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Filling Shortcuts
You can fill the contents of a selection or a layer in Photoshop using the Fill option within the Edit menu, but there is a quicker way. By holding down the Alt (PC)/Option (Mac) key and pressing the Delete key you can fill the selection area or layer with the current foreground colour. Holding down the Control (PC)/Command (Mac) key and pressing Delete will fill the selection area or layer with the current background layer. You can invert the foreground and background colours by pressing the X key.

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Balance 3D with mixed media
Melt 3D elements with organic shapes in Photoshop for illustrations that leap off the page, writes Xavier Bourdil

Create a stop-motion animation
The Bent Image Lab team demonstrate how to transform your pencil sketches into a finished paper cutout animation

Create light effects with texture
Add colourful, personal flare to your work by incorporating doodles and textures, writes Craig Shields

Be clear through abstraction
Gordon Reid shows how embarking on an abstract design doesn’t mean you have to leave clear communication at the door

Master the art of letterpress
From initial sketches to platemaking: illustrator, designer and printmaker David Huyck walks you through how to create a letterpress print

Explosive motion graphics: Part one
Have a blast creating an animated graphic sequence in Cinema 4D and After Effects. In the first of two tutorials, Alex Donne Johnson explains how

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Paper chase
Designers have always used paper, but now the medium really is becoming the message as the humble sheet takes centre stage. Dom Hall meets the illustrators at the cutting edge

The new wave of animation
New styles and creative innovation are always in demand in the field of animation. Garrick Webster looks at how designers and illustrators are shaking up the motion design world

Mario Hugo
“I’m not terribly interested in the idea of style. What I’d like to have is some kind of tonality.” Design’s young star, Mario Hugo, talks to Garrick Webster about the new design counter culture and the beauty of tactile things

Profile: PetPunk
The Lithuanian capital is in the middle of a cultural resurgence. Charlotte West talks to Vilnius-based illustration and motion graphics studio PetPunk about bringing its Soviet past together with its European future

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