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Scouting in Poland through Postcards. 40+ Best Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Buttons and Badges. Creating Buttons and Badges in Adobe Photoshop is easy. There are different kinds of tutorials related in making buttons and badges on the web that can help enhance your photoshop skills. We collected some of the best sources so you can bookmark them in a single place. This post will teach you how to create your own buttons and badges for your website and more. Throughout these tutorials, you will use your Marquee Tool, Shape Tool and Gradient Tool most of the time.

Here are the 40+ Best Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Buttons and Badges you need to learn. Clean and Shining Button for Your Website in Photoshop This tutorial will show you the method on how to create a stylish, clean and shining button for your website in Photoshop. Photoshop tutorial website pill button icon design in photoshop This tutorial will show you how to create Photoshop tutorial website pill button icon design in photoshop.

Vista Styled Button Creating buttons in Photoshop Designing Glossy (Web 2.0) Badges Ads. The art of typography in illustrator tutorials. It is an amazing fact that the written material which we see at the present time is mostly consist of virtual writings because of the reality that the practice of writing through the methodology of pen and paper is going to be obsolete especially in the professional fields at every moment passing. The virtual writings is designed and developed with the utilization of art of typography. The main theme of this resource consists of a specific art and modus operandi of arranging type in order to make the written material able to be seen. These kinds of arrangement of type involves the mixture of exclusive typefaces, point dimension, line distance end to end, leading, adjusting the spaces between each and every cluster of letters as well as adjusting the space between couples of letters in the desired mode.

Create decorative 3D type & swirls Create a Zombie Style Typo using the Blob Brush in Illustrator Create a Custom Paint Marker Typo using the Blob Brush in Illustrator Arr Matey! Create quirky repeating patterns - Tutorials. Create a Sticky Summer Typography Printable Poster in Illustrator. In this tutorial I would like to show you a few techniques on how to create a typography poster perfect for closing of summer. We'll be editing a pre-made font, adjusting a pre-made pattern and using quick and easy techniques to turn a simple illustration into a beautiful poster. 1.

Set Up Your Document We will be creating a standard 18 x 24in poster. Let's begin by creating a New document at that size. When creating the document be sure to change the Document Profile to Print and adjust the units to Inches and ensure the Color Mode is set to CMYK. Since our background design goes to the edge of the paper, this poster requires a bleed. 2. Step 1 With the Artboard complete let's create our color palette that we'll be working off of throughout the piece.

Step 2 With all three of these squares selected go to Object > Blend > Blend Options and enter the following information. 3. Let's now create the background layer that our text will sit on. Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 4. Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 5. Blog Archive Create Grainy Textures. Creating grainy textures are great for retro illustrations, typography, and logos.

Alternatively, you can incorporate these effects into compelling new styles. You can always scan in similar textures and Live Trace them in Illustrator, but you can pretty easily create this type of effect all inside Illustrator! Final Image Here is a sample image of what these techniques can do. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS5 (You should be able to create this tutorial in CS4 and CS3 but some of the tutorial images might look different.)Difficulty: Beginner / IntermediateTopics Covered: Grain Effect, Gradient, Gradient Meshes, BlendsEstimated Completion Time: 15-20 minutes Grainy Textures In the following sections I’ll show you how to create these grainy textures from a couple of different elements within Illustrator.

Gradients Basic First up is gradients. Color Take your same rectangle and fill it with a solid color. Gradient Mesh Blend Quick Tutorial Experiment. Brushes. 25 Free Photoshop Brushes For Designers Photoshop Brushes are valuable for designers and each designer require this. Photoshop Brushes make your design imaginative and stunning. You can easily find a significant amount of Photoshop Brushes over the internet.

I looked for most beautiful Free Photoshop brushes that could helpful for your designs. Today we collected a 25 free Photoshop Brushes for Designers these Photoshop Brushes are free to use and down-loadable. I hope our readers like the collection of Photoshop brushes. Free Photoshop Abstract Brushes Collection We share different photoshop freebies in weekly, every designer need brushes, patterns, textures and free psd files, today we share a free photoshop abstract brushes collection for our readers, these abstract brushes is high resolution and use on photoshop CS all versions. 10+ Photoshope Grunge Brushes For Free Download Photoshop brushes are one of the most useful and often under-rated aspects of the program.

Create A Retro Inspired Business Card. In today’s tutorial Kendra Gaines will be running you through creating a beautiful retro business card in Photoshop. Its a detailed tutorial focusing on all the aspects of the design and creation. People love having there own business cards and won’t it be great to know you can create your own? Let’s find out how Kendra did it. Final Preview Introduction Hey all. As far as knowledge level, I think a beginner could do this tutorial, but of course’ it’d be a bit easier if you’ve been inside Photoshop before. Downloads I love fonts! We are also going to be using a VERY useful pattern as well. Once you download all that stuff, let’s get started! Step 1. So to begin your Print-Ready Business Card, you want to create a New Document in Photoshop.

Step 2. I wanted to use a retro kind of color, so I’ve picked what I think is a ‘dirty pale yellow’ color. On your blank canvas, grab your paint-brush tool (G), and fill it with this yellow color. This is my secondary color–a very deep gray. Step 3. Step 4. Backgrounds. If you feel like your design is missing something but still can’t put your finger on it, you should definitely consider changing the background—or adding one altogether. Background graphics add texture, or an ornamental element, to a design—often completing it and adding a layer of depth to the whole piece of work. Plus, they can be used on their own as wallpapers to give your desktop some personality. And more: Backgrounds set the stage for your designs. A great background complements your work while adding decoration to it to make the entire look stand out.

That’s why even picking the right background is an art! Backgrounds add texture to your projects. There are over 11 thousand background graphics in our collection, so if you’re looking to build the ultimate designer’s kit—this is a great place to start! Abstract backgrounds. And finally, as you explore our background graphics to find the one that's perfect for you, keep in mind that they all share some key features: S Best Photos of pig and pigsty.

Flickr Hive Mind is a search engine as well as an experiment in the power of Folksonomies. All thumbnail images come directly from Flickr, none are stored on Flickr Hive Mind. These photos are bound by the copyright and license of their owners, the thumbnail links take to you to the photos (as well as their copyright and license details) within Flickr. Because some other search engines (Google, etc.) index parts of Flickr Hive Mind, you may have been led here from one of them. Welcome to Flickr Hive Mind, almost certainly the best search engine for photography on the web. If you are a Flickr user and use Flickr Stats you may have seen people being led to your photos via Flickr Hive Mind (as a Referrer). Flickr Hive Mind is a data mining tool for the Flickr photography database, allowing search by: tags(keywords); Flickr photography groups; Flickr users, their contacts, and favorites; free text; the Flickr Explore algorithm for interestingness.

T-Shirt Squares | TheVectorLab: Stock Art for Designers. Also included are 20 displacement maps that accompany the Photoshop PSD files. These displacement map files will allow you to warp your graphic to the shape of the wrinkles in the fabric - so it will look like your graphic is printed on the shirt fabric. It now also comes with PDF instructions showing how to use the displacement map technique described in the video above. These are layered Photoshop and Illustrator files. A transparent fabric layer on top puts the fabric texture look onto your design. The heather layer adds in a heather texture if you choose to make it visible. A color layer below makes it easy to change the color.

Warp your designs and typography with the wrinkles in the shirt using displacement maps. This set comes with both Illustrator EPS and Photoshop PSD files included. Adobe Illustrator EPS version 10 -and- layered Photoshop PSD files - 222 MB - Available for Instant Download. Free Textures from TextureKing. Skin. Hello, welcome to my texture blog. It been going for three years now and features lots of seamless textures (or tileable if that’s how you prefer to say it) that I have made. They are free to download and you can use them for whatever purpose in your projects. All I ask is that any credit and link back here to my blog if you find them useful enough.

I primarily use PaintShop Pro 10 to make my textures. I haven’t really moved on from it since it first got released but hey, I still find it simple and useful to use to make textures. Anyway lots of feedback, likes, +1’s keep me motivated so keep that up too. Thanks What can textures be used for? Video games Games require textures to cover 3d objects (such as characters, inanimate objects and worlds) to enable us to see them on screen. Film The movie industry uses a lot of special effects and 3d animation to make some spectacular movies. Photoshop Wallpaper Textures can be used as background wallpaper for your PC, tablet and phone.