MightyDeals Giveaway for Access All Areas Members

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This week MightyDeals have arranged a great offer for Access All Areas members. They are giving away any of their current deals to 5 lucky winners! Fancy some new vector resources, a premium font to add to your collection, or maybe a book to learn something new? Log in and add your comment to be in with a chance of winning.

How To Create a Vibrant Abstract Shards Poster Design

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Follow this step by step Illustrator and Photoshop tutorial to create a cool poster design of vibrant shard graphics. We’ll create the array of shapes with Illustrator’s vector tools before finishing off the poster with some subtle textures in Photoshop.

Art & Design Inspiration Fix for January 20th 2012

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The Art & Design Inspiration fix pulls together a collection of my favourite graphical images that I’ve come across over the past week to give you a fix of creative inspiration. This week we have designs from Stewart Scott-Curran, Justin Kamerer, Chris Honeywell, Ben Thomas and Tom Whalen.

20 Tutorials for Learning Digital Painting Techniques

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I’ve always loved browsing the insanely detailed and realistic artwork created by digitally painting in Photoshop, so this year I’m planning on setting aside some time to learn the basics myself. I’ve read through numerous online tutorials and have hand picked the best to share with you today. All the tutorials showcased in this post describe the step by step process and offer useful tips to help you get started with the art of digital painting.

4Templates.com Credits Giveaway for Members

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This week Access All Areas members have the chance of winning $50 worth of credits to spend on website templates and themes from 4Templates.com. Choose from hundreds of beautiful designs, each built with standards compliant code and supplied with the PSD source file.

Super Easy Pewter Style Metal Text Effect in Photoshop

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Follow this step by step tutorial to create a realistic pewter style metal text effect in Photoshop. The best part is it’s really easy! Just a couple of Photoshop layer styles is all it takes to create the basic effect, with a subtle tweak or two to perfect the lighting to maximise the realism.