10 Clever Ways to Improve Your Photoshop Skills
Sep 9, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Photoshop is one of the must have software for most web and graphic designers. If you are beginner, you have many things to learn. If you are an expert, you always have more to learn specially the advanced techniques. In this article I want to share untechnical tips to improve your Photoshop skills.
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How to Create a Wall Graffiti of Bob Marley
Sep 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
We’re are going to immortalize the iconic Bob Marley on a brick wall – graffiti style. Graffiti has come a long way to the point that its argued by some to be respectable works of art for it was and still is considered as rude and destructive in the public sphere. On count, it is highly expressive and does lend to images/text powerful forms representation.Same goes for this tutorial where we’ll be applying Layer masks and Blend modes to merge a grunge-like image of Bob Marley with a brick wall. Step 1 Start with a Bob Marley picture of your choice.
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A Perfect Lie in Photoshop #2
Sep 6, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Last year our friend and contributor of Abduzeedo Cameron Rad did a video tutorial called A Perfect Lie in Photoshop in which he showed us a really cool skin retouching technique. Even though the that tutorial was already cool he wasn’t satisfied and spent another year trying to come up with a killer way to do skin retouchin. In this Photoshop Tutorial Cameron will present us what he has found out over this last year of Photoshop experiments. Well my name is Cameron Rad and I am a freelance photographer and graphic designer from Los Angeles, California.
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How to Make an A5 Print Ready Leaflet InDesign CS5
Sep 6, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
In this tutorial you will learn how to design a A5 four page leaflet, which can also be saved as a template for future designs. Using some of the new type setting features in InDesign CS5, you will make an appealing design that’s perfect for print. Introduction Note: The Premium Download for this file is in InDesign CS5 format only, as the focus of this tut is on features that are only available in the latest version of the program. Before you start designing it is worth mentioning that I live and work in England, UK.
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Modern UI and Layout Tutorials for Photoshop
Sep 6, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
It would be very hard to find a situation where Photoshop does not have the perfect solution for any web (or print) design problem. With Photoshop you can pretty much design a web page just as you envisaged mentally, with virtually no creative restrictions and with a pixel-perfect result. Web design trends change, and they change regularly. As such, it is very important that a designer stays on top of the game and their UI designs reflect modern design demands.
Tags: clean-portfolio, Design, Inspiration, layout, Photoshop, Resources, this-tutorial, tutorial, Typography, Web Design, website-layout
How to Make a Product Box and Flash Drive Mock-up
Sep 4, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
In this tutorial you will learn how to make your own mock-up image of a flash drive and product box using the Rectangle Tool, Pen Tool, 3D Extrude & Bevel and various Gradients. Step 1 Select the Rectangle tool (M) and draw a rectangle with dimensions W: 596px by H: 452px. Step 2 Create the symbols you will apply to the box. I created four symbols in one.
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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.
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Touchscreens and Hover states
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
With the huge popularity of mobile touch devices and the current major drive to make everything web related compatible with these devices, today’s Design Reviver Answers discussion is certainly relevant with current development trends. The question that was asked was “Will Touchscreen devices make hover states a thing of the past?” You can leave your thoughts and point-of-view below, or you can leave your answer on the original question on Answers here: Will Touchscreen devices make hover states a thing of the past? Will Touchscreen devices make hover states a thing of the past? This question was originally asked by Mpstud .
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Design An Angry Vector Turtle Character In Illustrator
Sep 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Tweet In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create a vector turtle character based on a vinyl toy named “Skuttle” from the “ Little Trickers ” series. We’re going to be using Adobe Illustrator CS3 for this tutorial, but the majority of old versions and the newer version will work perfectly fine. If you don’t want to create a turtle, why not take a photo of one of your favorite vinyl toys or collectibles, or sketch your own and scan it in? Step 1 The first step is to open up Illustrator and place your photograph or sketch in.
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Creating Psychedelic Character Art Using Adobe Illustrator – Vector Premium Tutorial
Sep 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you want to learn how to make a psychedelic comic style character and background with Adobe Illustrator, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. This Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques Starting with a hand drawn sketch, you will use various line weights, Halftone coloring techniques and the Eraser tool, to build an exciting comic style Illustration. Premium members can Log in and Download! Otherwise, Join Now! Below are sample images, which show some of the development of this tutorial.
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