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Typography. Intermedia Ps. Ethereal sorbet. I believe it's magic. Create A Starry Night Sky In Photoshop. Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop effects tutorial, we’ll learn how to easily add a star-filled sky to a night time photo. I’ll be using Photoshop CS5 throughout the tutorial but any recent version of Photoshop will work just fine.There’s nothing quite as peaceful as being outside at night, looking up a cloudless sky and seeing an endless display of stars sparkling and twinkling above you, stretching far off into the horizon in all directions. It really makes you stop and realize just how tiny we are compared to everything that’s out there, far beyond our reach, and even beyond our imagination.

Unfortunately, something else that’s usually beyond our reach is our ability to capture those stars when we take photos at night. Our beautiful starry sky ends up looking more like a whole lot of nothing except darkness, and that’s because the light from the stars is usually too dim to be captured by the camera, especially if there are other light sources nearby. The final result. No? Browsing Photoshop Brushes on deviantART.

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Experimental Typography by Anna Garforth. Very interesting typographic experiments by Anna Garforth. “Anna Garforth works with a diverse range of materials and skills to create unique and experimental work. So far her artworks have been used for public events, community projects, workshops, campaigns, publications and exhibitions both nationally and internationally. With a strong background in design and illustration, her nifty fingers work moss into beautiful lettering, cookie dough into edible posters and rubbish into typographic wonder. ” via typetoken Anna Garforth’s website. 10 Creative Adobe Illustrator Tutorials. This post put together some handy creative Adobe Illustrator Tutorials, mostly about retro poster style.

Check out new tricks that you can learn and apply it to your own designs. These tutorials are the best from great sites such us Digital Arts online, Veerle's blog, Vectortuts+, Vectips, Pixel 77, Computer Arts magazine and GoMediaZine. Hope you like it!!! Create Retro Poster Art | Digital Arts online Elegant gradient ribbon in Illustrator | Veerle's blog Blend and Mask Yourself a Great Poster | Vectortuts+ Creating Seamless Textures In Illustrator | Vectips Tutorial: Retro vector illustration in 15 Steps | Pixel 77 Intricate Patterns in Illustrator | GoMediaZine Give Your Sketches a Facelift | Tutorial | Computer Arts magazine Design a Vintage Poster with Vector Pack 16 – Graphic design tutorials, freebies, & advice by working artists and designers. | GoMediaZine Post written by David Klhufek Freelance graphic, website designer, in the round for over more 10 years now.. 10 Creative Adobe Illustrator Tutorials. 40 Fundamental Illustrator Tutorials You Must Know.

Learning a new software application can be a difficult task, especially when there is an application that is as deep as Adobe Illustrator! Fortunately, Teresa illustrator colection veterans who are generous enough time to take the basic document, so that new users of the first activities to capture and gain knowledge of tools and basic techniques. This collection of tutorials covering various dialer tools and provides many useful tips and advice. Together, they constitute a very useful tool for all beginners who work with their heads, put up in Adobe Illustrator. 1. How to Create a Gearbox Settings Icon Using Simple Shapes Many things can be in Illustrator need not be the tool Pen, as evidenced by the recent Hourglass tutorial. Using only simple predefined types, and tools such as Pathfinder and the conversions can be created all the images from scratch. 2. A great looking abstract designs can be created from the simplest form. 3. 4. 5.Illustrator Tutorial: Surprise Gift 6. 7. 10. 11.

Kern Type, the kerning game. 18 Insanely Addictive Font Games. Typography helps you engage your audience and establish a distinct, unique personality on your website. Knowing how to use fonts to build character in your design is a powerful skill, and exploring the history and use of typefaces, as well as typographic theory, can help.

But it doesn't have to be boring. This selection of online and mobile font games will help test and expand both your knowledge and identification skills. 1. The Font Game From I Love Typography The "rather difficult font game" from I Love Typography tests your general knowledge of fonts by displaying 34 samples. You can also download the Font Game iOS app to play on the go. 2. Type Connection is a fun "type dating" game that helps you learn how to pair typefaces. 3. Image: Kern Type Kern Type is a game in which you try to achieve pleasant and readable text by distributing the space between letters, called "kerning" by typographers. 4. 5. 6. 7. Image: Shape Type 8. What Type Are You? 9. 10. 11. 12. Image: Rag Time 13. 14. Lost Type Co-op. Typography Served :: Gallery.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Nursery Rhyme Book, edited by Andrew Lang. 31 Things No One Tells You About Becoming A Parent. 50 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Video Tutorials. Advertisement Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard when it comes to the creation of vector graphics. Though a very robust tool – the learning curve involved in mastering it can be high.

Thankfully, there are abundant resources on the web that allows you to “learn by doing”. Video tutorials (in general) enable the learner to witness – step-by-step – how a particular technique works. We often learn best by seeing how things are done and following along with the instructor (much like in a classroom environment). In this article, we present to you 50 excellent Adobe Illustrator video tutorials. So fire up Illustrator, watch a few of these videos, and hopefully you will have learned a tip or two by the end of your adventures into these Illustrator video tutorials!

General Tips and Techniques Patterns and Shapes in Adobe Illustrator This tutorial is based on an advertisement that uses patterns and shapes to create a unique design effect. Creating Objects Effects. Alvin Lustig Book Covers. Beautiful Fluffy Clouds in Photoshop - Christmas Tutorial. A few days ago I was watching a movie and I saw the Dreamworks logo. It's very well known and incredibly beautiful; that little kid sitting on the moon fishing. But what caught my attention was the clouds on the logo.

They were so dramatic, and I thought that it would be a nice idea try to replicate the effect in Adobe Photoshop CS4. The first thing I did was search on the web for references, and to see if there was already a tutorial showing how to accomplish the effect. I found some, not showing exactly what I wanted; but they gave me a nice idea of what I would have to do. I also looked at some real clouds to better understand how they work. In this tutorial I will show you how to create fluffy clouds in Photoshop. Step 1 Create a new document in Photoshop. Step 2 Add a new layer and create a rectangle with the Rectangle Tool (U).

Step 3 For the Clouds I created a brush. Brush Tip Shape: Round shape, 500px Diameter, 0% Hardness, 25% Spacing. Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10. Beautiful Fluffy Clouds in Photoshop - Christmas Tutorial. Create a Quick and Easy Tranquil Sky in Adobe Illustrator. In today's tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create a quick and easy tranquil cloudy sky scene in Adobe Illustrator with help of the a Scatter Brush and the Blending Mode Screen. Also we learn how to draw a bird silhouette and create the sun by Flare Tool. So let's get started! 1. Create the Background First of all we should draw the background. 2. To create a Scatter Brush we need to draw a circle. 3. Step 1 Take the Paintbrush Tool (B) and select our new Scatter Brush. Step 2 Select all of the cloud shapes and go to Object > Expand Appearance to transform brushes into objects. 4.

Now you can change the size of the clouds. Next go to the Transparency panel and set Blending Mode to Screen. 5. Just make a few copies of the clouds. Make more copies. 6. Create a bird frame: The body and the head draw by the Ellipse Tool (L)The beak draw by the Pen Tool (P)The tail and wings draw by the Pencil Tool (N) Take the Width Tool (Shift + W) and add some extra thickness to the left wing. Step 3 7.