Tutorial Details Programs: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop Difficulty: Intermediate Step 1 We are going to open up Adobe Illustrator, (using CMYK as your color settings) to start creating our 3D text. Type out the word “Escape”, (I am using the font Impact) and change the color to blue (#1A98BB). This color will be easier to work with, and it will roughly be the color we will be using in our final outcome. Step 2 Typically, [...]

Program: Photoshop CS3 Difficulty: Beginner Estimated Completion Time: 1 hour Take a look at the image we’ll be creating. Organizing the Stock Images The final photo manipulation in the tutorial was created using the following stock-images: Ocean Sunset, by flordelys-stock Sky by causticstock Hamster in Bowl by linepotter-stock Shark by krayker Flag by dollieflesh-stock Pirate Hat by Mizzd-Stock Step 1 I won’t insist on the easy parts because this is pretty obvious. First, open the [...]

Step 1 Create a new file with 700px of width and 700px of height. Now use the pen tool (shortcut “p”) to draw one side of bottle. If you don’t know how use the pen tool take a look at this link of photoshop online help When you reach the desired result now use the Direct Selection Tool (shortcut “a”) to select all point of path, hold ALT and drag the path to duplicate. Now, [...]

Step 1 Create a new document (mine is 600 by 420 pixels) and fill with a dark gradient or solid colour. I’ve filled mine with a radial gradient from #242424 to #0e0e0e. Step 2 On a new layer select the rounded rectangle tool and make a rectangle 250 pixels wide and 300 pixels high with a colour of white and a radius of 5 pixels. This is our page Step 3 Using the polygonal lasso [...]

Step 1 Create a new document and place the photo, you can download the one I used at: Photo 1. Step 2 Here I placed a second image. I will use it to create the light effects. Here is the link for the next image: Photo 2. Step 3 With the Pen Tool(P), create a path for one of the figures. Step 4 Select the Brush Tool(B) and go to Window>Brushes or F5 to create [...]

Create Your Own Realistic View Stamp In this lesson I will show you how to create your own realistic stamp, which you may use further in your design. First of all, we need to create a new document with the size of canvas 500×300 pixels, white background. Then we need to find some texture for the paper. We can do this by searching via Google Images. Open it and locate at the canvas as you [...]