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Add overlays and textures to your designs and create greater visual interest. Learn to apply unique effects to your work, from vintage overlays to grunge textures.
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  1. Illustrator in 60 Seconds: Create Textures Using the Grain Effect

    Illustrator in 60 Seconds: Create Textures Using the Grain Effect

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Textures are one of those graphic elements that can take your design to the next level. Even though there are tons of packs out there, I strongly believe...

  2. How to Create a Realistic Lace Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create a Realistic Lace Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Create a lace brush, modify its settings, and use it to create some lace text. Then style the text, and apply a couple of filters to create a nice...

  3. How to Create a Coffee-Stained Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create a Coffee-Stained Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Beginner

    A quick way of creating a stain text effect, using some textures, brushes, and layer styles

  4. How to Create a Realistic Creased Text Effect Using the Displace Filter

    How to Create a Realistic Creased Text Effect Using the Displace Filter

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Use the Displace filter to apply text to a dynamic surface correctly, and make it conform to that surface to get a more realistic result.

  5. How to Create a Watercolor Texture in Adobe Illustrator

    How to Create a Watercolor Texture in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Get on trend with watercolor textures in Adobe Illustrator! In this tutorial, we'll create our very own watercolor textures with a simple watercolor set,...

  6. How to Create a Mystique-Inspired Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create a Mystique-Inspired Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Create a text effect inspired by the unique and bold coloring and texturing of X-Men's fictional character Mystique.

  7. Colossus: How to Turn Skin to Metal in Adobe Photoshop

    Colossus: How to Turn Skin to Metal in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    In honor of our X-Men week, learn how to simulate the big man's mutant power and turn skin to metal so you can transform an image into the X-Man Colossus!

  8. How to Create a Grass-Covered Spring Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create a Grass-Covered Spring Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Create a spring-inspired text effect, using some textures, brushes, layer styles, and filters.

  9. How to Age a Photo in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Age a Photo in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Beginner

    How to use custom textures and some Photoshop filters to simulate the aging effects of time on a film photograph.

  10. How to Create a Shiny 3D Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create a Shiny 3D Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Play around with the material textures and settings, as well as the lighting, to create a shiny wrapped text effect.

  11. How to Create Textures Using Dynamic Brushes in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create Textures Using Dynamic Brushes in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Beginner

    High-quality textures are an integral part of creating digital artwork with depth, realism and visual interest. In this short video from my recent course on...

  12. How to Create a Realistic Autumn Leaves Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create a Realistic Autumn Leaves Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Use a couple of leaf images, textures, adjustment layers, and a lighting effect to create a bright autumn leaves text effect.

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