Photoshop tutorial: Create retro poster effects
Ollie Munden and Harriet Seed get shipshape with techniques for tattoo-style art, based on 50s rockabilly and navy motifs
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Top 10 Illustrator tutorials of 2011
In 2011, we showed you how to create a myriad of artistic styles in Adobe's vector art tool. Here are the ones you've loved most.
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Photoshop tutorial: Top 10 Photoshop tutorials of 2011
From cosmic effects and beautiful lighting to digital painting tricks and emotionally affecting portraits, we bring you the 10 most popular Photoshop tutorials of last year.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Master Illustrator's Blend tool
Radim Malinic has a recipe for success to help you create great type art using Illustrator’s little-used Blending tool
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Photoshop tutorial: Turn a city into a dinosaur illustration
Andy Council has made a name for himself transforming street scenes into prehistoric monsters – here’s how the illustrator does it
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Photoshop tutorial: Smarten up your fashion drawings
You may have toyed with sketches of haute couture models – now it’s time to give them a touch of class, as Abby Wright explains
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Digital Mixed-media techniques
Simon Brader reveals how handmade textures, Illustrator curves and Photoshop effects all went into the creation of The Donor Trail
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Photoshop tutorial: Paint a multilayered surreal portrait
Rob Shields walks you through the creation of an inspirational artwork that also reveals much about composition and lighting
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Photoshop tutorial: Eroded fashion portraits
Pete Harrison radically reworks a fashion shot till the whole look begins to unravel before your eyes
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Colourful type art
Blend objects in Illustrator, then fuse them with type and colour in Photoshop, says Michael Kammerer – the results are fascinating
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: The secrets of beautiful caricatures
Drawing people is not the most obvious application of vector imagery, but Stanley Chow shows it can deliver brilliant results
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Illustration tutorial: Take control with colour in digital art & illustration
Illustrator Dan Stafford shows how balancing colour is the key to amazing compositions
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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.
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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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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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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.