If you want to create a good scenery, a lot of photo combinations are unavoidable. Therefore, good planning for preparing your sources and background design are required. This tutorial will show you how to form a tank and arrange a soldier together. For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com   Step 1 Preparing the source All you need to do is selecting good stock pictures, doing experiment on using Free Transform Tool and [...]

Hello, We’re gonna talk today about transforming your own portrait into a vintage looking zombie. Maybe you’re familiar with the process of line art in photoshop, or maybe not, but after this tutorial I hope you’ll learn something new. I used a portrait of a friend of mine and my own textures. You can download them all from the required files. Also you can download this font: http://www.dafont.com/creepsville.font Enjoy!   Final Image   Choose a [...]

Format: PSD Keywords: automotive theme design, make Ferrari logo in Photoshop, quick and easy Photoshop tutorials Author: PSDGraphics.com Quick text tutorial: Install the Ferro Rosso font before you start this tutorial. Step 1. Open a new document – 1280x1024px. Step 2. Fill carbon fiber texture in the background, or fill it with black color or any other dark texture. Step 3. Apply gradient overlay to the carbon fiber background (double click on the background layer in layers [...]

When creating icons, many designers struggle to decide how much detail to include. Should the icon be simple or complex? In this tutorial, we’ll create a detailed 3D monkey icon using a photo of a toy monkey as a reference. In the process, we’ll add texture and lighting.   Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Toy Fur Custom Brush Step 1 Create a new document with 1024×1024 pixel [...]

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 [...]

In the following tutorial David Oei and Carolyn Sullivan show us how they created their entry for the first round of the Crestock Photoshop Contest 2008 – a poster inspired by the Russian Constructivist movement Immediately after we read the briefing for the project Carolyn and myself both thought of the Russian Constructivist movement as our creative jumping off point. We refreshed ourselves with artists/designers Rodchenko and Lissitzky’s work but wanted to add some contemporary [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]