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Create a stunning Black &White artwork in Photoshop. Business Man – Awesome Black&White Effect in Photoshop 2.5 (50%) 2 votes In this manipulation tutorial I will show you how to create a cool looking black and white artwork and several other thinks like how to create rainy scene in Photoshop and how to effectively use the Dodge/Burn and lighting effects. And of course will also show you how to create a stunning Black&White image. For this tutorial I used only free stock images and I did this in about 3 hours with all the fine tunning and searching for the actual stock. Final result Stock used Download details PDF tutorial versionOriginal PSD fileStock images You need a premium PLUS membership in order to see the downloads links I saw similar artworks on the internet but I don’t know if there’s actually a tutorial about this so that’s mainly why wrote it. Step 1 Start by opening the background image in Photoshop and use the Crop Tool (C) to crop the image as shown in the image below.

Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Before and after using the Dodge/Burn. 10 Cool Resource Web Sites For Graphic and Web Designers | Graphic Design. This week I would like to show you 10 cool resource websites, each one of them offering various examples of images, links, wallpapers etc. Hopefully you will get inspired and can use those websites as a source for future projects.

Now here are the 10 Cool Web and Graphic Design Resource Sites 99Percent This website is mainly about “ideas and how to make them happen”. You will find events and workshops listed, an all-around source for creative ideas, professionalism and improvement of performance. Designbump This website is full of content, offering many Photoshop tutorials, information about Web Design, ideas and themes, comic book-art and fonts. Graphicmac Here you can find everything about Illustrator, InDesign, Mac, Photography, Photoshop and Fonts. Marcofolio How to make a rotating banner using CSS3, information about CSS3 for mac and hand-held devices, Photoshop, icons, CSS and Joomla for Web Design, and other useful tools, such as Cheat Sheets.

Designreviver Tutorialking Colourlovers. A Doodle A Day Keeps The Stress Away | Blog of Francesco Mugnai. Creating a Vinyl Record In Photoshop. In this tutorial, I will explain how to make a vinyl graphic. This tutorial will outline techniques to avoid choppy edges and create proper texturing and lighting. Step 1. Let's start out by creating a new file. I used a 300x300 pixel canvas set at 72dpi (regular settings), and I filled my background with a soft gradient. You can fill it with whatever you want. Create a layer set and call it "vinyl. " Step 2 The noise we just added will be used to create the circular texture that is typical for a vinyl record. Step 3 Time to cut out our circular shape. Switch to the Move tool (V) and hit Ctrl+A so that you select the entire canvas. Step 4 Next we will cut out our actual shape. Duplicate the "Shape 1" layer and resize it to about 5% (hit Ctrl+T, and then enter 5% in the size boxes).

Step 5 Now that we have our basic shape and texture done, it's time to bring this baby to life. Then set the layer to Soft Light and experiment with Brightness/Contrast. Step 6 Now it's time to make it really pop. 40 Beautiful Free Fonts For Creating Attractive Typography Headlines. A sweet collection of carefully handpicked high quality free fonts, which are all suitable to be used for creating attractive typography headlines which will attract people’s attention.

A collection of amazing fonts which are suitable and perfect for web design projects as well print based projects. There is a misconception by designers that free fonts are usually cheap looking and cannot be used in order to create a good design, but what designers don’t realise is that there is the odd good free font it just takes time in order to find the perfects ones. This is the exact purpose of this article to be bookmarked by designers and to referred to in the future when working on a design projects where money may be tight and the client can’t afford to splash out on big expensive fonts. This post will be a handy resource for designers searching high quality good free fonts. 1.

Kilogram 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. attempa 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. Web Design Newcastle, Web Design Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle Design. 21 Fonts That Shouldn’t Be Free…But Are! 13 July 2009 by Jordan Hall Using the right type in your designs, both in type and web, is vital to an attractive and successful design. With so many free fonts out there (Da Font currently has over 9000 fonts to choose from) it’s hard to wade through the varying levels of quality available. We’ve picked out some great fonts that shouldn’t be free, but are! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 21.

Resources 50 Incredible Fonts for Professional Print & Web Design | Noupe 30 Fonts That All Designers Must Know & Own | Just Creative Design 37 FREE Must-Have Fonts | Francesco Mugnai 40 Free High Quality Hand Drawn Fonts | Hongkiat.com Thanks for reading, from Union Room Web Design. Back to Blog. Sketchbook 2010 (vol. 2) on the Behance Network - StumbleUpon. Create a realistic folded paper text in Photoshop - StumbleUpon.

Today we will learn how to realize a folded paper text effect from scratch in Photoshop. We will firstly create the background using a couple of patterns, then we will work on the type treatment with the help of the pen tool, layer masks and other useful techniques related to dodge,burn and the transform tool. This tutorial is very simple to follow, so I suggest to everyone to give a try. Preview: Click to enlarge Become a Premium Member and get unlimited access to source files and premium resources for only 7$/month. Click here to learn more. Step 1 Create a new document in Photoshop. *note for Mac users: ctrl=cmd, alt=option Step 2 Fill the background with a dark green (#41514c). Step 3 To create the textured effect of the background, I’ve used 2 of our soft grunge patterns created by Piervincenzo. Select the pattern2_380_hard and press ok to fill the background. Finally set the layer to overlay with opacity 50%.

Step 4 Create another layer, this time fill it with pattern_9_380_hard. Step 5. 60 Impressive Free High Resolution Textures and Backgrounds. I’m passionate about textures. I’ve already published some compilations, such as 30 free paper backgrounds and textures at my Creative Closeup blog and 10 grunge, rusty and dirty tileable textures at this site. Now it is time for a new roundup of incredibly cool high resolution textures. These textures belong to different authors.

All of them can be used in commercial projects, but it is safer to check the term of use of each texture before doing so. There’s an interesting book called Crumble, Crackle, Burn: 120 Stunning Textures for Design and Illustration that comes with 120 high resolution textures on a bundled DVD. There’s an amazing Photoshop plugin, FilterForge plugin, that lets you create your own textures plugins without coding a single line.

And if you want to know how to create some textures yourself, you should check the Textures and Backgrounds Tutorials section of this site. The following images are a small and partial preview of the complete texture. 25 Mind Blowing Text Effects Photoshop Tutorials - StumbleUpon. 20 Beautiful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials | Top Design Magazine - Web Design and Digital Content - StumbleUpon. If you want to create distinctive vector artwork, then Adobe Illustrator is the best tool. If you don`t have inspiration, below you can see 20 great tutorials.

Have fun. How to Make a Map in Illustrator How to Create Blueprint-Style Text How to Create Anatomy Illustrations Create Your Own Spoof Airplane Safety Illustrations How to Create a Crazy Cool Logo How To Create a Repeating Camo Pattern How to Create Farmville Type Effect How To Design a Print Ready Letterhead & Comp Slip How to Create Vector Clouds How To Create a Gothic Blackletter Typographic Design How To Create a Fun Cartoon Style Poster Design How To Design a Sweet Linework & Typography Combo Create a Color Picker Icon How to Create an Iconic Poster Design Design a Vintage Poster with Vector Pack 16 Create a 3D Vector Labyrinth Create a Mummy Text Effect Create Grainy Textures Creating Seamless Textures Quick Tutorial: Create Chunky Buttons Create a Polished Raised Type Treatment. Create Vintage and Grungy Digital Art Work in Photoshop.

Follow this step by step design process for my recent digital art work, High Voltage. The design process involves photo manipulation, creating patterns, mixing images, textures and blend modes to to create a vintage and grunge theme. Learn how a range of Photoshop techniques pull together the various elements to create the final design. Open up your chosen image in Photoshop. Here I’ve picked out a nice Pylons near wheat field shot from DepositPhotos. Make small Levels adjustments to increase the contrast slightly. If you are planning to use your work for poster printing, use a high DPI (between 150-300dpi) and CMYK Color Mode. Add Curves Adjustment Layer (go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves) and change the drop down menu to select the Red channel and make adjustments.

Change the drop down to the Green channel and make adjustments to the tones controlled by this channel, and finally adjust the Blue channel. Change the Blend Mode to Linear Dodge (Add) and Opacity to 50%. 3200% zoom. 23 amazing free modern clean sans serif fonts for designers on studiowhiz.com. On 04.01.09, In Design, by Keranm 23 fonts that will set your design apart from all the rest Fonts have come a long way, today’s designers are looking more and more for fonts that are full of life, with subtleties of space and shape. Fonts are as much about what’s not there as what is. This collection celebrates the clean modern fonts, that give a striking elegance to any page, with bold lines, white space and clean curves.

What’s better – all these fonts are free (NOTE: Ambrosia is a trial font sorry) Update: check out 32 free fun & funky fonts for your design project Walkway Comfortaa Tin Birdhouse Often TF Grutch Grotesk Tuffy Street Folks Alte Haas Grotesk Libel Suit Gauntlet Tondo Siple 2 Nelson ShoCard DNA 20th Century Sansumi Ambrosia Delicious Geo Sans Light Reding 1969 Duepuntozero Fertigo Pro Eurofurence That’s it for this collection – some wonderful free modern fonts in this collection. Keranm. 100 Free Fonts You Should Have in Your Library | Cruzine - StumbleUpon. Fonts have already been among the essential materials used by designers. Whether it is a web design project or a logo design – font is the element, capable of attracting people’s attention, rendering the key idea, and communicating the necessary message. That is why, thousands of free fonts reside today in multiple online font repositories.

Below we are introducing a collection of 100 free fonts, which represent vividly only some of the most significant trends in typography, however all of these fonts feature really unique and fresh designs. Clean fonts contain the samples of free fonts of the sans serif family with classic proportions, distinct lines, and clean backgrounds. Fancy fonts introduce multiple decorative elements, used in typography – from curly fonts to eroded and distorted ones. Finally, free script fonts are those, most designers choose for the projects, where it is necessary to underline the esthetics or to give a personal touch to the project. 1. Delicious-Roman Ageone 2. Ten Steps to Becoming the Designer You Want to Be - Design - GOOD - StumbleUpon.