Articles by TutsPlus - Design from December 2013

Pixelmator is an easy-to-use, fast, and powerful image editing app for the Mac. In this tutorial, I will show you how to use both Brushes and Gradients in Pixelmator. Let’s get started! 1.Brushe...

As the Photoshop Editor for Tuts+, I am fortunate enough, on occasion, to meet some very talented photographers and retouchers. Recently, I had some time to chat with one of my favorites, Sarah Silver...

In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a dramatic digital painting in Photoshop by showing you how to illustrate an eagle and falcon battling it out in the sky. Let’s get started!Speed...

Mobile app design is one of the fastest growing fields in the design industry. In this tutorial, we will show you how to design a mobile app design interface using many of the tools in Adobe Photoshop...

Although Photoshop is mainly considered an image editing application, it also includes a lot of features to help you work with text. In this tutorial, we are going to focus on some of the lesser known...

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to create hand-tinted grayscale image effects with the Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer in Photoshop. Let’s get started! ...

The holidays are almost here! While many of you are making plans to spend the next few days with family and friends, we also know that many of you are also hard at work creating designs for the winter...

While Photoshop allows us to do many things, often, the final outcome we are looking for just can’t be accomplished using Photoshop alone. One of the best things about Photoshop, however, is tha...

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a Christmas card using digital illustration and digital painting techniques. I will begin, by first, showing you how to draw the card’s main chara...

Most people might not know that Photoshop also includes some powerful, but limited, video editing capabilities. In this tutorial, we will show you 2 ways that you can create a slow motion video effect...

Adobe Camera Raw includes some powerful features to help you make color corrections to your photos. In this tutorial, we will take a close look at these features and will explain everything you need t...

Introduced in 1987 by CompuServe, the animated GIF is as popular today as it has ever been. The GIF animation has gone through many phases over the years. It’s been loved, hated, and then loved ...

If you have ever watched a sporting event on television, you have probably noticed some of the 3D graphics that television networks use during the programming. In this tutorial, we will show you how t...

If you have ever watched a sporting event on television, you have probably noticed some of the 3D graphics that television networks use during the programming. In this tutorial, I will show you how to...

Liran Szeiman is a talented digital artist from Spain with a unique style that fuses dark and cute elements into her illustrations. She has contributed her work to incredible art collectives like Hyst...

Pixelmator is an easy-to-use, fast, and powerful image editing app for the Mac. In this tutorial, we will explain how to work with vector shapes. Before You Get StartedIn Pixelmator, there are three t...

In this tutorial, we are going to have a look at two Adjustment Layers: the Color Lookup, and the Photo Filter Adjustments. Both of them can be used to automatically remap the colors of your images. L...

Tuts+ Premium courses teach you a single skill from top to bottom, inside out.Currently, more than 15,000 members are sharpening their skills in web design, web development, Photoshop, vector design, ...

In this tutorial, we will show you how to manipulate a portrait photo to create a splatter paint and drip effect in Photoshop. This tutorial will cover many techniques including overlay painting, blen...

Masking is one of the most important techniques or skills to learn in Photoshop. In this tutorial, we will explain 10 things you need to know about masking in Photoshop to help you apply interesting a...