Leather: Texture Pack

Leather: Texture Pack

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.

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Surreal Train Cabin Photo Manipulation with Photoshop

Surreal Train Cabin Photo Manipulation with Photoshop

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.

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Design Instruct Week: Prizes on Twitter Every Day

Design Instruct Week: Prizes on Twitter Every Day

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.

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Folds: Texture Pack

Folds: Texture Pack

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.

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How to Create a Dark and Mysterious TV-Head Scene

How to Create a Dark and Mysterious TV-Head Scene

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.

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Make Watercolor and Marker Style Portraits with Illustrator

Make Watercolor and Marker Style Portraits with Illustrator

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.

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How to Get Creatively Inspired

How to Get Creatively Inspired

For the majority of us, creativity comes and goes—one day you can be producing revolutionary work, and the next, you may be staring at a blank canvas for hours. As professionals though, being in a creative rut can be costly, so we often have to find ways to coax ourselves into unfailingly being able to create.

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