Photoshop tutorial: Balance lighting perfectly when compositing elements
Erik Herrström offers a step-by-step guide to adding shadows and uniform lighting to a scene conjured up in deep space
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Photoshop tutorial: Smarter ways to use colour in your art
Bringing digital colour to hand-drawn art is a common task – and Jessica Fortner has some neat tricks to get the job done
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Photoshop tutorial: Digital tricks for 'hand-drawn' colour
Gabz shows how easy it can be to brighten up a pencil artwork
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Photoshop tutorial: Create semi-transparent artwork
Man-Tsun shows how plastic can be a great medium for creativity
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create a garden of sinful pleasure
Illustration supremo Phil Wheeler ‘gets wicked’ with different textures and approaches in a poster-sized image
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Organic texture and shape effects
French illustrator François Leroy explains how he created the textured organic shapes in his Isolation composition
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Photoshop tutorial: Create retro poster effects
Ollie Munden and Harriet Seed get shipshape with techniques for tattoo-style art, based on 50s rockabilly and navy motifs
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Photoshop tutorial: Top 10 Photoshop tutorials of 2011
From cosmic effects and beautiful lighting to digital painting tricks and emotionally affecting portraits, we bring you the 10 most popular Photoshop tutorials of last year.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Master Illustrator's Blend tool
Radim Malinic has a recipe for success to help you create great type art using Illustrator’s little-used Blending tool
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Photoshop tutorial: Turn a city into a dinosaur illustration
Andy Council has made a name for himself transforming street scenes into prehistoric monsters – here’s how the illustrator does it
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Photoshop tutorial: Smarten up your fashion drawings
You may have toyed with sketches of haute couture models – now it’s time to give them a touch of class, as Abby Wright explains
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Digital Mixed-media techniques
Simon Brader reveals how handmade textures, Illustrator curves and Photoshop effects all went into the creation of The Donor Trail
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Photoshop tutorial: Paint a multilayered surreal portrait
Rob Shields walks you through the creation of an inspirational artwork that also reveals much about composition and lighting
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Photoshop tutorial: Eroded fashion portraits
Pete Harrison radically reworks a fashion shot till the whole look begins to unravel before your eyes
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Colourful type art
Blend objects in Illustrator, then fuse them with type and colour in Photoshop, says Michael Kammerer – the results are fascinating
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Photoshop tutorial: Retro Collage Techniques
You might already know a thing or two about collage, but can you produce a look out of a 1970s poster? Tim Green explains how
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Photoshop tutorial: Give a portrait a cosmic makeover
Photoshop can make a simple studio shot look totally cosmic in just a few steps, as Karim Fakhoury demonstrates
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Photoshop tutorial: Make smashing glass effects
Master a convincing shattering-glass effect that has dozens of applications with this brilliant technique from Mark Mayers.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create punk poster art
This tutorial reveals how artist Dan Mumford creates a poster for a special show by the aggressive and spittle-flecked Watford punks Gallows.
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Photoshop tutorial: Mix 3D with fashion illustration
Michael Ostermann demonstrates how to create fantastical shapes and then blend them into a photo for striking results