Welcome to Tutorial9′s first Tutorial Roundup! We’ve put together a list of our favorite tutorials, and most inspiring links from all over the web for the month of April. We’re not the only place to find great tutorials ya know!
Our Tutorial Picks
Each month, we try to pick tutorials that are outstanding in quality and usefulness. We tend to pick tutorials that encompass design, although we let a few others slip in if they are really great!
How To Blog Design Style Guide
This article does a really nice job of showcasing brilliant blog designs and then focusing on what makes those designs good. If you’re a visual learner like I am, you’ll probably pick up a few things from this guide.
Create Cool Neon Effects Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial will teach you a technique that can instill your designs with energy, movement, and an effect that seems directly from some incredible sci-fi movie. Definitely worth reading for aspiring digital artists!
Creating Artistic Trees in Illustrator
Learn how to take a personal photograph of a tree, and then create an entirely original masterpiece in Illustrator with it. Along the way, you’ll learn quite a bit about Adobe Illustrator, including the freehand drawing tool, shape tools, and about the layers palette.
Easy Ways to Go Green with your Computer
Lifehacker presents several easy ways you can help the environment by fine-tuning your computer. As an added bonus, these tips can also help you save some green of your own by cutting costs!
Creating a Stylish Rainbow Wallpaper in Photoshop
This photoshop tutorial guides you through the process of creating a colorful rainbow wallpaper with stylish clouds and other elements. Created by one of my personal favorite wallpaper designers, Vlad from Vladstudio.com.
Inspirational Picks
Being a designer can be tough. Half of the battle when creating something is simply finding a good source of inspiration. These links are intended to help get yourself motivated, and get the creative process rolling!
Awesome Light Graffiti Photographs
Camera + Long Exposure + Some Lights = Awesome Light Graffiti Photos! At least when you have some creative minds working together. This has really become a popular style in photography artwork recently, and rightfully so I’d say.
ABC3D Video
It’s not often you run into this sort of genius. This video shows the contents of what might be the greatest pop-up book ever created. You can preorder it on Amazon for a mere $13.57!
Helvetica Neue Descending a t-shirt
Do you love font so much that you’d wear it? That’s sort of the idea behind this t-shirt design featuring descending weights of the Helvetica Font Type. For the Typographic artist, this shirt rocks.
Typographic Documentary – Firefly Press
This is a really beautiful documentary about a Letter Press in Somerville MA (USA). It’s certainly a dying art, and this video does a great job capturing the importance and quality of a physical letter press.
Guilherme Marconi – My Schizophrenic Brain
My Schizophrenic Brain is the newest project of Guilherme Marconi, an incredibly talented brazillian illustrator. His use of colors, shapes, and repetition really bring his artwork to life in an extraordinary way.
About the Author
David Leggett is the founder of Tutorial9, one of the largest resources for creatives online. He works with the design community to make available the best free tutorials and resources around town.
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7 Comments Leave a Comment
Great recommendations David. I especially like the ‘How To Blog Design Style Guide’.
Looking forward to May 1st.
Great list of links! Those pictures of the light graffiti are so cool. You should write more about making that effect or something
Glad you liked the links James and Marcus. We might have to do a photography tutorial for that effect sometime… or some type of Photoshop imitation of it.
I’ll talk with Fredrik about it sometime (our residential Photography Expert).
great tutorial . Thanks
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great tutorial . Thanks517
great tutorial . Thanks524