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! For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com Final Image Preview Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator [...]

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Tutorial Details * Program: Adobe Photoshop CS3+ * Difficulty: Beginner * Estimated Completion Time: 1.5 Hour Software applications and stock art designs often need box designs to help with the marketing. We frequently use box designs on Psdtuts to promote our exclusive freebie or premium sets. There are several ways to create this sort of design. You can use software, actions, or even do this yourself. In today’s tutorial [...]

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a grimy text treatment utilizing Illustrator’s Blog brush, Live Paint, and a pen tablet. You can easily apply these techniques to other illustrates, type treatments and logos. Final Image Below is the final type treatment we be working towards. Tutorial Details Program :

why not create a chocolate covered strawberry illustration for them? You can easily apply this illustration to your own greeting card, t-shirt, or anything else you can think of. Moreover, you can apply this tutorial to other illustrations and logos. Final Image Below is the final image we will working towards. Tutorial Detail Program: Adobe Illustrator CS4 Difficulty: Intermediate Topics Covered: Ellipse tool, Pencil tool, Pathfinder panel, Gradient panel, Custom Art Brush Estimated Completion Time: [...]

With a simple and direct methods described in this tutorial, you can create a female portrait easily. This process will have you creating anatomically correct human faces in no time. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS 3 Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 60 minutes Step 1 Let’s open a new document in Illustrator (File > New). Step 2 We start with the construction of the ideal female proportions of the head in full face. Create [...]

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Photoshop Difficulty: Advanced Estimated Completion Time: 4 – 5 Hours Photoshop is a great tool to work with both vector and pixel shapes. In this tutorial we will demonstrate a powerful combination of vector shapes, layer styles, and manual drawing to create a photorealistic camera. So realistic you’ll think it’s just an ordinary photo. Final Image Preview Let’s take a look at the image we’ll [...]

Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 3 – 4 Hours Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Announcing Adobe CS5! Join us for the exclusive Global Online Launch Event, Monday, April 12, 2010. As designers, we occasionally need digital versions of electronic devices to use in our designs. All to often however, we find that the device we need doesn’t actually exist in the format that we need. In times like [...]

Tutorial Details Difficulty: Advanced Completion Time: 2 hours Requirements: Food Ingredients, Basic Lighting Kit Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Food photography is a highly specialized form of studio work. It requires some knowledge of cooking, a firm grasp of lighting and some creative juices to bring everything together. Being a slightly obese American, one of the most basic foods we love to gorge ourselves is a good, old hamburger. But the first rule of [...]

Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: About 3 to 5 hours Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Artists often draw rough sketches of their artwork before they begin to add the final touches. This is also true for digital painters who will draw a rough sketch in Photoshop before they begin work. In today’s tutorial we will show you how to polish a rough sketch of a sci-fi drawing [...]

Today we will be making a 2010 Olympic Gold Medal similar in style to those used in the current Vancouver Winter Games. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an interesting warped metal effect using the Gradient Mesh Tool. You’ll also learn some interesting ways to create and use masks while we construct this gold medal. Author: Joshua Bader Joshua Bader is a graduate of Sheridan College’s Media Arts program with over a decade’s [...]