Despite opposition, company abandons pay-once, use-forever Creative Suite

The Creative Cloud desktops apps Adobe announced at Adobe MAX back in May are now here. With the company halting the development of its Creative Suite applications, the subscription-based Creative Cloud desktop apps will now be the only way for people to access the...

Six of the seven titles are cross-platform games

This week’s Humble Bundle features games that are compatible with Android, Windows, Linux, and OSX. If you're unfamiliar with Humble Bundles, they essentially ask you what you'd like to pay for the package. Games included in the Humble Bundle this week are Aquaria, Fractal, Organ Trail: Director’s Cut...

Hey everyone! Today we will be creating a nice Japanese style cherry blossom scene in Adobe Illustrator using the Blob brush, Eraser and the Ellipse tool. So let’s get started!

Final Image

Below you can see the final image for this project.

Project Details

Program Adobe Illustrator CS4 +
Difficulty Beginners / Intermediate
Topics Covered Blob...

AMD is intent on recapturing the enterprise market.

Roadmaps have a way of leaking onto the web, so rather than fight the inevitable, AMD this week decided to publicly disclose its server strategy and related processor roadmap as it attempts to gain back market share in enterprise and data center server markets. The chip designer also disclosed...

EVGA goes for the gold.

Could you take full advantage of a 1,300 watt power supply (PSU)? Talk about making others totally envious! Assuming you need a herculean PSU, EVGA aims to deliver with its new Supernova 1300 G2, a monster unit that's 80 Plus Gold certified to deliver up to 90 efficiency under "typical loads" and backed by a generous 10...

Decline In game sales just par for course.

Another month is in the books, and yet again, NPD Group noted a drop in overall game sales compared to the same period a year ago. No minor decline, total game related sales dropped 25 percent to $386.3 million from May of last year when hardwre, software, and accessories totaled $517 million,...

Faster and more widely available.

Acer clearly got the memo indicating that the best way to sell a Chromebook is to undercut the competition with the lowest price, and then hammer out a deal with Walmart to carry the cloud-based laptop. Enter Acer's C710-2856, the latest version of the company's C7 Chromebook line that's available at 2,800 Walmart...

Walmart, Staples and many other retailers jump on the Chromebook bandwagon

In a major shot in the arm for Google’s cloud OS ambitions, Walmart and Staples have agreed to carry laptops running Chrome OS. What’s more, they aren’t the only ones, as several other retailers around the U.S. and 10 other countries where Chromebooks are already ava...

Eyes are essential elements to portraits. To most of you, drawing a realistic eye takes long time to do. Therefore, it is good to refer more tutorials to see how different designers work on the eye drawing.

E3 booth babes, booth tours, and more!

We had the chance to check out E3 2013 in Los Angeles, California last week. As expected, the gaming/tech event was a big one with Microsoft and Sony showing off their new Xbox One and PS4 consoles. But it wasn't all about the next-generation consoles. PC vendors such as Nvidia, AMD, Alienware, and Razer were...

We saw this coming.

Earlier this month we said that China was poised to sit atop the supercomputing summit with its Tianhe-2, a system built by the Chinese National University of Defense Technology (NUDT). Armed with over 3 million physical processing cores and 1 petabyte of memory, there was no way this thing wouldn't shoot right to the top,...

Things that make you go hmmm.

Microsoft made a splash at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) last week by showing off a number of fantastic looking games for its upcoming Xbox One console. It was hard not to get excited by some of the titles, including Dead Rising 3 and Forza Motorsport 5, but as it turns out, the game demos we saw might have...

Water effect is widely applied to human or any other creature in movies as water is a good stuff to turn your object to be outstanding. If you want to apply water effect to your own picture, you can use the same idea to do so.

In this tutorial, it will show you how to combine Photoshop with Filter Forge to create a great style text effect. It will show you how to create basic shapes in Photoshop and show you how to convert them to 3D, and finally how to add the final touches using Filter Forge and a few of Photoshop’s basic features.

This tutorial is different from other tutorials which will present you how to developing some artworks based on composition and value concepts. It will illustrate some examples and provide how details how it helps you to work out artworks.

Learn how to create a mossy jungle scene with fairies flying around. This tutorial will show you how to creatively create your own jungle background, manipulate a stone building into a tower, and add doors to create a miniature village for fairies.

There are no standard way for drawing eyes. Different designers can have different ways to work on their design. Here will give you some hints for drawing an eye in a quick way.

In this tutorial it will create a realistic water reflection effect. You should be able to replicate this effect on other pictures using the techniques presented here. The detailed explanations at each step should make it easy for beginners to catch on.

You may have already read lots of painting tutorials about human hair. However, human beard is seldomly written into tutorials. This tutorial will share with you some concerns of drawing beard for your reference.

This tutorial will show you how to create some letters, convert them to shapes, exclude them from rounded rectangles, then apply a simple layer style to create lovely vintage looking tiles. Then, a nice action will be applied to enhance the coloring of the final result.

This tutorial will show you a really cool anti-smoking concept design in Photoshop using only a few stock photo and some creative outside-the-box thinking. It will go through some interesting techniques you will definitely find useful, as well as some composition ideas.

Lots of people would like to use Photoshop to carry out their painting works using Photoshop brushes. After painting, the designer can also apply different great effects to increase quality of the artwork.