Articles by TutsPlus - Design from April 2011

As you know, each month, we round up some of the best Photoshop-related content from around the web. This month, there were some excellent Photoshop tutorials and articles to choose from so please tak...

Matte painting is a technique that filmmakers use to create backgrounds for scenes that can’t or don’t exist in real life. In the early days, matte paintings were actually painted onto gla...

Are you new to Photoshop? Have you been trying to teach yourself the basics of Photoshop but have found the amount of educational material available on the net a bit overwhelming? As the world...

In many parts of the world, spring is almost here. In this round up we will bring you 50 Photoshop tutorials to help prepare you for spring. This round up includes many tutorials that demonstrate tech...

Photoshop allows us to manipulate most of the photos that we take and combine them into just about anything. It also allows us to create much of what we see in real life from scratch. In this tutorial...

We know that our International audience can't attend every cool speech or conference. That is why from time-to-time we like to bring you some of the lectures that we have found on the Internet. Today'...

Actions are very popular. They’re easy to use and can save you a lot of time, but at the end of the day, they aren’t very powerful and offer very low versatility. That’s where Photos...

If you’ve ever attempted to write words using traditional light painting photography techniques you probably know how challenging it can be to create words that are easy to read. In this Psd Pre...

If you follow Photoshop on Facebook you probably already know that they recently celebrated their 2 millionth like on Facebook. You may remember late last year when I reported that they had just celeb...

Are you new to Photoshop? Have you been trying to teach yourself the basics of Photoshop but have found the amount of educational material available on the net a bit overwhelming? As the world...

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Hello, this is Sergio Ordóñez from SOSFactory and this time I’m going to talk about my workflow used to design mascots for websites. This process in this article was described in r...

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Most people don’t realize how much time and effort goes into creating something like an icon. Icons can take many hours to complete and the techniques used can take a long time to perfect. In th...

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Marco, only 17, started out designing like many people do, by creating signatures and avatars in various forums. But these activities actually ended up building Marco’s design foundation as he l...

In this tutorial, we’ll manipulate a picture so it looks like a woman burning in flames. The idea behind this manipulation was to create a nice looking illustration, only by using simple techniq...

Just about everyone remembers that scene from Jurassic Park when the characters come across herds of dinosaurs grazing in a grassy field. In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Ed Lopez will demonstrate...

Are you new to Photoshop? Have you been trying to teach yourself the basics of Photoshop but have found the amount of educational material available on the net a bit overwhelming? As the world...

Some people might not realize how fun and easy it can be to create an awesome illustration with just a few pieces of stock art elements. In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to create an ...

Rogier De Boeve is a talented designer who has decided to share his work in an interview with our readers. Rogier is currently getting his masters in graphic design from a Belgian University. In our i...

Digital artists often create stunning pieces of art by combining photographic elements with digital renderings and image adjustments. In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Wojciech Magierski will demo...

Are you new to Photoshop? Have you been trying to teach yourself the basics of Photoshop but have found the amount of educational material available on the net a bit overwhelming? As the world...

Comic book covers are often beautiful works of art. A good comic book cover should not only preview the contents of the story but should also look amazing at the same time. One of the great things abo...

Album covers are always fun projects to work on. In today’s tutorial we will take a look at the step-by-step process of creating a conceptual album cover in Photoshop. Let’s get started!Tu...

We’ve all seen them. Fantastically illustrated and often humorous caricature illustrations decorating the cover of some of our favorite magazines. What most of us don’t think about however...

As you know, each month, we round up some of the best Photoshop-related content from around the web. This month, there were some excellent Photoshop tutorials and articles to choose from so please tak...

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In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Mark Mayers will use stock images to create a Mother Earth inspired photo manipulation. Attention to detail and observing how light reacts in the real-world are t...