Do you have a sketch lying around and want to bring it to life? If you’re inspired by mid-century art as much as Manuela Langella, you’ll love the process and end result of this tutorial. Dig out your sketch and fire up Illustrator to get started!
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Gifographics are the next step in the evolution of infographics. This article will take a closer look at the evolution of infographics and how to make a gifographic by using Adobe Photoshop.
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Photoshop is what many digital artists, photographers, graphic designers, and even some web developers have in common. What sets us apart is how we use the tool. In this tutorial, Yoanna Victorova shares her most often used Photoshop shortcuts and a few key parts of her creative process.
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(This article is kindly sponsored by Adobe.) Working with wireframes allows you to get creative without worrying too much about the style or the design of your project. This tutorial will teach you how to create a landing page for an online course website, and offers a mobile wireframe you can use to practice and follow along.
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(This article is kindly sponsored by Adobe.) There are many ways to design and create an app’s look. Learn how to transfer an app’s design from Photoshop to XD, continuing to work on it and having fun while prototyping.
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Creating large, harmonious and uniform color palettes can be a challenge. Good intentions and confident plans can be abandoned when things get a little unwieldy. But you can equip yourself with some tools to manage the complexity. With the right techniques, large color palettes can be created, refined and refactored at will. Large
color palettes
can be tamed.
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Have you tried drawing animals from circles? It can be quite a challenge, especially if you can only use a particular amount of circles. Dorota explains how she created 13 animals with only 13 circles.
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Almost five years ago, I had the honor of
writing a post on Smashing Magazine
about my Photoshop panel
GuideGuide
. Since then it has seen wild success as the most installed third-party Photoshop extension, an achievement I’m quite proud. In that time, I’ve added some powerful features and, most recently, expanded it to Illustrator. This post will give you a taste of how GuideGuide can change the way you use guides in Photoshop and Illustrator. If you’re one of the many people who already use GuideGuide, please read on. You may discover some unconventional uses that are not immediately apparent. I’ll provide a overview of the major features, and then give some examples of advanced and unusual ways it can be used to make you a more efficient designer.
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It’s been almost five years since
Photoshop Etiquette
launched, which officially makes it a relic on the web. A lot can happen on the web in a few years, and these past five have illustrated that better than most.
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If you’ve dreamed of the day when
you could design more than one thing at once
in Photoshop, the wait is over. You can now have multiple designs right next to each other. Design mobile layouts alongside your tablet and desktop layouts. And in this article, we’ll design an entire set of assets all at once. What many Photoshop users have been hoping for — with a push from Sketch, no doubt — finally arrives in the form of
artboards
. No longer are you constrained to one canvas. Turning layer groups on and off, be gone. Create as many canvases as you like in one PSD.
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