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• Handy Techniques for Cutting Out Hair in Photoshop

  Monday, July 6th, 2009

  When trimming out images in Photoshop, human hair or animal fur always proves troublesome and can be tricky to achieve a realistic look. Here are two techniques I use on images with both plain backgrounds, and those with a varied background tones, each achieving pretty decent end results.

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• Web Site Design Tutorial

  Monday, July 6th, 2009

  So in this tutorial I will show you a little bit of how I created it using Fireworks. Of course you can do the same thing in Photoshop, the commands will change a bit but the process is practically the same.

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• 13 Useful Techniques for Enhancing Web Design Photography

  Monday, June 22nd, 2009

  Here are 13 Photoshop techniques that you should find useful for enhancing photos to be used in your web designs.

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• Super Cool Watercolor Effect in 10 steps in Photoshop

  Monday, June 22nd, 2009

  Last year I wrote a Photoshop tutorial for PSDTUTS showing how to create a very nice design using watercolor brushes.

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• Turn Any Font Into a Sketch Font

  Thursday, June 11th, 2009

  There are some popular sketchy fonts available that are great for grungy and hand-drawn designs and illustrations. My problem is, I want to be able to use this sketchy style in any font. Turn’s out, it is actually really easy to do in Illustrator. Moreover, you can create a Graphic Style and easily apply the style to other editable fonts!

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• How to Create Your Own Photoshop Brushes

  Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

  A lot of people don’t realize how easy it is to create your own photoshop brushes. If you find yourself drawing the same elements over and over you can save a lot of time by creating a brush of that particular element. A good example of this is creating grunge elements to dirty up a design.

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• 22 Extremely Well Written Icon Design Tutorials

  Monday, June 1st, 2009

  In this post there are 22 well written tutorials that will teach you techniques for designing your own icons using various tools such as Illustrator and Photoshop.

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• 45 Step-by-Step Tutorials on Web Design with Photoshop

  Thursday, May 28th, 2009

  While many web designers create mockups in Adobe Fireworks and Dreamweaver, no design program gives you quite so much control as Adobe Photoshop. The lessons collected here will show you how to create gorgeous and functional complete websites, blogs, layouts, nav menus and headers in Photoshop.

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• 30 Sets of High-Quality Adobe Illustrator Brushes

  Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

  Good Illustrator brushes are a little bit harder to find than good Photoshop brushes, but there are some quality, free sets out there. Several months ago I published a collection of 45 sets of Illustrator brushes, and today we’ll feature 30 additional sets.

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• How to Create an Abstract Vector Design in Illustrator

  Monday, May 18th, 2009

  A great looking abstract design can be created from the simplest of shapes. Let’s take a look at compiling various geometric shapes and objects to form a dynamic composition in Illustrator, then polishing it all up with some transparency effects to create a trendy vector illustration.

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• Lets Get Started : A Guide to Learning illustrator

  Saturday, May 16th, 2009

  It has been 1 1/2 year since launch of Aivault.com . During this time i wrote tutorials ranging from basics to advance , here is my compilation for easy bookmarking to these tutorials. If you are starting up with illustrator check out the tutorials in the basics and then move at your own pace to bit advanced one. And if you are confused or stuck with a specific tool let me know i will be glad to write a tutorial on request!

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