Best Tutorials – August 2010

We’ve decided to start doing a roundup of the best tutorials released on the web each month. This month, there were some excellent tutorials for you to choose from. Please take a moment to review our favorites from August 2010.

Paint Using A Dreamlike 80′s Airbrush Effect

Learn how to create a beautiful, dreamlike painting full of subtle details but with a bold 80′s color scheme? Design duo KittoZutto show you how in this tutorial on creating an airbrushed portrait tapping the glory days of Athena posters.

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Create A Elegant Gold Ornamental Text in Photoshop

Learn how to create an unusual text effect by combining different photos and brush elements. This golden text is a nice idea and suitable for some treasury topic.

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Create A Cool Scenery using Matte Painting Techniques

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to take a concept, develop it using linear perspective, then add in value and color perspectives, and then apply photographic references to achieve a realistic matte painting.

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Design A Beautiful Outdoor Advertisement with Paint Effects

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to start with a basic texture, then photo-manipulate a beautiful outdoor scene and blend it into the texture for an effective base.  You’ll learn how to use custom brushes effectively in a work-flow, and composite a car into the advertisement.

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Create A Cool Typography Effect with the Puppet Warp Tool in Photoshop CS5

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a text effect using a photo of a rope and the Puppet Warp tool. This tutorial will only work with the CS5 version and I believe it won’t take you too much time.

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Create A Colorful Typography Artwork in Illustrator

In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial, I will walk you through my process of creating an illustrated type artwork. The focus of this tutorial is to demonstrate how it is possible to draft, develop, and refine a whole piece all within a design program like Adobe Illustrator from start to finish.

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Create a Polished Raised Type Treatment In Illustrator

In This tutorial you will learn how to Use the Appearance panel, some gradients, and transforms, to create a polished lifted type treatment. Using the Appearance panel makes it super easy to apply the treatment to other fonts and vector elements.

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