Typography
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How to Create the Guardians of the Galaxy Logo Text Effect
What You’ll Be Creating Interested in learning how to draw the Guardians of the Galaxy logo? Follow this tutorial and learn how to make it from scratch while learning many new techniques. You will definitely get inspired to create other unique logos and text effects in future projects. What You’ll Learn in This Guardians of the Galaxy Logo Tutorial Tutorial Assets You’ll need the following resources in order to complete this project: 1. How to Make a New Document in Adobe Illustrator Launch Illustrator and go to File > New to open the New Document window. There, type the name of the document and set up the dimensions as shown. Keep the Units to Pixels and the Color Mode to RGB. Once you’re done, hit Create Document.…
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How to Create a Clipping Mask in Illustrator
In the following tutorial, you’ll learn how to make a Clipping Mask in Illustrator and also how to make a clipping mask with text in Illustrator. What You’ll Learn in This Tutorial 1. How to Make a Clipping Mask in Illustrator To make a Clipping Mask in Illustrator, select your design along with the object that will serve as the mask, and go to Object > Clipping Mask > Make. To make things a bit faster, you can always use the Control-7 keyboard shortcut. Keep in mind that the Make Clipping Mask command can also be found at the bottom of the Properties panel (Window > Properties). 2. How to Make a Clipping Mask With Text in Illustrator You can even…
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How to Draw Fur
What You’ll Be Creating Drawing fur from memory can be very frustrating. You’ve seen it, you know what it is, but when you try fur drawing, you end up with a bunch of straw. If this is your problem, in this tutorial I will show you how to draw fur. First hint? You need to draw what you see, not what you know! What You Will Need to Draw Fur 1. What Is Fur? Let’s start with some theory. You’ll be able to draw fur much better just by learning these few simple facts. First, fur is made of hairs that lie one upon another, creating a smooth surface. However, when…
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How to Draw a Bear
What You’ll Be Creating Of all the mammals, grizzly bears are one of the easiest to draw. They are big and plump, with thick fur concealing the silhouette, and they’re plantigrade, so their legs are similar to ours. Also, their characteristic face with tiny eyes and a huge muzzle makes it easy to keep the proportions right. So, even if you’re a complete beginner at drawing, you can learn how to draw a bear easily. 1. How to Get Started With a Bear Drawing Proportions are the key to a realistic drawing of a bear or any animal. If the legs are too short or the head too small, even the most elaborate details won’t make your…
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How to Create a Glowing Winter Night Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Adobe Photoshop to create a fantasy photo manipulation featuring a winter night with glowing lanterns. 1. How to Build the Base Scene Step 1 Create a new 3000 x 1900 px document in Photoshop with the given settings: Step 2 Open the winter landscape image and drag it into the white canvas using the Move Tool (V). Use the Free Transform Tool (Control-T) to scale the image down to fit the size of the canvas. Convert this layer to a Smart Object. Step 3 Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set the Radius to 6 px. On the Filter Mask, activate the Brush Tool (B) and select a soft…
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How to Make a Photoshop Action to Create a Photo Art Effect
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to make Photoshop actions to create your own photo effects. I will show you how to transform any photo into art with Photoshop effects and how to keep these photo art effects editable using smart filters, which has the property of adding image effects to layers in a non-destructive way. So now it’s time to learn, and you’ll soon be able to create your first photo effect Photoshop actions. Tutorial Assets The following asset was used during this tutorial: 1. Choosing and Preparing a Good Photo Step 1 First, you need to find the right photo for the effect you want. Not every photo…
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How to Create a Wintry Deer Portrait Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating With every changing season, beautiful, fantastical creatures come alive. So in today’s tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a wintry, deer-inspired photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop. 1. How to Build the Deer Portrait First things first, we need to build this deer character from scratch. Step 1 Set up a New Document in Photoshop at 2034 x 2708 pixels. Then Copy and Paste the Woman Portrait onto a New Layer. Step 2 Now let’s remove the tan background so we can add a wintry scene behind her. Some areas around the hair will still need some fine tuning. So use a Hard Round Brush (100% Opacity, 80-100% Hardness) to mask away the remaining parts of the background that are…
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How to Make a Photoshop Action to Add a Dramatic Effect to Photos
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a Photoshop action to add a dramatic effect to a photo in Adobe Photoshop. I will explain everything in so much detail that anyone can create it, even those who have just opened Photoshop for the first time. What You’ll Need To recreate the design above, you will need the following resources: 1. How to Start Creating an Action Step 1 First, open the photo that you want to work with. To open your photo, go to File > Open, choose your photo, and click Open. Now, before we get started, just check a couple of things: Step 2 Now…
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How to Create a Vintage Photo Effect in a Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Style
What You’ll Be Creating This week is dedicated to Russian culture, so I would like to introduce you to the artworks of the famous Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. He made a large number of color photographs of the early 20th century using his three-image method of photography. Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial: 1. How to Prepare the Document Step 1 Use Control-N to create a new document and use the following settings: 3000 x 2000 px; 300 dpi. Step 2 Go to File > Place and put your image inside the document. Step 3 Resize your image to the borders of the document and hit Enter. Step 4 Click M to activate the Rectangular Marquee Tool and select…
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How to Create a Fun Filter Photo Effect Action in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create cool Photoshop actions by making a filter photo effect in Adobe Photoshop. I will explain everything in so much detail that anyone can create this effect, even those who have just opened Photoshop for the first time. What You’ll Need To recreate the design above, you will need the following resources: 1. How to Start Creating an Action Step 1 First, open the photo that you want to work with. To open your photo, go to File > Open, choose your photo, and click Open. Now, before we get started, just check a couple of things: Step 2 Now we…