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Create your own fanzine
Cut-and-paste, photocopiers, punk rock, drug culture, passion, independence and the DIY ethic; all the ingredients you need for a classic fanzine design. Go get your hands dirty.
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Distorted type effects
Organic digital effects are hugely popular at the moment, so it's a good time to dig out Illustrator's Distort tools and use them to add an unusual dimension to your work. Martin Fewell reveals how.. -
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Animate your portfolio
A Flash portfolio with image galleries and an animation sequence will show off your skills and your professionalism. -
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Improving on reality
Cover artist Benedict Campbell explains how photographic principles lend conviction to his futuristic image. -
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Watercolour effects
When you want to create a tactile and fluid effect in your digital art, your best bet is to reach for the real thing. Derek Lea gets out his watercolour paints and reveals how original old-style becomes digitally colour-perfect. -
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Set up an online PDF portfolio
If you want to get your work seen by as many people as possible, the web is the way to go. Couple that with the flexibility of the Adobe PDF format and you have a winner... -
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Add depth to charts
Infographics needn't be boring, so why not try taking them to another level by importing a mundane Illustrator chart into and making it inspiring. Mark Mayers is on hand to explain how it's done. -
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Business cards with a difference
Create a lasting impression in the minds of potential clients by handing out business cards with a difference. A-Side Studio shows you how. -
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Animate your type
and share many common features, which makes for a fluid workflow. JJ Johnstone reveals how to create an impressive title animation using the two applications side by side. -
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Create a self-promotional book
Make your own self-promotional book using and the Japanese art of bookbinding. -
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Future horizons
Photoshop is excellent at creating lovely verdant vistas, but as shows, its modelling and texture tools can also be put to use on projects that require a more constructed look, such as a futuristic sci-fi city. -
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Print perfection
In the final instalment of his three-part tutorial on creating a mini magazine for print and the web, magazine design pro Dylan Channon reveals how to avoid hitches when checking your document and sending it to print. -
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Type: all sewn up
Use to create a bespoke modular typeface and then transform it into handmade 3D letterforms... -
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Real-world effects
Peskimo reveals how to put your vector creations out into the real world, using and to combine the illustrations in your head with the realism of the world outside your front door. -
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Three-dimensional type
Create this stunning composition by adding depth to your two-dimensional typography using Cinema 4D. -
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Adding interactivity
In the second instalment of his three-part magazine creation tutorial, Dylan Channon takes the basic layout he created in part one and adds some interactive elements to bring the design to life. -
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Make the most of OpenType
What does an OpenType font have that other font formats don't? Maybe nothing or maybe everything. We explain. -
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Poetry in motion
Motion capture can generate incredibly realistic animation; but only if you have access to cleaned data. We explore the process of cleaning raw optical mocap data for yourself, using only the tools in -
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Creative cityscapes
Illustrating city scenes can be simple, but creating an idyllic place is often tricky. Ben the Illustrator, aka Ben O'Brien, uses Illustrator to create subtle effects and creative techniques that will bring a cityscape to life. -
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Design a display font
Spacing, kerning, geometrics, ink-traps, proportions, overshoot and inspiration; we explain everything that's important when you start to create your own display font... -
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Gimme some skin!
To skin a character so that its mesh deforms correctly when its skeleton moves is one of the least-documented aspects of 3D. In this beginner's guide, we set out three of the basic techniques used to do so.
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