The BIGGEST ever list of design resources! : : ProofHQ - Product Blog - StumbleUpon. Following the huge success of last year’s “World’s Biggest Ever List of Graphic Design Blogs”, we’ve decided that we should turn it into an annual event – after all, more people than ever before are blogging and the talent pool continues to grow.
This year, we’ve added in some additional categories including typography and image sourcing sites to help you along your way. The list is at least 40% larger than last year and is the one stop shop for all that you could need in terms of inspiration, reference material or tools for you to use. So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen…. drum-roll please! Graphic Design 1stwebdesigner Blog by Dainis Graveris in Latvia covering all things design and freelance. 2expertsdesign A blog filled with tips – whether it’s graphic design, logo design, web design, advertising, branding or typography. 456 Berea Street Blog from Roger Johansson containing articles and tutorials on web standards, accessibility and usability. 72dpi Graphic design inspiration.
Template Monster Blog - StumbleUpon. Though there's a broad variety of fonts available for download online, designers keep on tracing the fresh ones to enhance their design copy, a website, brochure, or even an advertisement in a brand new an' awesome way.
Still, the free stuff could not always boast of good quality – premium goodies always demand some kind of money investment. However, now it's possible to find the appropriate font that's free, clear, beautiful, and effective for design purposes. Many great designers are now offering professional quality fonts completely for free. Today's round-up actually goes outside the standard font variety. We've managed to gather a collection of 50 novelty styled free fonts which you can instantly download and use to add a powerful impact for your designs.
Geomancy Kilogram Tribbon Quadranta Adec Teardrop St Marie Dekar Code Cube Piron Glide Planer Paranoid Circled St Ryde Danger Pincoyablack New Garden Titillium Text Sylar Scriber Mentone Circula Sansation LT Oksana Font V4.0 Lintel Frgmnt Amsterdam. Quickly Build an Abstract Background of Colored Bars. Oftentimes there's a need for a quick but unique design.
In this tutorial, I'll be showing you a short but attractive way to create a graphic for backgrounds, wallpapers, greeting cards, designs, and all that other good stuff. You will learn a simple Photoshop trick that you can easily manipulate for your daily needs. Step 1 First off, let's start by creating a new document and applying the oh-so-obligatory clouds (Filter > Render > Clouds). Step 2 Now that we have our base to work with, apply Mezzotint (Filter > Pixelate > Mezzotint) with type "Long Strokes.
" Step 3 Doesn't look like much right now, but with the magic of motion blur (Filter > Blur > Motion Blur), with an angle of 90 degrees and a distance of 999 for the settings, everything will be better. Step 4 Now add a new layer and overlay some color over it. Step 5 If you feel like being creative, you can tweak some more by changing the curves (Ctrl + M) to make the image either brighter or gloomier depending on the mood. Step 6. Fontsy: great free fonts in one place. Creators of Fontsy.com decided to collect some great free fonts in one place and create a high-quality resource for creative professionals.
Wide range of well categorized font styles give you opportunity to focus on designing what you need and don’t spend hours searching for a right font. As a bonus you can find a helpful package of 150 free Linux fonts and 150 wedding invitation fonts for download. Those of you looking to learn more about typography, a blog section could be a good resource of information. If you don’t have time to download fonts individually, you can get 15.000 fonts ine one package for just $24.90.Here’s a preview of what’s inside Fontsy.comFancyGothicForeign lookTechnoBasicScriptDingbatsHolidayFamous[Screenshot of web]This is a great opportunity for all you web, graphic, font designers out there to get your hands on a large collection of useful font types at a very low price and also way to share your free fonts with others.
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