Photoshop's Pen and Shape tools are incredibly powerful tools, especially when creating complex compound paths by intersecting paths. To see how this works, let's create a gear in Photoshop...

There are lots of great background techniques around, many involving a huge number of layers and a variety of blending modes. Here’s a quick way to simulate one of those “looks”...

This series of tutorials is going to be about various simple techniques used in Skinning models, focussing on details and textures used to create metallic skins. One of the techniques is to use photo reference and overlay it over the base colour, paint in your details over that...

Part 1 - Creating texture with brush strokes Open the file in Photoshop that you have created with Wire Effect Tutorial Hold Ctrl and click on the wire layer to load ...

This tutorial explains how to create a spaceship hull using some simple techniques, basically selections and the dodge and burn tool, after the base is layed in you can spend as long as you like adding details and defining things...

In this tutorial, we will create some fur texture with spots.

This tutorial shows you how to create texture that looks like gold.

In this tutorial, we'll be creating a texture that looks like a mud wall.

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During the process of making this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the Elliptical Marquee Tool while creating a warm wood-textured background.

Pixel Background can be rather nice if you use the right colors and shapes. This tutorial will show you the technique you can apply to create nice pixel backgrounds.