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Combining the power of some of Photoshop’s most basic tools can yield awesome results.  The power of the pen tool, when mastered, can allow a designer to create nearly anything in their creative vision.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to combine the power of the pen tool with some patterns and shapes to create an awesome illustration.   Designer Bram Vanhaeren will walk you through his technique for working at print quality, using various compositional techniques to achieve a creative result.  You’ll also learn some great tips for workflow, along with learning a variety of skills that you can apply in your own design works.

Hopefully you enjoy the tutorial, let us know in the comments if you have any questions, suggestions or just to say hi.

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The ability for a designer to be multidisciplinary is one of the most important abilities that a designer can develop as a part of his or her skill repertoire.  Whether it’s today, or a few months down the road, most designers will encounter a situation where they must be able to work with 3D, vector graphics and raster graphics seamlessly, in order to achieve a desired result.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn an essential workflow for dealing with multiple styles of graphics, and you’ll also learn how to combine them to create a visually polished and dynamic composition.  Using custom shapes, brushes, stock images and Photoshop tools, this tutorial will supercharge your skill set.

Let us know what you think in the comments, feel free to link to your results, or if there’s a tutorial you’d like to see, let us know!

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Utilizing blending modes in Adobe Photoshop is one of the essential skills for any designer.  They not only allow manipulation and blending of images, they also can lead to spectacular visual effects in a design.  In this tutorial, Pawel Kiec will take you though the steps of extracting an image, creating a background, and then making an electrifying glowing guitar that resembles pure neon light.

You’ll learn how to manipulate blending modes to achieve color and light, and you’ll also learn how to extract images with the pen tool, and even create flowing lines in Illustrator to compliment the Photoshop work.

This tutorial is for intermediate and beginner Photoshop users.  After the two larger and expansive tutorials, this one is shorter and will allow you to create a brilliant result in a shorter timeframe, and you’ll still learn valuable skills.

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