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  • Mix Photo and Vector

    With Photoshop, you can use practically every tool and feature to enhance your images as long as you know how to mix and match. Danny Franzreb reveals how to successfully blend a range of techniques and materials. 

  • Age your images

    Photoshop expert and retro-kitsch enthusiast Don Sparrow reveals the tricks and special techniques he uses to digitally age his images in this step-by-step guide to giving your work that familiar styling of the forties and fifties.

  • Fairground graphics

    Part Victoriana, part folk art, fairground imagery is enjoying something of a renaissance. But how can it be recreated digitally? Sam Chivers reveals the techniques behind the style.

  • Illustrate in Flash

    It may not be your first choice of illustration program, but has some unique vector drawing tools that will change the way you work. Trevor Van Meter reveals the skills you need to use this new approach to best effect.

  • Organic imagery

    There's no easy way to create an organic, atmospheric palette in Photoshop. It takes plenty of manual work combined with a knowledge of colour and digital blending. Nigel Dennis shows you how.

  • Transparency tricks

    Derek Lea explains how to add transparency to your objects and vary their Blending Modes within Illustrator to achieve rich, multi-layered, vector-based art that surpasses simple sections of solid, flat colour.
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