Creating a Grunge Autumn Themed Calendar for September
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
In this tutorial, we’ll be creating an Autumn themed Calendar for this month of September. The style here is dark and grungy and the final result is appropriately titled the ‘The Fall.’ This being the season of falling leaves from trees. The techniques used to attain the final image are the application of Blend modes, the use of grunge brushes Step 1 First off, open a new document Ctrl+N, and set its document size to 1280 x 768 px and the resolution to 140 dpi . The wood texture below was from www.mega-tex.nl.
Tags: block, clendar, color, css, freebies, layer, layers, leaf, Photoshop, Resources, tools, tutorial, Tutorials
Beautiful Houses: Paraty House in Rio de Janeiro
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses, you are at the right spot. Check out this week beautiful house and stay tuned for more…
Tags: architecture, digital-art-121, houses, Inspiration, interiors, interview, photography, Photoshop, studiomk27, Typography, wallpaper
50 Fresh and Beautiful Ecommerce Websites II
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Well-designed ecommerce and shopping cart websites are regularly referred to for web design inspiration by creative and experienced web developers. They are also being featured on various CSS website galleries, and in fact there are more than a few gallery sites that are solely dedicated showcasing beautiful and standards compliant shopping cart and ecommerce websites. With the exceptional flexibility for customization of ecommerce scripts, third party tools and advanced functionality, shopping cart websites have revolutionized their look and feel and overall performance. In this post, we bring you 50+ fresh ecommerce websites that are not only beautiful but are also effective in presenting themselves as an online shop.
Tags: better-closet, css, facebook, Inspiration, journeys-shoes, la-belle-epoque, lodger-footwear, mister-spex, nicola-whitman, ocean-sales, perfect-order, perfume-point, Photoshop, Tutorials, Typography
The World Collabs #4 – with Nik Ainley
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Abduzeedo takes pride in being one of the worlds leading design blogs. Having interviewed a bulk of the most infamous creative geniuses, we want to use our potential to introduce a new star on the Abduzeedo stage …YOU. <!–break–> This is our fifth contest for The World Collabs. Our new cutting edge Abduzeedo collaboration project, which will give you the possibility to collaborate and compete with the worlds leading designers and artists.
Tags: daily, depositphotos-com, illustrator tutorials, Inspiration, iphone wallpapers, Photoshop, pixelmator-tutorials, Tutorials
Daily Inspiration #604
Sep 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it, also use “Daily Inspiration” in the subject, and don’t forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo If possible use the HTML code: <p class="imgC"><a href="Link to the page you found the image"><img src="Link to the Image" /></a></p> Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspirations? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com 2D al b sure Anderson Tomazi Brukhar Derek Brown Eugene Kim Fabiano Spheremetrical (Here With You) from impactist on Vimeo . Fabio Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo .
Tags: architecture, daily-inspiration, fireworks-tutorials, illustrator tutorials, Inspiration, iphone wallpapers, Photoshop, pixelmator-tutorials, Tutorials, via-twitter, vimeo, wallpaper
Free Book Competition “WordPress 3 Site Blueprints”, Comment to Win
Sep 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
It has been a while since we last ran a good web design book giveaway, and if you are a WordPress developer or you are currently learning WP, you will certainly love this competition. What we have on offer is the chance for two of our readers to win one of two PDF ebooks, entitled WordPress 3 Site Blueprints that usual sells for $32. It has been written by Heather R. Wallace and its a book that will show you everything you will ever need to build a varied collection of feature-rich customized WordPress websites.
Tags: competition, design-reviver, facebook, Graphic Design, Inspiration, Photoshop, Tutorials, Typography, vandelay-design, Web Design, worthy-links
35 Inspiring Food Packages
Sep 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Continuing our posts showing you beautiful and inspiring packages, we gathered some really nice examples of food related packages. From catchup to peanuts and honey, we will show a little bit of everything to illustrate that no matter what your product is about, a nice and well designed package always counts for good! Once again we got the images from Lovely Package , so we recommend you to click at the images to go to LP’s website to read more about each package and its designer. Also, if you have a suggestion about what kind of packages you would like us to showcase here, comments are open. =) Bakina Tajna Pure Land Michael’s Farm Glace Artisan Ice Cream Prima Luce Student Work – Fran Aldea Gallo Occasions Gran Farina Azada Organic La Sirena Justin’s Nut Butter Sir Kensington’s Gourmet Scooping Ketchup Gail’s Bakery 5 Points Honey Student Work – Kayd Mustonen Student Work – Samira Khoshnood A.O.
Tags: architecture, daily, Design, flowers, images, Inspiration, interview, pattern, Photoshop, Tutorials, Typography
Daily Inspiration #603
Sep 1, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it, also use “Daily Inspiration” in the subject, and don’t forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo If possible use the HTML code: <p class="imgC"><a href="Link to the page you found the image"><img src="Link to the Image" /></a></p> Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspirations? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com 2D al b sure Anderson Tomazi B. Romain Dned Domenico Justo Doretti Nicolas Showreel 2010 Doretti Nicolas from Nicolas DORETTI on Vimeo .
Tags: daily-inspiration, Design Inspiration, fireworks-tutorials, gimp-tutorials, illustration, illustrator tutorials, Inspiration, iphone wallpapers, Photoshop, Photoshop Tutorials, pixelmator-tutorials, Tutorials, vimeo, wallpaper, willis-kingerly
37 Awesome, Vibrant and Colorful Digital ArtworksTony Ariawan
Sep 1, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Tony Ariawan is a digital illustrator, designer and artist from Indonesia who specializes in making vibrant and colorful digital artworks using a variety of techniques, including vector illustration and a light painting technique. His work has been featured around the web and he has received a variety of recognition for his stunningly colorful art. In this post we’ve gathered up 37 awesome digital artworks from Tony, selected from his website: http://www.area105.com/ and his Behance: http://www.behance.net/area105/ Enjoy the digital art!
Tags: colorful art, creativefan, digital artworks, featured, light painting, Photoshop, presidia-creative, printing, Resources, technology, Tutorials
Create a Cosmic Scene with Photoshop and Cinema 4D
Sep 1, 2010 General, Resources, Tutorials
In this Photoshop and Cineme 4D tutorial, I will show you how to create a space composition, exploring techniques for creating 3D text in Cinema 4D, a glass effect in Photoshop and a slew of different light effects. Before creating this scene, the concept I I knew I wanted was to have a girl floating unconsciously in space, with two hands trying to get to her and a short message represented in 3D text. You can see in this tutorial what I ended up with. Continue reading…
Tags: ctrl, group, image, layer, master, opacity, Photoshop, Resources, Tutorials
