Photoshop tutorial: Speedy shatter effects
Give your photos an edgy, shattered makeover in under an hour, using layer duplication.
Give your photos an edgy, shattered makeover in under an hour, using layer duplication.
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.
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.
Learn the tricks of character design using Adobe Flash
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.
Learn the hidden secrets of the gradient tool within Adobe Illustrator; particularly how to use it to create effective and complimentary colour schemes.
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.
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.
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.”
Pomme Chan shows how to take your first steps in letter-based illustration using Photoshop and Illustrator.
Illustrator's Gradient Mesh is a grid-based painting technique that enables advanced colouring of vector objects with smooth and malleable colour transitions.
Neil Duerden shows how to jazz up straightforward model shots with help from stock photography, Photoshop and Illustrator.
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.
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.
Learn how to give a soft edge to composited images with help from Photoshop
Ben the Illustrator shows how to prepare artwork for making trendy wall decals
To get noticed not just for your tweets, but also for your style, try creating your own custom tiled (or patterned) background.
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.
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.
Digital artist David Cousens reveals how to develop a sci-fi art sketch in Adobe Photoshop using the airbrush and a few nifty tricks.