Newest Tutorials

You don’t need a huge studio lighting setup to get professional results. Joseph W. Carey proves that all you need is a speed light to get started with flash.

Learn how to create this amazing surreal underground scene with a heart created from branches and scattering leaves! This photo manipulation tutorial will teach you various techniques such as blending, complex masking, painting, working with groups, and more.

Polls are nearly ubiquitous on the web today, and there are plenty of services that will provide a drop-in poll for you. But what if you want to write one yourself? This tutorial will take you through the steps to create a simple PHP-based poll, including database setup, vote processing, and displaying the poll.

When you hear the word New York City, nature is typically not one of the first things to come to mind. However, photographer Jamie Scott’s latest photography project involves just that. Scott spent six month taking photos in Central Park during the seasonal changes into autumn to create an amazing timelapse:

The layout of most simple websites involves a main content area and a side-bar. A common issue with type of layout is setting a background for the side-bar (we've all been there). This tutorial covers how to solve this issue without using repeat-y in a containing div.

This time we will add a person to another photo and make that appear like a hologram from sci-fi movies. Have fun!

There aren’t actually any butterflies involved; the name refers to the shape of the shadow created by the overhead light. Wallace sets a light up on an axis directly above the model and above the angle of the camera so that it shines directly down on the model’s face. This direct light creates a butterfly-like shadow beneath her nose.

In a recent article titled Lasting Impressions: How to Create Memorable Travel Photographs, PictureCorrect provided detailed coverage of a lecture by Luke Ballard, an esteemed travel photographer who has successfully combined his two great passions—photography and globetrotting—into a successful career.

Continuing on with our love of new time-lapse projects, we bring you Christophe Thockler’s music video for “Un Jour Comme un Autre” by French trip-hop artist Degiheugi for his album “Dancing Chords and Fireflies”. Through over 35,000 photographs arranged in 120 time-lapses, Thockler tells Degiheugi’s story of the world in one day, in one four-minute film:

This tutorial will show you how to quickly create a dynamic business card document which uses dynamic text, linked-file and visibility variables to change the appearance of the content on the page with VariableImporter script. The script automates the conversion of tab or comma separated text files into Illustrator compatible .XML files, immediately ready for direct use in the Illustrator Variables panel – without leaving Illustrator!