Girly Web 2.0 Header Tutorial « Steel Frog – A blog on web design and gaming. In this tutorial, we’ll create a trendy header design that’s very clean, trendy and sleek with no gimmicky tricks. We’ll be creating stylized clouds, add some texture, apply layer styles, create sparkle effects, design drip patterns and even a city backdrop and how to use fonts. This tutorial will take a while to complete as it is a bit long and detailed. It is also meant for Photoshop users who are already fairly knowledgeable with the interface, loading patterns, and using marquees. If you know the basics, you should do just fine. If you have any questions, just leave a comment and I’ll do my best to clear it up as much as I can. Step 1. Start by creating a 800×500 pixel canvas and fill the background in black. Creating trendy abstract clouds couldn’t get any easier than this. Simply keep adding smaller circles around the ones you’ve placed down earlier until it resembles something shown here.
We’re not done yet. Sparkle sparkle Let’s add some sparkles around those clouds. In the city. Good-Tutorials' Logo. Ever go to good-tutorials.com? They are probably the largest database of photoshop tutorials on the internet today. use this tutorial to create the star logo they have. 1. Open up a new document, Ctrl+N, choose a good size canvas so it's easier to work with. 2. Click to enlarge 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Note: The good-tutorials.com logo is property of good-tutorials.com, no affiliations with conceptvisions.net & conceptvisionz.net. Design Tutorial: Creating a Propaganda Poster. Posted Wednesday, 10 December 2008 by David Sykes in Photoshop, Design In the second installment of our "how to" series, based on entries to the Crestock Photoshop Contest 2008, David Sykes shows us how he brought together the photographic source materials provided in Adobe Illustrator to create his winning design for Round 1.
The same end result could undoubtedly have been achieved using Photoshop alone, but Illustrator offers greater speed and precision for this particular style of design. Step 1 Research, Research, Research. In this case the topic was propaganda and our assignment (as I understood it) was to aesthetically replicate the propaganda posters or their style and put our unique twist to the work. Crestock.com has a wealth of information on this topic right there on the site - you can find links to this at the bottom of this post. Step 2 Find some kind of textured background. Step 2.5 Step 3 I then work out my layout. Step 4 I cut out the pics in Photoshop using the pen tool. Step 5. Making Complex Selections in Photoshop. Tutorial Magazine / photoshop / effects. 45 Awesome Abstract Textures.
Finding that perfect texture for your design can be quite the search, and also quite time consuming. To help you out a bit we’ve browsed through the large collection of textures over at deviantART and picked out some abstract textures. These can inspire you in making your own ones or you can use them. Just make sure to click on the images to go to the originals and read if the artists behind them have any restrictions or require credits first. Maybe this can be the helpful start to a new project? Let’s dive in! 40 Must Learn Text Effect Tutorials in Illustrator.
Tutorials January 31, 2011 The love of creating text effects has become a common ground for many designers and enthusiasts. Indeed, it has even become an art form in itself. It would be best to learn from other artists every now and then. Check out these 40 Must Learn Text Effect Tutorials in Illustrator and be inspired to create your own masterpieces; you could even share your work with the rest of the world right in the comments below! Create a Green Viscous Text Effect In this tutorial you will use illustrator’s 3D tools to add dimension on the text, and then add a green viscous text effect.. Learn to Create a Variety of Script Lettering This tutorial will showcase three different approaches, which result in three different script lettering styles. starting with a nice simple basic script, touch on a more athletic inspired lettering style and work along the way to a classic, fancy script.
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