Photoshop tutorial: Create fashion-inspired photo 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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Flash Pro tutorial: Design kick-ass characters
Learn the tricks of character design using Adobe Flash
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Photoshop tutorial: Paint this gorgeous disco-inspired portrait
You’d be very world-weary indeed if your first reaction when looking at this portrait wasn’t ‘wow’. Knockout digital portraiture at this level takes skill, craft and patience – and here, Neville d’Souza guides you step by step through the painstaking process of creating this gorgeous portrait from scratch in Photoshop.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create gorgeous photomontages
Taking a picture of a pretty girl and giving it the wow factor with some clever details is one of the most popular uses for Photoshop. Rob Shields shows how to execute the style with real flair, applying digital painting techniques, compositing and layer masks to stunning effect.
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Photoshop tutorial: 3D peeling sticker effect
On the surface, they’re the ultimate in cheese. But for designers, creating a realistic, peeling sticker effect should be stock in trade.
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After Effects tutorial: Create a mini-planet using Photoshop and After Effects
Give your footage a fresh perspective with mini-planet techniques
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Photoshop tutorial: Create 3D type art using Photoshop CS5
Nik Ainley talks you through some of the secrets of Photoshop CS5’s incredible new extrusion tool
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Illustration tutorial: Hand-drawn techniques for vector artworks
French illustrator Olivier Blanc takes a bitmap scanned sketch to a vector artwork in Illustrator.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Master Photoshop's Liquify filter
Tim Burton’s retelling of Alice in Wonderland is full of dreamlike, grotesquely distorted characters. In this tutorial, Fabio Sasso shows you how to hone your use of the Liquify filter to make an image inspired by the film’s sinister Cheshire Cat.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create fireballs and explosions
Fabio Sasso uses custom brushes and layers to create an explosive scene in Photoshop.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Explore new-folk illustration styles
Jonny Wan’s distinctive, fresh illustrations manage to seem both mechanical and handmade: their characters are composed of intricate, symmetrical vector shapes so that they seem almost clockwork, yet the finishes he applies remind us of woodcuts.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create a children's book illustration
Learn how to give a soft edge to composited images with help from Photoshop
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Photoshop tutorial: Design a Twitter page with a tiled background
To get noticed not just for your tweets, but also for your style, try creating your own custom tiled (or patterned) background.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create dynamic backdrop lighting
Take your lighting effects to the next level, creating a deep, rich background for this fantastic rising sumo wrestler image.
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Photoshop tutorial: Design a custom Twitter page
In order to get noticed for both your tweets and your style, you'll want to create your own custom background. Here we'll show you how to create one that looks as good as your creative work.
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Photoshop tutorial: Master skin tones
Use light and shade to bring a Photoshop drawing to life.
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Life & Style tutorial: Create realistic glass surfaces
Create this wine glass from scratch using Illustrator’s transparency and translucency settings, with tips from James Arnott.
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Photoshop tutorial: Master grid-based web design in Photoshop
Sharpen up your web design with this introduction to creating structured, grid-based layouts for websites.
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Photoshop tutorial: Compose fantastic images using non-destructive blending
Illustrator Jason Feeny shows how you can put Photoshop CS3/CS4’s Smart Objects function to good use to composite incredible images.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create mile-high type art
Use Fabio Sasso’s tips to perfect your Photoshop texturing skills and create this image of an abandoned princess.