Addicted to Designs. The Creative Way To Maximize Design Ideas With Type. Advertisement As with most designers, being sure that we explore and select the most successful, memorable and stimulating designs is a vital aspect that underpins every project we undertake.
For us, the beginning of a new challenge has never been as simple as asking ourselves what might be the best avenue to take and then sitting down at a computer and attempting to fulfill that idea. 36 Stunning Magazine and Publication Layouts for your Inspiration. Designspiration — Design Inspiration. Color Scheme Designer 3. 10 Super Useful Tools for Choosing the Right Color Palette. Whether you are designing a clean corporate website or a grunge portfolio site, color is going to play a major role in how the design is perceived by the audience.
That’s why it’s important to get the colors right upfront. There are plenty of tools out there made especially for this, but like anything else some are better than others. Color Theory for Designer, Part 3: Creating Your Own Color Palettes. Advertisement In the previous two parts of this series on color theory, we talked mostly about the meanings behind colors1 and color terminology2.
While this information is important, I’m sure a lot of people were wondering when we were going to get into the nitty-gritty of actually creating some color schemes. Well, that’s where Part 3 comes in. Here we’ll be talking about methods for creating your own color schemes, from scratch. We’ll cover the traditional color scheme patterns (monochrome, analogous, complementary, etc.) as well as how to create custom schemes that aren’t based strictly on any one pattern. Color Theory For Designers, Part 2: Understanding Concepts And Terminology.
Advertisement If you’re going to use color effectively in your designs, you’ll need to know some color concepts and color theory terminology.
A thorough working knowledge of concepts like chroma, value and saturation is key to creating your own awesome color schemes. In Part 1: The Meaning of Color1 of our color theory series, we covered the meanings of different colors. Here, we’ll go over the basics of what affects a given color, such as adding gray, white or black to the pure hue, and its effect on a design, with examples of course. Hue. Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color. Color in design is very subjective.
What evokes one reaction in one person may evoke a very different reaction in somone else. Sometimes this is due to personal preference, and other times due to cultural background. 50+ Beautiful and Creative Poster Designs Inspiration. Posters are one of the best ways of communicating a clients information.
In graphic industry, Poster Design and Poster Printing is one of the most painful areas where clients want to convey everything from company to product to attract the most number of customers. Poster Design represents the essence of your motive. Posters are a great way to showcase one’s creativity. They allow artists to express themselves in countless ways. Unlike other print media, posters do not limit graphic designers with just a certain layouts and design elements.
Poster design is always an integral part of Designers profile. Nowadays, most of the poster designs come with the moto “Less is More”. 30+ Creative and Inspiring Poster Designs. Poster design gives a fantastic canvas for creativity.
Like web designs, posters offer great scope for creativity and innovative graphic design. Posters are often created for DJs, events, nightclubs and other interesting subjects that lend themselves well to creative design work. 22 Professional Photoshop Image Enhancing Tutorials. Adobe Photoshop is the premier tool for digital artists when it comes to professionally enhancing images. Whether you’re a beginner just learning the ropes or an advanced user looking for unique techniques to add to your Photoshop arsenal, you’ll find some tutorials here that you’ll surely want to bookmark. In this article, you’ll discover plenty of tutorials that deal with enhancing images, adding unique and impressive effects, and recreating digital replications of popular traditional photography techniques. 1. Cross Processing You can learn how to apply the Cross Processing film-developing technique digitally to your images by reading through this quick and educational tutorial that leverages the powers of the Curves tool in Photoshop. 2.
Take your ordinary digital photos and simulate the Lomo Photography effect (also known as Lomography) that will apply a dreamy and surreal effect onto your images in this tutorial that uses a Levels Adjustment layer among other Photoshop techniques. 3. Fourandsix Technologies - Photo Tampering throughout History. Thinking with Type. Styles, Weights, Widths — It’s All in the (Type) Family. In a previous Type Basics piece we examined the difference between a typeface and a font.
Both terms refer to a single manifestation of type. In this episode we look at how individual typefaces/fonts relate to each other. A quick note before we start – when we talk about typographic terms there is the official, “correct” terminology, and then there is the commonly accepted terminology. Because of the dramatic technological changes that occurred in the type industry in the previous century definitions have shifted. For example in metal type a font is one single typeface design in one specific point size, which means that metal Palatino 12 pt and Palatino 16 pt are two separate fonts. Typefaces and type families The different variants in a type family demonstrated on FF Scala by Martin Majoor. However – strictly speaking – the “typeface FF Scala” designates FF Scala Regular, and FF Scala Italic is another typeface.
Styles.