Gavin Steele

In this tutorial we are going to show you how to easily create digital abstract smoke using both Illustrator and Photoshop. One of the best things about this technique is that it’s very customizable and you can do it pretty quickly - Fabio

This tutorial will demonstrate how to take an image, in this case a woman’s face, and give the appearance that it is entirely composed of vector shapes. Along the way, we’ll use some fairly basic techniques, including clipping masks and displacement maps, to achieve a unique effect! - Bill Labus.

This tutorial is another user’s request. It’s an easy technique, but I’m sure you will be able to use it in all sorts of designs. It’s very versatile. In this case I used this technique for a logo, but I could use it to create grids with light effects as well - Fabio

In this tutorial, we are going to design up a simple business card in Photoshop and get it ready for print with crop marks and bleed. Normally you’d do some of this with a tool like InDesign, but it is in fact possible to get by with just our trusty old Photoshop - Collis

€œIn this tutorial, we'll be creating a photo montage of a demon destroying a city using only stock photos and of course Photoshop. What are we waiting for? Let'€™s get started! -€ Kieran Innes

Photoshop is great for embellishing display text with little effects. When you add layer styles into the equation, you have the added benefit of the styles being easily transferrable.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a sort of grunge poster. We will learn how to make some elements look a bit dirty, create textures, and add some depths to the elements using shadows and blend modes - Fabio

In this tutorial, we’re going to create some really sharp-looking glow effects using a combination of layer styles, the Pen Tool and Color Blending. The end effect is quite stunning and hopefully you’ll pick up some tips you didn’t know before. - Collis

Last week we published our 10th Wallpaper of the Week. It was an awesome typography design from Ginger Monkey Design called Compassion. What I really liked about that design was how they mixed some “frilly bits” with the typeface to create an outstanding piece of work. I decided to create a tutorial showing how to do that as well - Fabio

Without a doubt, digital illustration and art is a big part of any Photoshop oriented community. A great way to get started on that road is to create as much as possible using Photoshop’s unique tools. Let’s make good use of them and learn one way of featuring a digital camera with glowing beams of light.” - Alex Beltech

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to design a poster for an 80’s anthem party. Throughout this tutorial, we’ll create some textures for background, manipulate a photo to give it a stylish look, and make some color variations. Let’s jump into this super rad tutorial.” Eren Gšksel

Creating conceptual work can be fun and relies heavily on your imagination. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to combine stock photographs to create a stunning effect that can be easily reproduced to work with almost any combination of images - Jonny McGurn

A simple and cool effect to make your photos look like they have been painted / made out of an ink/watercolour mark. - Gavin Steele

In this tutorial, you'll be taken through the process of creating this crow illustration. The tools and resources you will be using are just a few so this will be great practice for you to achieve real nice results while using a limited number of resources. Let's get to it! - Constantin Potorac

Here is another illustration I have worked on with Toma Alin Gabriel. Worked on this piece with a lot of images and I would also like to thank the photographers for giving us permission to use their stuff. In this tutorial, we will take you through the process of creating a fantasy scene, make water pour out of a painting, make some sort of a absorption effect and end up with a really nice looking color. The main idea behind this surreal illustration is that we are actually in a painting and the painting on

There are a plethora of ways to treat a portrait for a myriad of uses, but that is for another feature. Let's tackle adding drama or a cinematic quality to a regular, humdrum portrait. Let's even throw in a little bit of faking HDR. That way if you work on a project that requires a stunning shot without the stunning photography, you'll be able to cobble something together using your mad skillz! - James Davies

When looking for top quality content, you're usually forced to pay for your resources. They're generally better and easier to work with, and offer a wider range of use. Sometimes though, you can find the same level of quality at zero cost, and it's exactly what we're going to do today. We're going to create a detailed illustration with free gifts and self made goodies - Alex Beltechi

This time I've got for you a photo manipulation tutorial. We'll grab several photos and create this fantasy mock-up of an unreal creature. We'll learn several non-destructive techniques, apply photo filters to adjust the lighting, and of course a little bit of the creative process involved on this piece. Let's get to it!

In this tutorial I will take you through a few steps that will show you how I created a poster design. This illustration was created for a contest started by UPrinting Design over at You The Designer. I was one of the lucky winners. Also, because of the requests to write a tutorial on this design, I made some changes to it, and I decided to show you the design process behind this piece - Constantin

Retrofuturism is a topic that has always fascinated me. In this tutorial, we?ll go through the steps of recreating my own experiment in this style. After making the 3D typography in Illustrator, we?ll use Photoshop to create an out-of-this-world digital illustration on the topic of space exploration - Alex Beltechi