Another drawing tutorial for icon lovers in which we’ll be illustrating a metallic compass. We’ll be controlling shadow and reflection to add realism to the illustration. As with any icon design, it’s a combination of the overall design and subtle details that gives quality results. Final Image Preview Before we get started, let’s take a [...]
In this tutorial, we will be working to create an interesting Poster-size illustration with floral elements. This tutorial is inspired by a suggestion from Zach on our page. He wanted to know how one would create a design like the floral element in the header. I’ve taken a look at that, added a few of [...]
In this tutorial I will take you through a few steps that will show you how I created a poster design. This illustration was created for a contest started by UPrinting Design over at . I was one of the lucky winners. Also, because of the requests to write a tutorial on this design, I [...]
The grunge movement in design combines rips, tears, decay, smears and scratches to form a dark and gritty result. Here we’ve collected fifty of the best ever Photoshop grunge tutorials for your enjoyment and education. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. [...]
Have you ever seen those outstanding fractal images with a lot of swirls and colors? Some of those were build simulating fractals or repeating shapes, where each shape is a reduced part of the whole, others were build mathematically. In this tutorial, we’ll create a stylized fractal design using only Photoshop. Final Image Preview Let’s [...]
We’ll be creating a fantasy illustration in this tutorial, I’ll show you how to merge two images into one using layer Masks and reshape a picture using the Liquify Filter. We’ll take an image of a baby iguana and another of a bat, then combine the two to create a fantasy dragon. Let’s get started! [...]
While design is too often used as a means to persuade us to buy, buy and buy some more, it is less often but more importantly used as a means to communicate positive messages and encourage action. Here we showcase 23 examples where graphic design has been used not to sell us products we don’t [...]
In this tutorial, we will convert an ordinary picture of a giraffe into a wallpaper of a giraffe fading away into musical notes. This design was used in my entry to the and managed to place in the top twenty, which made me think that some people on Psdtuts+ might want to know how I [...]
Screen-prints are a great way to exhibit artworks or advertise a gig. Creating a high impact poster suitable for the screen-printing process can be achieved relatively easily. In this instance, we’re going for a stylized and coarse effect, rather than a photo-realistic halftone interpretation of a design. So let’s create a 3-color design that looks [...]
Halloween is near! So let’s take a pumpkin image, carve it up, and light it for this coming holiday. You’ll learn how to get this nice effect on any pumpkin picture, how to play with the colors, apply some layer blending modes to skip the extraction process, and more. Final Image Preview Before we get [...]
