Design & Illustration Tutorials

Take your graphic design and illustration skills to a new level! You can find thousands of free tutorials on every design topic under the sun, from making Photoshop actions to designing a classy corporate brochure in InDesign or completing your own vector illustration.

We’ve got tutorials on all the major design software, so you can brush up your skills on the full Adobe suite or get up to speed with other options like Affinity Designer or Procreate. Or you can learn how to make beautiful text effects, choose the right fonts, design eye-catching magazines, and much more.

All Design & Illustration tutorials:

  1. 100+ best Photoshop text effect tutorials

    100+ best Photoshop text effect tutorials

    Tutorial Beginner

    Love text effects and text design? Dive into this massive list of 100 awesome Photoshop text effect tutorials from Envato Tuts+ to inspire your next project!

  2. 35+ awesome stream overlays using an OBS stream overlay maker

    35+ awesome stream overlays using an OBS stream overlay maker

    Tutorial Beginner

    Spice up your online channel with these awesome OBS Studio overlays. Watch our tutorial video and learn how to customize them for your next stream.

  3. The basic elements of design

    The basic elements of design

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this article, we'll explain what the elements of design are, and we'll talk about why these basic design elements, also called design principles, are so...

  4. How to scale down shapes in Affinity Designer

    How to scale down shapes in Affinity Designer

    Tutorial Beginner

    We'll wrap up our Affinity Designer tutorial for beginners by adding the final details to our design and learning how to scale down shapes.

  5. All about the Jurassic Park logo: Its history and how to recreate it

    All about the Jurassic Park logo: Its history and how to recreate it

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Find out all the fascinating things about the logos, movies and this successful franchise and also learn how to draw the Jurassic Park logo by following this...

  6. How to create a Wicked movie inspired logo

    How to create a Wicked movie inspired logo

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Do you love the Wicked movie poster? Let's get inspired by it and create your own version of the Wicked logo from scratch.

  7. Why we see ghost images: After-images and successive contrast

    Why we see ghost images: After-images and successive contrast

    Tutorial Beginner

    Have you ever wondered why you sometimes see "ghost images" after staring at a bright color or pattern? This article delves into the fascinating phenomenon...

  8. How to edit Lottie animations for free in your browser, After Effects not required

    How to edit Lottie animations for free in your browser, After Effects not required

    Tutorial Beginner

    Customise animations quickly and easily with the free browser-based Lottie Editor, for use across websites, apps and more; in this tutorial you'll learn how.

  9. Tips to master advanced compositing techniques

    Tips to master advanced compositing techniques

    Tutorial Beginner

    Interested in compositing in Photoshop? This Photoshop compositing course will help you advance your skills and create stunning images.

  10. Advanced color theory: Why the color wheel is wrong

    Advanced color theory: Why the color wheel is wrong

    Tutorial Beginner

    If you're basing your color harmonies on the red, yellow, blue color wheel and find yourself endlessly tweaking colors to get the result you want, check out...

  11. How to add finishing touches to a photo manipulation

    How to add finishing touches to a photo manipulation

    Tutorial Beginner

    Want to know how to create a consistent look in the finishing stages of a project? It's simpler than you think.

  12. How to design an anti-design poster

    How to design an anti-design poster

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this tutorial, you'll learn to create an anti-design poster that explores the style that ignores conventional graphic design rules. The result is a...