Casting Light on the Creative Retouching Process

By: JamesZilla

With the western world so preoccupied with looks and beauty, retouching is something that can be seen on a daily basis.

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Create a Super Happy Octopus Character

by Rype

In the following tutorial I will explain how to create a Happy Octopus Character. You can use these techniques and elements to create whatever character you want!

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25 High-Res Light Blur Textures

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Origami Swan Logo in Photoshop

Create an Origami Logo in Photoshop with this tutorial, learning techniques with blending modes and layer mask



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How to Create a Hellacious Flaming Skull

by Designious

In this tutorial, we'll go through all the steps of creating a flaming skull in Photoshop. We'll be using some images we shot ourself of flames, and a stock Designious vector skull to get us started. This tutorial covers some relatively simple steps and some clever photo manipulation techniques. Let's get to it!

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Sports Car Vinyl Wrap

I love Sports Cars and Gaming so Today I decided to Merge the two. We are going to make a vinyl wrap that can be used on any Vechicle.

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Create a Feathered Crow Illustration

Author: Constantin Potorac

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!

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6 hi-res wood textures

Here is a collection of the most outstanding ones. This pack includes 6 high quality images of various sorts of wood or bark. I hope you have fun working with these!

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Watercolored Design Studio Blog Layout

Author:

Matthew Heidenreich

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a clean and simple watercolor design studio layout for a blog. If you have any questions about this tutorial be sure to ask in the comments. Also, remember with all the tutorials, the psd is available for download.

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Free Eggs vectors pack

by Clarice Gomes

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Create Awesome Lighting Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the methods I use to seamlessly combine multiple objects and create some truly awesome lighting effect for your image through the making of this “spiritually connected” abstract style design in Photoshop.


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Create a Realistic 3D Blueprint

In this tutorial i will show you how to create a 3d blueprint. In the next days i will use my result to create a new layout. The result will be very nice, and i will promise you it is not difficult to create a nice looking 3D blueprint with photoshop.


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Free HD Maps Textures

This weeks Texture Thursday offers 4 super high-res maps textures,
free to use in your own designs.


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57 Multi-Colored Illustrator Paint Brushes

They are very realistic and a lot of fun to play with


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How to Draw a Female Portrait in Photoshop

By Constantin Potorac
In this tutorial you will learn how to use the brush and smudge tools and create a close to reality portrait.


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Create an Atomic Explosion in Photoshop

Creating explosions and fire in Photoshop is always tricky, and an atomic explosion is a big challenge. It was for me, but after some experiments, I figured out a nice way to achieve this effect. So in this tutorial I will show you how to create that.

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Making of a Forest Magical Scene

by Johnson Koh

Amazing way to get professional photo manipulation and give such effect to the final result


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BubbleTextures

Here's something I've wanted to try for quite some time now: bubble textures. I don't think I've every seen these around, so I thought I'd fill the void. I made these simply by mixing some water and dish soap on a glass plate, then I put put the plate in between two stools and placed a lamp underneath. Voila!


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How to Create a Retro Vector Illustration with Stylized Lines

Illustration by Maria Luz Lagrange

In this tutorial, I will explain you how to vectorize an image with Corel Draw from scratch a photo reference. We'll give the image a stylized retro look with simple shapes and stitched design elements. Let's get started with this tutorial targeted at entry level artists.

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Construct C4D Renders and Integrate them into a Photoshop Composition

Illustration by Emil
After looking through different pictures of old Roman culture, I was inspired to create this design I call "Hail Caesar." I will instruct you on how to create this whole design including creating your own C4D render in Maxon C4D.


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