How to Make Slicing Suck Less: Tips and Tricks for Slicing a PSD I have a dirty little secret, I hate slicing Photoshop files. By that I don’t mean that I hate turning PSD comps into websites, I mean that I hate Photoshop’s slicing tools. The whole process makes my PSD look busy, cluttered and overly complicated so I usually skip it altogether and instead opt to manually crop and save out images individually as needed. In order to fight this tendency and attempt to see the true usefulness of Photoshop’s slicing tools, I embarked on a mission to learn all the intricacies of how slicing works. Below is a collection of tips and tricks that resulted from this journey. There are Three Types of Slices in Photoshop Three types of slices!? The three different kinds of slices are User Slices, Auto Slices and Layer Based Slices. As you know, to slice a PSD you start by grabbing the Slice Tool (C) and drawing a box around the area that you want to export as a standalone image. When you perform a slice, you should get something like the result seen below.
Realizzare un'intervista doppia Il gatto ha nuove code e art attack presentano: ovvero: le magie di Final cut Un'intervista doppia (nello stile di quelle delle Iene) è una trovata non molto originale ma sempre divertente per presentare una serie di contenuti in maniera veloce e leggera (come si addice ad un video destinato al web). Ci sono molti modi per realizzarla tecnicamente. Il più efficace sarebbe quello di fare le riprese con il Green Screen e poi lavorarle con After effects. Ma vediamo nel dettaglio quali sono i passaggi da fare: 1. Ripresa video 3 2. 3. 4. 5. Registrare il suono 6. 7. Montaggio video 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Vuoi imparare ad usare Final cut?
30 Free Photoshop Tutorials for Graphic Designers With the increasing demand for these effects, there are lots curious minds that are eager to learn these techniques. Since these techniques are very interesting with thrilling effects so the number of people who want to be a part of this process is enhancing day by day. That is why experts nowadays even teach these techniques online. We all know the fact that magical effects can be done in images with Photoshop. While we are talking about Photoshop tutorials, there are lots of tools and options in it. Along with other technical matters, the use or color and the fine techniques of painting are taught through these tutorials. Create a Mini Planet Using Photoshop’s 3D Capabilities Create an Action Packed Movie Poster in Photoshop Create a Studio Sports Portrait Flaming Car in Photoshop by Lincoln Soares Create a Chaotic Disintegration Effect on a Face Create a Powerful Human Disintegration Effect in Photoshop Create an Exploding Light Text Effect in Photoshop Making Of ‘Soul Hunting’
Vector Resources Part 7 – Snow Flakes Winter is here, and with winter comes plenty of snow! The latest collection of Vector Freebies features a selection of snowflake patterns for use in your designs and artworks. Download Vector Resources Freebie 370kb 1 x EPS | 1 x JPG Join the mailing list to have every new post hand delivered to your email inbox. Every subscriber gets a FREE bundle of 40+ icons, vectors, brushes & textures!
Photoshop 30 Christmas Holiday PSD & AI Flyer Templates The success of any event, being it a show, a sale, a party or a simple get-together, often depends on how well you can promote it. These flyers are diverse and eye-catching examples of promotional materials created for events that take place during the holiday season. 45 CV Resume Templates That Will Get You Hired You could make your resume in Microsoft word. 24 Really Cool Photoshop Actions To Enhance Photography Photoshop actions are the best — they save time and make you more productive during post-processing. 110 Free PSD Web Design Elements Looking for some nice and high-quality web design elements? 80 Helpful Photoshop & Illustrator Icon Design Tutorials In this article we have gathered 80 Best Photoshop & Illustrator Icon Design Tutorials that will teach you the techniques you will need for designing your own icons using mainly Photoshop & Illustrator. 80 Random Best Photoshop Brushes 100 Adobe Photoshop Wallpaper Tutorials
8 Free Snowflake Vectors for Your Winter Designs It’s now over four years since I posted my first set of vector snow flakes. I remember the original pack proving pretty useful for a bunch of designers so I thought I’d revisit the topic and produce another set of free snow flake vector graphics. Download this free vector pack of detailed snowflakes for use in your Winter designs. Once Winter is over you could even use them as deadly ninja death stars! Download the snow flake vector pack 1mb Join the mailing list to have every new post hand delivered to your email inbox.
How to Create a Soft Grunge Photoshop Brush The use of soft or subtle textures in web design is very common right now. Extremely grungy designs with heavy textures are still used in some situations, but a more subtle use of textures has become much more common. These softer textures are ideal for website backgrounds or for applying to specific elements within a design. One of the easiest ways to use textures in your designs is with the help of Photoshop brushes. In this tutorial we’ll go through the process of creating a soft or subtle grunge brush. Here is a preview of the texture that will be created by this brush: To get started, you’ll need a few texture photographs. Here is a look at the 3 photos that I’ll be using: Create a New File The maximum size for a Photoshop brush is 2500 pixels x 2500 pixels, so that is what we will be working with. Working with the Textures The first layer will just be the first texture that you paste in. Then do the same thing with the third layer to set it at “overlay” and 100%. Adjust the Levels
About | Line25 Line25 is a weblog based around the topic of web design, created and maintained by Chris Spooner. It’s the home to a range of posts that aim to give ideas and inspiration to web creatives, ranging from roundups of cool website designs and tutorials to help you learn new skills and techniques. No matter whether you’re a seasoned web professional or someone learning the basics of web design you’ll find regularly updated content to feed your creativity. Join the mailing list New articles, tutorials and roundups of inspirational designs are posted every week. Don’t worry, I hate spam too so you can be sure I’ll never share your details with anyone else. The posts here on Line25 are split into three categories: Articles In the articles category you’ll find in-depth overviews and observations of web design trends, roundups of useful resources and interviews with some of the most prominent figures in the web design community. Inspiration Tutorials Line25 was built by Chris Spooner.
30 Great Photoshop Tips and Tricks to Help Your Computer Graphic Skills Photoshop is a powerful, but complex, graphics program that can be difficult to learn and frustrating to use. We have published many articles about tips and tricks for using Photoshop and how to fix annoying issues you may encounter. This article compiles 30 of the best tips and tricks we have documented to help you get the most out of Photoshop. 10 Common Photoshop Frustrations (and How to Fix Them in Five Minutes) Do your cursor or panels in Photoshop keep disappearing? 10 Common Photoshop Frustrations (and How to Fix Them in Five Minutes) Remove Backgrounds Automatically with a Free Photoshop Action Photoshop actions are recordable programs you can create and save without any knowledge of programming. Remove Backgrounds Automatically with a Free Photoshop Action How to Make Hundreds of Complex Photo Edits in Seconds With Photoshop Actions The previous tip provided you with a ready-made, downloadable Action file for removing backgrounds automatically. RGB? RGB? Do you like pixel art?
Blog.SpoonGraphics Design Tutorials: Greatest Hits 2011 It’s that time of year when I reflect on another year’s worth of design tutorials here on Blog.SpoonGraphics and check over the stats to see which posts ended up proving the most popular. Here’s a roundup of the most popular tutorial posts from 2011 based on the number of StumbleUpon ‘thumbs up’ votes. If you compare them with last year’s figures you’ll see a dramatic decrease in the number of likes per post, but at least traffic figures are still going strong. I wonder if this suggests a decrease in the use of such social sharing sites? Let me know if there’s any particular tutorial from 2011 that stands out to you. How To Create a Beautiful Vector Portrait in Illustrator View the tutorial 14,000 likes How To Create a Cool Abstract Radial Pattern Design View the tutorial 12,000 likes How To Create a Retro Badge/Emblem Style Logo View the tutorial 9,810 likes Retro Style Geometric Lines Poster Design Tutorial View the tutorial 2,661 likes How To Create a Cute Vector Mushroom Character
20 Stunning Photoshop Tutorials Every Designer Needs » Photoshop, Resources » Design Festival Photoshop tutorials are everywhere, but good Photoshop tutorials can be hard to find. Designers often have trouble finding enough time to design the many projects that come across their desks, which means they are usually short on the time needed to search for excellent tutorials to improve their skills. The goal of the following collection is to provide a shortcut to twenty tutorials that are worth your time. Keep exploring, though, and let me know about others that you have enjoyed! This roundup starts with the beautiful interesting stuff. My first reaction to any image that I admire is: “I can’t make that.” The image-in-smoke effect is another effect that was out of my league. Why is such a simple effect put down as number three? I’ll be honest. Simple to do, impressive to look at. You don’t have to work very hard to make some amazing watercolor portraits. Anybody can pixelate an image using tools built right into Photoshop. Grunge. Graffiti is art. I am a fan of folding real paper.
30 Free Handwriting Fonts Every Designer Should Own Join the mailing list to have every new post hand delivered to your email inbox. Every subscriber gets a FREE bundle of 40+ icons, vectors, brushes & textures! Using Your Images to Create Color Palettes in Photoshop Color is the one aspect of a design that can drastically change the tone of the entire project. Your color choices can make the difference between a polished, professional, perfected design and one that misses the mark altogether. Creating a color palette for your design doesn’t have to be guesswork; it can be easy done if you take a few simple steps, and use a few tools that are available to you. There are several ways for creating your own color palettes, but one popular method is to sample colors from the project’s primary image and build your color palette from color values within it. If you are using multiple images, you may consider selecting images with similar color palettes, so that the entire piece has a sense of unity. Step 1: Setting Up Your Canvas For our example, I am going to create a nautical-style advertisement. Step 2: Laying the Groundwork For the bottom third, I created a new layer, took the marquee tool and drew a white rectangle on the bottom third of the image.
6 Photoshop Alternatives for the Casual Designer Photoshop isn’t just an industry standard piece of image manipulation software used by professionals, it’s also an application that is sought after by many hobbyists looking to fulfil their creative passion. Unfortunately at $600 dollars it’s out of reach for most casual users, so other than pirating (which is bad mmkay), what high quality alternatives are available for the casual designer? If you’re a Mac user you are in luck. In my opinion the best alternative to Photoshop is the Mac only app named Pixelmator. With a lack of CMYK and print related features it doesn’t quite match Photoshop in terms of professional capabilities, but for image editing, manipulation and just creating cool artwork it’s definitely a strong competitor. Pixelmator also has a great selection of tutorials from its community, many of which from Abduzeedo. Looking for a completely free alternative? Finally we come to Photoshop Express Editor, Adobe’s own web based image editing program.