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Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard when it comes to scalable vector artwork. As a designer, Illustrator is the right tool for graphics that need to be scaled. A prime example are logos which often need to be adapted for small mediums such as business cards, larger mediums like billboard signs, and converted to grayscale or black and white for mediums [...]

For graphic designers, nature is often an excellent source of inspiration. Sometimes those things not created by man showcase more beauty and style than we would have imagined. In modern web and graphic design, the natural elements of trees, leaves, and grass are a recurring theme.
Fortunately, designers have unlimited potential for using Photoshop to create stunning artwork depicting nature. In [...]

Hundreds of thousands of incredible Adobe Photoshop brush sets are all over the web. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of Photoshop brushes available, you can now add patches of dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any look you want.
Without further ado, Noupe presents 1000+ [...]

It’s been about 7 months since the original Illustrator Tutorials – Best Of was published, and in that time there have been many more noteworthy tutorials released. With all of that new content , it’s only appropriate to put out a second edition of the best Illustrator tutorials. In this post you’ll find some basic tutorials on getting started with [...]

The grunge movement in design combines rips, tears, decay, smears and scratches to form a dark and gritty result. Here we’ve collected fifty of the best ever Photoshop grunge tutorials for your enjoyment and education.
Continue reading 50 Dirty, Filthy Grunge Photoshop Effects

Illustration is usually done in vector graphics applications like Adobe Illustrator or CORELDraw. But with the robustness of Adobe Photoshop, designers who don’t have access to vector graphics software can achieve vector-like objects and compositions with it.
In this collection, you’ll find 30 brilliant illustration/drawing tutorials using Adobe Photoshop from top-notch Photoshop tutorial sites.
Continue reading 30 Beautiful Photoshop Illustration Tutorials

Sometimes it is just worlds easier watching a tutorial than reading it, and the Internet has made video tutorials of all kinds very available. Photoshop tutorials are especially popular due to the complexity of the popular program.
Continue reading 20+ Photoshop Video Tutorials.

Over years Adobe Illustrator has become the standard application when it comes to illustration design. Artists, illustrators and graphic designers use Illustrator to create vector-based graphics which — contrary to raster-based editors such as Adobe Photoshop — can be easily rescaled without the loss of quality. E.g., Illustrator is often used to quickly transform hand-drawn sketches on a sheet of [...]

Smashing Magazine has pulled together a list of the best Photoshop tutorials. There are over 25 tutorials and sites for you to check out.

DesignWalker also has a roundup of Photoshop text effect tutorials.

Coliss.com has a collection of links to free Photoshop brushes that you can download and use.

PSDtuts has loads of Photoshop tutorials for you to try out.

Bittbox has [...]

Now is a great time to learn about Adobe Fireworks, an image editor originally produced by Macromedia. I thought I would post descriptions of all of the tools used in Fireworks and some tutorials.

Tool Panel
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Expanded Tool

Selection tools – Used to select and alter existing objects

SubSelection Tool – Use this tool to select items that are hidden behind other objects

Tools [...]