Design & Illustration Tutorials

Take your graphic design and illustration skills to a new level! You can find thousands of free tutorials on every design topic under the sun, from making Photoshop actions to designing a classy corporate brochure in InDesign or completing your own vector illustration.

We’ve got tutorials on all the major design software, so you can brush up your skills on the full Adobe suite or get up to speed with other options like Affinity Designer or Procreate. Or you can learn how to make beautiful text effects, choose the right fonts, design eye-catching magazines, and much more.

  1. How to Create a Retro Film Frame & Overlay in Photoshop

    How to Create a Retro Film Frame & Overlay in Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this Photoshop tutorial, you'll learn how to make a film frame in Photoshop. I'll explain everything in so much detail that everyone can create it, even...

  2. How to Make a Torn Paper Collage in Photoshop

    How to Make a Torn Paper Collage in Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this Photoshop tutorial, you'll learn how to create a torn paper effect in Photoshop. I'll explain everything in so much detail that everyone can learn...

  3. How to Convert a Stroke to a Shape in Affinity Designer

    How to Convert a Stroke to a Shape in Affinity Designer

    Tutorial Beginner

    Learn how to expand any simple stroke, multiple strokes or a text outline into shapes that you can further modify and distort as you need.

  4. How to Change Color in Affinity Photo

    How to Change Color in Affinity Photo

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Follow this tutorial to learn all the ways of using Affinity Photo to replace a color and find the one that's perfect for your image.

  5. 18 Fonts Similar to Montserrat

    18 Fonts Similar to Montserrat

    Tutorial Beginner

    Looking for fonts like Montserrat? Here we'll go through a quick Montserrat font history, its characteristics, and then share 18 fonts similar to Montserrat.

  6. How to Design Your Own Camouflage Pattern

    How to Design Your Own Camouflage Pattern

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this tutorial I’ll show you how to design your own camouflage pattern. I’ll present four examples of military camo patterns: woodland, desert, urban...

  7. How to Add a Rain Effect in Photoshop

    How to Add a Rain Effect in Photoshop

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to add rain to a photo in Photoshop. This cool technique can simulate all kinds of rain, from light drizzle to a heavy...

  8. How to Make Stars in Photoshop

    How to Make Stars in Photoshop

    Tutorial Beginner

    Ever wondered how to make stars in Photoshop? Well, wonder no more! In this quick tutorial, you'll learn how to make stars in Photoshop quickly and easily.

  9. How to Resize Multiple Images at Once in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Resize Multiple Images at Once in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Beginner

    Have a bunch of images that need to be the same size? In this tutorial, Melody Nieves will show you how to resize them easily in Adobe Photoshop.

  10. How to Make an InDesign Catalog Template

    How to Make an InDesign Catalog Template

    Tutorial Beginner

    Learn how to create a catalog in InDesign for showcasing products and services. This simple and stylish product catalog template can have so many uses!

  11. How to Create the Beetlejuice Logo

    How to Create the Beetlejuice Logo

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Let's take a closer look at the Beetlejuice logo, which is both creepy and very intriguing at the same time. In this tutorial, we will recreate it together.

  12. Quick Tip: Colorize a Comic Strip With Photoshop

    Quick Tip: Colorize a Comic Strip With Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Converting a rough sketch into a polished piece of digital art might not be as hard as you think. In today’s quick tip tutorial we will demonstrate how to...