Photoshop tutorial: Create fireballs and explosions
Fabio Sasso uses custom brushes and layers to create an explosive scene in Photoshop.
Tutorials
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Get started with type art
Pomme Chan shows how to take your first steps in letter-based illustration using Photoshop and Illustrator.
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Photoshop tutorial: How to create digital collages without filters
Artist Scott Rhodes reckons that it is layers – not filters – that can create a perfect mix between illustration and digital collage.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create striking photo and vector mash-ups
Neil Duerden shows how to jazz up straightforward model shots with help from stock photography, Photoshop and Illustrator.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create surreal montages
Cut-&-paste creativity has always had a bad press – but digital artist Mike Harrison shows that it can be used to generate inspirational surreal images.
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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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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create retro poster art
The retro aesthetic of the 1950s and 1960s is currently back in vogue and it’s set to be a great trend for 2010. It’s not hard to see why retro design is so enduringly popular: the bold, blocky colours, simple imagery and vivid typography make this a striking era of design.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create dynamic lighting
Dynamic lighting isn’t new – far from it. The 16th-century Baroque art movement saw artists such as Giovanni Baglione use chiaroscuro (Italian for light and dark) to add a sense of depth, atmosphere, and emotion to their work. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how the same lighting principles can be applied to your photo manipulations.
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Photoshop tutorial: Transform lolly sticks into textures
Are you inspired by the mundane? The seemingly normal everyday things you come across? If not you should be, because what may appear to be nothing, can be turned into something unique.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create distressed textures for digital paintings
Are your images slick and polished, when you’re after a rougher, more urban feel? Mess things up a little: David and Sarah Cousens show you how.
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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 striking stencil art for posters
Digital artist Ian Keltie reveals how to composite elements in Photoshop to create a striking, stencilled art poster with an industrial edge.
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Photoshop tutorial: Master 3D type effects
Nik Ainley of Shiny Binary shows you how to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools.
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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: Speedy 1980s text effects
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create flashy type-based art quickly by making cunning use of Photoshop’s layer styles, which are easy to composite into other artworks.
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Photoshop tutorial: Turn sketches into fantastic digital paintings
Digital artist David Cousens reveals how to develop a sci-fi art sketch in Adobe Photoshop using the airbrush and a few nifty tricks.
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Photoshop tutorial: Master skin tones
Use light and shade to bring a Photoshop drawing to life.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Design a graffiti-style screenprint artwork
Learn how to create scorching posters or T-shirts with hands-on tips from screen-printing experts Waste.