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Create a Nautical, Sketch-Style in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial I’ll show you how you can sketch in Illustrator in a natural fluid style, almost as if you’re drawing with pen and paper. The plug-ins DynamicSketch and WidthScribe have various intuitive tools and features to simplify your work flow and offer functionality that is nowhere in Adobe Illustrator… Continue reading Create a Nautical, Sketch-Style in Adobe Illustrator

How to Create Super-Detailed Wildlife Illustrations

Highly detailed and accurate illustrations of animals and plants have a long and distinguished history, extending back through the western era of exploration. While initially these artworks served mainly to record new species in the absence of portable and effective photography, they were also appreciated for their artistic merit and attracted interest from admirers outside… Continue reading How to Create Super-Detailed Wildlife Illustrations

How to Create a Portfolio from Scratch with Sproute

Sproute is a hosted framework for rapid development of web applications. It allows you to easily define dynamic data and comes with lots of useful features out of the box such as user accounts and security. This tutorial will show you how to build your very own online portfolio using Sproute: a hosted environment for… Continue reading How to Create a Portfolio from Scratch with Sproute

Create a Stand-Out Portfolio Book in InDesign: Part Two – the Inside

In the second part of this two-part tutorial you’ll learn how to design the interior pages for an Illustration Portfolio book intended for print, in Adobe InDesign. We will create a number of different page layouts and explore how layout styles can showcase your work to its best potential. In this tutorial I will be… Continue reading Create a Stand-Out Portfolio Book in InDesign: Part Two – the Inside

How to Create Five Simple Hover Effects for Your Navigation Links

This is a quick tutorial about creating simple hover effects that would be best suited for links within a navigation. The reason for this is that these might be too much when done inline within a paragraph but that is only a word of caution – if you want to apply these to your normal… Continue reading How to Create Five Simple Hover Effects for Your Navigation Links

Create an Illustrated Watercolor and Ink Photo Effect in Photoshop

Artists often ask how to apply watercolor and splattered ink effects to their images. While there may be some filters and effects out there that can automate this task, illustrating this by hand will give you the highest quality final result, as well as the most flexibility. In this tutorial, we will show you how… Continue reading Create an Illustrated Watercolor and Ink Photo Effect in Photoshop

15+ Amazing Collage Photoshop Tutorials

Collages done in Photoshop are truly inspiring! A few days ago, while browsing the web, I discovered some really amazing collage Photoshop tutorials and decided to share them with you. These collages are incredible and very eye-catching! You’ll learn lots of new tricks from these tutorials and hopefully, you’ll improve your Photoshop skills. Here they… Continue reading 15+ Amazing Collage Photoshop Tutorials

How To Create a Grainy B&W High Fashion Photo Effect

In today’s Photoshop tutorial we’re going to play around with various image adjustments to recreate the emotive style of high fashion black and white photography. Typically these photographs feature many of the characteristics of old school 35mm film, such as heavy film grain and low contrast. Follow this step by step guide to quickly transform… Continue reading How To Create a Grainy B&W High Fashion Photo Effect

Create a Music Player on Android: Project Setup

Android smartphones usually come with their own built-in apps to listen to music. However, you might not like all of their features. What if instead of downloading a third-party app, you could create your own music player in Android? In this tutorial series, we will create a basic music player application for Android. The app… Continue reading Create a Music Player on Android: Project Setup

Create a Seamless, 3D, Geometric Pattern in Photoshop

Seamless patterns are a fun and easy way to add some interest to your graphic designs. Patterns, however, can be a bit intimidating to some artists, as it is often challenging to figure out exactly where the pattern repeats. In this tutorial, I will show you how to quickly create a seamless, three-dimensional, geometric pattern… Continue reading Create a Seamless, 3D, Geometric Pattern in Photoshop

Create Colourful Fiery Portrait in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this awesome fiery portrait in Photoshop.This is a beginner-intermediate level tutorial aiming to give some practices on layer blending, selection and coloring techniques in Photoshop. Some steps can be a little tricky, but why not have a try! Note: The Photoshop tutorial… Continue reading Create Colourful Fiery Portrait in Photoshop

How to Create a PHP/MySQL Powered Forum From Scratch

In this tutorial, we’re going to build a PHP/MySQL powered forum from scratch. This tutorial is perfect for getting used to basic PHP and database usage. Step 1: Creating Database Tables It’s always a good idea to start by creating a good data model when building an application. Let’s see what we are going to… Continue reading How to Create a PHP/MySQL Powered Forum From Scratch

How to Create a WordPress Author’s Page Template

If you run a multi-author website, you may want to consider adding an author template to your website. Author templates help present more information about writers and make it easier for visitors to find other articles the author have written. In this post we will be breaking the author template down and showing you how… Continue reading How to Create a WordPress Author’s Page Template

How to Create a WordPress Author’s Page Template

If you run a multi-author website, you may want to consider adding an author template to your website. Author templates help present more information about writers and make it easier for visitors to find other articles the author have written. In this post we will be breaking the author template down and showing you how… Continue reading How to Create a WordPress Author’s Page Template

Using Color Psychology to Create an Effective Price Table

Whenever we start any new design project, we’ll usually sit down with the client and discuss all the relevant project details with the client. If you’re lucky, your client will have a relatively clear idea of what they want to achieve and perhaps even the functions and features they want for the site. However clients… Continue reading Using Color Psychology to Create an Effective Price Table

How To Create a Comic Style Text Effect in Illustrator

In today’s Illustrator tutorial we’re going to create a comic book inspired text effect your favourite superhero would be proud of. Learn how to create a basic 3D effect using the Blend tool and produce cool halftone patterns to give the design that retro screen printed appearance. These two techniques alone are crucial additions to… Continue reading How To Create a Comic Style Text Effect in Illustrator

25 Amazing Photoshop Tutorials For Graphic Designers

Adobe Photoshop is an essential toolkit and most popular graphic editing program to all designers and designers love all of those Photoshop tuts that can help them to learn more and more and give them direction to design more beautiful and attractive creative works. Here you have “25 Amazing Photoshop Tutorials For Graphic Designers” to… Continue reading 25 Amazing Photoshop Tutorials For Graphic Designers

Create “Dark Scientist” Conceptual Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we will learn how to create an conceptual surreal photo-manipulation. We are going to learn the process of creating depth of field using a few advance tools. We are going to learn how to blend images so seamlessly that it would look like a single image using the Brush tool, the Eraser… Continue reading Create “Dark Scientist” Conceptual Photo Manipulation in Photoshop