The aim of this article is to demonstrate the usability of the basic fonts that most people already have at their disposal. These are fonts which come with Windows pre-installed or via popular software packages. I have tried my best Read more…
I am definitely no expert in illustration or cartoon drawing but I did develop my own cartoon style for animations. Unfortunately due to my poor attention span and the nature of creating an animation, I never really created anything full Read more…
Adobe Lightroom has come a very long way in recent years. Photoshop was once the king of manipulating images but is that still the case? Hopefully, in this article, I will shed a bit of light on the process of Read more…
I decided to recreate the distressed text I did in Photoshop but using Krita. At first, I thought the text tool was a bit limited and hard to use but since getting my head around it I can see it Read more…
No matter how careful or how experienced you are every now and again a photo will come out softer than you were hoping for. Sometimes you can have the wrong focus point selected but sometimes the autofocus just screws it right Read more…
What are Filter Layers and why should I use them? Let’s say you want to turn a photograph black and white and apply some tone adjustments. You turn the photo black and white, fix the contrast and you are happy Read more…
Nothing gets me more excited than free software (I’m sad), especially when it is good. I may have access to the full Adobe Suite now thanks to my job but this wasn’t always the case. I used to crawl the internet for free Read more…
How do I begin painting in Krita? Creating a digital landscape painting might not be as difficult as you would expect. I would even say that being able to draw traditionally isn’t that important. Though it definitely helps. I personally Read more…
In this tutorial, I am going to show how you can create your own fully customisable grunge or distressed looking text in only a few minutes. This is very easy to do in Photoshop and all it takes is a layer mask Read more…
So you have never put digital ink to digital paper and you are wondering where to start. This digital painting tutorial will cover landscape painting specifically because I personally consider it less difficult than other subjects. Therefore I think it Read more…