Author: PSD Vault

For anyone looking to improve their digital drawing skills, this Video tutorial provides tips on sketching and developing ideas. You’ll go through detailed steps on how to draw an off-beat little creature. The same process and use of line work, color, layer modes, shadow, highlights, and background, can be applied to any range of illustrations. Get your creativity on!

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Author: Corey Barker at Layers Magazine

Corey brings some fun to the Holidays by showing us how to create animated falling snow in this video tutorial! Enhance your photos with this cool effect – Let it snow!

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Author: Corey Barker at Planet Photoshop

Here is a cool effect that Corey shows us, by using the 3D and ‘reflections’ properties in CS5 extended. Try it on any photo or image and create a dynamic special effect or background for any project!

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Author: Ronnie Riggs Jr

We received a request for an easy way to convert a photo to a line drawing so we found this tutorial that really shows how fast you can transform a portrait shot into a drawing in Photoshop. Let’s get started!

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Author: Daarken at 3D Total

Let’s observe a masterful Photoshop artist in this quick video tutorial as he creates a stunning digital painting of a hand in mere minutes. Generally hands are one of the most difficult parts of the human body for artists to master, yet Daarken is able to break it down in such a way to make it easier to understand how to think about constructing the different elements of a hand including the planes, texture, color, and shadow.

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Author: Corey Barker at Layers

Here is an incredibly cool video tutorial from an award-winning designer, who walks you through the creation of a DNA Strand entirely from scratch by clearly demonstrating every keystroke on how to mask shapes and play with light to obtain the desired effects. Go ahead and download the layers file to help you and then have fun!

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Author: Corey Barker

In this tutorial, Photoshop Professional Corey Barker shows you how to get a natural 3D light effect using the (CS5) 3D Volume Tool, and demonstrates how to ‘actively’ rotate beams of light through trees with the 3D Object Rotate Tool. You’ll enjoy this one!

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Author: Chis at TutCove

Check out this fool-proof brush blending technique Chris uses in Photoshop. No need to mess around with settings, you just need to brush with two basic colors: black and white.

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Author: Corey Barker

In this video tutorial, Corey uses Photoshop CS5’s new 3D features to create abstract 3D elements.

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Author: Francesco di Pietro

We have two video versions to showcase this tutorial from Francesco di Pietro, an illustrator from Italy. The first version is a time-lapse video which quickly shows you how this piece are artwork was done. The second video is an extended version which shows all of the details in creating this cool illustration.

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Author: Racer445

Metal texturing is something that is often done by simply overlaying photos on top of one another and can end up looking like stone or concrete, which does not look or act the way that metal does in real life. In his video tutorial, Racer445 uses techniques that result in a hand painted texture that looks and acts much more like real life metal.

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Author: Corey Barker

In this video tutorial, Corey Barker creates some desktop art for his computer using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

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Author: Elias Sarantopoulos

“In this video tutorial you will see how powerful blending modes are inside Photoshop. Experiment with your own scans and textures to come up with a creative composition.”

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