Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Design hip music art
Gordon Reid shows you a slick psychedelic-influenced cover by adding a unique twist on a few simple filters.
Tutorials
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InDesign tutorial: Take a design from print to iPad
Here, we’re going to show you how simple it is to use InDesign CS5.5 to create a range of digital publications.
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Interactive tutorial: The secrets of soft and hard proofing
Proofing on screen and hard copy requires balancing light sources using a process called soft proofing. It can work miracles and here’s how
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: The secrets of cute character art revealed
Bubblefriends-creator Sascha Preuß teaches the art of designing colourful cartoon characters and reveals the principles of cuteness
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Photoshop tutorial: Surreal mixed-media illustration
Sachin Teng details how he finds references to underpin his artwork and the techniques he uses to blend contrasting components that are slick and clean with those that are grainy and organic. The idea is to explore the whole spectrum of art and graphics and find common ground to link all the underlying pieces together.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Digital type art techniques
Jorge Restrepo explains here how to modify characters in your own work to create a type-based illustration for an editorial layout
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Photoshop tutorial: Use lighting effects to make photos sparkle
From fashion shots to portraits, here’s how to add a touch of magic with Photoshop lighting effects.
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Interactive tutorial: Use QuarkXPress to prepare iPad-ready publications
A quick, cost-effective way into publishing via the App Store
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After Effects tutorial: Design and animate a stylish 50s cartoon character
Illustrator and animator Ben Mounsey describes here how to create a character in Illustrator that's specifically designed for animation in After Effects, and then give it a classic cel-animation walk
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Photoshop tutorial: Fashion-inspired 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: Type thats fit to eat
Radim Malinic shows you how to create the semblance of words spelt out in melted chocolate. You’ll be encouraged to speed up at times, while at other times you’ll need to linger over tiny details to create that ultra-realistic look, fit for any advertising campaign or logo.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Add vector flair to model shots
Recreate this brilliant image with tips from Camilo Bejarano
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Build a vibrant, pattern-based isometric cityscape
You can easily combine isometrically drawn objects with repeat tiling to create a complex cityscape, as 2xanadu demonstrates
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Photoshop tutorial: Vintage-look collage techniques
Ciara Phelan shows you how to hone your cut-out skills to prepare images for collaging. You’ll also learn some handy tricks to give your images a vintage look.
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Photoshop tutorial: Apply colour to a fashion illustration
Abigail Daker swiftly creates a dynamic composition by digitally colouring a hand-drawn image
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Photoshop tutorial: Lighting effects
Work with layered photographs and simple effects to create a textured graphic compilation
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Designing type art for Haiti
Learn how 12 artists from the Blood Sweat Vector collective came together to design art in aid of earthquake victims
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Interactive tutorial: Twelve ways to publish to the iPad
With the decline in print publishing, and the rapid expansion in digital, how do smaller publishers go about getting their content onto the iPad platform? We view twelve solutions.
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After Effects tutorial: Animate a 16-bit game character
Following up his tutorial in last month’s issue on creating a character in the style of a 16-bit arcade game such as Street Fighter II, here James May takes you through the steps involved in animating this character to create a ‘load screen’.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Faux 3D finishes in Illustrator
Karan Singh shows you a clever and ridiculously quick way of giving your flat illustrations a faux 3D finish – without leaving the confines of Illustrator.