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How to: Make a Hand-Drawn Font 

If our freebies have benefited you personally or have helped you earn a profit please consider donating via paypal. Donate Now Before I start, let me say that this is by no means the only way to make a hand drawn font. 1. I like to use India Ink and a primitive Bamboo Pens (above) to draw my characters, but you can even just use a pencil and paper if you like. 2. Take whatever tools you choose to use and start cranking out letter forms. 3. Next, I scan the images in at a relatively high resolution. 4. In order to get a better final result, I adjust the contrast of the scan. 5. I use an “outline font editor” (FontLab Studio) which is another way to say that the final product needs to be a vector. 6. Vectorize your image using Live Trace to get the results your happy with, then hit “Expand.” 7. After you Live Trace, ungroup the objects. 8. After ungrouping I use the Magic Wand tool, and click on any of the white space in and around the letters. So now all that remains is the black shapes.

Tutorial: como crear fuego en Photoshop | Ración Individual de Personalidad Ea, aqui va un tutorial, que hacia tiempo que no hacia ninguno. Hoy va de hacer fuego en PS y controlarlo ;) Empezamos creando una imagen nueva (Ctrl+N) del tamaño que nos apetezca, aunque teniendo en cuenta que el tamaño de las “llamas” que vamos a crear será siempre el mismo, y por lo tanto, a más grande la imagen, más pequeñas aparecerán las nubes relativamente a ella. Teniendo escogidos como colores base el blanco y el negro, renderizamos unas nubes de diferencia (Filters > Render >Difference Clouds) Renderizamos entonces en esa misma capa nubes de diferencia (Filters > Render >Difference Clouds). Creamos una capa nueva encima de la anterior (Layer > New > New Layer, o Ctrl + Shift + N). Ponemos esta capa de degradado en modo de fusión Overlay. Creamos encima de todo una nueva capa de ajuste (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map), y creamos un gradiente con colores similares a los que veis en la imagen, a vuestro gusto. Ahora explicaré como ‘controlar’ el fuego. RufoHG 2009

Typographic Marks Unknown | Retinart There are many typographic marks which are familiar to most, but understood by few. Most of these glyphs have interesting histories and evolutions as they survived the beatings given to them through rushed handwriting of scribes and misuses through history. They now mostly live on our keyboards and in our software, and a few are used often, so it seems only fitting to know where they come from and how to correctly use them. The Pilcrow History of the Pilcrow Replacing another symbol, the paragraphos, to become the new mark representing a paraph—a new line of thought or break in text—it evolved over time through the natural development of handwriting. Using the Pilcrow Initially the pilcrow was used to separate blocks of text, rather than dividing them with space. While graphic designers, and especially those outside the field, would have no major need to think about using the pilcrow, it is worth noting that they can be a pleasure to design for our typographic friends. The Ampersand Asterisk

Vectorizar una fresa con Illustrator | Tutoriales en la Web Vectorizar una fresa con Illustrator Posteado el 10. Mar, 2010 por Webi in Illustrator En este tutorial en la web aprenderemos como dibujar una fresa utilizando Illustrator. Con la herramienta Pen Tool crear una forma como la que se ve en la imagen y aplicarle un gradiente radial de color rojo. Con la herramienta Elipse Tool creamos unos círculos sobre nuestra figura de un color rojo oscuro #d7210f Ahora con la herramienta Elipse tool vamos a crear unos unos óvalos de modo que formemos una pepita como la que se ve en la figura. Duplicamos nuestra forma y colocamos una dentro de cada círculo que creamos anteriormente para obtener algo como lo que se ve en la figura, vamos variando el tono y el tamaño para obtener un mejor efecto. Ahora con la herramienta Pen Tool creamos una forma como la que vemos y le aplicamos un gradiente lineal co los siguientes colores. Seguimos creando otras formas como de media luna hasta que nos guste como se ve el efecto. Ahora vamos a crear las hojas. Final.

SymbolAssist: More Symbols, Less Work // Plasticmind Blog After seeing the nifty characters TwitterKeys made readily available for posting into your Twitter and IM conversations, I got inspired to dig around the 65,000+ Unicode characters and find some more gems. As I did, I started to realize a couple of things. First, a huge list of symbols wouldn’t be all that helpful. Second, these symbols are useful for more than just jazzing up your Twitter conversations (✌ @plasticmind). So the idea of an organized character map tool that actually let you click a symbol to copy it to your clipboard began to percolate. Too often I’m opening up Word or trying to find a page on Google with the symbol I need. The result is SymbolAssist, a browser-based character map that saves you time by letting you click-to-copy symbols to your clipboard. What’s Inside Here’s the full list of symbols that SymbolAssist puts at your finger’s tip: Upside-down Alphabet ¿ ¡ ˙ z ʎ x ʍ ʌ n ʇ s ɹ b d o u ɯ ן ʞ ɾ ı ɥ ƃ ɟ ǝ p ɔ q ɐ (¡ʍʇɟ ‘ʇsıssɐןoqɯʎs) Arrows ﹠ Pointers Crosses ﹠ Stars

Drawing a Car Lineart in Photoshop by Dr Diablo | Adobe Photoshop | Intermediate The very first step of drawing a vector style car is to create its lineart. Creating lineart is basically the process of drawing guidelines for your piece to help you identify the various areas of its colors. This process is very important to give your flow of work a comic look. In this tutorial we are going to draw the lineart of this Mclaren F1 using paths. You are required to have some experience in using Photoshop's Pen tool to be able to draw this car in detail. (Click to Enlarge) Setting Up Your Workspace To make your tracing process easier and more accurate. Now go to the Mclaren's layer and change the layer's opacity to 35%. the Path Window Start off by accessing the Path Window by going through Window>Layers. This button is used for filling our path with the foreground color. Outer Body Use the Pen Tool (P) to create a new path in the paths window and trace the whole outer body of the car. Inner Details (Windows and Headlights) Tires

35 High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs | Fonts It’s essential for Designers to have an good understanding of typography and selection as the importance of typography in design can’t be neglected. The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design into attractive piece of art. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve three necessary objectives of web designing are Look, Appearance and Outcome which helps you to keep apart from normal wave. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner. The basic purpose behind this post is to show you Popular, Artistic and most importantly Free Downloadable font types to save your time searching them online. You can also find some related free references at the end of the post. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. Feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts that our readers may find helpful. 01. 02. 03.

Create a Complete Vexel Image Using Photoshop This tutorial will instruct the reader on how to take a picture and create a vexel image out of it, through Photoshop. Numerous vexel techniques are taught. You'll learn how to use the Pen Tool, and then put it to good use to construct hundreds of shapes that will compose a full vexel image. Final Image Preview Let's take a look at the image we'll be creating. Click the screenshot below to view the full-size image. Introduction Ok what you should know before starting to read this tutorial is that there are many ways to make a vexel. Now let me introduce you to the concept of a vexel. To create the vector lines on an image we can Posterize the picture to see its vector lines, and this gives us a guide on all the lines in the image and what to trace. Pen Tool Tutorial The most important part of this project will be the Pen Tool (P). First thing you have to do is set the correct settings of the Pen Tool in it's options. Step 1 Ok, here is the first way to use the Pen Tool. Step 2 Step 3 Step 4

36 High-Quality Latest Free Fonts To Enhance Your Designs | Fonts Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner. The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design into very attractive piece of art. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve three necessary objectives of web designing are Look, Appearance and Outcome which helps you to keep apart from normal wave. Below you’ll find Collection of High-Quality Free Fonts to Enhance Your Designs by which you can save money and focus on making great applications. The basic purpose behind this post is to show you Popular, Artistic and most importantly Free Downloadable font types to save your time searching them online. You can also find some related free references at the end of the post. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. 01. 02. 04. 07. 09.

Design an Awesome Urban City Photo-Montage In Photoshop Design an Awesome Urban City Photo-Montage In Photoshop Enhance your graphic design skills by learning from our cisco ccna Adobe Photoshop tutorials. Check out the complete collection of latest dumps for sas certification and mcsa certification. In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to design this cool-looking, urban city photo-montage in Ph0toshop. You will learn how to combine several stock images together to achieve surreal photo effect. This tutorial involves techniques such as layer blending options, image adjustments, transformation techniques, filter effects and lighting effect rendering. Here is a preview of the final results: Black and White version: PSD File Download You can download the PSD File for this tutorial via the VIP Members Area for only $6.95/Month (or less)! OK let’s get started! Step 1 We start off by download the following four stock images from stockvault.net and cgtexture.com: City Image High-rise Image Little Girl Image Grunge Splatter Step 2 Step 3 Step 4

Fawnt - Top free fonts | Font - Archive | Blog Design and Webdesign Efecto comic o Sin City | Photomagazine - Tutoriales de Photoshop Existen muchísimas técnicas para convertir una foto en un dibujo emulando distintas técnicas, típicas del arte tradicional o del mundo de las historietas. Asimismo, existen distintos estilos dentro del mundo del dibujo de historietas. Un gran referente de una estética es Frank Miller quien, inspirándose en la técnica renacentista del claroscuro, no solo alborotó el mundo de la historieta con su impresionante versión de Batman, “El retorno del caballero nocturno”, sino que además revolucionó, junto a Robert Rodríguez, el mundillo cinematográfico al adaptar Sin City, reproduciendo casi viñeta a viñeta, su obra maestra. Si bien es verdad que básicamente ésta estética esta basada en fotografías en escalas de negro, coloquial y erróneamente llamadas blanco y negro, se juntan a las mismas formas gráficas de gran impacto visual con detalles de color. En primer lugar vamos a realizar una base de la página para lo que utilizaremos la fotografía panorámica de una ciudad, en este caso el puente.

Wonderful Joy Ahead: Design your own font (tutorial) Have you ever wanted to turn your own handwriting into a font? You could use it for electronic journaling, digital scrapbooking, spruce up your own blog, and, well, basically anything that you use a regular handwriting font for. Or, you could doodle instead to create your own doodle font. It's relatively inexpensive, easy, and fun. You'll need a printer, a scanner, your favorite pen, a thick-tipped pen (like a Sharpie), lined paper (optional), and a photo editing software (optional). Here's how you do it. Print out their template on one letter sized sheet of paper.Place the template on top of a sheet of lined paper to help you keep your letters straight. Test your font and share with others, if you desire! The first was just my favorite pen (not traced by a Sharpie). The second one is the one that turned out with this tutorial. Experiment and have some fun!

Photoshop Detailed Tutorial Training Site Summary: Whenever you want to add an object to an image, you usually run into perspective problems. With the Vanishing Point filter, you can tell Photoshop what a correct perspective is for that specific photograph. Once defined, you can than add images, text, etc. to the image and it will automatically give you the correct perspective. Currently we are using Windows Vista Home Premium 64 Bit and the Photoshop CS4 Extended 64 Bit version. Knowledge You Need to Know: If you are unfamiliar with certain areas that are not covered in this tutorial, feel free check out the other tutorials on our website. Preparing For This Tutorial: You will be using a picture of this apartment building. You will notice this Photoshop file has a few layers: “Sign”, “Apartment”, and “Background”. Vanishing Background: The first time we saw the Vanishing Point filter (Photoshop CS2), we went WOW, what a powerful tool, but it really only can be used for limited projects. Basics Of The Vanishing Point Filter: Text:

Enhancing 3D Renders In Photoshop CS5 Get Photoshop CS5 at the Adobe Store, or download a free 30 day trial. Enhancing 3D Renders In Photoshop CS5 July 12, 2010 This extensive Photoshop CS5 3D tutorial, Enhancing 3D Renders in Photoshop CS5, is from PSD Magazine and authored by Digital Tutors. When creating and rendering objects from a 3D application, artists tend to focus on making everything look perfect. 3D artists often get frustrated due to the fact that no matter how perfect they make an image look, it can still seem fake. The problem is that sometimes 3D art looks fake because it is actually too perfect! Many 3D applications will render out images that are clean, crisp and devoid of any imperfections. One of the most impactful ways of adding realism to your 3D renders is to incorporate depth-of-field. Both of these problems can be alleviated by rendering a sort of depth pass from your 3D application and using the Lens Blur filter in Photoshop to apply highly realistic depth-of-field effects almost instantaneously.

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