Create a Beautiful Under Water Scene in Photoshop CS5 Create a Beautiful Under Water Scene in Photoshop CS5 June 6th, 2011 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Designing, Drawing Techniques, Special Effects, Textures & Patterns In today’s quick tip tutorial, I will show you how to create a beautiful under water scene using brushes and custom shapes in Adobe Photoshop CS5. Final Image Preview Start working by creating a new document (Ctrl+N) in Adobe Photoshop CS5 with the size 1900px by 1200px (RGB color mode) at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch. Create a new layer and select the Soft Round brush and set Opacity to 60% in Options bar. Use this brush to paint the canvas with #52D4FF color as shown. Create a new layer which will be painted with the same Soft Round brush of white color this time (Opacity – 60%). Paint on the canvas as shown: Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay. Create the next new layer and select the Soft Round brush of white color (Opacity – 30%) to continue painting the canvas. We’ve got the next result: The final result!
Download free icons: 15 great resources | Design There are a dizzying number of free icons available for download from the web - so where do you start? In this feature, we've gathered some of the best sites to help track down options that work for you. First, you need to know what you're looking for. The key to iconography is a consistent aesthetic (line weights, proportions, composition, amount of positive vs negative space used, etc) that displays a sense of competence and good decision-making in your design. Each individual icon needs to communicate clearly but relate to every other icon used on the site or design piece. Scalability In other words, you need to make sure the free icons you download are scalable. Understand what your needs are: the amount of room needed to display the icons, if the background is clean or complex, and so on. Understand that icons are more about being literal rather than symbolic. 01. iconmonstr The iconmonstr website is a great place to find black and white vector icons. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09.
2014 Logo Trends on LogoLounge.com If home is our first place, and work is our second place, then mobile screens have definitely become our third place. Smart phone use has increased from 21 percent in 2010 to more than 63 percent today, and with 83 percent of all Americans online regularly, that percentage of mobile users is bound to keep edging up. The fact that so many people now view the world through a window the size of a business card has spelled an inevitable change in logo design. That logos have to be scalable has always been understood. Of course, there’s a limit to this flattening out and removal of information. People seem to be more and more drawn back to what is real, whether that is perusing handmade hats on Pinterest, exploring other cultures or our own family histories, or reconnecting with stories from mythology or our childhoods. Designers have responded to the mobile screen’s harsh requisites in a variety of ways, many of which are detailed in this year’s Trend Report. We also saw plenty of: Hand Type
70 Excellent Logo Design Tutorials and Resources By Jacob Gube An effective logo sets the tone and public perception of your brand, and therefore careful thought and creativity must be put into constructing it. In this article, you’ll find a large collection of tutorials and resources on the topic of designing logos by some of the most well-respected logo designers in the industry. Logo Design Tutorials Step-by-step logo Designer/Author Chuck Green shows us the general process he takes when designing a logo. Big Bocca – Illustrative Logo This downloadable tutorial goes through the process of designing an illustrative logo. Piranha’s Revenge – Illustrative Logo Artist Von. Logo Frustration Take a peak into a real-world project to see an actual logo designer in action. Creating the Logo / Identity for “Blackberry Creek Community Church” You’ll see, from start to finish, the creation of a logo for the "Blackberry Creek Community Church". Drawing a Good Logo UX Developer Nathan Smith discusses his method for creating an iconic logo design. LogoPond
Freebies One of the must-haves of a web designer (and even graphic designers and bloggers) is a business card. Call it a little bit old fashioned but business cards are still very useful. They contain the most available point of contact for the possible employee. It makes your clients realize that you are a legit artist and very good one at that. This calls for a very good and catchy business card. Read More Hello guys. Read More Design elements are important for a web designer. It is necessary to be able to find great design elements. Read More If you have been into design for some time now, you probably know how crucial it is to have high quality assets at your disposal – whether they are fonts, icons, UI kits, etc. Read More Once I saw a bumper sticker that says, There’s no place like 127.0.0.1 Bumper stickers are very good means of relieving stress in the road. Since one of our fundamental goals is to promote world peace (or should I say, road peace), 1WD is giving you 15 bumper stickers!
Awesome Claus 33 Best Splash Photoshop Tutorials 60+ Free PSD Poster and Flyer Templates This is a mighty collection of poster templates/flyer templates. All of these are free but you’ll have to reach source page to download them. Since this is a big collection, gathered from various sources, we cannot provide an all-in-one pack as we usually do in other resource posts. All these files are PSD so you can open and edit them using Adobe Photoshop. This is a mixed collection, most of these are party posters of flyers, but there are many other types of PSDs as well. UPDATE: This post was one of the most popular template collections that we have ever made. Free Poster and Flyer Templates One more thing, these flyer templates have different licenses. Restaurant Flyer This is one of the ideal flyer templates for restaurants, hotels, caterers and takeaway businesses. Night Flyer/Poster Template This is a party poster template. Flyer Template This is one groovy design for parties. The Big Game This is one of the highly customize-able sports flyer templates. MMA Fight Night Flyer Neon Sign St.
Logo Design Love - Part 16 Firefox sketches Martijn Rijven of Bolt Graphics shared some sketches for the Firefox OS identity. → Continue reading Firefox sketches Logo paintings Jorge Oswaldo’s works are largely influenced by the logos of mega corporations. → Continue reading Logo paintings Cool and Realistic Bubble Text Effect | Text Effects Where this idea came from...i've watched some bubble text tutorials using photoshop and wondered if i can make texts from bubbles that look actually realistic. During making this tutorial, i realized that it was simplier and easier than i thought. Resources:Underwater pic Bubble brush Light rays brush 1. Create a new blank layer ( 550x450 px) and fill with with color 3a6eb6. 2. Click to choose "Create warped text" on property bar: 3. We have selection: Make a new layer and hide the text layer: Click to choose Retangular tool then right click to the selection, choose Make Work Path wit minimum tolerance ( 0.5). We get: 4. Hit F5 to adjust settings: Choose Pen tool and then right click the path, choose Stroke path: Then right click it again, choose Delete path. Duplicate this layer, merge them all and set Outer glow: This technique can be used for many text effects with different brush kinds. 5. 6. Lower opacity to 60% and apply Motion blur: Perspective tool: 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Final effect:
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1000+ Fresh And Useful Photoshop Brushes From 2011 Adobe Photoshop is the most popular software for image editing. One of the main feature of Photoshop is its brushes. It saves a lot of time of designers. In this article I collected a huge huge list of Photoshop Brushes from 2011. I hope you guys will love this collection and will find it useful. Bubble Brush Photoshop Hearts And Lights Brushes Heavens Door Brushes Screw Heads Sakura Techno Brushes Spider Webs Butterfly Brushes Ink Brushes Light Effects Brushes St. Clouds Crumpled Paper Brushes Grunge Splat Brush Pack Cute Brushes Photoshop Stamp Brushset Hazard Brushes Fractal Brushes Sensational Brushes Steel Wool Brushes Got Sprayed Photoshop Brushes Ink Stroke Brushes Abstract Gothic Brushes Bokeh Brushes Rough Fabric Brushes Real Bokeh Brushes Valentine’s Doodle Brush Set 24 Vintage Print Sign Brushes Sparle Brush Rainbow Light Veils Brushes Flower Brushes Ground Plants Brushes Geotrap Photoshop Brushes Starwalt City Abstract Brushes Valentine’s Day Brushes Heart Brushes Floral Set Photoshop Brushes Wind Flowers
40 Really Useful Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials No matter you want to design a banner or logo, text effect is very important. Why? It is because a beautiful text effect on the banner or logo will attracts the visitor and also delivers a better message. There are tons of Photoshop text tutorials around us, but today we are going to pick the most 40 beautiful Photoshop text effect tutorials for our readers. You may or may not seen them before, but believe me, they are really useful, cool, beautiful and easy to follow tutorials. You may subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us in Twitter so that you can always receive latest news from us. 1. 2. A very nice wooden text effect tutorial in Photoshop presented by 10steps.sg. 3. 4. This tutorial will show you how to create the 3D text shape and give it a high quality metal look using pure Photoshop. 5. In this tutorial, the author shows you the process involved in creating this golden flame text effect with soft smoke texture in Photoshop. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.
40 Must Learn Text Effect Tutorials in Illustrator Tutorials January 31, 2011 The love of creating text effects has become a common ground for many designers and enthusiasts. Indeed, it has even become an art form in itself. It would be best to learn from other artists every now and then. Create a Green Viscous Text Effect In this tutorial you will use illustrator’s 3D tools to add dimension on the text, and then add a green viscous text effect.. Learn to Create a Variety of Script Lettering This tutorial will showcase three different approaches, which result in three different script lettering styles. starting with a nice simple basic script, touch on a more athletic inspired lettering style and work along the way to a classic, fancy script. How to create a glassy text effect in Illustrator This tutorial will teach how to create a glassy text effect in Illustrator. How to Create an Entangled Lettering Illustration A two part tutorial where you will learn how to create a brief typographic message from scratch. Create a Mummy Text Effect