How to Make Your Own Grain Brush in Illustrator

How to Make a Wavy Reflection Effect in Illustrator

Tutorialsby Diego Sanchez

If you want to make reflections of trees, mountains, animals or people over the water in a landscape, you immediately think of Photoshop to carry out this task. But if the design you have is in vector format and you want to keep it 100% editable, then how do you do? Fortunately, there are many ways ...

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How to Easily Improve a Urban Image in Photoshop

Tutorialsby Diego Sanchez

Improving a picture taken on a urban enviroment it is a very easy task that can be made in Photoshop by using only the Camera RAW Filter. Although the values you use will depend on your particular image, the values you will see here in this tutorial can be used as a good basis for any urban image, a...

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How to Use Texture Overlays on Photos

Tutorialsby Tony Thomas

Using a texture overlay is an excellent way to add a vintage, aged effect to photo. This tutorial will show you how to take some of the color from the texture overlay and add it to the photo, then in the details of the texture too....

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How to Make a 3D Tube Text Effect in Photoshop

Tutorialsby Diego Sanchez

In Photoshop, there are a few tool that designers do not use often, maybe because they do not need them or maybe because they don't know what it is useful for, so today i will show you how you can easily create a 3D tube effect in Photoshop using a circle, a simple path and the (not so often used) M...

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How to Create a Realistic Scribble Effect in Adobe Illustrator

Tutorialsby Tony Thomas

In Illustrator there often many different ways to achieve a desired effect, in this case the desired effect will be a realistic looking hand drawn scribble effect, and I’ll discuss two different methods....

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How to Make a Pink & Blue Effect in Photoshop

Tutorialsby Diego Sanchez

Besides the classic Orange & Teal photo effect, there are many different ones that you can make in Photoshop to make your photo looks entirely different from the original shot. Often used on urban pictures, the Pink & Blue effect is by far the most used one for these type of photographs on Instagram...

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How to Change a White Background to Transparent with Photoshop

Tutorialsby Tony Thomas

This tutorial will teach you an effective method for isolating graphics such as logos and icons from white backgrounds. We essentially use the graphic to mask itself off from the background. It is always preferable to get the original graphics if possible, but for those situations where a flat image...

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Convert a Portrait to an Oil Painting in Photoshop Without the Oil Paint Filter

Tutorialsby Diego Sanchez

In Photoshop, making your image look like an Oil Painting is very easy, specially if you have the Oil Paint Filter installed. But not all Photoshop versions has this filter by default. Fortunately, there is a way around to make this effect without the Oil Paint Filter, and all you need is just your ...

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How to Use the Content Aware Scale in Photoshop

Tutorialsby Diego Sanchez

In the latest Photoshop versions the Content Aware Scale was included to simplify our work when we need to scale an objetc inside a photo or make some changes to it. It is a tool that not many users are aware of but that will speed up our work. To see how easy is to use it and how powerful and easy...

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How to Easily Make Wavy Lines in Illustrator

Tutorialsby Diego Sanchez

As you may know, Illustrator has a wide range of powerful tools and sometimes finding the best one to achieve a certain result could be a bit confusing if you do not know them all. Of course any method you choose to make your design is 100% valid, but it is good to know that there are some time-savi...

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How to Make an editable 3D Line Text Effect in Illustrator

Tutorialsby Diego Sanchez

Sometimes complex effects may take a long time to be made if you do not know which tools to use, but if you use the right ones they are very simple to achieve. Illustrator has a wide range of tools available to make the process of creating very complex effects a breeze. In this tutorial, you will le...

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How to Digitally White Wash a Wood Texture in Photoshop

Tutorialsby Tony Thomas

This tutorial will share with you a cool technique that I discovered when attempting to recreate a white washed wood effect using nothing but a regular old wood texture and Photoshop. This technique works surprisingly well with almost any wood texture providing you are comfortable with identifying a...

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