Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Top Illustrator tutorials of 2010
Last year 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 2010
From 3D type art and lighting effects to pop-up illustration and surreal portraits, we bring you the 10 most popular Photoshop tutorials of last year.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Design damask patterns for wallpaper and homewares
In this tutorial, Steven Bonner details the techniques he used to create semi-symmetrical graphics to create beautiful designs
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Add depth to your art with expert shading techniques
Bristol-based artist Ben Steers will show you how he uses gradient effects and opacity masks to overcome this, as he takes you through how he created his piece, Gone Karting.
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Photoshop tutorial: Hand-drawn tricks for hip graphics styles
In this tutorial, artist Ollie Munden takes you through the process of creating his three-colour painting, Chasing The Dragon, through a mix of real-world and digital craftmanship using brush strokes.
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Illustration tutorial: Yupyland character art
Here’s how illustrator Meni Tzima creates her wonderful character art using Adobe Illustrator.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create a stylish modern cyborg
Fabio Sasso injects some class into a frightening sci-fi image
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Photoshop tutorial: Mixed media techniques for distressed beauty
Blend watercolour and textures from old textiles and photos to create a mixed media artwork, explains Murilo Maciel
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After Effects tutorial: Master the Basics: Rotobrushing in After Effects CS5
Remove a coloured background easily in Adobe After Effects CS5 by mastering the Roto Brush tool.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create cartoon figures with ease
In this tutorial, Mercedes Crespo (aka YemaYema) shows how she creates her appealing cartoon characters. Though full of detail, rich in colour and complex in appearance, they are simple to draw, as she reveals.
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Photoshop tutorial: Make a realistic crystal ball in Photoshop
Learn how to deal with shiny surfaces, refractions and curves, with some handy pointers from Photoshop guru Mark Mayers.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Make vector portraits from photos
Eelco van den Berg lets you behind the curtain to see how he creates his incredible vector portraits by turning a photo into a ‘poppy’ vector illustration.
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Dreamweaver tutorial: Build an iPad portfolio app
Take advantage of the iPad’s web-app capability to create an impressive offline website to act as your portfolio
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Photoshop tutorial: Discover inspirational painting techniques
Create a subversive pastiche of Chinese propaganda posters using Photoshop.
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Photoshop tutorial: Master the urban halo effect
Want to mix beauty with the grittiness of an urban environment? Digital artist Neil Duerden breaks out Photoshop and shows you how...
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Photoshop tutorial: Transform your doodles into art
Turn your idle sketches into gold with amazing Photoshop techniques from Craig Shields.
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Photoshop tutorial: Design a pop-up illustration
In this tutorial Simon Wild explains how to combine Photoshop’s tools with traditional pop-up techniques as a starting point to plan, modify and transform your 2D artwork into a fully functional pop-up spread.
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Painter tutorial: Inking techniques revealed
When creating comics, few artists stop at the pencil stage – most then pull out the inks for a more dynamic black and white look. Here artist Douglas Sirois takes you step-by-step through how to turn out a piece with a pencil-drawn look.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create beautiful abstract mosaics
In this tutorial, Fabio Sasso will show you how to create a deconstructed image using a pattern made out of cubes. The idea is try to simulate a mosaic but with a more abstract and up-to-date interpretation.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Draw realistic liquids in vector art
In this tutorial you’ll learn numerous Illustrator techniques to create vector liquid, by playing around with Illustrator’s Mesh tool, Warp tool and layer blending properties.