Tutorials added on February 18, 2009

This is a great little tutorial that will show you how to create your very own animated beating heart. There is still a lot of time until Valentines Day but you can always make it and save it for later.

Create a remarkable photo effect that can be used on posters as advertisements like this skateboarding one.

Hi, I’m WanKok. I have been involved in art industry for almost 12 years. Over my career path, I’ve been exposed to different techniques of creating digital art work for game industry, post production and publishing company. These experiences have somehow helped build up my personal way of rendering a scenes. In this tutorial, I’m happy to share my techniques and will walk you through the many steps I take, from initial conceptual work to final rendering. Basically, this tutorial divides into 5 main sections: Brain Storming; Prior to Coloring; Coloring; Texturing; Final Touch Up. Each step of the way will be accompanied by WIP art works and shall also explain the tools and methods I used. As always, it is vital to know what’s your artistic direction prior to painting. What kind of style, design element, the canvas size, final output file format, etc. These are essential. If you have not received any brief from your art director, ASK! If this is your personal project, I strongly advice you to plan out one. This will indefinitely save you time in the end.

Actually this tutorial supposed to be on making a colorful and glow, vector like wallpaper and it came to be a character concept. So let's figure this out, shall we?

Make your own Valentine's Day card for a loved one, not just with love and sincerity but some of that creativity you have built up inside you too!

In this tutorial we will make real vector like wallpaper or design, call it as you like. So for this tutorial we need some custom brushes that were created in my last tutorial and imagination. I think that is it. Moreover try this one because it is definitely is very challenging to fit the color palette right.

How to draw custom rainbows in photoshop. Create your own rainbows and stripes shapes and backgrounds.

Photoshop techniques described here can be used to tune up your web design for the upcoming St. Valentine's Day.

This tutorial shows how to create a Valentine's day wallpaper for your loved ones in Adobe Photoshop.

There are plenty of techniques for doing masking, some uses channels, color range, pen tool and lot of times for those who has a tablet they just paint it with their brush tool. For me I use free hand masking for those edges who needs additional details, I have here a perfect example of a photo which I bet you won't use your favorite pen tool or your free hand to pick the capsule.

Color is quite arguably the most important component of a project’s finished design. Whether you’re working on packaging, a logo, or a company’s entire identity, color plays a fundamental role in the process. When successfully used, color will grab a person’s attention, and evoke a range of emotions within them.

This video tutorial will be part of a of new Category I created on YPS called “Optimizing Workflow“. This category will include tutorials to make your photography workflow more efficient and less time-consuming. This could be in post processing, lighting, pre-shoot…. First up are Photoshop actions. What’s an action, you might ask? Simply put, it’s a series of commands that are made and recorded. The complete list of commands between “record” and “stop” is your action. Photoshop comes with some default actions but what’s most important is that you can create your own. This is what I’ll be showing you in this Photoshop video tutorial.

In this post, we're taking a look at the cover designs of 42 album cover designs from reggae and related genres. See how Scientist rid the World of the evil curse of the Vampires, say hello to Uglyman, and learn why the colours red, gold and green are so central in reggae and Rastafari culture. American R'n'B transmitted by radio to the little island nation of Jamaica mixed with African rythms and evolved into a whole string of musical genres from the 1950s onwards. Mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae and finally, dancehall which jumped back across the western Atlantic to become a major influence on early east coast Hip-Hop in the USA. Accompanying a seemingly endless list of artists and their releases where all sorts of different album cover designs. Ranging from sublime to sordid, from hilarious to dead serious, there's a lot to pick from. This post takes a look at 42 album covers from 1965 up until 2008, covering all the genres mentioned above except mento. Most of the artists and bands are Jamaican, though a few are of European and African origin.

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a cute frame over a green hill in adobe photoshop.

Create a blog layout for your tutorial blog or WordPress site. The PSD is available for download with this tutorial.

Create a nice and glossy 3D crystal icon with some simple drawing and transformation techniques.

Create a Blue Vector Character from Pencil Sketch to Coloring. As I was looking on Chris blog, I was inspired on his illustrator tutorial about creating a cute vector monster so I decided to make a quick tutorial and in this tutorial we will gonna make a blue character thing. I myself don’t even know what he is so lets just name him ranran. I use photoshop on this tutorial. You need to get a pencil and a paper coz we’re gonna start this with sketching.

In this tutorial I’ll be teaching you how to make a clean white navigation menu using a couple of layer styles - very generic - great for use in web layouts.

Today’s tutorial is how to use a couple of tools such as Polygonal Lasso Tool, Brush, Eraser Too, and other simple ones to come out with a professional ADS or Media design. I’ve used 25 steps on purpose to simply and easy follow tutorial.

Learn how to create a professional portfolio design using basic steps and a little creativity.