The use of textures can dramatically improve your print design work. You can (if used sensibly) add more depth to your work, whether your work be business cards, advertisements or posters. The results of using texture in your print design…

In this tutorial we’re going to be creating a gorgeous and modern user interface button suitable for the web or a mobile interface design.
We’ll be using a handful of Photoshop techniques that are bound to come in handy for…

In this tutorial we’ll be using Adobe Illustrator (CS4 in this case, although can be completed using most versions of Illustrator) to create a vector image of an original Volkswagen (VW) Beetle. We will be making use of one of…

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In this tutorial we’re going to learn how to create a large 512×512 car icon, based on a lovely BMW Mini Cooper. We will be using Photoshop (CS4 in this case) to create the icon, using a handful of different…

Most genres of books tend to have "styles" and "trends" that they follow, just like most other types of work such as web design; it becomes the norm to follow these trends. Romantic novel book covers tend be a bit…

In this tutorial we’re going to be creating a character from the “Heroes and Heartbreakers” series using Adobe Illustrator and a handful of handy techniques.If you’re interested in this, you might want to check out one of our previous tutorials…

In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create a vector character based on the character “Angie 80…” from the mini vinyl toy series “Heroes and Heartbreakers” designed by Bubnis” and made by Kidrobot“, and we’ll use

In the seventh part of the Getting To Grips series we will be covering the following topics:How to create a book fileAdding documents to a book fileSpecifying and customizing a page numberingCreating a running header/footerIntroductionIn this tutorial we’re going to…

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create a vector turtle character based on a vinyl toy named “Skuttle” from the “Little Trickers” series.
We’re going to be using Adobe Illustrator CS3 for this tutorial, but the…

This article/tutorial is the sixth in the series. In this chapter of the Getting To Grips series we will be covering the following topics:

Differences between Vector and Bitmap images
Importing Photoshop files
Importing Illustrator files
Managing your placed files…

We all know that gaining Twitter followers is down to how often you tweet and what you tweet about – or if you’re a website owner and use Twitter, a way to communicate with your readers. However, there are additional…

Using strong typography will increase the quality and visual appearance of your work, after all strong typographic skills are one of the many keys to great design! This round-up presents 40 beautiful fonts suitable for typographic illustrations, headlines and sub-headers.…

This tutorial series will demonstrate all the steps necessary for redesigning an iPhone application with Photoshop. You will learn many of the unique considerations and design patterns used when creating stand-out app interfaces. This tutorial is presented in two parts…

This article/tutorial is the fifth in the series. In this part of the Getting To Grips Series… we will be covering the following topics:

Creating Paragraph Styles
Applying Paragraph Styles
Creating Character Styles
Applying Character Styles
Nesting Character Styles within

This article/tutorial is the fourth in the series. In this chapter of the Getting To Grips… series we will be covering the following topics:

Adding new colors to the Swatches panel
Applying colors to objects
Creating strokes
Creating and applying

Psychedelic art (as you may have guessed) is a type of artwork inspired by psychedelic experiences that are brought on as a side-effect by various drugs and substances known as hallucinations. The art movement began in the 1960′s (known as…

Meet Timba Smits, an artist, designer, illustrator, publisher, curator and wannabe Olympic ping-pong player, who has the heart in him to share with us all some fantastic advice for all of you budding and upcoming world-class illustrators. Timba worked himself…

There are various ways an application (or more specifically, a widget) can be presented to its users; some bad, some good and some tremendously well. Other than a widgets purpose, its user interface is the most important aspect; it makes…

This article/tutorial is the third in the series. Please take a look at the first and second “chapters”: Document Basics and Master Pages and Working With Text and Graphic Frames.
In the third part of this Getting To Grips Series…