Custom Wallpaper Tutorial | Thoughtlab Blog It's very simple. Just follow the steps and you will be fine. 25 Excellent Photoshop Texture Tutorials Adding texture to a design can create drastic changes and powerful results. Photoshop provides a number of different possibilities for working with textures, which allows designers to use their creativity. In this post we’ll features 25 tutorials that will help you to learn more about working with textures in Photoshop and how to create impressive results. Looking for hosting?
17 Fresh Web Tools for Working with Colors This series is supported by Ben & Jerry's Joe, Ben & Jerry's new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here. Color is a design tool that sets the tone, theme, and mood of a visual project. The colors you use greatly impacts how your design is perceived by its viewers. Below are some handy web tools to help you choose the perfect colors for your designs. This post follows up on a Mashable post published close to three years ago called "COLORS TOOLBOX: 20+ Tools For Working With Colors," which you should also check out for even more color tools to add to your design arsenal. Developing Color Palettes 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Finding and Exploring Colors 7. 0to255 – This intuitive web tool gives you the opportunity to explore variations of certain selected colors. 8. 9. 10. 11. Checking Colors for Accessibility 13. 14. Color Inspiration 15. 16. 17. Which web tools do you use for working with color? Series supported by Ben & Jerry's Joe
22 Professional Photoshop Image Enhancing Tutorials Adobe Photoshop is the premier tool for digital artists when it comes to professionally enhancing images. Whether you’re a beginner just learning the ropes or an advanced user looking for unique techniques to add to your Photoshop arsenal, you’ll find some tutorials here that you’ll surely want to bookmark. In this article, you’ll discover plenty of tutorials that deal with enhancing images, adding unique and impressive effects, and recreating digital replications of popular traditional photography techniques. 1. Cross Processing You can learn how to apply the Cross Processing film-developing technique digitally to your images by reading through this quick and educational tutorial that leverages the powers of the Curves tool in Photoshop. 2. Take your ordinary digital photos and simulate the Lomo Photography effect (also known as Lomography) that will apply a dreamy and surreal effect onto your images in this tutorial that uses a Levels Adjustment layer among other Photoshop techniques. 3.
Bodger Mania Logo Process In today's blog, I thought I'd show you guys how we came up with the BodgerMania logo. I’ll take you through the process, from the initial sketches to the final design. We started with several conceptual sketches for the BodgerMania logo but ultimately decided on this wrestling belt design. Here's the finished sketch. Once we had the final sketch, it was refined. For the colors, we tried dozens of variations. Thanks to all the variations, we were able to narrow down the design and get exactly what we wanted. There you have it—the finished BodgerMania logo and all the crazy sketches that helped it come together!
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
Machinations League Logo Design In this blog I'll be giving you a quick tour through the Machinations league design. Will Hungerford came up with an amazing concept for this year’s league, and I was the lucky designer chosen to do it justice. The Machinations league covers totally new design territory, so we had the opportunity to create all the imagery from the ground up. The posters show a giant machine with six rotating facets. We wanted the medals to look like a key piece that could be inserted into the machine. The patches were designed to work in any arrangements. Machinations: Umbra starts February 25, so sign up for your local league and build the machine! Awesome Surreal Photoshop Tutorials Smash Materials Menu Browse: Home » 2011 » 12 Best Surreal Photoshop Tutorials Ever 12 Best Surreal Photoshop Tutorials Ever · by admin · in Tutorials Spectacular surreal Photoshop tutorials which will guide you through the necessary skills required to give your designs a magical effect. The Making of Mystic How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces Scared Photo manipulation Tutorial Create a Surreal Apocalypse Photomanipulation Photoshop Tutorial Unbelievable Surreal Abstract Artwork with Photoshop Design a Surreal Desert Scene in Photoshop Amazing Abstract Heart Surreal Photoshop Tutorial Fantastic Tree Photoshop Tutorial Fantasy Banana Ship in Photoshop Create a Vibrant Conceptual Photo Manipulation in Photoshop Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Surreal Turtle Image Design a Surreal Floating Eiffel Tower Scene In Photoshop Tags: abstract artwork, fantasy, image design, magical effect, photo manipulation, photoshop tutorials, surreal Photoshop Tutorials, turtle image 9 Responses Leave a Reply Categories Tags
Heap Logo Process For this week’s blog, I thought I’d do another design walkthrough and show you how we bodged together the Heap logo. First, I did several sketches for Heap’s logo, trying out different ways to represent the game. Some sketches were done like road signs, others had the letters formed out of bits of scrap. From the sketch we then made a handful of improvements. For the colors, I did very rough, simple coloring first to see which colors would work and which wouldn't. Once we decided on the colors, I started refining details, adding shading, and making the logo look more polished. Get ready for pedal to the metal mayhem!
30 Amazingly Creative Examples of Designer Resumes It’s extremely hard to find a job these days! The market is slow, the economy is bad, and the competition is fierce. To get a job you will have to stand out of the crowd. The following resumes go against everything my business teacher taught me. She taught us to never place a picture of yourself, use clip art, use icons, graphics, or make it colorful. Please keep in mind that if you apply to companies that have nothing to do with the design field, they wont appreciate your artfulness. However, I think if you are in the design field you need to show off your creativity. Resume is a French word that means summing up. The “DO’s” of a Resume: Write it YourselfBrief, Concise, Action-OrientedRewrite/ReviseAccurate (Not Puffed Up)Emphasize StrengthsDeemphasize WeaknessesHave your resume professionally edited “Dont’s” of a Resume: Essential Components Of A Resume: Personal Data/Contact InformationEducationExperience (Appropriate Volunteer Work)Achievements, Skills, and Qualifications
10 Awesome Infographics for Graphic Designers As a graphic designer, you’ve probably designed at least a few infographics for your clients – or even for fun. You can create (and sell) infographics for any topic or industry, which means infographics can be a lucrative source of income. Some designers make a full-time living designing infographics alone. 1. Learn what different colors represent and what emotions they stir, and when and how to use them in your own designs. 2. This infographic serves as a quick reference for the basic elements of design, complete with tips for how and why each should be considered when creating any design. 3. A humorous look at the daily life of a graphic designer – super deadlines, tons of work, frantic environment and (hopefully) good pay. 4. Want to be a better, more successful, more inspired graphic designer? 5. Your favorite fonts, colors, and other design elements reveal a lot about your personality, goals and dreams. 6. 7. How much do other graphic designers make? 8. 9. 10. by Glantz Design
Level 7 Tile design The room tiles in LEVEL 7 [OMEGA PROTOCOL] really help set the atmosphere for the game, so it was important that the art captured the mood we were trying to evoke. When designing the tiles for LEVEL 7 [OMEGA PROTOCOL], I took the rough graph paper designs that lead developer Oz Schoonover and I had created, and I broke them down into a list of visual components we would need to build each tile. These visual components consisted of things like base floor textures, generators, computer consoles, rubble, hybrid tanks, and more. With this list in hand I began assembling reference materials and creating sketches, which I then passed along to artist Néstor Ossandón. The sketch above shows my rough sketch of the hybrid tank at the angle I wanted it portrayed. Because I made the sketch over the concrete grid Néstor had previously illustrated, it was already scaled correctly for our use. That's just a little peek at how we made the tiles that bring LEVEL 7's Subterra Bravo to life.
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