New Course: Design Print-Ready Product Packaging
Our new course, Design Print-Ready Product Packaging, will give you a deeper understanding of how to create a packaging design from start to finish. Tuts+ instructor and freelance graphic designer...
View ArticleQuick Tip: How to Use Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries
What You'll Be CreatingIf you regularly use both Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, Creative Cloud Libraries offer a way to keep all of your frequently-used assets in one place. Creative Cloud Libraries...
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To the Point: Interview With Daniel Alexander
This interview is an absolute pleasure. From drag queens to pop culture icons, Daniel Alexander mixes fashion, gender expression, and comic book illustration in a skillful and utterly fabulous manner....
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Hand Lettering: Scripts, Swirls, & Flourishes
What You'll Be CreatingAlright guys, this tutorial is probably my personal favorite because of my love for script lettering and its ability to communicate a wide variety of messages. In this tutorial...
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How to Create a Vintage Seasonal Greeting Card in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, you will learn how to create an elegant vintage greeting card with a fawn illustration. You will use a sketch drawn directly in Adobe Illustrator and then...
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Create a Flight Animation From Scratch in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingAn animation of a flying creature is very complicated to create—flapping wings change in perspective, all those feathers change their length and position, and there's a certain...
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Quick Tip: Enhance Your Designs With Adobe Color in InDesign
What You'll Be CreatingAdobe has made some exciting new changes to the way InDesign manages color. Let’s review what you need to know about the newly renamed Adobe Color CC (formerly Adobe Kuler), and...
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How to Create and Use Gradients in CorelDRAW
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial you'll learn how to incorporate various gradient types and styles into an icon design in CorelDRAW. Additionally, you'll become comfortable with the Interactive...
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How to Create a Brushed Metal Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial will guide you through creating a brushed metal text effect, using multiple layer styles and some textures. You'll get to work a bit with the text itself, and also...
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How to Create and Use Perfect Shapes in CorelDRAW
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial you'll get a full introduction to creating and manipulating Perfect Shapes, the pre-made shape tools that are perfect for creating various infographics and other...
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New Course: Invitation Design in Adobe Illustrator
Guess what? You've been invited to... take this course on designing invitations! Invitations exist for a variety of events, and their presentation sets the stage for the event. In Invitation Design in...
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Being Part of the Tuts+ Community
Whatever I've done online, I've always been part of a community. Tuts+ has an active community and there are many ways you can take part. Here I talk about community, what we've been doing, and how you...
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How to Create an Icon Set using Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, we are going to design a set of icons in Adobe Photoshop. An icon set needs to have the same background and theme. For learning purposes, we are going to design...
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Design a Crime Thriller Book Cover in Adobe InDesign
What You'll Be CreatingWalk into any bookshop and you’ll notice that each genre of fiction has its own general ‘style’ for cover designs. Though each cover is different, elements on the cover create a...
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How to Create Custom Water Drop Brushes in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingWater drops are one of the most ubiquitous of naturally occurring elements. They are like tiny little liquid prisms that can capture light and reflections. The very fact that...
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How to Draw Animals: Big Rodents and Their Anatomy
What You'll Be CreatingNot so long ago we were learning about small rodents like mice, rats, hamsters and others. Even though when we say "rodent", generally we've got something small in mind, some...
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Create Custom Brushes in CorelDRAW With the Artistic Media Tool
What You'll Be CreatingCustom brushes are a breeze with CorelDRAW's Artistic Media Tool. In this tutorial you'll get a proper introduction to creating two types of media within the program: brushes and...
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How to Create a To-Do List App Icon in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial you'll create a fun to-do list or organizer application icon with a three‑dimensional effect, ready for desktop or market use. Combine radial gradients, blends,...
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Create a Crystal Beast Concept Art Work in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingConcept art works are usually more about a product than art. They don't need to be perfectly refined, they just should sell the idea. However, they can't be messy, either. How to...
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How to Create an Isometric Pixel Art Neighborhood Block in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingOne of the best traits of isometric pixel art is its expandability; if you have already made basic, recyclable elements, you can reproduce them and put them all together in...
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