What I'm going to do is try and show you the main steps of how I made my "Male Green Frog" image. I used Maya 8 for modelling, MentalRay for rendering and Photoshop for the textures.

Here is one way to take a simple texture and apply it to a shaped object like a car and have it appear to follow the body contours.

The use of textures in design are incredibly important in defining a surface. While we can not create actual tactile textures in digital design, we can create the visual illustion of 3D texture. This Tutorial aims to show you an easy way to do just that.

This tutorial will walk you through an easy way to setup and compare three of the most popular skin softening techniques inside one Photoshop document while maintaining realism and skin texture.

In this tutorial, we're going to use Illustrator (and a bit of Photoshop) to create an image that looks roughly hand-drawn on textured paper. We'll be creating a camera illustration in this rough sketchy style.

You will learn how to give a nice texture on a glass cube and some shadows and shines for realism on this piece.

This tutorial will walk you through how to create a grungy floating island, complete with a watercolor textured background. The tutorial focuses heavily on how layer blending modes can be combined to great effect.

This tutorial will cover some really cool illustration techniques, exploring Photoshop’s vector capabilities as well as playing with textures and selection methods.

This tutorial will describe how to make a colorful photo manipulation using only four stock photos and a texture background. We'll look at using the Pen Tool, making colorful rainbow designs, and showing the correct way to pick out stocks to use in our photo manipulation.

In this Photoshop tutorial we’ll be walking through the process of making an abstract artwork, using abstract 3D renders, textures, and more.