Photoshop tutorial: Speedy shatter effects
Give your photos an edgy, shattered makeover in under an hour, using layer duplication.
Tutorials
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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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Flash Pro tutorial: Design kick-ass characters
Learn the tricks of character design using Adobe Flash
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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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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Master dynamic gradient techniques
Learn the hidden secrets of the gradient tool within Adobe Illustrator; particularly how to use it to create effective and complimentary colour schemes.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create lush, glossy vector images
It’s easy to associate vectors with flat shapes – but creating Illustrator images with real depth needn’t be a headache. In this tutorial, Thomas Burden shows how you can create striking, vibrant work in Illustrator using a simple colour palette and basic blur effects – particularly Illustrator’s built-in Gaussian Blur effects.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Master Photoshop's Liquify filter
Tim Burton’s retelling of Alice in Wonderland is full of dreamlike, grotesquely distorted characters. In this tutorial, Fabio Sasso shows you how to hone your use of the Liquify filter to make an image inspired by the film’s sinister Cheshire Cat.
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Flash Pro tutorial: Create monochrome art in Flash
In this tutorial, character art guru Paul Shih shows how to create a detailed black-and-white artwork – using Flash. Shih says: “I personally find Flash’s drawing system work best for the style we are making. It’s fun and easy.”
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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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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: How to paint using the Gradient Mesh tool
Illustrator's Gradient Mesh is a grid-based painting technique that enables advanced colouring of vector objects with smooth and malleable colour transitions.
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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: 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 a children's book illustration
Learn how to give a soft edge to composited images with help from Photoshop
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Printing tutorial: Design for vinyl wall stickers
Ben the Illustrator shows how to prepare artwork for making trendy wall decals
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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: 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.