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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.
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.
Use light and shade to bring a Photoshop drawing to life.
Creative lighting can make all the difference to your photos – this tutorial shows how to jazz up your artwork for an eyecatching effect.
Learn how to combine brushes and blur effects in Photoshop to create a beautiful fantasy scene in this step-by-step guide by Murilo Maciel.
Take your video-enabled PDFs to the next level by adding a wealth of user interactivity control in InDesign.
Embed videos, buttons and rollover effects to create dynamic, interactive PDF files that will entice your readers.
Fake an image of a burning man in Photoshop with these flaming brilliant techniques from Fabio Sasso.
Take a walk on the wild side with amazing tattoo-style designs. Crank up that thrash metal playlist, grab a pencil, warm up the scanner and learn to work like a tattoo artist.
Make diagrams easier to understand – by animating them, with tips from motion-graphics and animation expert Angie Taylor.
Seamlessly integrate 3D elements using Photoshop Extended.
Brush up your compositing skills with this high-tech wintry scene.
In this tutorial, Sakke Soini guides you step-by-step through the process of creating this cool old school sci-fi poster image, based on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
If your budget doesn’t stretch to pricey plug-in particle filters, use After Effects’ internal tools.
Make art that’s out of this world with clever use of blend modes and some of Photoshop’s lesser-spotted filters.
Make your message stand out by transforming text with 3D extrusions in After Effects.
Create characters that glow from within, using these handy tips for painting realistic skin colouring.
Creating multi-dimensional, interactive menus from pen-and-paper sketches is simple – we show you how.
Alexis West shows how to bring your vector characters to life in Flash, turning an Illustrator image into a cool interactive animation.
Visual-effects specialist Angie Taylor shows how to use After Effects’ Clone Stamp tool to add to moving footage.
