Create realistic type on wood. In this tutorial we are going to take some regular text and add some effects to make it look like it has been painted or printed on wood. This is a great way to give your text that natural look. This can be applied to any solid shape, text, images, logos, etc. What we are going to need Adobe Photoshop Wood Texture Step 1 Open up the wood texture from Zen Textures in Photoshop. Go to Image>Image Size and change the width to 1200px and make sure the resolution is at 72 pixels/inch. Step 2 Using the Type Tool (T), create some white text that will roughly fit the width of the document (leaving some space on the edges). Using the Crop Tool (C) crop the top and bottom edges so they have a small margin around the text, about the same amount as the sides or a little more. Step 3 Click on the eye icon to the left of the text layer to make the text disappear. Go to File>Save, and save it as a Photoshop file. Step 4 Make sure you have the background layer selected.
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Sep 14 2010 Adobe Illustrator is a powerful tool to help designers produce high quality digital drawings. Once you created a sketch on paper or your tablet, you can use Illustrator’s tools to turn sketches in a vivid, beautiful illustrations. In this post we present some fresh tutorials for mastering your drawing skills in illustrator. Adobe Illustrator Tutorials Create a Painterly Apple with Illustrator CS5’s new Bristle Brush The new Bristle Brush in Illustrator CS5 gives you the best of both worlds: The painterly effects of real media and the control and flexibility of a vector drawing. Create a Print Ready Business Card Design in IllustratorIllustrator has fantastic tools available for creating small print designs such as business cards.
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2010/08/18/free-ebooks-web-designers/ While many may still prefer print for long-form reading, e-books are gaining popularity as a worthy digital alternative. Aside from all the usual benefits of digitizing a book (faster searches, less page-flipping, linked pages, additional resources, etc.), e-books are a huge help to digital and online professionals. There are now e-books available on almost every aspect of design, from planning your business and managing your time, to designing web applications. This post highlights 10 of the best free e-books for designers, with selections available as PDFs or in HTML. Whether they're meant to inspire or educate, let us know if you can recommend any other free e-books aimed at designers in the comments below. 1.
Taking Your Talent To The Web This detailed, intelligent guide is a how-to on transitioning from print to web by Jeffrey Zeldman. 2. Web Designer's Success Guide is the definitive resource for starting your own freelance web design business. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Day 2: Getting Started in Illustrator | Vectordiary. If you haven’t gotten your Illustrator, you can download the 30 days trial from Adobe’s download page. After installing, we will run Illustrator for the first time.
Create New Document Go File>New Document to create your first document. Type in a Name for the document and click Advanced to select RGB for Color Mode as we will be working for the screen. Click Ok after that. Illustrator Workspace Below is the workspace and some common terms for calling it. Toolbox This is the handy toolbox which we will use most often. Floating Palette This is the floating palette which contains properties for our shapes. Saving AI Files Let’s select the type and click on the artboard and type some text.
Next Lesson: Drawing Basic Shapes Back to Illustrator Training Course See the list of all Illustrator tutorials. About The Author: Tony Soh Hi. 40+ Web Design and Development Resources for Beginners. 10 Free and Fun Twitter Bird Icons for your Website. 12 Tutorials for Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator. Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard vector graphics application, is the tool you use when you need flexible, scalable vector graphics such as logos and artwork that will be printed in various formats, mediums and sizes. Illustrator's huge array of digital drawing features makes it a favorite amongst illustrators and print designers, but for those just starting out, the application can be intimidating. To help set you on your path to Illustrator mastery, here are some great beginner-level Illustrator tutorials that cover the fundamental tools and techniques.
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