Category Archives: Effects

Quick Tip: How to Create a Futuristic Scarlet Eclipse Effect

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In this Tutorial, you will learn how to create a dark eclipse design which could be a perfect base for a poster or a flyer. We will use blends, effects, various transformations and spice up the effect by adding texture to the final design.

How to Make Character Illustration in Photoshop

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Today we bring an amazing Tutorial for Photoshop users “Hot to make character illustration in Photoshop”. You will learn about sketch or illustration techniques in Photoshop. This method is based on brushes, selection and some shading techniques. Let start the Tutorial.

How to Create a Blue Planet using Adobe Illustrator

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In this Tutorial we will be exploring an interesting technique of creating a pattern of hexagons for the objects of any shape which was designed by my friend Iaroslav Yemz. Beside this, we will be using 3D modeling and Gradient Mesh. The Tutorial contains plenty of useful professional tips. This Tutorial will be published on Vectortuts+ later this month.

Water Drops in Illustrator

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I’m going to make Water Drops in Illustrator. It will give dew drops over Glass of window look. Some new commands, tools and new techniques for you in this Tutorial.

How to Illustrate a Luminous Vector Sunset

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In this Tutorial you will learn how to create Vector Sunset, using the RGB color model. Using Art and Scatter Brushes, Gaussian Blur, Gradient Mesh and the Transparency palette, you will create a vector image with depth and luminance.

Quick Tip: How to Draw an Infinite Clock with Art Brushes

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Follow this Tutorial and you will find out how to draw a clock that goes round and round to the infinite with the help of Adobe Illustrator’s Art Brushes. You will also learn some tricks on how to make all the hours and the divisions to fit perfectly.

Creating the Surreal Photo Illustration ‘Checkmate’

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For this Tutorial I will be showing you how to take a few simple elements and turn them into something dark and surreal. We will be covering different masking and blending techniques along with light and coloring effects. We will also be playing with some of the basic Photoshop Filters in order to create a balanced image with plenty of depth. If you are ready to get started then fire up Photoshop and let’s get going!

Create Grainy Textures

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Creating grainy textures are great for retro illustrations, typography, and logos. Alternatively, you can incorporate these effects into compelling new styles. You can always scan in similar textures and Live Trace them in Illustrator, but you can pretty easily create this type of effect all inside Illustrator!

Quick Tip: How to Create an All Purpose Water Drop using Adobe Illustrator

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In this Tutorial you will learn how to create all-purpose water drop using the Clipping Mask and gradient fills. Water drops created in this way can be placed on any texture, both vector and raster, and the texture under the drop will look enlarged – just like a real drop of water. Creating the drop only takes a few minutes but adds a level of detail to your illustration that looks great.