This tutorial will walk you through the simple steps used to turn a regular photograph into an interesting digital painting illustration, using Photoshop's Filter Gallery and the Smudge Tool. Depending on the photograph you choose, it shouldn't take you more than a couple of hours to complete.
Francesco di Pietro is an illustrator from Italy and he has created this really cool video tutorial or a sort of time-lapse video showing you how to draw a cool face illustration in Photoshop from scratch. The tutorial is called "wind blow tutorial" and it's definitely worth checking out.
For more information about Francesco, visit his DeviantArt profile. His portfolio is full of really cool illustrations.
In this tutorial I will show you how I made this nice logo for one of my clients in Czech Republic. Feel free to use it as inspiration, but please do not copy it in any form. All copyrights belong to the owner whom I made it for. Last but not least, please excuse Czech language appearing in the dialog boxes on pictures; I use a localized version of illustrator.
The final product will look like this:
I was browsing the other day and saw a Sony-Ericsson Xperia X1 with a beautiful wallpaper on it and thought to myself "Can I make one that looks like it but using only GIMP?"
And guess what? I could! And with this tutorial so can you.
Step 1
We first create a new document, you can make it any size, though I used 1600 x 1200. Setting by default Black as your Foreground color, we can ask in the advanced options to use it as our background.
In this reader tutorial Nikola Lazarevic aka Colaja from Nis, Serbia will show us how to create a very stylish vintage traveler diary in Photoshop. We will mix brushes with stock photos and blend modes to achieve the effect.
Let's take a look at our final image.
Mario! everyday he saves the princess! Between some enthusiasts he is a great hero, outside and inside the gamers world, he is one of my favorite characters, so I decided to show how to vectorize a Mario from super nes with illustrator. The same process can be used for any other game or character.
What you will need?
- A Super Nintendo emulator called Snes9x - Download it here
- A rom from Super Mario World - Download it here
The Reader Tutorial series is a place inside Abduzeedo where the main idea is to let our readers contribute to the site, share their experiences and talent! So feel free to get in touch with us if you have a tut you would like to see here. :)
So check out Máté Tóth's tutorial
In this tutorial I will show you how to create little planets using a regular photograph or a panoramic one and Photoshop. It's very a very simple technique but with a really cool end result.
Before we start let's take a look at the final result!
Step 1
Let's start with a regular picture. Just open it at Photoshop.
This is my first tutorial and I really want to explain to you how to generate interactive prototypes directly from Fireworks in a PDF format. This kind of prototype can be very useful for layouts approval with clients or just to make the communication between the design development team easier.
As the first version of the tutorial was in Portuguese, so you will find some portuguese/english translations here. In case you have any questions let us know!!
This is my first Photoshop tutorial, I will show you how I did my first creation whose name is Dark Water. The idea of this image was exactly to create a tutorial. To achieve this creation, you will need to download some pictures, you can find the links below.
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