Illustration tutorial: Digital lettering techniques from Apple Christmas campaign lettering artist Rachel Joy Price
Tips on how to create letters using discovered type and how to add depth to your letters using the iPad.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Pose characters using Illustrator's Puppet Warp tool
Adobe Illustrator’s relatively new Puppet Warp feature is a really great simple tool to adjust shapes and lines, especially to pose or reposition a character.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create a glowing superhero
Kervin Brisseaux shows how he turned a basic illustration into a retro-futuristic artwork in Photoshop using glow effects made using Adjustment layers and Layer Styles.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create artwork with both real and digital brushstrokes
Adi Gilbert explains how hand-drawn art can be enhanced by digital techniques to produce beautifully-crafted illustrations.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Design a vector map packed with creatures and landmarks
Use Adobe Illustrator to create a charming vector map that's stuffed with famous features and animals.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: How to draw a mandala
This step-by-step guide teaches you how to create an Illustrator mandala template that automatically repeats what you draw around a circle.
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Photoshop tutorial: How to add texture to hand-drawn artworks
By applying scanned patterns and halftones to drawn linework, you can add extra depth and modern freshness to your art.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create better-than-Instagram retro photos
Give photos a light-leak look of flawed vintage 1960s colour snaps using Adobe Photoshop.
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Photoshop tutorial: Learn amazing 80s airbrush portrait techniques
Tap into the era of glam, gloss and shine to create a super-vibrant portrait with a perfect sheen.
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Photoshop tutorial: Turn a photo into 16-bit pixel art
A step-by-step guide to how to transform a photo into a retro game character from the era of the Nintento SNES and Sega Mega Drive.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create digital tattoo art
Even if a tattooist’s toolset is a little different from that of the digital illustrator, you can reproduce their techniques digitally – pain-free.
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Photoshop tutorial: Brilliant Linework and Shading techniques for Manga artworks
Turn sketches into finished art faster with Man-Tsun’s pen and painting techniques for Manga and Anime styles.
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Photoshop tutorial: How to remove a background in Photoshop - Use Photoshop to remove the background of a photo
Find out how to cut out an image and remove a background from a photo in Photoshop in this step-by-step tutorial. How to remove background with Photoshop.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create an artwork with a 1980s tropical feel
Use abstract shapes and negative space to create a bold and striking artwork.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create cosmic art
How to create a fabulous astronomy-themed artwork using elements taken from public-domain NASA images.
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Photoshop tutorial: Add an authentic-looking vintage look to a photo
Photographer Graham Boyd has a great recipe for ageing digital images with realistic, so-much-better-than-Instagram-or-filters results in Photoshop.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: The secrets of cute character art design revealed
Sascha Preuß teaches the art of designing colourful cartoon characters and reveals the principles of cuteness.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create gold 3D type, encrusted in jewels
Bling up your typography by adding a golden sheen and sparkling gems. Karol Gadzala shows you how.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Create melted chocolate type
Radim Malinic shows you how to create the a fun phrase spelled out in melted chocolate.
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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop tutorial: Add vector flair to model-led photos
Create bold vector elements and composite them into photos to create a fun fashion photomontage.
