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Create a Relaxing, Vibrant, Fantasy Lake Scene With Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I'll show you how to create a colorful fantasy scene using a range of photo manipulation techniques. First we'll create a lake scene from two sky images using a...
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How to Create a Colorful Candied Illustration in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIf your summers are anything like mine, you'll happily look for a sweet treat to beat the heat. In this tutorial, I'll break down the basics of this project, showing you how to...
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Introduction to Traditional Media: Oil Paints
What You'll Be CreatingIn this article, I will introduce you to the basics of oil paints; where to start and what to buy, allowing you to experiment and develop your own style.Why Oil Paints?There are...
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Faster UI Design with “Symbols” and “Shared Styles” in Sketch
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial you’ll use a mobile shopping cart design to practice using two very important features in Sketch. We’ll be paying close attention to: “Symbols” and “Shared...
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How to Ink a Comic Character in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingInking comics can be fun, frustrating, or a mix of each. Working in vector has additional advantages, from not having to worry about resolution to being able to change the line...
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Create a Camera Phone Mock-Up Using Smart Objects and Smart Filters in Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingPhotoshop Smart Filters are one of the greatest things about Smart Objects. When you apply a filter effect to a Smart Object layer, you automatically create a Smart Filter. You...
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Illustrator for Kids: How to Create a Cute Cactus Character
What You'll Be CreatingHi kids! Today, I prepared a fun little character in vector—Cactus. This will be an easy tutorial, especially for those who already know Adobe Illustrator and vector. Let me tell...
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New Course: Master Patterns in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingPatterns are fun and full of endless possibilities, and we can see them everywhere, from cell-phone cases to textiles. In Master Patterns in Adobe Illustrator, graphic designer...
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Photoshop Errors: Quick Solutions for Liquify Tool Problems
The Liquify Tool is one of the many magical tools of Photoshop. It allows you to warp and shape your photos or art with incredible ease, and is popular with photographers and designers. So it's no...
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Think With Forms, Not Lines: Take Your Drawing to the Next Level
What You'll Be CreatingDrawing, at its most basic level, is intuitive to us. Even young children know how to transfer the image in their head into a set of pencil strokes, even though they may not...
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Photoshop For Kids: Up, Up, and Away!
What You'll Be CreatingWhen I was a kid, I used to love to pretend that I had super powers. I'd imagine myself flying high over a city that was under my protection from villainy in all its forms! (OK,...
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"Can I Draw?"—How to Tell If You're Good Enough
The desire to draw strikes the most when we observe a "talented" artist creating. We watch how they put the lines in the proper place, in a kind of magical way, and a whole new world is being created...
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Create a Dreamy Autumn Photo Manipulation Scene With Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial I'll show you how to create an emotional autumn scene featuring a dreaming girl. You'll learn how to blend different images properly using adjustment layers,...
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Illustrator Errors: 4 Quick Tips to Limit Lag and Crashing
Vector files can be huge, with so many layers, paths, anchor points, and effects. Expanding a pattern or brush can easily create lag in the average machine, and with Adobe Illustrator CC 2015's latest...
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Adobe Photoshop for Kids: Mini-Me!
What You'll Be CreatingSometimes all it takes is a new perspective and some creativity to find the remarkable hiding in the ordinary. In this project my daughter and I explore the idea of being...
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Create a Cool Image-Inside-Image Effect in Adobe InDesign
What You'll Be CreatingWho knew you could create Photoshop-standard effects in Adobe InDesign? Learn how to recreate this dramatic image-inside-image effect, and give your book covers, magazine layouts...
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How to Create a Flat Design Wedding Icon in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingWe all love our friends and we love to see them happy, and what's more loving than creating something unique for their special day?In this tutorial I will teach you how to make a...
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How to Use the Mesh Tool in CorelDRAW
The Mesh Tool in CorelDRAW can help you create some great effects, but it can also be a little complex to use. So in this short video tutorial from my recent CorelDRAW course, I'll show you how to...
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Create a Shiny, White and Gold, 3D Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingPhotoshop's 3D environment has multiple tools and settings to create great 3D effects. This tutorial will show you how to use those tools and play around with the settings to...
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Photoshop Errors: Quickly Fix Layer Mask Problems
Are you having problems with Photoshop? Check out the first post from this quick tip series to help you Stop Photoshop from Crashing.We're back with even more ways to combat common problems you...
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