Interactive tutorial: How to create pop-out Flash banners
Learn this simple technique to create eye-catching banner ads that leap out of the container and onto the web page.
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Life & Style tutorial: Create sci-fi poster art
Make art that’s out of this world with clever use of blend modes and some of Photoshop’s lesser-spotted filters.
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Life & Style tutorial: Make your text 3D in After Effects
Make your message stand out by transforming text with 3D extrusions in After Effects.
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Life & Style tutorial: Make it rain with Photoshop Brushes
Learn how to create the look of a rainy day, even when your photos were taken in full sunshine. Tommy Maloney shows you how.
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Graphic Design tutorial: Making pictures with the wow factor
Sebastian Onufszak shows some nifty Photoshop and Illustrator tools for getting great results every time.
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Life & Style tutorial: DVD motion menu design
Creating multi-dimensional, interactive menus from pen-and-paper sketches is simple – we show you how.
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Life & Style tutorial: Creating art using the golden ratio
For centuries artists and designers have used a sum – the golden ratio – to achieve proportion. Here’s how to make it work for you.
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Life & Style tutorial: Animating characters
Alexis West shows how to bring your vector characters to life in Flash, turning an Illustrator image into a cool interactive animation.
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Life & Style tutorial: Advanced track and clone in AE
Visual-effects specialist Angie Taylor shows how to use After Effects’ Clone Stamp tool to add to moving footage.
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Life & Style tutorial: How to create a successful Facebook widget
With clients increasingly demanding Web agencies to include social networking as part of digital campaigns, we show you how to get the best from Facebook widgets.
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Life & Style tutorial: Colour correcting a music promo
Dado Valentic shows how to grade a music promo using Apple Color in Final Cut Pro.
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Life & Style tutorial: Create Web 2.0 style graphics
Slick, reflective Web 2.0 icons and graphics can bring your Web site firmly into the 21st Century.
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Life & Style tutorial: Creative type effects
The included plug-ins with After Effects might seem a little limited, but some creative thinking can lead to some awesome type effects.
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Life & Style tutorial: Rigging a character for After Effects
Creating an After Effects character animation is a whole lot easier if you prepare your main figure beforehand.
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Life & Style tutorial: How to build a multi-platform game in Flash
Chris Kempt shows you how to use Adobe Flash to create a simple art-based platform game, based on Kempt’s classic viral The Kung-Fu Statesmen.
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Life & Style tutorial: How to draw Manga - pt 4
Learn how to give Manga artwork some visual punch with our guide to creating dynamic images in Photoshop. Part four.
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Life & Style tutorial: How to draw Manga - pt 3
Learn how to give Manga artwork some visual punch with our guide to creating dynamic images in Photoshop. Part three.
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Life & Style tutorial: How to draw Manga - pt 2
Learn how to give Manga artwork some visual punch with our guide to creating dynamic images in Photoshop. Part two.
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Life & Style tutorial: How to draw Manga - pt 1
Learn how to give Manga artwork some visual punch with our guide to creating dynamic images in Photoshop. Part one
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Life & Style tutorial: Retouching tips - pt 3
Replicate traditional photographic techniques using step-by-step walkthroughs - part three: infrared film effects.