You can create a sort of live mask effect to wrap text around any graphic, object, or photo in Illustrator and it will automatically update when the text is changed, rescaled, styled, move, or more. In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial, we’ll cover the Text Wrap feature and how to split a text field into multiple...
Author: Nathaniel Dodson (Nathaniel Dodson)
Create a Neon Nightclub Music Poster in Photoshop CC
If you create graphics for print or the web, you’ll find lots of useful techniques for graphic design in this tutorial. We will cover everything from building a background and blending images together to importing artwork from Illustrator. Download the line artwork that I created in this tutorial if you want to follow along using...
Create a Unique Duotone Effect in Lightroom
This is a quick Lightroom effect that will transform any photo into a piece of pop art in no time flat. Typically something reserved for Photoshop, applying a great duotone effect is possible in Lightroom as well. We’ll use the Curves panel here and play with the color channels to create an awesome array of...
Create a Simple and Professional Slideshow in Premiere Pro
This tutorial will help you create complex slideshows with hundreds of images in no time flat in Premiere Pro! No more frustrating hours spent building long multi-image slide shows that take forever! In this Adobe Premiere tutorial, we’ll create a photo slideshow and quickly import multiple images and place transitions in less than 5 seconds...
How to Create & Retouch Facial Hair | Photoshop Tutorial
If you’re interested in adding a full-fledged beard to any person, you can use the technique in this tutorial and even download the free brush pack I created to quickly and effectively create realistic facial hair in Photoshop CC. In this Photoshop tutorial, I’ll cover cutting a beard off of one face and blending it into...
How to Use Recolor Artwork in Adobe Illustrator
In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial, I will walk you through and around the Recolor Artwork feature set and how I use it to adjust and change the colors of multiple pieces of complex artwork in Illustrator. We’ll talk about applying brand new colors, changing the way the color is displayed, desaturation all the color, and...
How to Create a Color Splash Text Effect | Photoshop Tutorial
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’ll use Select and Mask to make a perfect cut to get splashing milk from its photo to our text and then transform that milk splash to blend and flow around a letter and then colorize the milk splash and complete the color splash effect using a couple text and...
The Best Neon Text Effect | Photoshop Tutorial
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, I will show you how I create a fully customizable neon text effect that will change when you decide you want to change the text itself. Create amazing glows by combining gradients and strokes, change the atmosphere with Color Balance, using Satin effect to create the actual neon inside the...
3D Shadows to Add Depth to Text Effect | Photoshop Tutorial
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we will create a small piece of text and use the Pen Tool to create exact selections and create small custom shadows to transform our gradient text into a 3D ribbon that wraps in and over itself. It’s a cool effect that you’ve just got to see and try for...
Watercolor Painted Text Effect | Photoshop Tutorial
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’ll start by choosing a free brush pack from Brusheezy and working with a custom color palette from coolors.co to paint with a masked layer to create a perfect watercolor text effect. Check out the tutorial and leave a little like on the video if you enjoy it! Download Font,...
How to Create Metrics Line Graph Analytics Vector Artwork in Illustrator
You’re going to love using the Curvature Tool and the Blend Tool to create these beautiful line graphs! In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial, we’ll build a simple colorful analytics dashboard style line graph with a blended gradient that fades in and out based upon the curve in the line chart. We’ll use the Grid tool,...
10 Photoshop Actions to Speed Up Retouching & Photo Editing
Check out the 10 Photoshop Actions that I love the most when I’m retouching images in Photoshop! In this Photoshop tutorial, I go through ten Photoshop Actions that I built that I love using while retouching images. Make sure you download the action pack right away! We’ll cover Frequency Separation, Hair Retouching, Eye Retouching, Skin...