Photoshop tutorial: Cut & paste cool background textures
Take cut-&-paste further by compositing elements onto textured, colour backgrounds. Brian Grant shows you how…
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create an iconic T-Shirt artwork
Joshua Smith, aka Hydro74, takes you through how he created his latest work, based around his regular motifs of skulls and swirls mixed with this spring/summer’s illustration icon, the owl.
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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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Photoshop tutorial: High-end photo compositing techniques
Kevin Roodhorst illustrates how to composite seemingly disparate elements in a cohesive way through the use of textures and lighting effects.
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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: Back-to-basics photo illustration techniques
Markie Darkie shows you how to master repetition and layering of shapes, and efficient use of simple colour palettes with the aid of Layer Style effects.
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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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Photoshop tutorial: Master brush and layer effects for type
In this tutorial, Fabio Sasso shows you how to create a beautiful, watercolour-type effect – inspired by the work of illustrator Florian Nicolle – using brushes and layer styles in Photoshop.
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Photoshop tutorial: Speedy shatter effects
Give your photos an edgy, shattered makeover in under an hour, using layer duplication.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Composite photos and vectors for an 80s photo style
Recreating colourful, 1980s-style graphics isn’t hard – the tricky bit is updating them for the 21st century. Here, Karan Singh shows how to add an 80s twist to model shots.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create incredible B-movie poster art
Prepare to shock! Terrify! Amaze! Mark Mayers demonstrates how to recreate the shlock B-movie posters of cinema’s golden age.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create manga art to view with retro 3D specs
In this tutorial, Mark Mayers' will show how to convert an existing image or illustration into a 3D image with help from Photoshop.
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Photoshop tutorial: Master advanced warp effects
Kyle DeTella makes heavy use of Photoshop’s Warp and Burn tools to create an abstraction composition based on his current work.
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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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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Add vector flair to model shots
Camilo Bejarano shows you how to hand-draw elements before scanning them in and transforming them into dramatic, colourful designs that interact neatly with the photograph.
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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 hand-rendered art
Neil Duerden takes us back-to-basics with this stunning tutorial on creating personal art 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.