The PixelSquid plugin for Photoshop is an exciting new technology that provides the benefits of 3D elements without having to understand a 3D program or the...
What do photography and graphic design have in common? Quite a bit, actually! They are both visual artistic media. If you are a photographer and you’ve never...
Filter Forge 5 is one of the most impressive plugins for Photoshop to come out in years. Its ability to create realistic custom-made textures is virtually...
Cinemagraphs are a fascinating blend between still photos and video. Normally these pieces are created by isolating a small portion of movement from a video...
In this Coffee Break Course, Envato Tuts+ Instructor Kirk Nelson will help you tackle the fundamentals of using the Pen Tool and Paths in Adobe Photoshop in...
Have you ever had an idea for photo illustration, but didn't know where to start? The most successful photo illustration projects use custom photography....
Blending modes in Photoshop are a “workhorse” feature. They perform a lot of heavy lifting and make many of the other features a lot easier, with very little...
Curves are one of the best utilities in Photoshop for making lighting adjustments to an image. This feature may seem complex at first, but once you...
As designers, we often need to store or share our design assets, whether it's with clients or our colleagues. Of course we can use file-sharing services such...
Any artist will tell you that the use of color is a major component of the design process, regardless of the medium. Digital art and photography are no...
If you have used Photoshop for any extensive creative projects, you know that there are certain steps that you tend to do over and over again. This can be a...
To expand your mastery of the vast array of features in Adobe Photoshop, this course delves into what Photoshop can and can’t do with video editing. While...
High-quality textures are an integral part of creating digital artwork with depth, realism and visual interest. One of the best ways of adding believable...
One of the most difficult tasks in any photo manipulation project is getting the lighting and shadows to agree. This can be particularly difficult if you are...
Hey Graphics Artists! Are you looking to take your Adobe Photoshop skills up a notch? Do you struggle with translating your vision to the digital canvas?...
In this short course we will analyze how light and shadow work in the real physical world. Then we’ll look at how we can take those concepts and use them in...
The concept of editing selected pixels is considered a core capability of Adobe Photoshop. It’s found in almost every workflow for almost any kind of...
Have you ever seen an amazing effect in a piece of digital art and wondered how they did it? Maybe it was a figure in a column of smoke or a flaming ball of...
Text effects are a very popular and exciting sub-genre of digital art. Creating text effects is a great way to learn new skills, and apply them in creative...
One of the most valuable pieces of equipment for digital drawing is the pressure-sensitive graphics tablet. The leading manufacturer of these tablets is...
This course helps students to learn, practice, and apply the lessons of setting scenes in perspective using Adobe Photoshop. We will go over three different...
This course aims to fit directly between the concepts of pure digital painting and photo filtering. Photo painting is the term that best describes the...
This course explores the Transformation, Warp, and Liquify tools within Adobe Photoshop. You’ll learn about the features at a beginner level, then work...
Welcome to Drawing Fantasy Creatures Digitally. This course will teach you how to draw creatures that do not exist in reality. The element of fantasy...
This course will teach you how to create illustrations for children, with three hands-on projects in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. You’ll learn...
One of the features of Adobe Photoshop we often overlook is the 3D feature. Photoshop lets you position and animate 3D models, edit textures and lighting,...
This course blends traditional drawing techniques with modern digital tools to teach you how to draw a range of animals in different illustrative styles....
In this course Kirk Nelson will take you through the process of designing event flyers, from top to bottom. You'll learn how to incorporate graphic design,...
The human form is one of the hardest things to master when it comes to comic book art, yet one of the most rewarding.
In this course you'll learn how to...
Kirk Nelson is back with another course on advanced photo-manipulation techniques. This time he'll take you on a creative journey through the world of...
Photo-manipulation using Photoshop is so much fun and rewarding, if done right. Instructor Kirk Nelson is back to take you on another creative journey to...
You can turn a photo into anything, but to make it look accurate and real, that takes some skill. Well that, and the right teacher to walk you through the...
Figure drawing takes skill and technique, but once you’ve gotten the basics down, where do you go from there? Right here, where Kirk Nelson will show you...
If you have a stack of older photos that you want to digitize and restore, you’ll need a certain skill set to do it correctly. With Photo Restoration 101,...
Whether you’re an artist or not, drawing the human body is a complex and difficult task. Drawing it digitally is a whole other ballgame! This course will...
Whether you’re drawing a comic book for one of the big two or just want to create something magical for your living room, drawing digital portraits is a...
Talented digital painter and designer Kirk Nelson is here to help you learn the fundamentals of drawing on a digital canvas. This course walks you through...