It’s been a while since we posted a design tutorial, but you won’t mind that once you see we’ve come back in style! Our sister website, Designious.com has an amazing team of talented designers who can hand draw the heck out of a vector pack. So, to show you what they’ve been up to lately and to brush you up on your design skills, we’ve released a great step by step tutorial on how to draw a vector pirate skull.
Remember I promised that I would also post a roundup with the most popular Illustrator tutorials from 2012? Well, this is it. And this isn’t the only piece of good news that I’ve prepared for you; from now on, I’m also going to post a monthly roundup with Illustrator tutorials, to help you improve your necessary skills for creating exceptional vector illustrations.
I thought it would be fun (and useful) to officially start this year off with a retrospect of the most popular Photoshop tutorials from 2012. Today we’re going to use all of our design resources to learn how to paint a furry cartoon character, how to code a Photoshop file to a working website (PSD to HTML), how to create a “Two-Faced” digital painting, how to create and use smart objects in Photoshop and much, much more.
It’s that time of the month again – that awesome time when I roam the Internet looking for the coolest, most useful Photoshop tutorials to show you. I’ve tried to broaden the search a bit, meaning I also prepared a very appreciated PSD to HTML tutorial. Take a few minutes to see the latest tips and techniques you can learn.
Digital painting is a prominent trend which sparks design inspiration and passion in the hearts of design enthusiasts everywhere, due to its closeness to traditional art. The details and realistic appearance are astonishing and they require certain skills which we will adopt/improve today. I’ve hand-picked 20 of the most popular tutorials on the subject to help you guys begin (or continue) this artistic journey.
In this tutorial, we will create seamless textures without using any external resources other than Photoshop’s tools. The techniques are quite simple, you’ll be able to do them even from the first try!
I’ve recently discovered a new way of making crystal-clear edges for shapes with only horizontal and vertical segments contour in Photoshop using only a simple style I created. Follow this tutorial and you too will learn how to use this effect for your own designs.
This tutorial will teach you how to work with and create your own cool styles from scratch using Photoshop and a few textures. I’ve checked a lot of tutorials around the web and look back on my own and they lack one important thing: why are those effects applied and how did the artist decide to apply those specific effects.
Let me show you a really cool trick to create a really clean divider for your website! It will take less than 1 minute and the result is amazing. This technique also works when you want to make a bevel effect, but way cooler than what you can find now in hundreds of web design tutorials.
We received a lot of e-mails about how you can open AI and EPS files with Photoshop and how to use them without losing the quality of the vector in the process. To answer your questions, this article will show you everything you need to know about it.
Whether you are using a PC or a Mac, the process is similar, the only difference is you will use “Cmd” instead of “CTRL”. Thus said, let’s get straight to the point!
