Dark Knight Rises Poster in Photoshop

 

One of the finest tutorial I have come across..  

Video tutorial for Vintage type effects

CREATE A CLEAN RETRO BADGE IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

In this tutorial we are going to create a clean retro-looking badge/burst in Adobe Illustrator. These are great for adding to a website, advertisement, etc to help the text stand out.

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Create a Tasty Cupcake Icon in Adobe Illustrator

Learn how to create a tasty cupcake icon. You’ll learn how to create your own guide to trace from, stylish line art and then onto creating your own quick decorations in Adobe Illustrator.

Quick Tip: Create a Piano Keyboard Ribbon Using 3D Effects

In this Quick Tip you will learn a handy way to map artwork to a 3D stroke to make a flowing piano keyboard. Check out this video tutorial..!!!

Scrabble Tiles Text Effect

This tutorial will show you how to create your own scrabble tiles set from scratch, so that you can use them anytime with any background you like. It’s really simple and fun, so let’s get started. 

Create Glossy 3D Text using Xara 3D & Photoshop

Xara 3D is an application that can transform 2D text into 3D text. It also creates simple 3D animated text. The interface makes it look simple but working with Xara could be very tricky for the first time user. The more you use Xara 3D the more you can explore the software to its full potential.

Quick Tip: How to Create a Seamless Pattern in Adobe Illustrator CS6

A perfect Pattern for the coming Olympics..!!

Vintage Typewriter: The Sexiest JQuery Contact Form Ever

In this tutorial we will take a step aside of our classical design tutorials and will be focusing more on the programming part, we’re about to show you how to develop an awesome typewriter experiment with all the primary functions fully operational thanks to the mighty power of jQuery and CSS. But don’t think that this is pure crazy experimentation, because this typewriter can actually be utilized as a brilliant contact form to place on your different projects. The tutorial will guide you across the different programming stages, so please set your Dreamweaver, Notepad++ or whatever media you utilize and let’s begin.

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Create Grainy Textures

In the following sections you will see how to create these grainy textures from a couple of different elements within Illustrator. Basically you can create these textures from any element that contains a graded value of color (like a gradient). I’m sure some of you have already figured out this technique by creating some of the past Vectips texture tutorials or on your own, but for those of you that haven’t, you should have fun.

Create monstrous characters with Illustrator CS5's Bristle Brush

Illustrator and web designer Paddy Donnelly shows us how to use Illustrator CS5's new Bristle Brush feature and a Wacom tablet to create monsters

Creating works of art just became so much easier with the new Bristle Brushes in Illustrator CS5. Using a Wacom tablet, you can easily create realistic flowing hair, pressure and direction sensitive sketches, all in vector format. We're going to use them to create some monsters. Let's get cracking.