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How to Draw Animals: Kangaroos and Koalas
What You'll Be CreatingOnce upon a time, the big family of mammals was divided into placentals and marsupials. It was so long ago that most of the mammals we know today, like cats, wolves, bears,...
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Create a Lisa Frank Inspired Colourful Pegasus in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingAre you an avid lover of things that are chock full of color and assaulted with buckets of glitter? This tutorial will show the step by step process of bringing a little horse...
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Harness the Elements: Paint Frozen Water in All Its Forms
What You'll Be CreatingWater is a complicated structure. It is transparent, and despite it being so clear, we can see it somehow. And even in its most "normal" state, liquid, water has many forms, so...
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10 Essential Tips & Tools All Adobe Illustrator Beginners Should Learn
Things aren't how they used to be. In the past, programs with limited functions made it easier to pinpoint which tools you should be learning as a beginner. These days, however, given how many tools,...
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How to Create a Walking Kitten Animation In Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingCreating frame animations in Adobe Photoshop is simple, but the real power of it isn't in the tool, but in the way you use it. Today I'll show you how to create a six-frame...
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New Course: Designing Media Kits That Sell
Printed media kits are a driving force behind any promotional campaign and are still widely used today. In Designing Media Kits That Sell, you'll learn all the key components of a media kit, and how to...
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Learn How to Give Ephemera a New Life
What You'll Be CreatingGiving ephemera a new life is easy with a few simple preparation steps. We'll prime our antique paper and then start to paint on the image of your choice. In the end, we'll have...
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How to Create Infographics With Connector Tools in CorelDRAW
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we'll use some of CorelDRAW's excellent tools for creating infographics and flowcharts. Using the Connector Tools, found in the Toolbox, we'll quickly and easily...
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Community Project Showcase: Your First Creations—Part Two
New to this project? Check out part one of our Tuts+ Community Project celebrating Your First Creations.Your First Creations—Part TwoWe all come from humble beginnings. And when that dreaded creative...
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How to Create Realistic Water Drop Reflections in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingAs part of our series on creating custom Photoshop Brushes from Scratch, I published a Quick Tip on how to capture and create custom water drops and turn them into brushes in...
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Facebook JPEG Compression: How to Get the Best Image Quality on Your Timeline
We’ve all done it, uploaded a picture that looked fantastic in our editing software only to recoil in horror at the compressed mess that now sits on our Facebook timeline. In this Quick Tip, I'll help...
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Twitter JPEG Compression: How to Create the Best Quality Image for Your Feed
For pictures on your feed, Twitter don’t appear to restrict us nearly as much as Facebook does, so posting a decent quality picture to a feed should be relatively easy, right? Well, it's trickier than...
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Creative Arabic Calligraphy: Square Kufic
What You'll Be CreatingSquare Kufic (kufi mrabba'), sometimes known as bannâ'i ("masonry script") is a particular style of Kufic that is going to allow us to create composition using the basic...
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Nomadic Designer Toolbox: Tips, Services & Hacks
9-5 is fast becoming an outdated concept and has proven to be counter-productive for many creatives. Freelancers and location-independent designers are seeking for new ways to live, work and travel....
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Create a 3D Retro Text Effect Using Layer Styles in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial will show you how to use layer styles, smart objects, and some other basic elements in Adobe Photoshop to create a simple, retro looking, 3D text effect. Tutorial...
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How to Create a Seasonal Yin Yang Illustration in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingIn today's tutorial, I'm going to teach you how to create a beautiful seasonal yin yang illustration. I'll focus on simple cheats to help you lay down a quick sketch for your...
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The Basics of Drawing Type & Creating Your Own Handwritten Font
What You'll Be CreatingEver wanted to give your digital layouts and designs a truly personal touch? In this tutorial we’ll look at how you can create a font from your own handwriting, for use on your...
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How to Create a Fun Wiener Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial you will learn how to create a wiener pattern brush and how to use it to create a nice text illustration. For starters you will learn how to create the main...
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Design a Hardback Cover for a Young Adult Fiction Book in Adobe InDesign
What You'll Be CreatingYoung Adult Fiction is an ever-growing sector of the publishing industry, and a popular genre for self-publishers. Grown-up novels for teens need cover designs that bridge the...
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How to Use the Blend Tool in CorelDRAW
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we'll create a long shadow icon with the Blend Tool in CorelDRAW. We'll start by creating a book icon, perfect for an app that holds contact information, a...
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