This Photoshop tutorial shows you how to mix pixels and spray paint to create edgy urban art. Graffiti has influenced many of today’s graphic designers and illustrators: skateboard graphics, clothing, and the music industry have all drawn on it heavily, while the distinctive graffiti style pops up in ads, magazines and elsewhere. Here, you’ll learn how to add some chaotic, urban grit to your artwork using selection and layer blending techniques. You’ll also learn how to replicate a three-colour graffiti stencil using Photoshop’s filters and channels – then you’ll get the chance to get your hands dirty by adding some overspray and drip effects. Finally, to pull off the effect, you’ll apply blending modes, as well as using Photoshop’s lesser-known Displace filter to map your graffiti to the contours of the wall.


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Mobile apps that lend a vintage styling to photos and videos have been in vogue, emulating the recent craze for simple film cameras from the likes of Lomography. Among these apps are the all-conquering Hipstamatic and Plastic Bullet Camera – the latter based on colour-correction technology developed for Red Giant’s Hollywood-quality video and Photoshop plug-ins. Both have won favour with designers and hipsters from Shoreditch to Sunderland. In this tutorial, we will show you how you can create retro lighting effects in Photoshop without resorting to plug-ins – and with a degree of control that means you get the look you want without the trial-and-error aspect of the iPhone apps. And when you work with high-res photos and Photoshop’s toolset, the results are far superior, too.


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Today’s tutorial result is figurative. We'll draws with a range of regular pencils (from 5H to 6B), as well as pulling out the pens and paintbrush. Then we'll bring the results into Photoshop, where we add components and apply colour and textures, digitally enhancing the final visual through the use of some classically inspired montage techniques.


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This photo manipulation tutorial explains how to create a figure that appears like made from water, working from a stock photograph. Enjoy the cool final result and try it yourself!


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It doesn’t take a wealth of graphic complexity to produce an image charged with meaning. In this design, we uses basic colours, shapes and brush strokes to create a well balanced, euphoric image with a hint of the fetal about it. This isn’t a technically complex piece – the original photograph does most of the work, but its graphic accessories enhance the emotion that is hinted at in the original.


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Still as popular as ever, photomontage is initially one of the easiest techniques to learn. But achieving photorealistic results can be a challenge. In this tutorial, we will show you how, by blending a number of photos together. This kind of work always has a surreal edge, but with the images you’ll use, the environment and composition, you’ll endeavour to be quite subtle too, which should add an extra intriguing quality to the piece.


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Learn how to create a summery poster artwork using Illustrator CS5.


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The new 3D tools in Photoshop CS5 are more advanced than ever. In this tutorial we will use the new Repoussé tool to extrude some text in a way previously only possible in a full 3D application.


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Mini-planets – or stereographic projections, to give them their proper names – are currently sweeping the internet and creative scene. The basic idea is that you take an image of a landscape and use Photoshop’s Polar Coordinates filter to transform it into a miniature planet.


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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to transform a fairly typical road-trip image – with a big blue sky and wide-open spaces – into an apocalyptic battle scene, complete with tanks, guns, parachutists and a hail of incoming missiles.


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