Vector Art with Photoshop -Photoshop Tutorial Tutorial Links: Page 1 | Page 2 Vector art is REALLY popular at the moment. Everyone is making vector art. It’s not hard to do and you don’t need to be able to draw to create it. In this tutorial I hope to shed some light on how to make vector art and more importantly how to make really great vector art with Adobe Photoshop. In order to even start to think about doing this tutorial YOU MUST KNOW HOW TO USE THE PEN TOOL. Don’t merge or rasterize your shape layers. To see a better sized version of the finished vector just click HERE I suggest you read through the entire tutorial before you begin…
Free All-in-One Graphic Design Starter Kit Graphic design has an amazing community. Comprised of both the vets from the pre-computer era to the newbies who were raised on the internet and computer-editing applications, there is a huge gamut of people sharing their work and expertise online. I know when I was starting out in design, I found tons of inspiration and information from sites like JustCreativeDesign, DesignNewz, and more. If there’s one issue, however, it’s that there’s almost too much great information out there. But for those designers just starting out, or for those designers who are considering getting into design, the amount of information can be a little overwhelming. This “kit” was originally intended to be a zipped file containing all of the links below; however, it clocked in at about half a gigabyte, which I thought most people wouldn’t want to sit and download (plus it would put a strain on our hosting). Software GIMP (Snow Leopard) (Leopard) (Windows) Inkscape (OSX) (Windows) Kompozer (OSX) (Windows) EBooks
Design Maze - 2008 February Entries The soar of digital technology has revolutionised art by increasing the possibilities an artist may have for expressing and communicating messages that cannot be otherwise articulated with words. Adobe Photoshop is a unique fantastic tool that comes with a set of filters that assist in creating art by using photographs. These filters bundled with layers and masks and an infinite possibility to use existing brushes and patterns as well as creating new ones opens a world of magic to any graphic artist. I have created the art work here by using an original picture of a red rose and a combination of filters and adjustment layers. My plan is to update this site with some of my Photoshop work as well as creating simple entries that can be followed for fun as well as learning that extra Photoshop trick. Feel free to download my "Dark Rose" and send it to your Valentine.
How To Create A Vibrant Image Using Photoshop In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to add more energy and dynamism to a photo. The effects can be extended and used on a multitude of photos to create a feeling of motion and vibrancy to a static image. The tutorial was created and written by renowned artist Mike Harrison (a.k.a. destill) and this is his first tutorial for a blog. OK, enough of an introduction, and on with the tutorial… Step 1 Start by choosing an image similar to this one of someone jumping in the air (original image). Step 2 Drag your image into the new document and grab the pen tool, carefully start adding point by point until you’ve drawn around the entire body of the girl. Step 3 With a blank background, let’s create some instant depth to this piece by adding a gradient. Step 4 Now I sometimes like to get colour palette and tone sorted early, and in the case of this piece let’s do just that. Step 5 Let’s give some pop to the girl and add some lighting. Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Looking good? Step 10 Step 11 Step 12 Step 13
photoshop sand writing Nov 20 Posted by on Under Photoshop A colleague from the office asked me some time ago about writing on sand in photoshop. I came up with a quick solution at that time which wasn’t very realistic but did the job. This morning I was fooling around with my tablet when I remembered about this and decided to check how far you can go in Photoshop to achieve photo-realistic sand drawing effect. For this tutorial you will need a beach or desert sand photo in a perpendicular view angle similar to the below. Once you have the photo ready you can begin drawing the shape or just import it in Photoshop. After you draw the shape double-click the layer or right-click on layer and choose Blending Options. To make this more realistic we need to use a texture for the Bevel effect. Now activate Inner Shadow option and add the values as in the image. To make the drawing background transparent and in our case make it look like actual sand and not a plain color we need to make the following setting.
20+ Must See Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011 jQuery gives developers the chance to enrich websites with amazing elements without the need to write dozens of lines of code. This post presents advanced and cutting-edge jQuery plugins that will enhance your web designs tremendously. Full screen background slideshow plugin for jQuery. The main idea is to have a grid layout created with jQuery Masonry. View more expand the according item to fullscreen in order to show a longer description of the item and a representative fullscreen background image. Quovolver is a simple extension for jQuery that takes a group of quotes and displays them on your page in an elegant way. Smart spin is a jQuery spin button plugin that mimics the very common windows spin button control. FitText makes font-sizes flexible. Creating custom dropdowns is usually a tedious process that requires a ton of extra setup time. Remember that awesome music player psd created by Orman Clark? A simple jQuery circular content carousel.
30 Chilling Winter Photoshop Tutorials In mid winter, we decided to help you enhance your Photoshop skills and pump up your inspiration, by presenting a showcase of 30 awesome Photoshop tutorials related to this time of year. Learn how to create snow, ice, candles, Christmas trees and decorations, blog themes, snowmen and even animations. Some people prefer video tutorial, while some will go for the written ones. We covered that too. Apply Awesome Realistic Snow Effects to Your Photos This tutorial will show you in detail how to add realistic looking snow to your photos. We will be using a house in a sunny green environment to apply our snow effects to. Ice, Snow, Winter Time In this tutorial we’ll teach you a very simple and basic approach on how to add snow and ice to any object(s) or surface(s) using just photoshop with its default brushes and settings. Create a Grunge Snowboard Poster for the Winter Olympics In this tutorial we’re going to put together a cool grungy poster design for the upcoming Vancouver Winter Olympics.
20 More Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know Back in October we wowed you with 20 Excellent Ajax Effects You Should Know. The post went on to become one of the most popular ever published at Nettuts+. This time around we have twenty more equally excellent Ajax effects for you to know and love. 1. The Image Menu is a simple piece of JavaScript that uses images to make a horizontal image menu. 2. ImageFlow is an unobtrusive and "user friendly" JavaScript image gallery script. 3. If you're looking to add some interesting backgrounds, rotations and other effects to images, Instant.js might be just what you're looking for. 4. We've all heard of Lightboxes and even Greyboxes, but how about GlassBoxes? 5. Auto-completing search fields are highly valuable when it comes user interaction. CSSGlobe has a very nice tutorial on how to enhance your site's searchfield (unobtrusively, no less) with a bit of CSS and Ajax. 6. Loading images and fields are important to modern web applications that use Ajax. 7. jwysiwyg 8. jquery.biggerlink 2 10. 11.
Please, sweat the small stuff This is one of those “allow me to vent” write-ups that I hope isn’t too harsh but ultimately does the greater design community a favor. Some of you are likely already practicing what I’ll preach, but I see it missed frequently enough that it’s in need of a gentle reprimand. It involves two things: 1) images that are transformed to a size, say, 75% or smaller from the original size, and 2) the Unsharp Mask filter. Here’s the setting: You receive a large image from a client, probably a 300 dpi shot of their building. Some of us stop there and post to the site. Here’s a sample shot, with the original resized photo at left, and the same resized photo with Unsharp Mask at right: Notice the difference? You lose some clarity in the original image when you resize to a smaller state, and the Unsharp Mask helps restore some of that clarity. And it’s a snap to use. I generally choose a range between 35% and 50%, and I rarely choose a value over 75%. Here’s another example: End of class.
Perfect Full Page Background Image Learn Development at Frontend Masters This post was originally published on August 21, 2009 and is now updated as it has been entirely revised. Both original methods are removed and now replaced by four new methods. The goal here is a background image on a website that covers the entire browser window at all times. Let’s put some specifics on it: Fills entire page with image, no white spaceScales image as neededRetains image proportions (aspect ratio)Image is centered on pageDoes not cause scrollbarsAs cross-browser compatible as possibleIsn’t some fancy shenanigans like Flash Image above credited to this site. Awesome, Easy, Progressive CSS3 Way We can do this purely through CSS thanks to the background-size property now in CSS3. Works in: Safari 3+Chrome Whatever+IE 9+Opera 10+ (Opera 9.5 supported background-size but not the keywords)Firefox 3.6+ (Firefox 4 supports non-vendor prefixed version) View Demo CSS-Only Technique #1 Big thanks, as usual, to Doug Neiner for this alternate version.
40 Online Design Blogs To Turn You Into a Photoshop Guru I think everyone is aware of the fact that Photoshop is one of most powerfulest graphic design applications around. Photoshop has so many features and functions so in order to learn how to master each little feature its essential to do Photoshop tutorials which will teach you specific techniques in order to master photoshop. This article we have decided to collect good and also popular design blogs which offer high quality Photoshop tutorials, there’s hundreds of Photoshop blogs but these are some design blog which are consistently pump out good content and potentially following their tutorials could turn you into a Photoshop guru. 1. Design Chair is a design blog which ran by the Creative Nerds team. 2. PSD Tuts is the best online design Photoshop resource for designers looking to learn Photoshop or even master Photoshop. 3. 4. As you may have guessed from the name PSDFAN provides Photoshop tutorials. 5. 6. 10Steps 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
12 Excellent CSS3 Button and Menu Techniques | Tutorials 1139 shares 20 Fresh CSS3 Tutorials The design industry is probably one of the fastest changing and growing. Designers have to keep their eyes on everything, including new trends in visual design, as well as interaction technologies like jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3. Designers are using these technologies to express more creativity in design production and make user experience richer. Read More 559 shares Developing Streamlined and Efficient CSS Styles CSS can be compared to the sculptor’s tool set when crafting a sculpture.
Photoshop Tutorials & Adobe Photoshop Plugins CSS3 drop shadow Until a while ago, web developers were forced to learn Photoshop or count with a trustful graphic designer to help them with things like shadows, gradients and stuff, this because there was no method to create these elements directly on CSS. Then the world saw the release of CSS3 with its fantastic features, which included of course making shadows. On this post we have gathered a big list with some of the best resources to let you know a little bit more about CSS3 shadows, you will find useful tutorials, great plugins and code examples, shadow generators and a few extra links. Our best of the best Without wanting to sound pretentious, we’ve just released a fantastic (and FREE) CSS3 shadow generator in ThemeShock, the tool incorporates tons of features and great accessibility to help you make the most astounding shadows with CSS only. Open CSS3 Shadow Generator Open CSS Text Effects Generator Tutorials Advanced pure CSS3 boxes without using images Box-shadow: shadow effect on elements in CSS3