Art and Design Tutorials and Resources

Space tutorials

2008-11-02T19:51:00.000-08:00

Planet tutorial
Planet tutorial 2
Planet tutorial 3
Planet tutorial 4

Asteroid tutorial
Comet tutorial

Nebula tutorial
Nebula tutorial 2

Planetary ring tutorial

Planet scene tutorial
Planet scene tutorial 2

Photo/Portrait Retouching

2008-04-18T21:46:00.000-07:00

33 awesome body enhancement photoshop tutorials

Good tutorials on retouching eyes, skin, teeth, nose, and hair in photoshop.

Featured Tutorial of the week

2008-04-14T12:11:00.000-07:00

I'm going to try and do a featured tutorial every week. For my first I chose a poloriod image collage from gfxtuts.com written by Steve Patterson. here

This is a unique tutorial that shows you how to make one image look like a bunch of polariod snapshots placed together almost like a puzzel.

I followed this tutorial in Paint Shop Pro 9 and Adobe Photoshop.

Time to complete: it took me under 1 hour

Difficulty: novice/intermediate the tutorial is very complete. The hardest part is keeping track of all the polariods you make. It is harder to complete in Paint Shop Pro than it is in Photoshop.

This is the image I created following the tutorial:

Follow the tutorial to create your own polariod collage

Photo manipulation tutorials for Adobe Photoshop

2008-04-14T11:52:00.000-07:00

Here is a list of Photo-manipulation tutorials covering: editing, retouching, and manipulating photographs in Photoshop. Most of these will work for Adobe Photoshop CS3, CS2, CS, and even 7. They also might be useful for Paint Shop Pro and GIMP users as some of the concepts discussed are fairly universal for graphics programs.

Photo Manipulation Tutorial list:

People, persons, fairies, fantastic creatures:
Fantasy people manipulation 1
Fantasy people manipulation 2
Ghost photo effect

Landscapes:
Winter landscape from summer photo
Matte Painting of Building
Enhance the sky in a photograph
Add a golden glow to a forest scene
Enhance dull sunset
Adding realistic fog and mist to an image
How to add sunlight shinning through trees

Misc.:
Painting a car camouflage
Texturing Objects
Make a car look like a toy
Sepia effect tutorial

Photo retouching and effects tutorial list:

Make smooth skin on face
Professional photo retouching tutorial
Change hair color tutorial
Gothic makeover
Removing freckles
Whitening teeth
Remove wrinkles
Change eye color
Add a tattoo
Painting facial hair

Free Vectors

2008-04-08T18:43:00.000-07:00

http://www.free-vectors.com/

This is a great website! Literally hundreds of vectors listed, and all of them are free. Packed full of flowers, grids, patterns, backgrounds, abstract shapes and anything else you can think of.
Everything on this site is downloadable as .zip files. The vectors are in Adobe Illustrator .ai and .eps formats.

Landscape painting tutorials in Photoshop

2008-03-31T12:09:00.000-07:00

Landscape painting Photoshop Tutorials

Trees, forest,

http://www.rnel.net/tutorial/Photoshop/6305
http://www.sharecg.com/v/11387/tutorial/photoshop-tutorial:-painting-a-landscape
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/27609
http://joereimer.deviantart.com/art/30-Easy-Steps-74155619
http://inqy.deviantart.com/art/Twilight-Process-67214423
http://gimpdome.deviantart.com/art/Digital-Painting-WIP-65243851

Mountains, distant landscape

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/landscape/
http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Making-of-Neokathmandu/31672
http://chaosgoettin.deviantart.com/art/How-to-draw-Stones-Tutorial-64498530
http://www.celoxdesign.net/free-photoshop-tutorials/paint-a-fantasy-bridge/id/54
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/66615
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOKoSqTOUKI&feature=related
http://arctic-affinity.deviantart.com/art/Lifestream-48286916

Skies, clouds

http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Painting-a-realistic-sky-landscape/10221
http://tutorials.epilogue.net/tutorials/landscape-painting
http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Create-a-Lightning-with-PhotoShop/33076
http://photoshoptutorials.org/photoshop-tutorials/painting-a-realistic-landscape-part-1--the-sky.html
http://white-dragon-fang.deviantart.com/art/Landscape-and-Scenery-Tutorial-50051457
http://twinket.deviantart.com/art/EZ-Landscape-in-Twisted-Brush-62562291
http://www.androidblues.com/cloudtut.html
http://www.graphics.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=162&page=1

Space, planets, stars

http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/24398
http://bloknayrb.deviantart.com/art/Planet-Lighting-Tutorial-60165020
http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Fiery-Planet-or-sun/32314
http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tuts_arts/making_a_planet.html
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/24372
http://psdtuts.com/drawing/fiery-photoshop-space-explosion-tutorial/

Sea, Ocean, Water

http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Making-of-Sea-Creature/33077
http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Making-of-Winter-Blockade/31673
http://datameister.deviantart.com/art/Digital-Painting-Tutorial-27509948?q=by%3Adatameister&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps
http://nene77.deviantart.com/art/En-la-orilla-de-la-playa-62580616
http://hagge.deviantart.com/art/easy-waterdrop-tutorial-74044098

Other, Misc.

http://www.eyesontutorials.com/articles/335/1/The-basics-of-environment-sketching/Page1.html
http://www.abduzeedo.com/node/133
http://psdtuts.com/tutorials-effects/seriously-cool-photoshop-explosion-effect/
http://arctic-affinity.deviantart.com/art/Lifestream-48286916

GIMP

2008-03-29T10:36:00.000-07:00

Free open source GNU Image Manipulation Program. Not as complete as photoshop but a great tool!
Download here: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Official site here: http://www.gimp.org/

Inkscape

2008-03-28T12:02:00.000-07:00

Inkscape is a great vector tool! It has SVG support and can open adobe illustrator .ai files as well as adobe .pdf. Best of all it's free!
Download it here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D

Inkscape official website: http://inkscape.org/

Anime Photoshop Tutorials

2008-03-27T13:34:00.000-07:00

Art and Design Turotials and Resources

2008-03-27T11:28:00.000-07:00

Art and Design Tutorials and Resources!

I'll be posting useful information regarding free art programs, tutorials for traditional/digital mediums, custom brushes, textures, stock photography and more!