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This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Improving The Sound Of Your Room (Premium Series)In this week’s Audio Premium content, Bobby Owsinski continues his series on improving the sound of your room. This week he covers isolation – what wor…

Have you always wanted to be an architect, but really just because you want to show people cool blueprints? Well‚ neither has Ryan, but he’ll certainly show you how to create a blueprint illustration in Adobe Illustrator. It all starts with a …

This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series App From ScratchThis tutorial is part of a three-part series explaining how to design UI elements for mobile applications in Photoshop. In this part, we will explain how to design an icon for your mobile device&#…

Learning to use light effectively is essential for all photographers, there is no substitute for understanding how light works and appreciating how to use it to your advantage within your work. For portraits, I always prefer to use natural light, even …

With the continuous growth of the Internet, online marketing has gotten bigger every year, and along with it, the advertising industry. One major factor in all this craziness is buying and selling ads.

Now, it takes time to make a successful ad. One …

In today’s Quick Tip you’ll learn how to make a “Type-On” preset using only Source Text expressions. After Effects comes with a default “Type-On” preset, but this method allows you to have a blinking cursor on screen…

I’ve always been fascinated by smoke, and have experimented a lot with it. So in this tutorial, I explain how to create realistic smoke, make it into a brush and use it for type. Let’s light up our vector cigarettes and get started smokin&…

There are a lot of games out there with jerky, unrealistic movements and that can do only one thing to your product: make it unappealing to the audience. But smooth movement is not hard to achieve – let’s get to work! Final Result Preview L…

Lets face it, software is expensive. It is also a necessity more so than a want if you are serious about making computer based music. While there are hundreds of free plug-ins available online, more often than not two problems will arise: One, most of …

Just because you didn’t get to go to that awesome photography conference doesn’t mean that you can’t learn something from the pros! Occasionally, we’ll be featuring a recommended photography lecture or interview on Phototuts+.
We all know Ansel…

As HTML games begin to gradually increase in popularity, vendors are starting to introduce some exciting new APIs to make gaming that little bit sweeter for both us developers and our end players. One of these is the GamepadAPI, which allows you to con…

In this article we will be featuring the work of Michael Oswald. Oswald is a digital artist with a unique style. His technique involves a combination of photo manipulation and digital painting techniques and the results are often stunning. Let’s …

If you just press the button and let your intelligent camera do the rest, you’re missing the funnest part of photography, and better shots, too. In five quick steps, I hope to show you how to tame your compact camera and get the most out of it!
B…

This is a quick inspirational video made by motion graphics ninjas To-Fu Design. If you’re facing designer’s block, or simply need to flush your brain, these 29 tips will remind you how to stay creative. Number 29 is very true :)

29 Way…

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Interview with Chris Kitchener, InDesign Senior Product Manager

Thoughts on CS “Next”
New releases: …

Just because you missed that awesome conference, doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! This weekend we’re sharing an interesting demo by Software developer Mike Matas at TED2011. In this talk Mike demos the first fu…

In the previous Quick Tips, we’ve looked at collision detection: essentially, detecting that two shapes have overlapped. Now, we’re ready to look at collision reaction: making something happen due to a collision. In this Quick Tip, we&#8217…

Photo News of the Week is a new feature on Phototuts+ bringing you the news from all aspects of photography. It is a great to keep up with technology, trends and leaders in the craft. And if you have news from the week to share, please drop a link in t…

Today we’re going back to basics with a simple, elegant, and professional button tutorial from Liam McCabe. Liam creates all sorts of great web elements, so he’s going to be a great guide through the process. If you’ve been looking fo…

Workshops, presentations, and conferences are excellent places to learn Photoshop. These types of events occur every day, all over the world. We understand that you can’t attend every event, everywhere. That is why each month; we display some of our …

Friday Photo Critique is our weekly community project, where we publish a photograph submitted by one of our wonderful readers, then ask you all to offer constructive feedback on the image. It’s a great way to learn more about photography, express yo…

Nancy from Mettle interviews Dan Gies. Dan is an award-winning animator, coder, illustrator, musician, and above all else, a great storyteller. He is also the author of what some have called the definitive tutorial series on character animation in Afte…

Today we’ll be learning how to create a vector light bulb icon with the free, open source vector program Inkscape. We’ll be following a Tango style of design for this project. Read on to learn more about the Tango Desktop Project and to le…

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Recording Your First Song (Basix Series)Welcome to the second part of my series covering all you need to know to start recording your first song.
Last time around, we spent some time thinking about the reasons an…

How to move an inline graphic out of the text flow.

In this tutorial I will introduce you to FZip, an AS3 Library that lets you open zip files inside your Flash projects. This can save a lot of bandwidth; in this tutorial we will load an 2.5MB zip file which contains 9.3MB worth of assets. Final Result …

In the following quick tip you will learn how to create a simple price tag icon. It’s another tutorial that focuses mainly on the Appearance panel. First, you will need some basic tools and shape building techniques to create the starting shape…

While we feature many different files from the marketplaces here on Tuts+, one of the least showcased categories is admin themes, even though there are some awesome examples. Of the 140 different admin themes available on ThemeForest, we’re going…

Last week, we talked about choosing the right camera bag for your needs. If backpacks are your bag of choice, then look no further. We’re comparing at two great backpacks that will hold up to just about anything you throw at them.
Most camera bag…

Slick designs are an important part of a successful iPad interface. In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Paul Flavius we will explain how to create a beautiful GUI for an Audio/DJ iPad application in Photoshop. This tutorial is available exclusively…

In this tutorial we will be creating a really cool title effect suitable for epic title sequences. The tutorial will explain the steps in order to create a Time Trail effect, and then disintegrate the title to transition out.

You will want to have a r…

Today we have a unique Tuts+ Premium Pack, which is created in Illustrator by Sharon Milne. It’s filled with 10 illustrated wild animals. Each is completely vector, available in AI and EPS formats. Log in or Join Now to get this exclusive downlo…

Its safe to say that most of us do not have perfect hearing. Life is full of loud noises, concerts, and sometimes just bad luck that will damage our hearing. Whether your ears were naturally born with hearing loss or you hurt them in an accident, not a…

Web typography is accessible to everyone. If you’ve ever built or designed a web page, you’ve almost definitely turned your hand to web typography of some sort. As a discipline, typography has been practiced for hundreds of years, and as a …

Germany has Leica, Zeiss, Voiglander and Rollei. Sweden has Hasselblad. Japan has Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sony and Olympus. If you’re a photographer, you know these brands. You probably own cameras and lenses made by one or more of these companies….

Answering one of the most commonly-asked questions: How to change the ruler values and have them stay changed?!

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a series of different snowflakes from letters. To achieve this effect you will use the Transform Effect on a single letter. You will easily be able to create a series of individual snowflakes, taking advan…

We have another Photo Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members today. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to make the big jump from amateur to pro. Learn more at the jump!
In this four-part series, commercial photographer Simon Plant …

Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing di…

Last weekend I downloaded Dave Gamache’s Skeleton boilerplate to have a play with; good, clean, responsive fun. When it came to the form design I was reminded of an issue which can affect inputs in flexible layouts: misbehaving widths. If you&#82…

This tutorial will walk through how I simulated a cord dragging behind a car. Through using Trapcode Particular with a wiggling emitter, we can create the illusion of a single cord moving. We’ll add shading, motion blur, and a shadow to add reali…

I would like to dedicate this tutorial to typography, which are the methods of processing printed text for better legibility and beauty. Typography is composed through the graphic design of printed text using the specifics for that languages rules. In…

Nowadays making an arpeggio is a great way to add interest to your track. There are many plugins out there which can arpeggiate your chord sequence in numerous ways. Lots of patterns and tweakable parameters are at your disposal in order to customize y…

Building real time networked games and applications can be challenging. This tutorial will show you how to connect flash clients using Cirrus, and introduce you to some vital techniques. Premium Preview Click the start button in the SWF above to create…

Each week we open our mic to readers and lurkers alike to come out of the woodwork and tell us your thoughts and opinion, your experiences and mistakes, what you love and what you hate. We want to hear from you, and here’s your chance.
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Test your knowledge of Adobe Illustrator with the Vectortuts+ Illustrator Quiz! How well do you know Adobe Illustrator? Find out at the jump!

If you enjoy this fun mini-quiz, try the Adobe Illustrator Basics Quiz. If you want to brush up on your basi…

Building a button from a bitmap can be bothersome. If you’re using the Flash IDE, you can create a mask to determine which pixels are part of the button and which aren’t, but in any other workflow, the entire rectangle containing the bitmap…

Patterns can be found in obvious and not so obvious places. Sometimes they are one consecutive and unending patterns and sometimes they are broken by another pattern. Natural and man-made patterns alike draw our eye and keep us inside a picture, explor…

From time-to-time we like to introduce you to art groups and collectives that we find online. Art groups and collectives are great ways for designers to network and improve their skills. In this article, we will take a look at some of the work produced…

In this tutorial we’ll go behind the scenes of creating one of Videohive’s top selling projects – Space Odyssey. We’ll dive into Trapcode Particular and twist its settings in order to a create visually spectacular particle effec…