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Create a stylish textured vector landscape with this Vectuts+ tutorial. Again, I don’t recommend any tutorials to my readers that I have not completed myself. In this tutorial you will learn to use compound shapes, the pencil tool, image embedding and masks. I hope you like the tutorial. Enjoy! Share your artwork once you have [...]

Italian illustrator and designer Andrea Austoni (Cute Little Factory) has done it again. This simple, clean and direct tutorial will show you how to create a great illustrated space rocket in about an hour. See my completed rendition and visit his tutorial after the jump. I have worked with Andrea to design a set of [...]

This is another great tutorial from vectortuts+. Learn to create this beer label with your own custom image, colors and text. This tutorial teaches you how to use opacity masks and the warp and blend tools. If you have created one of these yourself please post a link to it in the comments section. Beer [...]

This simply grunge type tutorial show you how I made my “ALDB” icon posted on this blog. This tutorial uses both Adobe Illustrator (for 3D rendering) and Adobe Photoshop (layering effects and adding grunge) so if you dont own both of these programs then skip this tut. [denisdesigns via texturelovers]

The best way to learn design is to practice with tutorials. This grass typography tutorial is a great way to start, probably not ideal if you are just opening up Photoshop for the first time but if you have good knowledge of layers, paths pallet and the pen tool you should be good to go. [...]