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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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Pose characters using the new 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: 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.
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Adobe Illustrator tutorial: Create seamless, Mexican-inspired patterns
Berlin-based artist Amrei Hofstätter (aka Vertico's Puppets) shows you how to create a complex, colourful Mexican-inspired pattern by using just two simple geometric objects in Illustrator.
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Photoshop tutorial: Create a beautiful bird illustration
Give depth to your artwork with these techniques for accomplished use of shadows and textures.
