Give your illustrations the traditional look of an engraving without actually drawing all those pesky little lines! The technique is simple, but requires some experience with the Displace Filter and knowledge of basic shading techniques. The result will have people thinking you spent hours and hours on your design… which you probably will, but at least you don’t have to actually engrave anything!...
Developing original work is something that artists strive for. Certainly we’re inspired by multiple sources, but ultimately it’s our synthesis of influence, discovery, passion, and process that determines the outcome of our work. Following are some steps you can take to drive your work forward into original frontiers...
The winners of the PSDTUTS First Tutorial Writing Contest are in. The winning entries stand out as both remarkable designs and well written tutorials. Let’s check out who walked away with the prizes. Great job to everyone who participated! We had quite a few participants for such a short contest.
PLUS members, get excited. We have a new tutorial from master digital illustrator and designer Matthias Bäuerle of Season Zero. Here are his other sites: Season Zero on Behance and Season Zero on Flickr, so you can see his high quality work. He’s created a PLUS tutorial that details his process for creating stunning Metal Album Artwork in Photoshop. Jump over to your PLUS account and download it today.
PLUS members, we have a high flying skater illustration tutorial for you today. It’s a new PLUS tutorial from the talented Constantin Potorac. The tutorial has instruction on how to create an awesome high flying digital illustration in Photoshop. Jump over to your PLUS account and download it today [...]
Photoshop CS3 Extended allows you to edit video and animations. Also, you can convert an existing video into a Smart Object and apply filters to it. This time we’re going to give a video a vintage feel and mock it up inside an old TV screen [...]
It seems everyone wants to learn how to make something look vintage or grungy. In this tutorial, I go over how to create a fifties love letter with stamps, bent corner, and a a retro border using the brush engine, rectangle tool, layer styles, blend modes, and several intermediate techniques that are sure to propel you skills to the next level. [...]
When we announced an AudioJungle wallpaper contest last month, I was not at all prepared for the barrage of jungle visual goodness that instantly began flooding our Flickr pool. With over 180 entries to select just three winners from, judging was always going to be very difficult.
18 Runners Up, 3 Winners and 1 Gallery of Jungle Awesomeness
We’ve compiled together the 21 Judges Favourites, including the first, second and third prize winners. View the Full Gallery Here and please feel free to give them a Stumble vote! [...]
