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  • Rebrand your iPod

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    Rebrand your iPod

    With a few simple steps you can customise a media player with your own logo and graphics. Richard Wentk shows you how to turn your iPod into a unique promo item.
  • Virtual murals

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    Virtual murals

    Creating a piece of graffiti art can be a demanding task, especially when you're working against the clock. Justin Maller shows you how to ease the pain by planning and designing a digital mural in.
  • Defringing hair

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    Defringing hair

    Selecting fine strands of hair is one of the trickiest jobs - and it's so hard to find bald models! Here Justin Maller shows you some clever techniques for making accurate selections of complex subjects.
  • Watch the birdy

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    Watch the birdy

    Flight is an extremely complex thing to design, but you can start by thinking about how birds move and how to most effectively rig your model to approximate this kind of motion.
  • Adding interactivity

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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.

  • Tutorial

    Hands-on design

    Combining traditional media with digital techniques is a fail-safe way to add an interesting new dimension to your artwork, but you must be prepared to get your hands dirty, as Mark Mayers explains.
  • Fake global illumination

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    Fake global illumination

    Global illumination looks great, but it can push render times through the roof. Computer Arts shows you how to fake the same stylish soft lighting effects in a fraction of the time with the help of the celebrated spinning light trick.
  • Pimp your space

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    Pimp your space

    There's no doubt that a MySpace page is a pretty useful tool for designers. Why? Because in this industry networking is important. Sam Gilbey reveals a way to transform an average MySpace template into something a little slicker.
  • From sketch to screen

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    From sketch to screen

    In his first tutorial, TechVector's Reggie Gilbert shows you a quick and simple way to create a stylised spray-can illustration from a simple sketch or photograph using a range of tools in Illustrator.
  • Photoshop recycling

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    Photoshop recycling

    Sometimes you need to step away from your computer to find inspiration, which can come from places as unlikely as the ground beneath your feet, but you must be willing to get your hands dirty. Derek Lea reveals how.
  • Warp your images

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    Warp your images

    In the second part of his series, Derek Lea continues to transform a flat rendering into a textured masterpiece by incorporating two new features: Smart Objects and Warp Transformation.
  • Graffiti-style Flash

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    Graffiti-style Flash

    French graffiti artist turned graphic designer Nicolas Dhennin reveals how to create distinctive layered graffiti-style imagery using Photoshop and Flash's under-used, and much undervalued, bitmap capabilities.
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