If you are looking for fractal tutorials to help you make & create your own fractal art, you've come to the right place! These fractal tutorials will get you off to a running start creating your own digital art. You will be able to download the software to generate these amazing images, and then follow along step-by-step in creating your own fractals.
I have written five of these step-by-step fractal tutorials for the programs Tiera-zon & XenoDream. I have used text and screen captures of the programs to illustrate and demonstrate each step of the process. This is not an esoteric, technical treatise on fractal generation, but a hands on, practical demonstration of the process that will get you started creating your own fractal art! These tutorials will get you started creating your own fractal masterpieces in no time!
You will also find links to over 20 other fractal tutorials that cover a variety of fractal software programs & generators.
If you are looking for fractal software programs check out my software page where you will find both Windows & MAC fractal software programs.
My newly updated Fractal Tutorial: Getting Started that will walk you through all the basic functions for using the program Tiera-zon, and get you off to a running start creating your own fractals!
Julia Fractals Tutorial . The second installment of this Tiera-zon fractal tutorial series that explores Julia Fractals, and the infinite variety of forms that you can create using this variation of fractals.
Working With Color. My third installment for the Tiera-zon tutorials. This tutorial focuses on using the many variables within Tiera-zon to achieve better color for your fractals.
Fractal Formula Tutorial. The forth in the Tiera-zon series for how to write your own fractal formulas, and create your own unique fractal compositions.
My XenDream Tutorial. This tutorial is designed for the beginner, and will help familiarize you with the basics of this program. Hopefully by working though this step-by-step tutorial the learning curve will be a bit shorter for you! Enjoy!
Jean Meletou has created an excellent video tutorial series for XenoDream. Four hours of instruction using this program. Videos are in French, but the video is clear and fairly easy to follow along with, even if you don't speak French!
Xenodream Animation Tutorial. Kris Northern has posted this informative XenoDream tutorial on his blog.
XenoDream Tutorials. Paul N. Lee has written a number of helpful one subject tutorials for Xenodream.
Janet Parke Preslars' UltraFractal Tutorials. Janet covers working with layers, gradients, opacity etc. Some of the tutorials are for older versions of UF, but still relevant.
Step by Step: the Creation of a Fractal. Damien Jones step-by-step process that he uses for creating a fractal from scratch using the UltraFractal program.
UltraFractal 5 Challenge Tutorials. These tutorials are for the purpose of learning more about the features of UltraFractal 5. There are a number of "challenges" for working with UF, and tutorials are included for each individual challenge.
Convergent Fractals Tutorials. General Tutorials for selected UltraFractal formulas types. Individual tutorials for the following types: Slope formulas, Enhanced Traps, Simple Traps, Polar Traps, Attractor Traps, Raytracing etc.
FireLilyFractals Tutorials . Mary Thornton has written several good tutorials for UF.
Interactive Fractal Tutorial. Dr. Joseph Trotsky has written a very thorough & amp; informative Ultra Fractal Guide.
UF Tutorial by ~fib3rglass on deviantART. This is one large screen capture but should be helpful for beginners.
Convergent Fractals Tutorials. General Tutorials for selected UltraFractal formulas types. Individual tutorials for the following types: Slope formulas, Enhanced Traps, Simple Traps, Polar Traps, Attractor Traps, Raytracing etc.
Soler (Tad Boniecki) has written tutorials for the following fractal programsTierazon, Visions of Chaos & Sterlingware.
Tim's Sterlingware Tutorial. Tim Hodkinson has written a very good tutorial for using Sterlingware, another of Stephen Fergusons' programs.
Mardi Wetmore has written a basic tutorial for using Stephen Fergusons' Tiera-zon program.
Martin Pfingstl, the author of ChaosPro, has created two tutorials for his program, one for animations, and one for 3D Transformations.
Padley Wood has written a getting started tutorial for the program ChaosPro.
Fractal Explorer Tutorials. Fractal Explorer Users Group tutorials. Several good tutorials written by memebers of the Fractal Explorer User Group.
Fractal Explorer: Creating Your Own Fractals. James Skemp has written a downloadable PDF beginners FE tutorial.
Fractal Domains Tutorial There just aren't that many MAC fractal programs & this is the only MAC tutorial that I am aware of. .
Writing Scripts & "Tonal Variation and Good Mutation" tutorials for Apophysis
. Padley Wood "Creating and Managing Gradients" with Apophysis Tutorial.
Stacy Reed Apophysis Tutorial. Stacy has written a guide for using many of the features of Apophysis. In it you'll find a command cheat sheet, test files for you to experiment with and much more.
Apophysis 2.02 FAQ-Tutorial Tutorial suited to explaining much of the interface that isn't documented as well as helping anyone who is new, and probably quite a few things veterans can go ahh! to, learn to make quality renders and clean up their images before and during rendering.