Creating a Cool Yellow Helmet Icon
How to Design a Set of Multicolored Buddy Icons
In this Illustrator tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a set of multicolored buddy icons. This tutorial uses some basic shapes, gradients, Feather, and Illustrator’s powerful Live Color feature. These techniques are easily translated into other designs and illustrations. How to Design a Set of Multicolored Buddy Icons Step 1
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Creating a Cool Yellow Helmet Icon
Construction icons have always been popular on-screen, and although those dot-com “under-construction” pages have mostly vanished from our screens, the trusty ol’ yellow helmet icon still has its uses. In this tutorial, we’ll be creating our very own icon from a photograph. Creating a Cool Yellow Helmet Icon Step 1 As
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Make a Shiny Gum Ball Machine with Mesh Gradients
In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to create a gum ball machine with mesh gradient. We’ll create the base, the glass casing, the money slot, and the opening where the bubble gum balls come out. This is an advanced tutorial and the pace is fairly quick. Intermediate Illustrator knowledge is required. Make a Shiny
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Seriously Cool Photoshop Explosion Effect
Explosions are cool. Seriously cool. So when I received some e-mails asking about how to create a break-apart, explosion effect, I knew it’d be worth making a tutorial on. Read on to find out how to break apart a body, then add some awesome lighting and glow, and nopattern style, to finish the image off. Seriously
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How to Break Sunlight Through the Clouds
In this tutorial I will show you how to turn an overcast day into a stunningly dramatic scene with sunlight breaking through the clouds. This technique can be used for other applications as well. I originally came up with it when I needed to create shafts of light coming through a canopy of trees. The
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How to Make a Delicious Vector Orange in 9 Decisive Steps
Learn how to create a semi-realistic vector orange with simple shapes, tools, and multiple effects. This tutorial is possible for a beginner to complete, though is aimed at an intermediate Illustrator user. Let’s get started. How to Make a Delicious Vector Orange in 9 Decisive Steps Step 1 The first thing
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Quick and Effective Facial Photo Retouching
Whether it’s for a friend, family member, or client, retouching images is very common these days. In this tutorial, I will lay down the basics of retouching and take you through the entire process, layer by layer. Sadly, I spent my money made from tutorials on ‘Long Island Iced Tea cocktails’ and therefore I am
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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. This is an intermediate level tutorial rewarding you with an attractive desktop wallpaper for your efforts!
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How to Photo Comp up a Killer Room Full of Objects
In this tutorial, I’ll show you a really simple effect that together with good photography can be used to make gorgeous results. We’re going to compose a room using photos of objects. This room can then be used in Flash to build a Web site or simply as a graphic. How to Photo Comp
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Design a Colorful USB Flash Stick with Tattoo Style Decals
In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to create a semi-realistic flash stick with gradients and simple shapes. We will make our own custom brush to create tattoo style swooshes. Also, we’ll review how to use Global Colors in Illustrator, which allows us to flexibly change the colors of an object on the fly. Design
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