Make an Inspiring Artistic Poster with Drawn Elements

In this tutorial, we’ll create drawn elements, use design brushes, bring them into Photoshop, and merge them into a unique poster composition that feels hand-made, stylistically unified, and personalized. The techniques here are focused on creating an original artistic illustration. Let’s see how this poster design was created.

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How to Create a Trendy Retro Type Treatment in Illustrator

In this Illustrator tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a trendy retro type treatment with a free font, gradients, blends, and some scatter brushes.

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Make an Aurora Borealis Design in Illustrator

To recreate the light patterns of the Aurora Borealis you’d probably turn to Photoshop’s filters and effects. Use Illustrator however, and you’ll not only achieve a stunning end result, but you’ll also benefit from the flexibility of working with vectors.

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Create a cool advertisement in photoshop.

Open Photoshop and create a new document. I used 1920×1200. After that select the background layer and go to Layer>Layer Style>Grandient Overlay. Use #150b06 and # 321c0f for the gradient colors, Radial for Style and Normal for Blend Mode.

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InDesign: The Power of OpenType.

Adobe InDesign was the first major application to take full advantage of OpenType fonts, a superset of the existing TrueType (yes, I said a bad word) and Adobe PostScript Type 1 font formats. OpenType fonts provide improved cross-platform document portability, rich linguistic support, powerful typographic capabilities, and simplified font-management requirements.

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Illustrator Tutorial: Designing a Sleek Pencil Icon.

First thing’s first, set up your canvas. Just go to File > New, and use whatever settings you like. I’ve never been a big fan of using custom sizes and all that in Illustrator, unless designing a business card or something like that, so just change the color mode to RGB and leave the rest.

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Creating Fading Light Vectors in Fireworks.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create some cool effects with fading light linear vectors in Fireworks. It’s really easy to do and takes just a few minutes. Create fading lights using vectors, then convert these vectors into bitmaps, and learn to use effects from Fireworks CS3.

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Water effect on products Photoshop tutorial.

In this tutorial i’ll try to show you how to make a nice looking product bottle with the water effect that really makes you thirsty when you look at this kind of product pictures. You can apply this stuf to almost anything though, let it be fruit, cars etc. I also saw some nice photos of models wearing clothes with a similar water effect. So this water effect is pretty popular and is a good thing to learn.

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Blurred reflections in photoshop.

The tutorial will teach you how to take an image and create a blurred reflection effect. This tutorial uses the text below but you can apply it to any image. In this tutorial the image is quite bright so it is set against a dark background; the principals in this tutorial will also work for a dark graphic on a light background.

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Non-Destructive Dodge and Burn in Photoshop.

It may be hard to believe these days, but there was a time not so long ago when cameras were not digital, and photo developing was done in a lab, not on your computer. Digital cameras and Photoshop may have brought the world of photo editing out of the darkroom and into your living room (or wherever your computer happens to be), but many of Photoshop’s tools and features have their roots in traditional film development.

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Wooden Text Effect in Photoshop

Create a document of size 750 by 550px and place the texture image at the center of it.

Go to Filter > Render > Lighting Effects.

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Adding a lens flare to a photo with precise control after implementation with screen layer.

Add a lens flare and have more control after its implementation thanks to a screen layer.

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