Final Product What You’ll Be Creating The beauty of Photoshop is that you can do nearly anything with it, even turn yourself into a Na’vi alien from Avatar. In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to use basic digital painting techniques to turn an ordinary photo into an Avatar style portrait. Let’s get started! For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com Tutorial Assets Model Eyelash Brushes Eye Ball Step 1: Selecting the Skin [...]

Have you ever wanted to know what a Giraffe looks like without its spots? If so, this tutorial is for you, you pervert! Today, we will demonstrate how to undress a giraffe by removing its spots. We will then show how to turn its spots into an outfit that will be draped over an ironing board. Pretty cool! Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Ironing [...]

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating In today’s tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create an elegant, heart-shaped box in Photoshop. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets Flower texture Net Texture Diagonal Texture Step 1 Create a new document, 600 x 600 px. Before we proceed with this tutorial, take a look at the area setup and arrangement. Make sure each color area is on its own layer and name them as shown below. Step 2 [...]

The world has become tightly connected since the internet. The web itself has replaced the practice of reading newspaper. Most of us now communicate through e-mails instead of paper and pen. We now watch networks or movies online, it has even become a wide business venture, so much so we can now make purchase and pay our bills through the internet. The web has also transformed friendships through various social media. It also provides us [...]

In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to draw a Sound Dock System with Photoshop. Let’s get started! Step 1 Start with a new document. Width: 2000px, height: 2000px, color mode: CMYK. Take a look at the layer setup. Step 2 Create a new layer, use Pen tool and start drawing as shown. After that, apply the layer style to this shape. Step 3 Create a shape like this using pen tool. Hit Cmd/Ctrl + [...]

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Ryan Putnam of Vectips was first published in June 24th, 2008. This is one of the first tutorials we posted on the site and is a great way to get started with shape building in Illustrator to create cute, fun-lovin’ characters. If you haven’t done this [...]

If you’re looking for new and creative ways to edit or enhance your images,  plugins can make your Photoshop workflow go so much smoother. Whether you want to add some noise or create some stunning color effects, we’ve got a fantastic list for you – and all completely free! 1. virtualPhotographer by optikVerve Labs For those who haven’t grasped all the nooks and crannies of Photoshop yet, or simply don’t want to spend hours tweaking [...]

This tutorial aims to guide you from sketchbook to screen; a “Fat Cat” doodled with biro translated into a neat vector caricature. Intermediate knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is advised. Let’s take a look at how to create a cheeky cat illustration – from initial concept through to vector goodness. Final Image Preview Preamble Talk to any Illustrator and they’ll preach the significance of sketching. The media you use are irrelevant, you could be doodling on [...]

A website is never done. Everyone has worked on a project that changed so much after it launched that they no longer wanted it in their portfolio. One way to help those who take over your projects is to produce a style guide. Edward Tufte once said: “Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.” Although there’s no stopping some clients from making their website [...]

Handle color changes and variations with ease by following this intermediate level tutorial. This is a special tutorial sponsored by Astute Graphics that incorporates the use of their high-quality Phantasm CS range Illustrator Pugins. We’ll work with Phantasm’s color shifting tools: Hue/Saturation and and Shift to Color, while we learn to contrast shapes when composing natural, vector scenes! Final Image Preview Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS4 and Phantasm CS range (Designer, Studio or Publisher) [...]