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How to Hand Paint Convincing Metal Textures
Metal texturing is something that is all too often done poorly by simply overlaying photos on top of one another. While this can look alright if done properly, it usually ends up looking like stone or concrete, which does not look or act the way tha...
How to Create a Rusty Texture in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how simple it is to texturize objects using different fusion mode layers, adjustment layers, color tweaks and some very simple filters in Photoshop. You can use this simple technique in more complex illustrations ...
How to Make a Highly-Textured Site Layout in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we’ll create a textured site layout by layering multiple images. Creating highly-textured web design layouts is easier than you may think. You can learn to build image intensive designs rapidly. For intermediate Photoshop des...
Creating a Set of Digital Painting Icons – Digital Tablet Icon
For this forth installment of the “Creating a Set of Digital Painting Icons” series we will create a pen tablet from scratch, specifically the Wacom 12″ Cintiq tablet. This model combines touch and pressure sensitivity, which allow...
How to Create Cityscape Concept Art
In this tutorial, I will teach you how to easily create a successful piece of cityscape concept art. We’ll be using a very basic 3D scene as a foundation for the piece, then taking it into Photoshop for some creative photo manipulation of refe...
Unusual Christmas Card
How to make Christmas card using photoshop Read more Share and Enjoy: ...
Create a Watercolor-Themed Website Design with Photoshop
Watercolor in graphic design has become very trendy the last couple of years, many websites and incredible designers are using this style and taking it to another level. Even knowing the technique is important in this kind of design, is more about c...
Photo Manipulate a Beautiful Sunrise Landscape
Learn how to combine and blend multiple landscape photos to create a beautiful sunrise landscape. You will also learn about masking and other selection methods. Read more Share and Enjoy: ...
Creating a Set of Digital Painting Icons – Camera Icon
Welcome to the second tutorial in the “Creating a Set of Digital Painting Icons” series. This time we’ll create a digital SLR camera, a tool digital artists often use to take pictures to create textures or for reference. We will co...
How to Design a Print-Ready Flier with Photoshop and Illustrator
In this tutorial we are going to create 3D text and integrate it in a natural environment. We will not use any 3D programs, so all you need is Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create this effect. Read more Share and Enjoy: ...
Comic Coloring 2
Software Used : Photoshop Introduction : First off I would like to welcome everyone to this, the first part of a tutorial on how I currently color images. I hope you find this tutorial helpful! For this tutorial I will be using Adobe Photoshop CS4, ...
Blend a Planet Transparently into a Photo Manipulation
In this tutorial I will show you how to use different blending modes to blend flying hairs easily and to make semi-transparent planet. I’ll also show you different techniques of adjustment to get the most realistic results in your photo manipu...
How to Design a Beautiful Google Calendar Icon
Google Calendar is one of many apps that runs on the Internet, not on your desktop. I’ll show you how to make your very own desktop icon for Google Calendar and, hopefully, the skills behind creating other similar icons. I hope you enjoy the exper...
Create a Simple Autumn Scene in Photoshop
In this tutorial I will be teaching you how to make a vibrant, simple Autumn Wallpaper using vector files and some simple techniques in Photoshop. Read more Share and Enjoy: ...
How To Design a Thanksgiving Pumpkin in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a realistic pumpkin icon with the help of Filters and Layer Styles. This tutorial is written for users who have a basic understanding of the tools and techniques used in Photoshop. Enjoy! Read more ...
How to Create a Basic House Icon in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you’ll go through easy steps and techniques to design a simple yet attractive house icon. It’s easy to follow and to play with. There are no intricate curves or complex brush work. Just simple shapes along with layer st...
A Basic Guide to Photoshop CS4 Adjustment Layers
Photoshop CS4 has a new Panel named Adjustments, based on the Adjustment Layers of previous versions. These adjustments can be used for non-destructive editing, can be masked to edit only a part of an image, it can be applied to several layers on a ...
Photoshop’s Brush Tool – Basic Guide
This time I’ve got for you a really basic guide, which is useful for beginners and people interested in learning a little bit more deeply the power of Photoshop’s Brush Tool. Every single Photoshop user has dealt with the brush tool at ...
Easy Star Light in Photoshop
I’ve been writing tutorials inspired by skateboard deck designs for a few weeks and today it’s not going to be different. I’m very addicted to that, I love the ideas some of the designers have and for this tutorial I will recreate ...
Simulating A Soft Focus Filter
Here’s a great technique that will allow you to apply a soft focus filter to your images. Share and Enjoy: ...
How To Create Realistic Cat Fur
In this tutorial I will show you how to create realistic cat fur. It takes some patience to get to the desired result, but eventually you’ll end up with a super cute, furry kitten! This tutorial is written for beginners. The following referenc...
Photo Manipulate a Falling Angel
Learn how to combine several photos to create a dramatic ‘fallen angel’ scene. Read more Share and Enjoy: ...
Making of Junk Tree Paradise
Software Used : Photoshop CS4 & Painter IX Introduction : Hi all! For this tutorial I used a Wacom Intuous 2 tablet, Photoshop CS4 and Painter IX. Join me as I take you through a quick demonstration of my painting process for “Junk Tree Paradi...
Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: Create mile-high type art
Fantasy images don’t need to include cheesy damsels, dragons and generously proportioned elves. What they do need, however, is carefully considered, painterly colours, moody lighting and detailed texturing. In this tutorial, Fabio Sasso shows you ...
Classic Photoshop Tutorial: Master lighting effects
Creative lighting can make all the difference to your photos – this tutorial shows how to jazz up your artwork for an eyecatching effect. Setting the overall mood of an image can be easy, thanks to simple, highly effective lighting effects in Phot...
Give your sketches a facelift
Chris Malbon reveals how to transform your old doodles into cutting edge portfolio-boosting work Injecting new life into old work can be a valuable way for new freelancers to gain a head start and build a portfolio quickly. We all keep sketchbooks: ...
Sweet as Candy
Even though ‘Sweet as Candy’ could sound like a simple, common title, it was still pretty important for the character and the theme. More so, it did get personal toward the finishing stage. Everything about her had to speak. Her expressi...
Create frozen liquid effects
Sergio Vichique shows how you can bring the coolest of effects to your illustrations Some time ago, while working on an advertisement for a new bottled water, I was having problems trying to recreate the image with a 3D model. I had little time to f...
Take your artwork cosmic
elestial elements are everywhere in design. Ben Thomas demonstrates how to incorporate them into your style Geometric shapes and cosmos elements have been popular with a lot of artists in 2009. I was asked to give my own take on the style earlier i...
Old Style Typography Sign in Photoshop
Last weekend I was, once again, stuck waiting more than 4 hours in aiports. So I was checking out some skateboard deck designs and found an amazing one from Girl Skateboards. The cool thing about that design was the effect, reminded me of those old ...
