This is in response to CorelDraw’s ‘great designs shared’  campaign.

This campaign encourages CorelDraw users to share and tag their works such as flyers, signs, billboards, embroideries or graphics designs, on Flickr or Facebook that will fuel the inspiration of other CorelDraw users.

For more information about CorelDraw’s ‘great designs shared’  campaign, you can visit this link.

Useful  CorelDraw Tips and Tricks series:

1- How to quickly mirror an object? -> Hold down Ctrl and drag a selection handle to the opposite side of the object.

2- How to select a hidden object difficult to select? -> Press Tab  until a selection box appears around the object…
3- What is the fastest way to select all objects in your work space? -> Just double click the Pick tool!

Tips and Tricks source: CorelDRAW team.

With Photoshop, amazing photo manipulation is possible. Hence, there is no doubt that photo manipulation is very useful and requires a lot of imagination, creativity, precision, and skill.

Photo manipulation is one of the best ways for you to begin using Photoshop, as it exposes you to a wide variety of techniques.

In this post I’ll feature 12 useful tutorials for creating your own photo manipulation. The tutorials shown here will help you gain knowledge/techniques in creating interesting artworks in Photoshop.

1. The Art of Photo Manipulation. Techniques and Examples

2. Color Correcting Photographs Using the Curves Adjustment

3. Photo Effects: Apply a Color Effect to a Photo

4. Create Rockstar Poster in Photoshop

5. Create Blood and Milk Typography Poster in Photoshop

6.  Creating a sexy mechanical pinup in Photoshop

7. Playing with Displace Filter in Photoshop in Photoshop

8. Create a Falling Fantasy Photomanipulation using Painting Techniques

9.  Photo Effects: Create a Lamb’s Coat in Photoshop

10.  Retouching a Studio Portrait

11.  Making a Color Wizard in Photoshop

12. Create a Comic Art Style Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

By default, CorelDraw’s Powerclip is auto-center. This means that when you powerclip an object , it will automatically shift to the center of the main object (container). This setting requires you to manually shift the position of the power clipped object (content) to the desired location by editing the content of the power clip.

To avoid this (and so save time), we have to change the default setting that controls the powerclip.

Go to Tools>Options (above image), a pop up will appear locate the Workspace> Edit tab and click over it and on the right side of it you will find “auto center new PowerClip contents” marked check (image below). Uncheck it, click OK and it’s done.

Useful  CorelDraw Tips and Tricks:

a) SELECTING HIDDEN OBJECTS BEHIND ANOTHER OBJECTS
You can select an object that is hidden behind other objects so that you can edit it. To select a hidden object:
1. Using the Pick tool, select the topmost object behind which the object you want to edit is hidden
2. Press ALT, and click the topmost object again to select the object directly behind it
3. Repeat Step 2 until you have selected the object you want to edit. Watch the Status Bar to see when your object is selected.

b) CREATING A SCRAP FILE OF FREQUENTLY USED OBJECTS
To quickly save a small portion of a file, to be used in another document, drag the item to the Windows desktop. This will create a “scrap”. It can then be dragged into another document. This is a quick way to save an entire page from a multi page document. CorelDRAW uses automatic naming so you can drag other files to the same Windows location (i.e. Desktop) without copying over other files.

c) CREATING A QUICK DUPLICATE
Say you have an image selected and want to create a duplicate of it. Simply hit the (+) Plus key on your numeric Key Pad and a duplicate image will be placed directly on top of the original image

Tips and Tricks source: http://www.engraversnetwork.com

I have compiled 12 useful  Adobe Illustrator tutorials that can be a great source of inspiration when you are  trying to design a  project or just want to enhance your skills in `vector art.`

Okay, let`s try them one by one.

1. Create retro graphics in Illustrator

2. Create Grainy Textures in Illustrator

3.T ips for Working with the Gradient Mesh Tool In Illustrator

4. Simple organic shapes the Illustrator way

5. Creating a crazy cool logo in Illustrator

6. Create Fun, Eye-catching Text with Adobe Illustrator

7. Illustrate Image Into Vector

8. How to Create an Abstract Vector Design in Illustrator

9. Create cool infographics in Illustrator

10. Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Clean Website Layout

11.Create an Adorable Puppy with Negative Space and the Paintbrush Tool

12. Create a Print Ready Business Card Design in Illustrator

That’s all. Did you enjoy those tutorials?

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this is an unfinished work. adding mesh is going on

... comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work--Rita Mae Brown

Vector artwork

Old photograph always gives us that sense of history and all the great memories that come along with it.

With the use of photoshop we can experiment on adding some filters, make the right adjustments and end up with an interesting final output.

This tutorial from aceinfowayindia.com will teach you to create a vintage photo effect in Photoshop.

original photo

final output

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I usually imported the sketch into coreldraw (or adobe illustrator as requested by some clients) and created the artwork on top of it.

Here’s how i manually trace the sketch to create a vector illustration.

sketch (thanks to daniel)

tracing using pen or bezier tool

My final output

Once the artwork was done, it is now ready for exporting (in JPG) so that I can open it in Photoshop for additional color tweaks and textures.

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Corel Draw sample artwork 1

Corel Draw sample artwork 2

I hope you like it.