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Striped Backgrounds. 40 Must Learn Text Effect Tutorials in Illustrator. Tutorials January 31, 2011 The love of creating text effects has become a common ground for many designers and enthusiasts. Indeed, it has even become an art form in itself. It would be best to learn from other artists every now and then. Check out these 40 Must Learn Text Effect Tutorials in Illustrator and be inspired to create your own masterpieces; you could even share your work with the rest of the world right in the comments below! Create a Green Viscous Text Effect In this tutorial you will use illustrator’s 3D tools to add dimension on the text, and then add a green viscous text effect.. Learn to Create a Variety of Script Lettering This tutorial will showcase three different approaches, which result in three different script lettering styles. starting with a nice simple basic script, touch on a more athletic inspired lettering style and work along the way to a classic, fancy script.

How to create a glassy text effect in Illustrator How to Create an Entangled Lettering Illustration. 50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory. 1,200+ courses and ebooks Design, code, video editing, business, and much more. Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesignGraphic, Logo and Print DesignSketch, Adobe XD & FigmaWordPressJavascript, PHP & PythonAdobe After Effects & Premiere ProMuch More Millions of creative assets Design templates, stock videos, photos & audio, and much more. Graphic TemplatesStock PhotosMusic TracksVideo TemplatesWeb TemplatesDesign AssetsWordpress Themes & PluginsMuch More 1,200+ courses and ebooks Design, code, video editing, business, and much more. Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesignGraphic, Logo and Print DesignSketch, Adobe XD & FigmaWordPressJavascript, PHP & PythonAdobe After Effects & Premiere ProMuch More Millions of creative assets Design templates, stock videos, photos & audio, and much more.

Graphic TemplatesStock PhotosMusic TracksVideo TemplatesWeb TemplatesDesign AssetsWordpress Themes & PluginsMuch More. 99 Useful Resources for Graphic Designers. Articles September 27, 2007 I have used every one of these resources as a graphic designer and website developer and have hand picked all of these resources based on their usefulness and overall quality. I hope you find these resources as useful as I do! Enjoy! Organizations 1. www.gag.org The Graphic Artists Guild promotes and protects its members and is committed to improving conditions for all graphic designers and the whole industry.

They also produce the well known Graphic Artists Guild Handbook which is an essential part of any designers library. 2. www.aiga.org AIGA, the professional association for design is dedicated to protecting and advancing design and its importance to society. Education 3. www.guidetoonlineschools.com Guide To Online Schools is an education directory that specializes in online degrees, online schools, and distance learning. 4. www.getdegrees.com Getdegrees features the nations best online degrees from over 300 colleges. Generally Useful 9. Stock Photography. "What Font Should I Use?": Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces. Advertisement For many beginners, the task of picking fonts is a mystifying process. There seem to be endless choices — from normal, conventional-looking fonts to novelty candy cane fonts and bunny fonts — with no way of understanding the options, only never-ending lists of categories and recommendations.

Selecting the right typeface is a mixture of firm rules and loose intuition, and takes years of experience to develop a feeling for. Here are five guidelines for picking and using fonts that I’ve developed in the course of using and teaching typography. 1. Dress For The Occasion Many of my beginning students go about picking a font as though they were searching for new music to listen to: they assess the personality of each face and look for something unique and distinctive that expresses their particular aesthetic taste, perspective and personal history.

The most appropriate analogy for picking type. 2. 1. 2. Examples of Humanist Sans: Gill Sans, Frutiger, Myriad, Optima, Verdana. 3. 4. Peter Jaworowski's Portfolio. 100 Best Illustrator Tutorials of All Time (From Newbie to Pro) Adobe Illustrator is the most powerful vector software on the planet, and whether you’re using it alone, or in a workflow with other tools such as a 3D program, Photoshop, InDesign, or something else, it can be a great asset to any designer’s arsenal. However, Illustrator is also one of the most daunting programs to learn how to use, with a vast array of tools and features at your fingertips. Some high quality tutorials will go a long way to easing the process, and get you up and going on your own vector creations. In our sequel to the Best Photoshop tutorials of all time, today we have the best Illustrator tutorials ever created and showcased on the web.

Whether you want to learn the basics, or something a bit more advanced, this list has it all, from vector characters, icon tutorials, coveted infographic tutorials (which are in high demand), or graphic-design illustration tutorials, this collection of the best Illustrator tutorials will be sure to help you out. Elements of Great Web Design: The Polish. When I put together designs, I usually do so in two phases - Layout and Polish. During the layout phase, I place the main objects on the page usually finishing with something that looks relatively complete. In the second stage - the Polish - I go over the design and adjust colors, type treatments, shadows, layers, and generally clean it all up.

In this first of a series of tutorials on web design, we'll be looking at the Polish. A Short Preface Unlike with Photoshop effects, Web design can't really be taught in a set of easily repeatable steps. If you look at most great Web designs, they are not difficult to reproduce technically. You could probably screenshot a design, put it into Photoshop and then replicate the same design layer by layer. For this reason, in these tutorials on Web design I am going to try a few different techniques to convey different aspects of the process that I personally go through when designing a Web site. Step 1 - Clarity: Step 2 - Light and Shade: Step 4: Step 5: Portal for freelance illustrators and agents - Illustrationweb.com. Typography Poster Design Inspiration.

You may ask yourself before designing a poster how should it looks like, what do you have to point out and how to arrange your text. First. think for what do you want to design the poster, think about the category, services and what does the company / event etc, wants to point out. For example a poster for a new cinema in your town should be movies related and point out that there is a new cinema. Should attract people’s eye so they read that they have a new cinema in their town and go to the premier free movie. I took this example because it’s really easy to think at. What should you point out is the typography that let’s people know about the cinema, so that’s the first and most important step.

What did I mean above is that the typography plays an essential step in poster designs because if we think more about it, the typography (text) communicate the message. What’s even better than a poster design ? The Best Freeware for Small Businesses. For too many people, the phrase “free software” conjures up images of pirated brand-name applications or poorly supported third-class programs. If that’s what you think of freeware, you’re missing an opportunity to save your business a lot of cash. While most of your employees will be more familiar with heavily marketed commercial programs such as Microsoft Office (let’s call this class “payware”), they won’t take long to learn how to use freeware alternatives such as LibreOffice. For this roundup, I’ll examine five software categories of significant interest to small businesses--productivity suites, photo editors, website design programs, project management tools, and computer management utilities--and name the best freeware alternatives to the most well-known payware packages in each.

Productivity Suites Payware: Microsoft Office 2010 Cost: $350 per PC for Microsoft Office Professional 2010; $200 per PC for Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 Cost: $0 Photo Editing Cost: $699. Free Downloads: A Collection of Rusted Textures. Resources June 15, 2010 Rust often signifies age and dirt that others may not want to have in their work. With designers, however, rust is viewed in a different aspect.

Most especially if the rustiness can be used or applied as material for design projects, depending on its style and the projects’ goals. A Collection of Rusted Textures is compiled in this next post as a cool resource for designers of all ages. Metal Rust Texture 22 Download Source Nether Flesh Download Source Wall Texture Download Source Merlin Download Source Metal Rust Texture 05 Download Source Textureville Download Source Rusty – texture Download Source Rust texture pack Download Source Fired wall Download Source Rust Texture Pack 01 Download Source Rust textures Download Source Coloured Rust VI Download Source Rust texture 6 Download Source 6 Rusted Stone Textures Download Source Metal Rust Texture 20 Download Source Rust Download Source Download Source Monster Monster Download Source Rust Row Download Source Rusty metal gate Download Source burned Skip 2.

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[CG Textures] - Textures for 3D, graphic design and Photoshop! PhotoShop. Ilustrator. Logo. Lackadaisy Expressions. Boy, I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I started this. I've had requests for some sort of expressions tutorial dating back a while now, so I figured, "Sure! I can explain expression drawing...and it'll be way better than all those tutorials out there that are nothing but charts of generic expressions. Yeah! Just give me a day or two to whip something up... " Um. Anyway, I found all I could really do was try to explain ways to teach yourself...and then add some pictures.