60 Excellent Gadget Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials Feb 08 2010 Designing your own (or redesigning existing) gadgets such as MP3 Players, Game Consoles and Computers is an incredible way to improve your general skills in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator (or any other design-related software package for that matter). You’re bound to pick up new skills every time, even if you’re considered an expert. The following round-up of tutorials consists of 60 great gadget tutorials. There is a selection of Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials so you can learn new tricks in two of the most used pieces of graphic software the world has ever seen. There are hours and hours worth of tutorials to read through, from creating your own custom MP3 player to redesigning the legendary Apple iPods, and designing retro game cartridges to photo-realistic high-definition LCD televisions — this post has it all! Audio Device Tutorials The following audio related tutorials consist of MP3 players and iPods, CD players, speakers, headphones and wires. Mobile Phone Tutorials
Tutorials 45 New Adobe Illustrator Tutorials In this round up, we have put together 45 new Adobe Illustrator tutorials for you. Adobe Illustrator is a powerful tool for the designers, and web based tutorials are the great way to learn using this powerful tool. If you are interested to learn new techniques and want to use Illustrator like a pro then have a look at this collection and follow these tutorials. The tutorials presented below are the step by step guide so that you can easily grab the technique. We hope that you will like this collection and find these tutorials useful for you. Create a Detailed Dynamite Illustration In the following Adobe Illustrator tutorial you will learn how to create a detailed dynamite illustration. Working With Irregular Shapes in Gradient Mesh in Adobe Illustrator Creating a Gradient Mesh from a rectangle or an ellipse is pretty easy and straightforward. Create a Detailed, UFO Illustration in Adobe Illustrator It’s Guy Fawkes Night! Create a Printer Illustration
Writing Effectively in InDesign Using Book InDesign allows you to collect all documents in a Book. Using Book, you can easily synchronize styles in every document and maintain a consistent layout throughout your project. In this tutorial, we will create a book made from 3 chapters, complete with Table of Content, Introduction, and a Cover. You will learn the concepts of InDesign, from applying styles, adding page numbers, warping text, using variables and master pages. Step 1: Creating the First Document Lets start by creating a new document (File > New). Step 2 We will use this document as our first chapter. Step 3: Master Page First, we need to define a master page. Step 4 In the Pages Panels, double click the "B-First" thumbnail to edit it. Step 5 Right click on the text frame and choose Text Frame Options. Step 6 Double click the text frame to insert text. Step 7: Using Character Styles Let's change the chapter number character using Character Styles. Step 8 Double click New Character Style to edit it. Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12
Design Resources and Tutorials - Design Chair Mac Create Network Photoshop resources : Tutorials | www.psd-dude.com The best fantasy fairy tale inspired Photoshop tutorials that you might want to bookmark. This collection contains some amazing Photoshop manipulation tutorials with fairy tale theme. So, you will learn how to create castles and fantasy magical landscapes in Photoshop, you will learn how to create mythical characters like dragons and other winged creatures. Because I know that many of you are fans of Science fiction like myself, I prepared for you a list of amazing Sci-Fi futuristic Photoshop manipulation tutorials that you must read. This is actually our second list with this particular theme so you might also want to take a look at the previous collection of sci-fi Photoshop tutorials Learn how to create a peel effect in Photoshop using some simple selection and cutting techniques. In these Photoshop tutorials, we're going to learn some effective ways to use the High Pass filter. Mixed media refers to a visual artwork that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media.
Square Orange - Wedding brochures our portfolio Client • Elizabeth Hotels Projects • Wedding Brochures and Collateral for several hotels including White Horse, Letchworth Hall, County Hotel and Orsett Hall. Design a Shattered, Scrappy Metal Text Effect in Photoshop Design a Shattered, Scrappy Metal Text Effect in Photoshop In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Design a Shattered, Scrappy Metal Text Effect in Photoshop. You will learn how you utilise a range of selection and transformation techniques to manipulate textures in order to form certain effect. Have a try! This is an intermediate to advance level Photoshop tutorial. Here is a preview of the final effect: (click to enlarge) 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! To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stock: Metal Texture Step 1 Create a new document with black background (size doesn’t really matter for this tutorial, I used 1200px * 700px). Duplicate this cloud layer once, compress it down then rotate it as shown below with the free transform tool: We will use this new cloud layer as a guide for our text base – so increase the opacity to around 30% for it.
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Creating an Interactive Portfolio with InDesign « « Layers Magazine Layers Magazine Up until now, whenever I’d mention creating an interactive document with InDesign, the first thing most people would think is, “He must be talking about making a PDF.” While you can certainly still make interactive PDFs from InDesign, you can do so much more using the InDesign CS5 interactive features. 1 CREATE A NEW WEB DOCUMENTWe’re pretty used to creating InDesign documents for print in standard sizes such as Letter and A4. In this case, however, we’re going to the Web, so it’s best to start out with a document size that makes sense for a computer display. Choose File>New>Document to create a new document. 2 CHANGE PAPER COLOR TO BLACKI almost never change the paper color in InDesign because it doesn’t really affect the printed page. 3 CREATE NEW MASTER PAGE AND FRAMETo speed up production, let’s create a new master page. Now we’re going to create a frame for the large images. Now its time to convert these 20 frames into buttons so our viewers can click on them.
Quick Tip: Create a Realistic Broken Glass Effect in Photoshop In this brief tutorial I will explain how to apply a realistic broken glass effect to a background image using Photoshop brushes. After publishing our last PS brush set I received a couple of tutorial requests via email about how to create the preview image. Let’s discover it together! Preview: Click to enlarge Step 1 The process behind this tutorial is very easy and quick. For a background image, I downloaded this beautiful panoramic shot and opened it in Photoshop. Step 2 Reduce the saturation by going to Image>Adjustments>Vibrance. Step 3 Just to add a nice detail to the scene, let’s write something with a sans serif font. Font color is #56767d. Step 4 In order to merge the text with the background, grab the eraser tool, select a grunge brush and eliminate some parts of the text. Layer opacity is too high in my opinion. Step 5 At this point we can add the never-boring lens flare! Set the layer blending mode to screen to eliminate the black areas. Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Finito!