Mar 9 2010 4 Comments By Asher Abbasi

In this Adobe Photoshop icon creation tutorial, you will learn how to create a high-quality three-dimensional pen and paper icon from scratch. It entails simple Photoshop tools and commands, some crafty layer styles, and only needs basic knowledge of the Pen Tool, shape tools, and marquee selection tools to draw the shapes. This tutorial demonstrates how to create two icons (a piece of paper and a pencil), so don’t feel obliged to create both icons.

Mar 7 2010 24 Comments By Zena Santos

In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the steps of how to create an illustration art piece so that you can witness what goes behind a digital illustrator’s work, as well as gain some new insights for your own projects’ workflow. We’ll go through conceptualization and idea gathering, creating illustrations in Illustrator, and then finishing the piece in Photoshop.

Mar 5 2010 15 Comments By Kawsar Ali

In this exclusive Design Instruct freebie, you will be able to avail of some high-resolution and large-dimension leather textures that you can use in your personal and commercial work. The sizes range from 1496px to 2000px in width. There are a variety of leather textures for you to enjoy, use, and choose from. The file format of the images is JPG.

Mar 3 2010 8 Comments By Michael Ostermann

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we are going to create a simple but effective photo manipulation that blends different images together to create a bold and surreal scene. This tutorial covers how to add realistic blood and shadows, easy-to-use techniques to blend images together, and applying image adjustments automatically using a Photoshop action.

Mar 1 2010 35 Comments By Jacob Gube

For the entire week, we’ll be giving away different prizes every day on Twitter. Don’t miss your chance to win amazing prizes from top-notch companies by following @designinstruct Twitter. Continue reading to see how the giveaway works.

Feb 27 2010 4 Comments By Isaac Gube

This is a collection of free textures of folds and creases from a statue for you to download. There are 8 high-scale images in this freebie. You can use these for personal or commercial purposes in your work! You’ll find image files up to 2000×3008px in size included in this pack.

Feb 25 2010 7 Comments By Michael Vincent Manalo

For this Photoshop tutorial, I will be showing you how to make a dark and mysterious scene with the subject having a TV for a head. You will see how to seamlessly replace a person’s head with another object—in this case, a television—and how to create a stormy sky using brush strokes. We’ll also deal with creating realistic lights and shadows as well as how to retouch subjects who are against a light source.

Feb 23 2010 43 Comments By Miguel Cardona

With this tutorial, we are going to work through ways of creating digital portrait illustrations that have a unique and somewhat tactile feel of marker and watercolor. This tutorial will focus on using a drawing tablet and Adobe Illustrator. There will be a focus on technique and technical settings, but the overall product will rely on your own personal style and taste.