How to Make Your Own Watercolor Brushes in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingCreating custom watercolor brushes is as easy as dripping ink or watercolor paint onto paper. You will have custom, ready-to-paint brushes in no time thanks to this simple...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Perfect Your Designs With the Measure Tool in Adobe InDesign
What You'll Be CreatingThe Measure Tool is an often overlooked Adobe InDesign feature, which can be really useful for documents where you need to keep a close eye on dimensions. It can save you from...
View ArticleDefining and Valuing Art
When we first started drawing, there was no intention to it. There was a tool, and there was an effect of using it, but it didn't matter—the process itself was fun! Then, either you were told your...
View ArticleHow to Create Custom Smoke Brushes in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingSmoke trails are elegant, beautiful, and amazing to watch. Thin wisps of smoke dancing through the air reveal just how fluid our atmosphere really is. The effect is deceptively...
View ArticleCreate Beautiful Wedding Invitations Using Adobe InDesign and Typekit
What You'll Be CreatingAdobe has recently released a new update for its InDesign CC software. With continued enhancements being made to Typekit, namely making the syncing of fonts in Creative Cloud...
View ArticleCreate a Fire and Rust Text Effect Using the Flame Filter in Adobe Photoshop CC
What You'll Be CreatingThe Flame Generator filter in Adobe Photoshop CC is a new feature that's designed to render realistic flames on user-defined paths. This tutorial will show you how to style and...
View ArticleHow to Create a Simple Player Bar UI in iDraw for iPad
What You'll Be CreatingIn the following tutorial you will learn how to create a simple player bar UI in iDraw for iPad. For starters you will learn how to set up a grid and how to create several...
View ArticleTo the Point: An Interview With Ellinoora Laine
Hey Dashi! Thanks so much for the interview. Let's start with what got you into art.I feel that it’s necessary to start by thanking you for having me! I consider your interest in my work an immense...
View ArticleThe Life of a Tuts+ Editor: Meet Sharon Milne
Ever wondered what it's like to work remotely as a Tuts+ Editor? The latest Envato Stories is all about the life of Sharon Milne, Design & Illustration Editor for Tuts+. She lives in Newcastle upon...
View ArticleDesign Course: Mastering 3D in Adobe Photoshop
One of the features of Adobe Photoshop we often overlook is the 3D feature. In Mastering 3D in Adobe Photoshop, you'll learn how to position and animate 3D models, edit textures and lighting, and...
View ArticleHow to Create a Modern Hand Turkey in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we'll take a simple image of a traced hand, palm-side down, and transform it into a beautiful turkey, ready to celebrate Thanksgiving in classic four-feathered...
View ArticleLive Perspective: Draw Animals in 3D Space
What You'll Be CreatingIf you treat your artistic development seriously, I'm sure you've tried to learn perspective and to apply it to everything you draw. However, even if your animals in perspective...
View ArticleTuts+ Community Project—Past and Present: Show Us Your First Creations!
You must crawl before you can walk. Artists can relate to this idea like no other. And from time to time, we all need to be reminded just how far we've come.What Was the First Thing You Ever...
View ArticleGeometric Design: The Basics
What You'll Be CreatingIn earlier civilizations, science (math in particular), religion, and art were not separate. We don't even have a word for the broad and fluid field they formed together, but we...
View ArticleHow to Create an Intertwining Trellis Pattern in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial you'll learn how to create an intertwining trellis design from scratch using grid layouts and lining up a narrow, rotated rectangle according to said grid...
View ArticleCreate a Detailed Cheese Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn the following steps you will learn how to create a detailed cheese text effect and a cheese wedge illustration. For starters you will need a simple piece of text, the 3D...
View ArticleCreate a UAE National Day Poster Design in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn the United Arab Emirates (UAE), National Day is celebrated each year on December 2, with amazing fireworks, festive shows, concerts, heritage displays, and a no-work holiday...
View ArticleDesign a Fashion Magazine Cover in Adobe InDesign
What You'll Be CreatingMagazine covers can showcase really creative design work. They can be aspirational, glamorous, or even iconic; and fashion covers are at the creative forefront of the magazine...
View ArticleDesign an Elegant “Gratitude Log” Landing Page With Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I’ll guide you through the process of designing an elegant landing page for a fictional “gratitude log” service. We’ll start off totally from scratch, drafting...
View ArticleFractal Art: How to Create Basic Fractal Flowers in Apophysis
What You'll Be CreatingThe basic fractal flower needs only two total transforms. With practice you will be able to create a wide variety of unique and fun fractal flowers using this technique. I'm...
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