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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a beautiful, snowy greeting card in Adobe Illustrator. This includes creating a Pattern Brush of tiny houses, to text warps, drawing simple-shaped holly berries and making two fills; as well as learning how to use the Symbol Sprayer Tool.

We all know and love Photoshop for its pixel based manipulation. In this tutorial I decided to look into Photoshop’s vector capabilities, combined with gradients, layer modes and layer styles to produce a great looking, almost photo-realistic lighter.

Icon design represents one of the most important trends in design. The number of web sites providing icons is increased daily, in part driven by the growing number of applications, all of which featuring interfaces and therefore icons. Today we will talk about the basic principles of creating icons, their types and trends in this area.

Learn to create a wood texture in this detailed tutorial.

In the fashion and related advertising industries – pre production or pre shoot meetings are a given. Clients are spending sums of six and seven figures for an image or series of images. Consequently a photo shoot in these industries never goes ahead without a pre-production meeting. There is simply too much at risk not to have one.

This is a tutorial for you to make a nice abstract backround for any forum signatures.

Aldecoa is fortunate that all he lost was his camera after the alligator became agitated enough to feel the need to put an end to his photoshoot. Hopefully, this story goes to show that it’s important to respect boundaries and be able to read animals body language when photographing them up close.

The above ink dot dissociation effect is very cool, and actually to produce the effect is not as complicated as you imagine. Its biggest breakthrough lies in the mask layer! How to do it? Follow me step by step to achieve it.

Shooting on location can be exciting and fresh, but it can also be a tremendous challenge. Not that studio work is any less tedious, but there is always a heightened element of the unknown when working on location. You have to be prepared to roll with the punches and adapt and improvise in order to get the shot. In this hour and half long seminar by renowned photographer, Brian Smith, you can learn some tips and insights to help you master the art of location shooting.

Focal length and perspective make a big difference in the outcome of your landscape photography, which means you should familiarize yourself with how they impact the images. This way, you can make an educated decision when selecting which lens you should be using.