the wearer will love forever
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Photoshop tutorial: Mix 3D with fashion illustration
Michael Ostermann demonstrates how to create fantastical shapes and then blend them into a photo for striking results
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Video tutorial: Get to grips with Final Cut Pro X
Apple’s latest video editor is very different from the previous version. MacVideo editor Rick Young helps you pick it up.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Master composition in vector art
Great art doesn’t have to be complicated, as Petros Afshar proves by conjuring up a bird graphic out of basic building blocks
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Interactive tutorial: 7 tablet app design tricks
James Christian, innovation lead at fashion site Net-A-Porter, reveals what he learned from creating the first weekly fashion magazine iPad app.