Photoshop Tutorials

Warping text in Adobe Illustrator can be useful for logo design or other illustrations. In this Illustrator tutorial, I show how to warp text and basic shapes.

Here’s how to create some surreal text in Adobe Illustrator, using the pucker and bloat tools after outlining the text.

I explain how to outline and twirl text in Adobe Illustrator, a technique helpful when creating design for web or print or logo design.

This short video tutorial shows how to create text made up of photos by using layer clipping masks in Adobe Photoshop.

Learn how to create these web banner ads (note: second one resized to fit in blog column, and these are not real ads of course):

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This is a short Adobe Illustrator tutorial that introduces shape modes in the pathfinder palette to create new shapes.

This is a short Adobe Illustrator tutorial on how to have text flow on a path, whether it’s on a path drawn with the pen tool or a shape such as a circle.

by Chad Neuman

Here is how to use layer clipping masks with photos and text in Adobe Photoshop for unique looks for brochures, web sites, and posters. Read the rest of this entry »

by Chad Neuman

The Pathfinder palette is a useful to when using Adobe Illustrator. Here’s a tutorial on creating text and gradient clouds using this palette. Read the rest of this entry »

by Chad Neuman

Combining two photos to create a new look is a fun way to learn various techniques. We’ll learn how to use the Circular Marquee tool from the center, adjusting the opacity of a layer, creating a path from a selection and adding text along it in the process. Let’s get started.

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