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Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop Tutorials & Lessons

Computer Graphics Illustration Tutorials, Tips, & Tricks for Students

Updated: October 22, 2009

This is a free illustration tutorial site designed to provide helpful information related to computer graphics. Listed below are numerous illustration tutorials and drawing lessons for all skill levels. Additionally, there are detailed step-by-step Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop tutorials, tips and tricks for technical illustration students, professional technical illustrators and digital artists.

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Computer Graphics & Basic Drawing Tutorials

Basic Principles of Perspective Drawing

2 Point Perspective Drawing Tutorial

3 Point Perspective Drawing Tutorial

Foreshortened Perspective - Equal Divisions in Perspective

Ellipse Perspective Drawing Tutorial

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Advanced

Illustrator Tutorial - Ship Cutaway 1 - Line Art Construction of Ship

Illustrator Tutorial - Automobile Cutaway - Construction of Car Line Art

Illustration Tutorial - Drawing a Toothed Gear in Vector

Illustration Tutorial - Drawing Hex-Head Nuts & Bolts in Vector

Downloadable Vector File - Nuts, Bolts & Screws Template

Adobe Illustrator CS - Tool Tips and Tricks

Adobe Illustrator Tutorial - "Free Transform" Tool Tips

Adobe Illustrator Tutorial - "Rotate" Tool Tips

Adobe Illustrator Tutorial - "Paths and Pen" Tool Tips

Adobe Illustrator Tutorial - Controlling Line Weights & Quality

Adobe Illustrator Tutorial - Gradient Mesh, Gradients & Blends

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Basic

Creating Line Art with Photoshop Paths

Drawing with the Photoshop Pen Tool

Photoshop Paintbrush/Airbrush Brush Tool Tutorial

Basic Painting Techniques in Photoshop

Photoshop Color Management

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Advanced

Photoshop Tutorial - Cutaway "Ghosting" Technique

Photoshop Tutorial - Ghosting with Layer Masks

Photoshop Tutorial - Ship Cutaway 2 - Color Work

All Photoshop Tutorials - Basic to Advanced

Traditional Airbrush Tutorials

Airbrush Equipment Basics

Traditional Airbrush Tutorial - Basic Airbrush

Master Series - Cutaway Illustration

Masters Gallery - The Art of the Cutaway

Russell W. Porter - The "Cutaway Man"

Yoshihiro Inomoto - Airbrush Automotive Cutaways

Makoto Ouchi - Airbrush Automotive Cutaways

David Kimble - Airbrush Automotive Cutaways

Tony Matthews - Watercolor Automotive Cutaways

Master Series - Illustrator & Photoshop Masters

Yukio Miyamoto - Photo-Realism with Adobe Illustrator

David Parsons - Digital Automotive Cutaways

Master Series - CAD Illustration

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Digital Illustration - Hardware Setup & General Info

Monitor Calibration - Pre-Press Color Proofing

Wacom Pen Tablet Tutorial

Wacom Intuos3, Intuos4 & Cintiq Setup

Computer Workspace Setup and Ergonomics

Pricing Various Types of Technical Illustration

Reference Requirements for Technical Illustration

Glossary Of Technical Illustration Terms

Illustration Copyright Issues

Blogs and Image Theft - How to Stop Blogs from Stealing Your Images

Reporting Image Theft & Copyright Infringement

Filing a DMCA Complaint

Blogger.com and the Death of Content

Adobe Photoshop - Photo Retouching Tutorials

Digital Photo Retouching with Photoshop Full List

Composite Photo Illustration

Clone Stamp Tool

Adding Motion with Motion Blur Filter

Adding Motion with Radial Blur Filter

Adding Shallow Depth-of-Field

Digital Photo Color Correction

Color Balance Tool

Matching Noise with the Add Noise Filter

Correcting Lens Distortion

Burn and Dodge Tool

Using Photoshop Curves

Setting Correct White Point with Curves

Sharpening with Unsharp Mask

Digital Photo Lighting Correction

Adobe Photoshop CS3, CS4 - Tool Tips, and Tricks

Using the Photoshop Color Picker

Using the Photoshop Channels Palette

Eyedropper Tool

Photoshop CS3 & CS4 - Brushes

Photoshop CS3 & CS4 - Plug Ins

Photoshop CS3 & CS4 - Tools

Photoshop CS3 & CS4 - Resources

Bert Monroy - Realism & Photo-Realism with Photoshop

Miscellaneous Info

Technical Illustration - A Historical Perspective

Sketchpad - Early History of the Vector Drawing Program

Useful Technical Illustration Links

All Color Digital Illustration Tutorials - Basic to Advanced

All Line-Art Digital Illustrator Tutorials

Graphics Software, Hardware, Drawing Tablets & Books

Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop Software

Wacom Drawing Tablets

Apple Mac G5 Desktops, Laptops & Cinema HD Monitors

CAD Illustration & 3D Modeling Software

MIsc Graphics Software & How-To Books

Ergonomic Computer Task Seating

Adobe Photoshop CS3, CS4 Tutorials

Photoshop CS Tutorials - Photoshopsupport.com

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HOW-TO BOOKS & DVDs

CAD Illustration Books

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