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. For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com 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 [...]

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HDR is a shortening of ‘High Dynamic Range’. Basicly HDR technique flavours your photos with a whole new look, colorful and even quite magical. Usually it’s done in Photoshop by adjusting the image shadows, highlights and playing around with filters. This article provides you with a useful collection of HDR tutorials, tips and some inspiration. Time to create some stunning images. First of all, take a look at some examples, how does this HDR technique [...]

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 Difficulty: Basic Completion Time: 1 hour Requirements: Camera with adjustable shutter speed For many photographers, darkness is their worst enemy. After getting a basic understanding of how cameras work, the next things photographers must understand is how to operate in low light. Most new cameras have advanced dedicated flashes (sometime built into them), which can make dark situations easier to shoot in. But almost all modern cameras also have slow shutter speed settings [...]

Letter spacing is essential in commercial graphic design – if you want to look professional. This article will demonstrate some common letter spacing techniques in the context of logo design and branding. I have started with Helvetica (a sans-serif font) here because it’s very easy to work with (especially in caps) as all the latters are pretty much the same width, it’s also very bold. There may be times when this wide letterspacing works for [...]

Advertising is one of the primary markets for graphic designers.  Companies around the world rely on the talented and creative minds of designers to create visually impactful and memorable product advertisements.  Advertising differs from other forms of design, as you often have to incorporate a product, a logo, a company image and other details to meet the client needs.  Therefore, being able to manipulate results to match the color scheme, subject matter and target market [...]

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a really cool and super easy typographic portrait in Photoshop. We will use the Displace filter and some Blend Modes to achieve the effect. The whole process is quite simple but it might take you some time to add the texts and elements, but once you do that the rest is very straight forward. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document. I used [...]

Can’t figure out why your photos are not tack sharp? Overheard people talking about prime lenses but don’t know what the big deal is all about? This article will help you learn all about prime lenses and how they compare to zoom lenses. Also, you’ll discover a few great techniques for achieving a wonderfully sharp, crisp finish to your photos. Author: Matt Taylor Matthew Taylor is a freelance photographer from Chattanooga, Tennessee who is pursuing [...]