Create a Curved Wood Presentation Background in Photoshop
This tutorial will teach you how to take a flat seamless wood texture and sculpt it into a curved presentation backdrop ideal for product mockups. The effect is achieved by using Gradients, Shape Layers, Blending Modes and the Warp Transform tool....Read more
How to Distress a Photo Using a Grunge Texture and Displacement Map
This tutorial will teach you how to distress a photograph by merging it with a grunge texture, using layer masks and displacement filters in Photoshop for a realistic result. Merge the photo and texture seamlessly to create the effect of the photo actually being painted...Read more
Create a Seamless Vector Quatrefoil Pattern in Illustrator
Quatrefoil is an ornamental design with four lobes that resemble a flower or clover leaf, it is most commonly seen in Gothic architecture but can also make a cool, minimal pattern for modern web and graphic design. This quick tutorial will show you how to create a seaml...Read more
Tutorial: Create a Gold or Silver Foil Texture in Photoshop
Gold textures can be very tricky to create. Unlike most materials, foils aren't easily photographed because of unwanted reflections, and worse still they don't create any reflections at all when scanned with a flatbed scanner. So it would seem that the best option is to...Read more
Create a Vector Cityscape Scene in Adobe Illustrator
This detailed tutorial will walk you through the process of creating a vector cityscape in Illustrator step by step, using only basic shapes such as rectangles, circles and lines....Read more
How to Place Lettering in and Around Objects in a Photo
A common way of display a lettering piece is to place it over a photo. To make the composition more interesting its also common to hide portions of the lettering behind objects in the photo. In this easy tutorial Ill show you a method for achieving that effect....Read more
How to Design for Screen more Efficiently with Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is a great tool for designing icons and other vector graphics for both print and screen. But as a designer who creates artwork primarily for screen, I have found that some unconventional methods in Illustrator can make it even more efficient. Here are ...Read more
Create a Convincing Hand Drawn Effect in Illustrator
This tutorial will show you how to create a realistic hand drawn effect in Illustrator. Ideal for those without scanners, or for when you already have the graphic you want in Illustrator but need to give it a convincing hand drawn effect (without attempting to recreate ...Read more