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...
Tutorials
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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: 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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Photoshop tutorial: Vintage collage techniques
Layer found images and handmade elements with Photoshop and Illustrator techniques for a witty, retro style that’s got dozens of uses.
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Photoshop tutorial: Surreal digital portraits
Learn how to create surreal digital portraits using Photoshop, as Ratinan Thaijareorn -- aka Ise -- takes you through the process of how she creates her incredible artworks.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Remix your art
Learn how to create character-based artwork that represents a synthesis of styles
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After Effects tutorial: Watercolour Video Effects
Music video styles drawn from the early days of MTV are all the rage, but it’s pretty time-consuming, so we show you how to bring a stylised, painterly look to your footage.
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Photoshop tutorial: Classic effects reimagined - Vintage halftones
Fabio Sasso shows you how you can put a stylish spin on one of Photoshop’s most hackneyed effects, Color Halftones
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Photoshop tutorial: Create stunning art using seamless layer masking
Give surreal or fantasy images extra pop using advanced compositing techniques, layer masking and custom brushes.
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Painter tutorial: Draw and shade with digital pencils for a comic-book look
Take inspiration from graphic novels and recreate the roughed-up look adopted by comic artists using Corel Painter and your computer.
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Photoshop tutorial: Put a cutting edge spin on the lens flare effect
Learn how to present exciting variations on an old theme through changing the position of the lens flares and creative use of the blending modes, brush tools and colour.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create amazing psychedelic art
Rob Carissimo reveals how to use Photoshop to create a hazy, dreamlike effect that’s straight from 60s California.
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Photoshop tutorial: Pendulum's Immersion album cover art step-by-step
Discover how Polish artist Valp composited this stunning artwork for the cover of the Pendulum’s recent Number 1 album
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Illustration tutorial: Create a portfolio slideshow in Apple Aperture 3
Apple's Aperture 3 features some seriously beefed-up slideshow tools. Here we show you how to take advantage of them to show off your creative portfolio in the best possible way.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create retro posterized illustration effects
Photoshop’s Posterized tool is shamefully underused. Here, artist Baz Pringle shows you how to rediscover its potential…
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Urban type art
London is hip again, and in this tutorial Holland-based designer Bram Vanhaeren shows you how he created a new piece that draws on all that’s great about the city – taking inspiration from the Olympics, underground club scenes and the city vista from up high.
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After Effects tutorial: Animate a 'falling-to-earth' zoom effect
Use Google Earth with Adobe After Effects to make thrilling ‘falling-from-space' sequences.
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Photoshop tutorial: Get political -- simple poster art techniques
Digital illustrator Anton Nelson shows you how to use simple painting techniques in Photoshop to create poster art with impact.
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Photoshop tutorial: Photoshop's layer effects explained
Creating vibrant, eye-catching images like this one needn’t be a complex or time-consuming affair. In this tutorial, James White shows how to add a vivid retro flair to a striking model shot.
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Illustration tutorial: How to create stunning gallery prints
Learn how illustrator Ciara Phelan creates her incredible collage artworks, and follow her step-by-step as she shows how to print on a Canon PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II 10-ink A3+ pro inkjet printer to get results that you could sell in an art gallery