How to Make More Precise Selections with Photoshop’s Select and Mask Making selections and masks is one of the most fundamental Photoshop skills. If you want to change your model’s eye color or remove a pesky photobomber, you need to be able to select only the area of the image you want to effect while keeping everything else safe. There are dozens of ways to create selections and masks in Photoshop, but in the June 2016 update, Adobe brought a lot of them together into one place: the Select and Mask Workspace. Let’s look at how to use it.
23 glorious geometric patterns in design Lately, we've noticed a lot of designers using geometric patterns, shapes and styles in their logo designs, vector art and more. Using these shapes, the designs become a simple yet wholly striking work of art channelling influences from the design era of art deco. Subscription offer We've rounded up our favourite examples of geometric patterns and designs featuring geometric shapes. See what you think... 01.
35 great InDesign tutorials for graphic designers Adobe Creative Cloud's digital publishing platform InDesign has a ton of features which makes it essential for everything from brochure design to eye-catching posters; newsprint publications to screen printing. Here we've rounded up the best InDesign tutorials on the web which walk you through a variety of design projects. You're sure to find something here to stretch your skills, either by jumping directly to a section using the menu below, or just by browsing all 47. Enjoy! Getting started with InDesign
Digital Artist - The Best in Digital Art - Tips, Tricks and Advice Looking for disc files? Click here Improve your portrait paintings by ensuring you get the perfect hues for your skin Mix textures with illustrations for realistic fantasy maps Create authentic demons by sourcing ideas from traditional and modern mythology Take inspiration from winter and start working on a character created out of ice Quick tip for drawing the mythical hippogriff Use this great tip for improving your steampunk pictures by ensuring your metals gleam A quick tip for the best way to use colour in your manga work Learn how to draw convincing evil witch poses in issue 39 of Fantasy Artist Immerse yourself in Frazetta's style and paint better fantasy femme characters This Japanese digital art program is popular with manga artists. We demonstrate the basics of how to find your way around it
All Things Tagged react In the previous article, I gave an Introduction to Storybook and how it can be used to organize and build JavaScript components. Storybook is a UI library that can be used to document components. In this article, I’ll be explaining how to build an interactive UI component using React and Storybook. We’ll be creating a UI component using Storybook and React and at the end of the tutorial, we’ll deploy the storybook as a stand-alone application to serve as a style guide.
55 incredible examples of photo manipulation We present collection of 55 incredible examples of photo manipulation. Some of them... you may know already, but another ones... could be new for you. What I'm sure about... all of them are simply worth of your attention. AdAge Top 15 Campaigns of the 21st Century Many ad campaigns over the years have sold soap. Fewer have tried to change societal notions about beauty. Even fewer have tried to do both. Dove’s “Campaign for Real Beauty” is the campaign that did it. The campaign that had its origins in London and Canada with a billboard asking motorists to vote on whether the women pictured were “fat or fit?” or “wrinkled or wonderful?”
How to Create Scotch Tape in Photoshop Welcome to PhotoshopStar.com! If you find this site useful, you might want to subscribe to our free newsletter for updates on our new Photoshop Tutorials and Articles. Are you interested in learning how to make realistic Scotch tape by using Photoshop tools? Resources - The Graphic Mac You may recall that I’ve written about Advise in the past, but they’ve changed their name and domain to adJelly. If you missed my previous write-up about them, adJelly offers a fantastic collection of specs for all the most popular social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn and more. You simply select the social media site you’re creating ads, images or graphics for in the left column and you’re presented with all the specs you’ll need.
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27 Adobe Photoshop Cheat Sheets and Quick Reference Cards for Adobe Photoshop CS4, CS3, CS2 and Below 27 Adobe Photoshop Cheat Sheets and Quick Reference Cards for Adobe Photoshop CS4, CS3, CS2 and Below I would be hard pressed to find a web designer or graphic designer who doesn’t like a helpful Photoshop Quick Reference Card or Cheat Sheet. Cheat Sheets can help you save so much time and can really help you learn about Adobe Photoshop in an easy to understand format. I have gathered a list of Adobe Photoshop cheat sheets that I have found to be the most helpful. 18 Exceptionally Useful Photoshop Shortcuts
The 25 Winners of the Print Celebrates Design Competition Justin Ahrens challenges common ideas of what design success is and discusses how it is achieved by other means. This eye-opening video will broaden design’s potential for self-gratification and improving the world. Designers are makers—all day, every day. Dimensions Of A Paper Sizes - A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, A10 - In Inches & mm A Paper Sizes - Quick Lookup Select the standard paper size from the 'Size' selector and the unit from the 'Unit' selector - the dimensions will be shown in the dimensions box. The dimensions of the A series paper sizes, as defined by the ISO 216 standard, are given in the table to the right of the diagram in both millimetres and inches (cm measurements can be obtained by dividing mm value by 10). The A Series paper size chart, below left, gives a visual representation of how the sizes relate to each other - for example A5 is half of A4 size paper and A2 is half of A1 size paper. A Series Paper Sizes Chart.