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Inspirationfeed - be inspired! How to Design a Stylish Event Flyer. 40 Top-Notch Print Based Tutorials. There don’t seem to be enough print related tutorials online, so in this round up I wanted to cover as many print specific articles as possible.

40 Top-Notch Print Based Tutorials

I also wanted to mix in some that weren’t directly print related, but that help create print related products like movie posters, ads, cd covers, etc. The tutorials in this post cover the use of Photoshop, InDesign, and even Illustrator. I think when learning about print it is important to understand how to use the programs that are designed for print such as InDesign, and not just using Photoshop as a default application for everything. 30+ Fantastic Flyer Design Inspirations. 25+ Photoshop Tutorials for Poster Design. For Photoshop users who are interested in experimenting and learning something new, poster design is an excellent way to practice.

25+ Photoshop Tutorials for Poster Design

With a large canvas area and unlimited possibilities, there is plenty of room for creativity. Last year I published a collection of tutorials for designing posters in Photoshop. Since other outstanding tutorials have been published since then, today we’ll feature another 28 tutorials. Looking for hosting? WPEngine offers secure managed WordPress hosting. 50+ Easy to Follow Photoshop Poster Tutorials. Creating an Urban-Style Piece of Artwork. While grunge has its origins in the 90s, recently the style has been gaining in popularity once more.

Creating an Urban-Style Piece of Artwork

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a dirty, urban-style image using both well-known techniques as well as a few new ones. You will learn to easily extract complex shapes and we will also create our own grunge texture. What We're Making This is the final image we will create: Preparation This tutorial is very stock-heavy. Step 1 Before we start with the stock, we will quickly create a texture for later use. So create a new document. Add a new layer and go to Filter > Render > Clouds. Now again, add some noise by going to Filter > Noise > Add Noise and use the previous settings. Step 2 Now use Filter > Brush Strokes > Splatter with Spray Radius = 20 and Smoothness = 5. Step 3 Go to Select > Color Range, choose Highlights, hit OK, and you will see that random areas in your texture are now selected. Step 4 You can do that by using the Pen Tool (P). 25 Creative and Challenging Vector Poster Design Tutorials.

Jump into this roundup of some of the most creative and challenging vector poster design tutorials on the web.

25 Creative and Challenging Vector Poster Design Tutorials

There is a large assortment of styles and approaches here to review, from spacey psychedelic poster design, to geometrically influenced poster design, to robotic stomping power, to retro aesthetics and more. Check out these inspiring poster design tutorials. Blend and Mask Yourself a Great Poster Veerle Pieters shows us how to create a strong geometric central poster design, which utilizes flowing blends, masked shapes, and subtle gradients, to create a sophisticated final work.

She covers each step of creating this work in detail and uses a quick workflow that uses tools like Smart Guides to speed things up. The Making of 3 – A Limited Edition Poster Design To celebrate the third birthday of Chris Spooner's blog Spoon Graphics, he created a limited edition poster design. Making of "Robot Earth 3009" Typographic Illustration. QR (Quick Response) Code Guide - Tips, Resources & Showcase.

Posted on 02'11 Nov Posted on November 2, 2011 along with 30 JUST™ Creative Comments This is a guest article contributed by Simon Goble.

QR (Quick Response) Code Guide - Tips, Resources & Showcase

–QR or Quick Response Codes have been around since 1994 and were originally used to track parts during car manufacture. It is likely you have seen one, even if you didn’t know what it was, usually displayed as black and white squares in a grid pattern reminiscent of a crossword. Essentially QR Codes are a barcode capable of holding significantly more information (thousands of characters as opposed to tens). Around October 2010 they became a popular tool to quickly link smartphone users through to web pages, provided the phone had a relevant reader installed. So How Are QR Codes Used? Art Grinding-Studying for EXP and trying to LVL up! Free New Twitter PSD Background Template. Coffee Stain Social Networking Icons Tutorial.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create the Coffee Stain Social Bookmarking Icons found on WebTreats ETC.

Coffee Stain Social Networking Icons Tutorial

Download and install the following great, free Photoshop shapes and brushes: Click here for help installing photoshop presets. The easiest way to install any photoshop preset is to simply drag the files into Photoshop, but it doesn’t always work. If the drag and drop method doesn’t work for you, you will need to find the appropriate presets folder and drop your files in there. BRUSHES (.abr) WINDOWS: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop (version)\Presets\Brushes\ MAC: /Users/(username)/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop (version)/Presets/Brushes SHAPES (.csh) WINDOWS: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop (version)\Presets\Custom Shapes\ MAC: /Users/(username)/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop (version)/Presets/Custom Shapes Start by creating a nice coffee stained paper background.