Jun 11 2010 30 Comments By Michael Ostermann

In this short and quick Adobe Photoshop digital art tutorial, we are going to let somebody fall down inside a gloomy black & white scene. You will learn how to cut out body parts, add rain to a composition, use Gradient Map adjustment layers and other techniques that are useful in performing artistic photo manipulations. Note: This tutorial features a nude subject, and thus, this tutorial contains nudity for artistic purposes.

Jun 9 2010 7 Comments By Supratim Nayak

This detailed icon design tutorial is meant to show you how to use Photoshop to create cute, cartoony creatures. In this case, we are creating a robotic-like yellow alien. We will use layer styles, drawing techniques, and more to arrive at our final product. There will be a strong emphasis on detailing our icon to give it its unique, shiny look.

Jun 7 2010 15 Comments By Tyler Denis

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we are going to design a poster with space as its central theme. We’re also going to have a high emphasis on creating beautiful typography to match our theme. I will show you how to develop consistent lighting, re-coloring the scene to help set the mood, and many more Photoshop techniques. The tutorial’s final product is a poster/ad for a mythical TV show called "Space".

Jun 5 2010 2 Comments By Isaac Gube

Here is Tahgasa Bertram’s (aka Sweaty Eskimo) summer-themed desktop wallpaper from his tutorial on creating a custom, hand-sketched illustration. We’ve resized the wallpaper to several popular aspect ratios for use on your desktop. Download and install it to remind you of Design Instruct and Sweaty Eskimo’s awesome work!

Jun 3 2010 8 Comments By Simona Pfreundner

This tutorial will explain how to create a glossy and stylized digital clock from scratch in Adobe Illustrator composed of basic shapes and nifty gradients. We will make a vector icon that will be scalable to any size by taking advantage of designing icons and graphics using a vector-based application like Illustrator.

Jun 1 2010 34 Comments By Sebastiano Guerriero

I am going to show you how to create various decorative elements including geometric shapes, halftones, ribbons, 3D stars, and 3D text in Illustrator and then merge, compose, enhance, and texturize them in Photoshop. The overarching goal of this tutorial is to learn how to use both of these powerful tools for their strengths for an unmatched workflow that takes advantage of both vector and raster graphics.

May 30 2010 13 Comments By Heinritzh Sales

This article will present you an overview of how the design process flows inside the apparel industry — in particular, a shirt firm. Afterwards, we will break it down into pieces, digging deeper into each part of the process. Like any other design/creative field, apparel design follows the basic methods, processes, and techniques. However, I want to emphasize some important things to be considered when designing “in-house” in the apparel industry.