Articles by TutsPlus - Design from August 2011

It’s kinda crazy to think, but our little internet startup, Envato, has been on the air now for five years. We started back in 2006 as four very enthusiastic and totally green entrepreneurs with...

Design Collective Intrinsic Nature’s 10th Experiment hit the net back in early May. It features a stunning collection of 85 works created by over 50 international artists. With the help of desig...

Design Collective Intrinsic Nature’s 10th Experiment hit the net back in early May. It features a stunning collection of 85 works created by over 50 international artists. With the help of desig...

Let’s be honest, most of Photoshop's default filters and effects can be a bit cheesy. We recently introduced you to Filter Forge, a third-party plugin for Photoshop that allows you to do some pr...

Photoshop is great because it allows us to create scenes that wouldn’t otherwise be possible in real life. In this tutorial we will combine several stock images to create a floating over-grown t...

Photoshop is great because it allows us to create scenes that wouldn’t otherwise be possible in real life. In this tutorial we will combine several stock images to create a floating over-grown t...

Photoshop is great because it allows us to create scenes that wouldn’t otherwise be possible in real life. In this tutorial we will combine several stock images to create a floating over-grown t...

Photoshop is great because it allows us to create scenes that wouldn’t otherwise be possible in real life. In this tutorial we will combine several stock images to create a floating over-grown t...

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Psdtuts author, Martin Perhiniak. Martin is the author of our Photoshop Basix and Digital Art for Beginners Series, and is an Adobe Certified Expert and Ins...

With readers scattered throughout the world, we understand that you aren't able to attend every design-related conference or speech. Today, we would like to bring you James White's "Back to the F...

Our culture depicts aliens in all shapes and sizes – but what would a creature from another planet really look like? Would it be the classic anthropomorphic, almond-eyed beings from the X-Fi...

Our culture depicts aliens in all shapes and sizes – but what would a creature from another planet really look like? Would it be the classic anthropomorphic, almond-eyed beings from the X-Files ...

Our culture depicts aliens in all shapes and sizes – but what would a creature from another planet really look like? Would it be the classic anthropomorphic, almond-eyed beings from the X-Files ...

Our culture depicts aliens in all shapes and sizes – but what would a creature from another planet really look like? Would it be the classic anthropomorphic, almond-eyed beings from the X-Files ...

Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating ev...

Graphic design from the 70s, 80s and 90s has plenty to offer modern-day designers. Here we introduce a bunch of modern-day graphic designers using the best of retro-styles to create incredible and ori...

If you haven’t heard already, today marks Envato‘s fifth birthday! We celebrated the occasion last week with a 70% commission rate for marketplace authors, and today have announced an exci...

If you haven’t heard already, today marks Envato‘s fifth birthday! We celebrated the occasion last week with a 70% commission rate for marketplace authors, and today have announced an exci...

If you haven’t heard already, today marks Envato‘s fifth birthday! We celebrated the occasion last week with a 70% commission rate for marketplace authors, and today have announced an exci...

If you haven’t heard already, today marks Envato‘s fifth birthday! We celebrated the occasion last week with a 70% commission rate for marketplace authors, and today have announced an exci...

Have you ever tried to explain the behavior of your interface designs to your clients? Many times words are not enough to show what the designer has in mind when delivering a piece to their custom...

It's Envato's 5th birthday and we're ready to celebrate! With another year comes another Bundle, and this year's Bundle is bigger and better than ever with over $500 ($507 in fact) worth of awesome fi...

Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Depthcore Creative Director, Justin Maller. Maller is a talented illustrator and graphic designer with loads of experience. During the interview we talked ...

In this tutorial I will show you an easy, and very fast way, to create a light painting in Photoshop.Editor’s note: This tutorial was original published on Psdtuts in April of 2008.Step 1Create ...

In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Mart Biemans will be demonstrating how to combine photos and effects to create a cosmic photo manipulation in Photoshop. This piece was originally created for Desi...

It’s been almost five years since we launched Envato, the company behind this site and many others, and in that time we’ve built eight digital marketplaces for everything from WordPress Th...

Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating ev...

There are no shortages of nerdy movies on the big screen these days. In this web round up we will feature some of our favorite fan art from some of your favorite nerd franchises. Pieces included in th...

Icons can be a lot of fun to create. Simple icons are relatively easy to create but more realistic icons can be quite challenging. In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a detaile...

Today, we are featuring the work of Serge Birault. Birault is a French digital painter with a stunning portfolio. Most of Birault’s work features the same theme; sexy, naughty, wicked, and often...

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Panoramic Photo ManipulationThis tutorial is part of a two-part tutorial demonstrating how to create a post-apocalyptic photo manipulation. In Part 1, we showed...

Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating ev...

Today, we will be featuring the work of Emeric Trahand also known as Takeshi. Trahand is a New York based art director and artist from Saint Etienne, France. Emeric’s illustrative work is renown...

In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a medieval landscape using digital painting and photo manipulation techniques. We will begin by sketching out a rough idea of how we want our image t...

Recently, we had the opportunity to chat with digital artist Benjamin Low who had some really interesting things to say about his experience working at a design agency and how he became a digital arti...

A big thank you to everyone who took part in our recent photo retouching competition. We’ve had some fantastic entries, and have collected them all for you to take a look at today! We’ll a...

We recently published a (now) 29-part session demonstrating the basics of Photoshop. Today, we would like you to test your knowledge of this session with a quiz. Please take a moment to complete this ...

Photoshop is a great tool for creating realistic photo manipulations or compositions but it can also be used to create scenes completely from scratch. These types of exercises can be helpful to learn ...

Photoshop is a great tool for creating realistic photo manipulations or compositions but it can also be used to create scenes completely from scratch. These types of exercises can be helpful to learn ...

Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating ev...

Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would...

Are you a web professional looking for the best deal on web design-related products and services? If so, you might be excited to hear about MightyDeals. MightyDeals teams up with great companies t...

Photoshop can let us do some amazing things. In this long and detailed tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a cybernetic woman using a photo of a model and a few stock images. This content inclu...

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...