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Create a Trendy Typographic Poster Design

Create a Trendy Typographic Poster Design
This post was originally published in 2008 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated. Using simple shapes can produce some great looking contemporary designs that fit well as impactful posters, a good example being the recent Trendy Geometric Lines tutorial. This time we'll look at stripping back the tools to creating an interesting and eye-catching poster with a single typographic word. Find a random image to base the design on, the subject of the photo isn't at all important, just choose a picture with varied contrast and preferably tailored towards your chosen colour scheme. Open up the image in Adobe Photoshop and resize accordingly. Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, drag the slider almost all the way to the maximum to completely disguise the original subject and blend together the colours and tones. Head over to the fantastic Bittbox.com and download one of the free high-res textures. With the Type Tool, write out your desired wording.

1000+ Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Sets Oct 15 2008 Hundreds of thousands of incredible Adobe Photoshop brush sets are all over the web. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of Photoshop brushes available, you can now add patches of dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any look you want. Without further ado, we present 1000+ high-Resolution Adobe Photoshop brush sets that will be perfect for any project you may happen to be working on. Important: Licenses of every brush set varies, so be sure to check that information before using them. 1. 1.1 Sidewalk Series Vol. 2 Oil Stains 10 high resolution grungy concrete stains inspired by all the cracks, stains, and spots on the sidewalk and in the street. 1.2 Sidewalk Series Vol. 1 Cracks 6 Excellent high resolution sidewalk cracks to give you a nice grungy texture. 1.3 Cracks Part III 15 brushes made with Photoshop 7.0. 1.4 Urban Decay Photoshop Brushes 1.5 QuadGrunged 1.6 Cracked Brush Set 2. 2.4 Autumn Glory

Splatter and Watercolour Brushes For Photoshop | Freebies Advertisement Another day — another fresh freebie. Today we are glad to release Splatter and Watercolour Photoshop Brushes, 3 sets of 21 high-quality brushes, with the average size of 2500px or 2200px. These brushes were created for Adobe Photoshop CS, CS2 and CS3 and also work with GIMP 2.4. The sets are created by Abdullah, the creator of Qbrushes.com where you can find further high-quality Photoshop brushes available for free download. Download the sets for free! You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. Last But Not Least We are constantly looking for creative designers and artists. If you would like to release a free high-quality font, a WordPress theme, Photoshop brushes, a Drupal theme, some wallpapers or an icon set, please contact us. It's done. Leave a Comment Yay!

Top 10 Killer Photoshop Combo Moves | Events, How-To Advertisement Is time kickin’ your ass? Well, learn to defend yourself! Master these killer Photoshop keyboard combos and you’ll find yourself with more time for the important things (e.g. Facebook trivia questions). These combos assume you’re using Photoshop CS3 on Windows platform with default keyboard shortcuts. Legend:( ) = Repeat as desired{ } = Manual Input Required Image source 10. Remove everything from the screen except for your file. F, F, F | Cycle through Screen ModesTab | Remove Tools and PalettesCtrl+H | Hide Extras (Grid, Guides, Slices, etc.)Ctrl+R | Hide Rulers 9. Quickly and easily customize a brush. B | Brush ToolRight-Click and Select or F5 and Select | Open condensed or full Brush Paletteor . or , or Shift+. or Shift+, | Cycle through brushes or jump to first or last brush[ or ]: | Shrink or enlarge brush radiusShift+[ or Shift+] | Decrease or increase brush hardness{Numeric Input} | Change brush opacity (e.g. ’5′ = 50%, ’55′ = 55%) 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Editor’s note

28 Powerful Photoshop Lighting Effects | Web Design Ledger There is something about beautiful lights that can mesmerize an audience. Take a fireworks show for example. It’s been around for thousands of years, yet still has the power to put looks of amazement on faces of all ages. That’s why lighting effects make such powerful design elements. Below is a collection of the best Photoshop tutorials for creating powerful lighting effects. Amazing Photoshop Light Effect In 10 Steps A smokey light effect complete with glowing particles. Fire Lines Tutorial This tutorial teaches you how to create stylish fire lines in only 10 steps. Luminescent Lines Iron Man View Interface Effect In Photoshop This is very close to the amazing effects seen in the movie. Luminescent Lines Advanced Glow Effects A Cool Lighting Effect In Photoshop End of the World Photo Manipulation Creating Smoke A popular effect explained very well. Design a Coldplay/Apple Inspired Portrait in Photoshop This one shows you how to design portraits based on the Coldplay – Apple ad. True Flames

Watercolor Roundup: 200+ Beautiful Brushes and Textures This post is a roundup of latest free web design resources released during the month of March. This collection includes patterns, icons, themes, and… Continue Reading → This post is a roundup of latest free web design resources released during the month of February. Continue Reading → It’s a new(ish) year and maybe you want to impress with your business? Continue Reading → 60 Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials | Tutorials Advertisement Christmas is a holiday of love and family. It is the time of year when people come together to celebrate, when they realize that some things are more important than others. So why don’t you impress the people who are important to you with some unique Christmas cards or beautiful personal desktop wallpaper? In this post, we present 60 beautiful Christmas Photoshop tutorials. You may be interested in the following related posts: Christmas Wallpapers The Santa Claus Wallpaper Learn how to create a funny, festive Christmas wallpaper with Santa Claus. Christmas Tree Merry Christmas Greeting Learn how to create a flashy Christmas illustrations with snowflakes and a Christmas tree. Christmas Balls Christmas Ornament Learn how to make a shiny glass ornament with a snowflake motif for the holidays. Decoration Decorate with Colored Lights Create a garland only in Photoshop. Holy Text Wrapped Text Effect A few letters wrapped as gifts. Christmas Cards More Christmas Stuff Related posts

That Lovely Glow Effect | dooce ® Should I send you unsolicited advice? No. What about a copy of the Bible? How do you pronounce your oldest daughter’s name? How do you pronounce dooce? But I always thought it was pronounced doo-chay, like maybe it was Italian or something. Do you prefer that I address you as dooce, Heather, or Mrs. How did you come up with the word dooce? What breed of dog is Chuck? What kind of camera do you use? Can you teach me a few things about how you get your pictures to look the way they do? When did you start this website? Why can’t I see any posts from those first few months? Who hosts your website? I’m surprised you haven’t been reported to child welfare with how public you are about some of the things you think and do regarding your daughter. When you call DCFS, please get the story straight.

60 Most Wanted Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes, .PSDs and Resources Jan 04 2009 For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative Adobe Photoshop tutorials and Resources, so you can now rest assured that you will have the necessary tools to get the job done. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of textures, brushes, patterns available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any look you want. So in today’s post, you’ll find an assortment of top-notch tutorials, brushes, patterns, textures, actions and .PSD downloadable files that others have freely contributed to the design community for making your next photoshop effect. Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-Feed and visit my twitter page : nourayehia if you want to keep track of our next post. To make your job a little bit easier, we have categorized this post into 7 section, the links below will get you to your desired section. Photoshop Tutorials - 40 Spine-chilling Horror Photoshop Effects

How to Turn an Ordinary Photo Into an Extraordinary Photo I’ve often been asked about my process for tweaking photos. I thought I’d use one of my favorite photos and show how I took it from initial capture to final public display. I had forgotten how far I had taken this image from its initial capture: click image to see larger version As with all tools, there are many ways to accomplish the same thing. I generally don’t like writing Photoshop tutorials, because my assumptions about everything are usually wrong. Some assumptions —You have access to Photoshop and know your way around some of the palettes. When I mention duplicating layers below, I mean you select the thumbnail/icon of the layer you want to duplicate and drag it to the New Layer button (#1 in the above illustration). —You have a photo that you’d like to tweak. —You aren’t afraid to play around with sliders and settings. Taking the picture I might muck about with some settings on the camera, but I want to capture the vision in my head as close as I can while I’m in the moment.

60 Photoshop Actions for Photo Touch-Ups and Enhancements Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now In the past we have written on Photoshop actions for touchups related to photography enhancements. But it is common for designers to release their actions for free attribution on certain projects. And many of these newer releases are difficult to track down without scouring the Internet for links! Thus I have put together this collection of 55 fantastic new Adobe Photoshop actions for photo enthusiasts. Idiot Actions Faded Sunlight Nothing but Memories Retro Touch Polaroid Generator Cookie Dough Effect Kream Action Vintage II Cool Vintage Nature Summer & Winter Old Series Vintage Actions AFW’s Bluezy Swagger Jagger Color Action Caramel Haze Vintage Pack of 50 Actions Simple Vintage Pink Action Variety Pack Neon Vintage PS Actions Pack AFW’s Vintage Color Colors Five Vintage Pack Spring Mini Actions Vintage Breeze Colored Highlights Vintage Colours in Photoshop Actions Vintage Actions JJ’s Vintage Set Retro Actions Set Bright Vintage Action HDR Tools More PS Vintage

35 Basic Tutorials to Get You Started with Photoshop - Six Revisions Adobe Photoshop is a very powerful and versatile image editing/graphics creation application that is the industry standard in its category. Though Photoshop’s interface is intuitive enough for an absolute beginner to learn basic image editing tasks such as cropping and resizing, to be able to fully master and utilize all of its tools takes a considerable amount of time. If you’re interested in honing your Photoshop skills to create spectacular compositions, this is for you. General tutorials 1. If you’ve never had any experience with Photoshop, this tutorial from SitePoint will get you up to speed with Photoshop’s basic features. 2. This tutorial outlines Photoshop CS2′s interface. 3. This wildly popular and humorous screencast on Photoshop techniques by (probably) fictional character Donnie Hoyle is an excellent Photoshop series to follow if you like laughing and learning at the same time! 4. This tutorial goes over the anatomy of Photoshop’s Toolbox. Photoshop tools and features 5. 6. 7.

100 Beautiful Free Textures | Graphics Use of texture in Web design is extremely common. Part of the reason textures are so useful to designers is the relative ease of the integrating one into a design if a high-quality textured image already exists, not to mention the endless possibilities . Fortunately, plenty of photographers and designers are willing to share their work with the rest of us so that we can use them in a number of different ways. In this post, we’ll look at 100 different textures in a wide variety of different categories. For more on textures see: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. (al) Leave a Comment Yay! 25 Best Tech Interface Photoshop Brushes Ever Created | Web Design Ledger I wouldn’t normally devote an entire post to a single set of Photoshop brushes, but if there is ever a set of Photoshop brushes that deserves it, it’s this one. A few weeks ago, Niki Brown told us how Design Is In The Details. The level of detail in these brushes is astonishing. According to the artist, well over 150 hours of work and thought went into these brushes over the course of 3 months. Here you can download the complete set. About the Author Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. Related Posts 330 shares 20 Sets of Photoshop Brushes for Vintage Style Design Vintage style design is all about making things look old. Read More 75 shares 300+ Excellent Photoshop Brushes for Creating Painted Effects If you are thinking of creating your next web design using a painted style, you have two options.

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