Create a Surreal “Game of Thrones” Photo Manipulation

Preview of Final Results Tutorial Resources Model – faestock Mountains – Burnt Sky – salsolastock Ball – rivendell-photostock Colors – needanewname Snow Brush – carocha Step 1 – Open a new file Open Photoshop and ant the top of the screen select the option File – New. The size has to be Width: 2249 and… Continue reading Create a Surreal “Game of Thrones” Photo Manipulation

20 Photoshop Poster Tutorials

These 20 inspiring Photoshop poster tutorials in this post will teach you the basics of Photoshop, and also some advanced manipulations techniques for creating amazing designs. These tutorial are ideal for print designers or any other designers who want to improve their Photoshop skills. Which one is your favorite? Let us know in the comments… Continue reading 20 Photoshop Poster Tutorials

Create a “Lomographic” Photography Effect in Photoshop

The “Lomography” photo effect is a popular contrarian photographic style characterized by oversaturated colors, distortions, unexpected prismatic effects, and several other qualities that are usually avoided or corrected by traditional photographers. Those who enjoy and seek these unusual effects appreciate lomography’s stylized surrealism. The effect is inspired by photographs taken from an inexpensive Russian camera… Continue reading Create a “Lomographic” Photography Effect in Photoshop

Create a “Kick-Ass” Fan Art

In this tutorial, we will show you how to create an illustration of “Hit Girl,” from the new “Kick Ass” film. In the process, we will show you some simple techniques to help you improve your digital illustration skills and give your artwork an almost comic-like edge. Let’s get started!   Speed Art Video Tutorial… Continue reading Create a “Kick-Ass” Fan Art

Create Fresh Fruit 3D Text Effect in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the process of creating fresh fruit 3D text effect in Photoshop. You will learn a few trick to render a nice and unique 3D text effect and apply various fruits around it. We will use a number filter to add some extra effect for our text. This… Continue reading Create Fresh Fruit 3D Text Effect in Photoshop

How To Create an Ornate Compass Rose in Illustrator

I recently shared some tips with a subscriber about how to create a nautical star design in Illustrator, which then prompted me to research traditional nautical star and compass rose layouts and construct an ornate design of my own. The process makes use of lots of simple but really useful techniques in Illustrator to build… Continue reading How To Create an Ornate Compass Rose in Illustrator

Simplest Way to Create Cool CSS3 Animation Effects

CSS3 Animation are gaining tons of attention lately. Personally, I have started using it in some of my projects and I absolutely love how simple it is to create a smooth animation effect. One of the major advantages of CSS3 is – they’re hardware accelerated. It’s smoother and faster if compared with javascript generated animation.… Continue reading Simplest Way to Create Cool CSS3 Animation Effects

Create This Gorgeous Moonlight Poster of a Girl Walking on a Railway

Preview of Final Results Tutorial Resources Model – Dazzle-stock Railway – Sed-rah-stock Sky 1 – Frostbo Sky 2 – Frostbo Moon – Yumi1805 Step 1 Create a new document with a trasparent background. Size: Width 1500px Height: 2000px Step 2 Go to File > Place and open the ‘Railway’ Stock. Step 3 Go to Edit… Continue reading Create This Gorgeous Moonlight Poster of a Girl Walking on a Railway

Create a Clueless Racecar Driver Illustration in Photoshop

Creating a high-impact and realistic caricature illustration can be a fun but extremely challenging task. In this tutorial, we will explain how to properly control all the elements of a composition including color balance, contrast, textures, and more, as well as all of the tools and techniques that you will need to know in Photoshop… Continue reading Create a Clueless Racecar Driver Illustration in Photoshop

Create Pure CSS 3D Model With Tridiv

We all know about WebGL, it’s an open standard browser implementation of OpenGL, and you can create 3D games, effect with Javascript. Now, we have a new way to create 3D graphic – by using CSS. I found this very impressive tool called Tridiv, a web-based editor for creating 3D shapes in CSS. If you… Continue reading Create Pure CSS 3D Model With Tridiv

10 Resources and Promotion Facts for Freelance Designers

The most successful freelancers are the ones that do the best job of getting their name out there. Being able to successful showcase and promote your own work is key to gaining more clients and becoming well-known for what you do.   It’s definitely hard to stand out in the crowd sometimes when you’re a… Continue reading 10 Resources and Promotion Facts for Freelance Designers

Create a Delicious Print Ad Using Photo Manipulation Techniques in Photoshop

Print designers often work with digital illustrators and CG artists to help produce their work. In this tutorial, we will continue to develop a character concept from a Cgtuts+ tutorial by Nacho Riesco and show you how to create a print ad by combining photo manipulation techniques with some renders from another tutorial. Let’s get… Continue reading Create a Delicious Print Ad Using Photo Manipulation Techniques in Photoshop

Create a Shaded, Stylized Text Effect in Photoshop

Typography and text effects are critical in today’s graphic and commercial design. Viewers are becoming more and more overwhelmed with daily information, and as a result they can inadvertently be conditioned to “filter out” messaging that isn’t truly distinctive. Stylized typography is an effective way to regain the attention and appeal that can otherwise be… Continue reading Create a Shaded, Stylized Text Effect in Photoshop

20 Useful and High Quality Web Design Tutorials and Resources

Web designers and developers must know various important components to develop a beautiful website. All tricks and tools can not able to learn within few days. It requires long practice and hard work. To help those guys I today going to present 20 Useful and High Quality Web Design Tutorials and Resources.   How to… Continue reading 20 Useful and High Quality Web Design Tutorials and Resources

Create a Sparkling, Glitter Portrait From Stock in Adobe Illustrator

An innocent vector portrait based on a stock image from Photodune became a battleground of sparkles and glitter. As requested, people wanted to see a portrait tutorial which used a lot of glitter! Who was I to not take up such a challenge? In today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a… Continue reading Create a Sparkling, Glitter Portrait From Stock in Adobe Illustrator

Create a Simple School Teddy Bear in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial we will learn how to create a cute Teddy Bear and some school themed items. We’ll be using basic shapes and the Pathfinder panel, so you don’t need a graphic tablet or advanced drawing skills for making up such character. Let’s dig in! 1. Form the Bear’s Head and Face Step 1 Create… Continue reading Create a Simple School Teddy Bear in Adobe Illustrator

20 Vector Tutorials and Free Vector Resources

Illustrator is important software in web design. To create beautiful logo designers need to know illustrator to create logo banners additional graphics. This article 20 Vector Tutorials and Free Vector Resources is useful to all designers.   Vector Tutorials Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Clean Website Layout Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Create a Detailed Restaurant… Continue reading 20 Vector Tutorials and Free Vector Resources

Create a Realistic Underwater Scene in Photoshop

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Underwater scenes can be quite challenging to create in a realistic way. In this tutorial, we will explain how to create an Underwater scene in Photoshop using several stock photographs. Let’s get started!   Speed Art Video Take a look at this stunning speed art video that shows how this… Continue reading Create a Realistic Underwater Scene in Photoshop

Showcase Of Fresh And Free jQuery Plugins And Tutorials

Plugins and tutorials are great designing resources for the designers. With the help of tutorials, designers can learn and practice new technique of using their designing tool and plugins are meant to simplify their designing work. In the recent times, jQuery has become simply miraculous seeing that with jQuery you can discover plugins to achieve… Continue reading Showcase Of Fresh And Free jQuery Plugins And Tutorials

20 Awesome Graphic Design Photoshop Video Tutorials

There are a lot of step-by-step Photoshop tutorials on the web, but sometimes you’ll understand better and be more focused if you feel like someone is actually talking to you and explains to you the design process. That is why we’ve looked for the best graphic design video tutorials out there and selected 20 of them. Hope… Continue reading 20 Awesome Graphic Design Photoshop Video Tutorials

Create an Abstract Tattoo Design in Adobe Illustrator

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating In the following tutorial you will learn how to create hand-drawn tattoo styled illustration in Adobe Illustrator. You will need a graphic tablet such as Wacom to learn how to create, set up and use Calligraphic Brushes. Starting with sketch work you will learn how to work with Strokes and… Continue reading Create an Abstract Tattoo Design in Adobe Illustrator

Create a slide-out footer with this neat z-index trick

In this short tutorial, we are going to create an interesting slide-out footer with a bit of CSS. Grab the zip from the download button above, open it in your favorite code editor and read on! The Idea The effect we are after, is to give the impression that the page lifts up to reveal… Continue reading Create a slide-out footer with this neat z-index trick

My Top Links of the Week for August 2nd 2013

I regularly post links to interesting design tutorials and articles over on my Twitter and Facebook accounts, but in case you missed them here’s a roundup of my top pickings from my recent browsing of the web. This week we have some great content from Vectips, PSDFan, Vectortuts+ and Codrops.   The Fundamentals of Shape… Continue reading My Top Links of the Week for August 2nd 2013