27 Great Sci-Fi Digital Arts from Deviant Art
Mar 12, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials
Science fiction has been widely popular for years. Nowadays, technology enables graphic designers and digital artists to illustrate the fantasy of their imagination through digital arts. There are so many futuristic Sci-Fi concepts that have been created by several famous digital artists. They often use Maya and 3D Studio Max for initial modeling and Adobe Photoshop for final retouching.
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Quick Tip: Working with the Group Selection Tool
Mar 12, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
A quick look at the little-known, but very useful Group Selection tool in Adobe Illustrator. This tool allows you to select individual object within groups, as well as sub groups within groups. Watch the demonstration video to learn the usefulness of this tool and how to work with it. Subscribe to the Vectortuts+ RSS Feed to stay up to date with the latest vector tutorials and articles.
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Win a Copy of the Billings3 Invoicing App for Mac
Mar 12, 2010 General, Resources, Tutorials
The cool team from Marketcircle have kindly offered two licenses of their Billings application for Mac. Billings 3 is a time tracking and invoicing application that makes running your business a breeze. Fancy winning a copy? Access All Areas members can log in and enter the prize draw! Billings is a …
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Create a Clean and Classy Web Design in Photoshop
Mar 12, 2010 General, Resources, Tutorials
In this web design tutorial, you will learn how to create an elegant and professional web layout that can be used as a web portfolio site. We will use various Photoshop techniques, relying on basic tools such as shape tools and layer styles that will result in a usable web design. As a bonus, we have included a working HTML/CSS/JavaScript web template that you can download and use in any way that you like, free of charge! Continue reading… Continue Reading: Create a Clean and Classy Web Design in Photoshop
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Daily Inspiration #454
Mar 11, 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 al b sure Ana Cristina Ben Caio Arias JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo . Record Makers Promo from CreativeApplications.Net on Vimeo .
Tags: daily-inspiration, digital-art, Graphic Design, images, photography, pixelmator, Tutorials, wallpaper
Photography and Photo Editing Cheatsheets
Mar 11, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Even if you are a seasoned professional photographer the chances are you will from time to time need one or maybe all of these cheat-sheets, whether it be to remember a shortcut key when photo editing or it could a simple reminder when taking a difficult or tricky shot. For today’s news we have a great collection of useful Photography cheat-sheets, visit the resources for the full articles and download pages. Helpful Photography Cheat Sheets to Make Your Life Easier Here is a list of all the cheat sheets available from this resource: Portrait Lighting Cheat Sheet Card; The Photographic Cheat Sheet by Gordon McKinney; 49 Photo Tips Cheat Sheet; Light Falloff Cheat Sheet Card; Photography Cheat sheet; PhotoBert Cheatsheets; Reflector Card Cheat Sheet. You can download the all of the photography cheat sheets from here: Helpful Photography Cheat Sheets to Make Your Life Easier .
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Garage Project by IdeaFixa
Mar 11, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
IdeaFixa is a super cool Brazilian project based on collaboration of visual artists to promote ideas, talents, initiatives and professionals for all the creative fields: Photography, Design, Arts, Illustration, animation, 3D and others. So, IdeaFixa and Inesplorato are launching a new project called Garage Project. About the Project Garage Project is really cool initiative to encourage us, artists and designers, to do and promote our personal projects. Pretty much all ideas or sketches that are authentic and innovative will be accepted.
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Amazing Design Freebies #3
Mar 11, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
There are thouasands of amazing freebies for Graphic Designers on the internet. We will hand select a collection of freebies from various websites that you can use in your designs every other week. They will include vectors, textures, brushes and more. Abduzeedo has you covered on getting you the very best resources.
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15 Desktop & Online Wireframing Tools
Mar 11, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Like most things today, the world of interaction design moves quickly. Although a pen and notebook may suffice when it comes to simply jotting down ideas, planning a series of website screens can sometimes demand additional precision and cohesion. This is where today’s wireframing tools come in. Engineered to make the design process as intuitive as possible, these tools allow you to construct a visual representation of your interface.
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Create an Organic Spring Lettering Illustration – Vector Plus Tutorial
Mar 11, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you want to learn how to create organic lettering, with digitally drawn lettering, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. This tutorial covers all the techniques in creating this lettering illustration and gives advanced coloring and compositional tips. This Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques Warm up your illustration skills with this spring-inspired tutorial for creating organic letters.
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