best graphic design video tutorials

Do you ever wonder how designers get their work to look so professional? It's all about the details!

These 30 graphic design tutorials have been specifically selected to help you think about how you're designing down to the smallest decisions, as well as to build your technical skills. And they're geared to all levels — beginner, intermediate and advanced.

The fundamentals of shape design in Adobe Illustrator

Programs: Illustrator
Level: Beginner
Skills: Effects, grouping, objects, paths, tools

Creating a 3D logo or icon with Illustrator

Programs: Illustrator
Level: Beginner
Skills: Tools

Create sketchy-style vectors

Programs: Illustrator
Level: Intermediate
Skills: Brushes, objects, tools, workflow

How to create a cubist style logo design in illustrator

Programs: Illustrator
Level: Beginner
Skills: Gradient, paths, sketching, tools, typography, workflow

How to: Make the Viget Inspire Background

Programs: Photoshop
Level: Beginner
Skills: Color, layers, textures

How to create a sleek grid based website design

Programs: Photoshop
Level: Intermediate
Skills: Color, grids, wireframing, typefaces

Learn to create a clean style portfolio layout

Programs: Photoshop
Level: Intermediate
Skills: Gradients, layers, opacity, styles, tools, typography

Clean mobile login screen tutorial

Programs: Photoshop
Level: Beginner
Skills: Patterns, tools, typography, styles

Design an appealing pricing table in Photoshop

Programs: Photoshop
Level: Intermediate
Skills: Blending, color, filters, styles, texture, typography

How to design a chatroom iPhone UI

Programs: Photoshop
Level: Intermediate
Skills: Color, gradient, sketching, styles, typography, wire framing

Create a simple map illustration

Programs: Illustrator
Level: Intermediate
Skills: Effects, grids, objects, tools

How to create a self-portrait in geometric style

Programs: Illustrator
Level: Intermediate
Skills: Sketching, layers, objects, opacity, paths, tools

How to draw a classic electric guitar in Photoshop

Programs: Photoshop, Illustrator
Level: Advanced
Skills: Effects, filters, layers, masks, opacity, tools, transform

Realistic vintage vector tutorial

Programs: Illustrator
Level: Advanced
Skills: Colors, gradients, opacity, texture, tools

Design an appealing print-ready restaurant menu in illustrator

Programs: Illustrator
Level: Intermediate
Skills: Bleeds, effects, objects, opacity, paths, strokes

Create an amazing ad in photoshop

Programs: Photoshop
Level: Intermediate
Skills: Blending, colors, filters, gradients, layers, tools, transform

Brochure design re-imagined

Programs: Illustrator
Level: Beginner
Skills: Color, layers, objects, paths, strokes, workflow

Preparing artwork for screen printing in

Programs: InDesign
Level: Intermediate
Skills: Effects, grids, typography

The Great Gatsby art deco style in Illustrator and Photoshop

Programs: Illustrator, Photoshop
Level: Intermediate
Skills: Blending, color, filters, gradients, shading, tools, typography

Comic book style graphic design

Programs:Photoshop or Corel Painter
Level: Intermediate
Skills: Color, layers, sketching, tools

Combine real and digital brushes

Programs: Photoshop
Level: Advanced
Skills: Brushes, colors, effects, layers, sketching, tools

Design fluid typography on watercolor background in Photoshop

Programs: Photoshop
Level: beginner
Skills: brushes, colors, layers, tools

How to create a detailed honey text effect in Adobe Illustrator

Programs: Illustrator
Level: Intermediate
Skills: Blending, effects, grids, objects, tools

How to create a steampunk type treatment in Photoshop

Programs: Photoshop, Illustrator
Level: Advanced
Skills: Brushes, gradients, layers, shading, textures, tools

How to obtain the right color in Adobe Illustrator

Programs: Illustrator
Level: Beginner
Skills: Color

Create your own time-saving Photoshop actions

Programs: Photoshop
Level: Beginner
Skills: Actions

Master PDF exports

Programs: InDesign
Level: Beginner
Skills: Color, workflow

Create a trendy retro landscape design in Photoshop

Programs: Photoshop
Level: Beginner
Skills: Colors, filters, layers, masks, tools, typography

16 x 16 Pixel art tutorial

Programs: Photoshop
Level: Beginner
Skills: Colors, tools

Bring a fluorescent transparency to life in Illustrator

Programs: Illustrator
Level: Intermediate
Skills: Color, gradients, masks, opacity

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