Vintage Typography Experiment in Illustrator and Photoshop We all love typography and especially the vintage/retro ones. There's something on those artworks that catch our eyes and makes us really crazy about them. Despite the fact that some are quite old and done with rudimentary process the quality of the design is amazing and that's why books are the best way to get inspired by those and especially trying to learn how to do that using modern tools like Illustrator and Photoshop.
Photoshop Gradients Resources / Patterns , April 26th, 2011 For today's list I have gathered, a huge collection of Photoshop gradients from the deviantArt community. This list is so big that I have to break it in two parts. You will see lots of Photoshop gradient themes like autumn gradient, sky gradient, metal gradient and many more that are very useful for creating gradient maps for example. I think this list is an extremely useful resource for all the Photoshop users. How To Draw A Glossy 2.0 Loading Bar Vector In Illustrator « A Love For Design » Web Design & Graphic Design Tutorials In this tutorial we’re going to show you how to draw a glossy slick looking loading bar in illustrator. The benefits of doing a project like this in illustrator is that it uses vectorization. By vectorizing this drawing we can resize it to what ever width and height we want without losing the quality of the image (pixelated). You can also transfer our vector from illustrator over to photoshop for easy editing. Creative Commons – Some Rights Reserved Step 1
Gradients Linear gradients Linear gradients are gradients in their most basic form—a gradual blend between colors, following a straight line. I’m sure you knew that, so onto the more interesting stuff. Reflected gradients Reflected gradients are like their linear friends, but they repeat the gradient twice with the second repeat mirrored. Photoshop Have you ever seen any fruits or vegetables with a face? In this tutorial I am going to show you how to make realistic view collage with fruit and human face.In the beginning you should find the picture of ay fruit or vegetable.In this tutorial you learn great techniques to create a visualization in Photoshop. I prefer to use this one picture of pear. Open up the picture. Final Image Preview: Continue reading
Nike Hair in Photoshop A couple of weeks ago I was playing in Photoshop in a Saturday afternoon and decided to create something using hair texture and photos. I was thinking about just a text with that but then I had this crazy idea of playing with the NIke Air brand to create the Nike Hair Ad in Photoshop. This idea is heavily inspired on the work of Glenn Jones AKA Glennz, always playing with real brands :) So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a funny photo manipulation to create the Nike Hair ad. Amazing Photoshop Layer Styles That You Must Have Resources / Photoshop Styles , May 2nd, 2011 More ASL files in this brand new and amazing list. I love the layer style because it is not only a great resource ready to be used but because it's also a great Photoshop tutorial. You can see exactly what effect was used, you can easily modify, adapt and create new interesting styles.
50 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Video Tutorials - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard when it comes to the creation of vector graphics. Though a very robust tool – the learning curve involved in mastering it can be high. Thankfully, there are abundant resources on the web that allows you to “learn by doing”. Create a Sci-Fi, Vector Portrait Made of Symbols In this tutorial, you will learn how to create vector images made from any symbols, having previously processed a bitmap image in Photoshop and using a wonderful script. The technique is very simple and accessible to everyone, it only depends on your imagination! Preparing Image for Further Processing Step 1 For this tutorial, a picture of any quality and resolution will do. It is good if the picture has good contrast, is well exposed, has artistic value.