Graphic Design Techniques & Workflow

Use these techniques to improve your graphic design workflow and be more productive. With the time you save, what creative new designs will you come up with?

All Techniques & Workflow tutorials:

  1. How to Draw a Realistic Aircraft in Photoshop

    How to Draw a Realistic Aircraft in Photoshop

    Tutorial Advanced

    Aviation art has a long and distinguished history dating back to the early days of human flight. Although it has encompassed many styles and media throughout...

  2. How to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Learn how to easily blend different photos of light effects, create realistic lens flares and use advanced color adjustments to create a stunning, surreal...

  3. How to Enhance an Illustration by Adding Shadows

    How to Enhance an Illustration by Adding Shadows

    Tutorial Intermediate

    The Pathfinder panel is one of the most versatile features of Adobe Illustrator. It comes in handy on so many occasions, and in today’s quick tip I will show...

  4. How to Create a Cigarette Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

    How to Create a Cigarette Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In the following steps you will learn how to create a detailed cigarette pattern brush and how to use it to make a neat text effect in Adobe Illustrator.

  5. Create Peonies the Quick and Easy Way in Adobe Illustrator

    Create Peonies the Quick and Easy Way in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Beginner

    If you love flowers, why not try this tutorial! Learn an easy and quick way to draw peonies, and a useful tool to create flowers and leaves.

  6. Paint Better Portraits With the Liquify Tool in Adobe Photoshop

    Paint Better Portraits With the Liquify Tool in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Beginner

    A continuation of the Digital Painting 101 series. In today's article we'll show you how to utilize the Liquify filter to improve your digital paintings....

  7. 9 Tips and Tricks to Render Anything in Vector

    9 Tips and Tricks to Render Anything in Vector

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this article, I'm going to show you some handy tips and tricks on learning to "see in vector" and to be able to render anything in vector.

  8. Quick Tip: Improve Your InDesign Workflow With Bridge & Mini Bridge

    Quick Tip: Improve Your InDesign Workflow With Bridge & Mini Bridge

    Tutorial Beginner

    Adobe Bridge is a really useful tool for ‘bridging’ the content of your computer’s folders between your Adobe design applications. You can use the programme...

  9. Quick Tip: Working With Adobe Illustrator Vectors in InDesign

    Quick Tip: Working With Adobe Illustrator Vectors in InDesign

    Tutorial Beginner

    InDesign is a fantastic layout design program, but it isn’t usually the software of choice for editing images. In this quick tip tutorial we’ll take a look...

  10. 55 Time-Saving, Productive Workflow Tips for Designers

    55 Time-Saving, Productive Workflow Tips for Designers

    Tutorial Beginner

    Want to save time on your design work? Yes! Great, then let's dig in. This article is overflowing with time-saving tips that will not only have you working...

  11. How to Create a Bouquet of Spring Flowers in Adobe Illustrator

    How to Create a Bouquet of Spring Flowers in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Beginner

    Learn how to create special brushes in Adobe Illustrator, which you will use to draw a beautiful spring bouquet!

  12. How to Create an Icon Set using Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create an Icon Set using Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this tutorial, we are going to design a set of icons. An icon set needs to have the same background and theme. For learning purposes, we are going to...