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How To Create Great Typographic Wallpaper In Photoshop

How To Create Great Typographic Wallpaper In Photoshop
This tutorial will teach you how to create a really interesting and unique typographic wallpaper in few easy steps. Even a beginner will be able to recreate this effect, and add their own style and thought in it; I am sure you will enjoy and learn a lot from this tutorial! You will learn how to create good looking background, add lightning effects and work with fonts, sizes, colors to make the necessary places stand out! Let’s get started! Step 1 – Creating background First, open a blank document with size 1920×1200 pixels. Set layer opacity to 50%. Step 2 – Lightning Create a new layer and name it Lighting. Draw the gradient as shown below. Set layer to Overlay and opacity to 55%. Step 3 – Adding Brushes Download Adys grunge brushes, create new layer and brush around a little bit. Step 4 – Creating Main Text Download BEBAS font, create a new layer and type your text. Step 5 – Add Background Text – Important Step Lower your text opacity to around 15%. Step 6 – Creating effect

Top Ten Web Typography Sins - Smashing Magazine Advertisement By Steven D. While many designers have been quick to embrace web standards, it’s surprising how often the basic standards of typography are neglected. Here are ten deadly sins to avoid in your web typography: 1. If you need to interrupt yourself, do it with an em dash (—) instead of a pair of minus signs. 2. Most fonts provide a dedicated ellipsis character (…) to keep your type tidy. 3. These straight “up and down” quotes used in your markup should stay in your markup. 4. The antiquated practice of double-spacing between sentences seemed like it was finally laid to rest thanks to web typography. 5. Not only is it ugly and lazy, a copyright symbol hacked together out of a capital C and parenthesis might not even cut the mustard in court. 6. You can bold text. 7. Underlines cut right through the descenders in your typeface, making it harder to read. 8. 9. 10. About the author Editor’s note This post is one of the finalists of our guest author contest1. It's done.

Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text Take typography one step further by having text falling from the sky in a burning inferno. Yes, this is the text-on-fire tutorial to end all tutorials. It uses a little Illustrator for the text and a lot of Photoshop to burn up the screen! In previous tutorials you've seen two smoke effects that I've created, but let's face it, you can't have smoke without a fire somewhere. It's always a good idea to keep your eyes open for inspiration for effects and designs no matter what you are doing. Step 1 First create a new document and fill it with a dark grey. Step 2 Create a new layer, call it "Clouds," and using the Lasso Tool (L), make a selection similar to the one I've shown below. Set your background color to a 50% grey and the foreground to a dark grey. This layer will be on top of the others. Step 3 Create another layer and repeat Step 2, but this time just change the background color from 50% gray to a blue or green color. Step 4 Now we'll switch to Adobe Illustrator to create some text.

Tilt-Shift Photography Photoshop Tutorial | Miniature Faking | T This tutorial will walk you through how to create a tilt-shift image in Photoshop. It has been produced using Photoshop CS2 on a PC. Once you finish your tilt-shift image, make sure you upload your image for everyone to see. Gear PageSubmit Your Images Step 1: Photo Selection When choosing a photograph for the tilt-shift effect, bear in mind that you want to give the impression of a miniature model. For this tilt-shift photography Photoshop tutorial, we are using a picture of Times Square during a typical day: Even before the tilt-shift effect has been applied, it’s not too hard to imagine the scene as if it were a model. To find an appropriate image, we suggest you browse through the flickr tilt-shift fakes pool. Step 2. Open the image in Photoshop and enter Quick Mask Mode by pressing Q on the keyboard, or select the Quick Mask icon as shown in the Tool Palette below: Step 3. Choose the Gradient Tool by pressing G on the keyboard, or select the Gradient Tool icon. Step 4. Step 5. Step 6.

The Showcase Of BIG Typography – Second Edition - Smashing Magazine Advertisement In Web typography doesn’t have to support the overall design. It can dominate. It can be loud. Few months ago we have already presented some sites with quite BIG typography. Please take a look at the following posts as well: The Showcase Of BIG Typography Designfabrika4Görsel Işler’s porotfolio with a vibrant typography from Turkey. Defining the Designer of 20155AIGA uses only typography in its design and uses it effectively. Azzabee.com.au6Azzabee uses big typography in a rotating Flash-based promo. Natl.tv7National Television is a project which uses bold, loud and sexy typography within a Flash-based design. Fl-28Apparently, Fl-2, a design agency from Denver, Colorado, has a clear focus on typography. Neubau BerlinLetters, letters, letters. JLern Design9JLern Design presents the typography from a quite unusual perspective. Are you a virgin? Hungry Man11Hungry man seems to be hungry for job as well. 256tm.com12256TM is a font foundry by Thomas Huot-Marchand. Mike Precious18

Smoke Type in Photoshop in 10 Steps Last week I decided to upgrade to the new Adobe CS4 apps, as usual I did my backups and of course I forgot very important things, such as my Photoshop Brushes and Patterns. I hate when that happens, but it does happen all the time. So I had to look for my brushes and I found some really cool new ones and decided to play a bit with them and with the new Adobe Photoshop CS4. In this tutorial I will show you how to create a smoke typography effect playing with some brushes and adjustment layers. It's a very easy tutorial and you will be able to do the whole process in 5-10 minutes. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document, I used 1920x1200 pixels. Step 2 Add some text in white then go to Filter>Blur>Motion Blur. Step 3 Now go to Filter>Distort>Wave. use 3 for the Number of Generators, 10 and 346 for the Wavelength, and 5 and 35 for the Amplitude. Step 4 Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Step 5 Step 6 Create a new Folder on the Layers' Palette. Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Conclusion

50 Stunning Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials - Smashing Magazine Photoshop’s text and layer tools can be used to create some really awesome effects. We’ve put together a list of 60 of the best tutorials we could find to help you stay up to date on the latest trends and techniques. You’ll find some really cool grunge and glass styles (plus a few surprises!) and learn how some of the best designers create their unique effects. Courtesy: LemonDesign1 Instead of listing 100 plus tutorials that you’ll bookmark never to come back, we’ve decided to take you through the basics of typography, hopefully inspiring and then teaching you. You may want to take a look at the following related posts: Introduction to Typography Link Typography is the art of arranging type, designing type, and modifying type glyphs. Here are some resources to give you further insight: The Wisest Mind Has Something Yet to Learn Link And we, too, never stop being inspired, learning and creating: How to Choose the Right Type Link Guess if you can, choose if you dare. Resources to Live by Link

Create Smokey Typography in 12 Steps Final Image This is the final image that we’ll be creating: User Suggestion This tutorial is actually a suggestion of some of our visitors. I always welcome user suggestions and would love to get your ideas for future tutorials. Images/Files Used Here is a list of images and files used in this tutorial: Step 1 Open up a new document (600X250px) and create a new layer called ‘black background’. Step 2 Now add some white text to the center of your canvas. Step 3 Now duplicate your text layer. Step 4 Now paste in an image of some smoke. Step 5 Now select a large, soft eraser brush at a low opacity (around 10%) and erase the edges of your smoke image. Step 6 Now repeat the same technique with another smoke image. Step 7 Add some more smoke, being sure to erase parts of each image until things are looking good. Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12

5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web - Smashing Magazine There are some basic approaches, guidelines and goals to consider when working with type on the Web. Overall, the medium of Web typography involves readability, accessibility, usability, and brandability. On the Web, these aspects function together to accomplish design’s goals of communication and user interaction. There are many ways to approach Web typography in order to create effective and expressive results. 1. In web design every typographic decision needs to simultaneously accomplish a variety of results. In some cases, this poses a problem. deviate from the brand guidelines to maintain optimal search engine friendliness or use an image replacement solution which embeddes the required font in an image ( statically 5 or dynamically 6 ) or consider using sIFR 7 , a rich Flash-based dynamic font embedding technique which allows not only for embedding fonts into content presentation but also interacting with them (almost) as you would do with plain text. 2. 3. 4. 5. Conclusion

3D Text Shatter Effect Tutorial I’m going to show you how to make a 3D text shatter effect. This effect is made in two programs, Cinema 4D and Photoshop.If you haven’t heard of Cinema 4D before it is a relatively easy to use 3d application, it is quite similar to 3dsMax or Maya. I will go pretty in depth with the Cinema 4D part, for all the inexperienced users, so bare with me if I go too slow. Now enough chit chat, let’s jump in. Required Resources In this tutorial we will be using some resources you will want to download before starting: (Optional) Cinema 4d material *NEW* – We just released a font that you can download that creates a similar effect. Final Image Preview Step 1: Creating the basic text Open up Cinema 4D and make a text object Write “Media Militia” in the text object Now rotate your text object: 90* on the X axis and -90* on the Y axis Create an Extrude NURBS object And drop your text in it Change the object properties of the Extrude NURBS to 0 / 0 / 35 Rename your object “Media Militia” Add 350 to the offset

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