Articles by TutsPlus - Design from April 2017

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, we’ll be creating a hand-drawn lettering poster that will make our home cozy and add a warmer atmosphere to any interior. We’ll be using various drawing to...

What You'll Be CreatingDrawing freely from imagination is cool, but not everything can be drawn using free, intuitive movement of the hand. Man-made objects, like vehicles and buildings, are created a...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I'll show you how to create an abstract piece featuring a young Vietnamese woman in a traditional long dress. Long dresses, lotus, and bamboo are known as cultu...

What You'll Be CreatingYou may have noticed that there is a craze for iMessage stickers since they were introduced with iOS 10. Today, you can now create and sell your very own digital stickers, inste...

What You'll Be CreatingLooking to create a low-poly house to use for your graphic design or illustration projects? Or perhaps you'd like to learn a little bit of 3D modelling whilst creating something...

What You'll Be CreatingIn today’s tutorial, we’re going to take a close look at the process of creating a particularly interesting icon pack, since we’re going to illustrate some Romanian tradit...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial will show you how to use Adobe Photoshop's 3D tools and settings, along with a couple of patterns and stock images, to create a lovely stuffed letters text effect....

Need a winning combination for your next open house? Check out this selection of 40 amazing real estate flyers for clean, professional designs. 40 Professional Real Estate FlyersRule the area in your ...

What You'll Be CreatingPlanning a town fair, family picnic or summer BBQ? This summery flyer is super simple to put together and would be a great fit for any family foodie event. Suitable for beginner...

What You'll Be CreatingIn today's tutorial you will learn how to create a modern cottage in Scandinavian style with the help of the most basic shapes and tools of Adobe Illustrator.If you would l...

What You'll Be CreatingEach spring, women in my home country Ukraine make an unusually hard cleaning of the whole house. Usually a woman is rated how good of a hostess she is according to the cleanlin...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop's layer styles and filters to create an easy holographic text effect. Let's get started! This text effect was inspired by the m...

NBA Slam Dunk History by Kuba Bogaczyński.Design and illustration careers are as varied as the artists that hold them. Today we’ll take a peek behind the curtain at the career paths of Art and Crea...

Before the birth of modern technology, designers specialized in exquisite hand lettering. And designers today pay homage to the legacy of vintage signage with extraordinary retro typefaces.Curated fro...

What You'll Be CreatingDo you want to know how to create a trendy low poly abstract background? If so, our new short course, Creating Low Poly Backgrounds, is for you. What You’ll LearnIn this cou...

What You'll Be CreatingIn the following steps you will learn how to create a bold, cartoonish text effect in Adobe Illustrator. For starters you will learn how to set up a simple grid and how to ...

What You'll Be CreatingAlthough in our world only birds have feathered wings, it doesn't stop us from being curious what other animals would look like with a pair of them. And with the power of photo ...

What You'll Be CreatingWho doesn't remember those fabulous portable radios? Remember when you used to listen to music from a cassette or just tune in to a radio station, when there were still no iPods...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial was originally published in January 2011 as a Tuts+ Premium tutorial. It is now available free to view. Although this tutorial does not use the latest version of...

What You'll Be CreatingWelcome to our Photoshop in 60 Seconds series, in which you can learn a Photoshop skill, feature, or technique in just a minute!Photoshop in 60 Seconds: Trendy Hipster EffectHi...

We live in great times, when all the knowledge of the world is just within our reach with the power of the Internet. Do you want to learn how to draw? No need to go to an art school, or to pay a perso...

Make sure your paperwork is in the proper order with the right invoice! Check out this selection of 35 amazing invoice templates and find your favorites today!35 Professional Invoice TemplatesAn invoi...

In a previous article, I talked about the 10 essential tips and tools all Adobe Illustrator beginners should know, and it went down very well with readers. This time around, I want to share with you t...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial was originally published in December 2012 as a Tuts+ Premium tutorial. It is now available free to view. Although this tutorial does not use the latest version of ...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial was originally published in February 2013 as a Tuts+ Premium tutorial. It is now available free to view. Although this tutorial does not use the latest version of ...

What You'll Be CreatingWhich food do you associate with the sunny summer season? Fresh fruits and juices maybe? For me, juicy watermelons and fragrant oranges are the most summery fruits. So this tuto...

Welcome to our monthly feature of fantastic tutorial results created by you, the Envato Tuts+ community! Every day, visitors like you take the time not only to read our tutorials but also to try the...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I want to show you how to create a fairytale text effect in Adobe Photoshop. If you want to get the final result without any effort, you can buy it on GraphicRi...

What You'll Be CreatingIn the following steps you will learn how to create a pretty simple caterpillar text effect in Adobe Illustrator. For starters you will learn how to set up a simple grid an...

Over it's 20+ year history, Photoshop has proved itself useful for a great many things. One of the primary applications is photo manipulation. In fact, it's photo manipulation that is meant by the col...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool to create a retro illustration with realistic photos hanging on a clothesline.If you'd like to skip this tutorial and w...

Welcome back to Best of the Design Web, where we feature some of the best design tutorials of this past month! Tackle new and exciting projects from across the web, and let us know your favorites in...

What You'll Be CreatingWelcome to our Photoshop in 60 Seconds series, in which you can learn a Photoshop skill, feature, or technique in just a minute!Photoshop in 60 Seconds: Instagram FilterHave yo...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial will show you how to use a couple of layer styles, textures, and brush settings to create a bright, galaxy-inspired text effect. Let's get started! This text effe...

What You'll Be CreatingLeather is a very durable and pretty material, and it's been used widely from the earliest days of humankind. In this tutorial I will show you how to draw a beautiful, shiny lea...

If you’re planning to put together a magazine, book, or brochure, Adobe InDesign is without a doubt going to be your tool of choice. This software is perfectly tuned for creating complex layouts for...

What You'll Be CreatingIn today’s tutorial we’re going to take a look at the process of creating a spring-themed icon pack. We'll follow a step-by-step approach in order to learn how to create eac...

What You'll Be CreatingWelcome to our Photoshop in 60 Seconds series, in which you can learn a Photoshop skill, feature, or technique in just a minute!Photoshop in 60 Seconds: Vintage Filter EffectVin...

Welcome back to our series on art history! From the wondrous Renaissance period, we now venture onward to experience the world of art from indigenous North America. Let's see how history significant...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool and the Mesh Tormentor plugin as well as how to make your images look better with some simple tweaks to Transparency se...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we'll create an animated glitch template in Adobe Photoshop which can be used with any image.I've created the animation for Retrowave 8 Bit Template t...

For this article in the international artist series, we turn to Taiwan, featuring six artists who create fantastic work, from beautiful illustrations to animations and more! I asked each artist how ...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw a seahorse in a marine environment, using ink liners of black and grey colors.This way of combining ink shades is a relatively rare...

What You'll Be CreatingIn today’s tutorial, we’re going to take a look at the process of creating a set of woodwork tools, using nothing more than the basic geometric shapes and tools that we prob...

What You'll Be CreatingWelcome to our Design in 60 Seconds series, in which you can learn a new design skill, feature, or technique in just a minute!Design in 60 Seconds: Infographics Infographics co...

Your logo should be as royal as your brand. Get inspired with this beautiful collection of 25 crest logos, and find the perfect match for your company. 25 Premium Crest LogosCrest logos are rooted in ...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I'll show you how to create a fantasy, sci-fi portrait. You'll learn how to blend a model portrait with a space background, make some special effects using ligh...

What You'll Be CreatingLooking to entice customers to view a property on your books? This stylish real estate flyer has a versatile design which can be easily adapted to your own content, photos, and ...

What You'll Be CreatingFor a long time we've used wall shelves to hold our books, cups, and lamps, or just to decorate our home with plants and portraits. They are very useful and always help us to sa...

What You'll Be CreatingWho doesn't love kittens? They're so cute and fluffy! In this tutorial I will show you how to draw a fluffy kitten from scratch, with a bow on its neck for even more cuteness. A...

Welcome back to Best of the Design Web, where we feature some of the best design tutorials of this past month! Tackle new and exciting projects from across the web, and let us know your favorites in...

What You'll Be CreatingLooking to learn Cinema 4D quickly and easily by creating a 3D Mini Planet? You can do it in this simple and fun tutorial, where we will go through how to create it step by step...

What You'll Be CreatingPhotoshop templates are a great way of transforming your images instantly into something more eye-catching and professional-looking. Creating a vintage-style collage? Using a vi...