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. Radial gradients Radial gradients start from the center (or any chosen point) and grow outward in a circular pattern. Angle gradients Angle gradients can be a great way to mimic environmental reflections found on highly polished metallic objects. Gradients on gradients Anything worth doing is worth overdoing, right? Dithering is everything Adding dithering to a gradient produces smoother results. If you’re not seeing the difference, here’s an extreme, completely unrealistic example of gradient dithering in action. Ensuring your gradients are dithered is easy—just check the appropriate box in Photoshop. Gradient Maps Without the gradient map, things look quite different.
Super Easy Typographic Portrait in Photoshop Last year we posted on Abduzeedo a very cool post about typographic portraits, the 45 Amazing Type Faces - Typographic Portraits became one of the most popular posts on Abduzeedo, and a lot of people asked me how to create that effect in Photoshop. We have also posted a little tutorial showing how to do that using, Flash Photoshop Quick Tips #5 - Typographic Portrait, however I decided to create a nice typographic effect using just Photoshop. So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a really cool and super easy typographic portrait in Photoshop. We will use the Displace filter and some Blend Modes to achieve the effect. The whole process is quite simple but it might take you some time to add the texts and elements, but once you do that the rest is very straight forward. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document. Step 2 Duplicate the layer and go to Image>Adjustment>Desaturate. Step 3 With the Horizontal Type Tool (T) create text boxes and start adding texts. Step 4 Step 5 Step 6
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. Step 2 Take the Crop Tool (C) and crop the photo so that the undesirable elements (white stripes on the right and left) are left off screen. Step 3 Make the background of the picture absolutely black. Step 4 Click on the Delete button and choose Black in the open dialog box. Step 5 Now go to Image > Adjustments > Invert (Command + I) for color inversion of the image. Step 6 Now reduce the image's size, looking ahead, I will say that the final size of vector portrait depends on the size of the photo. Save the portrait, File > Save for Web & Devices. Script Installation and Creating a Vector Portrait Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10
105+ Logo Design Tuts And Resources Logo design in today’s world has come to be one of the most important aspects of creating a brand identity and connecting with consumers. Logo’s are everywhere – the web, books, magazines, newspapers, television, movies…you name it, there is some type of logo. Logos have become a symbol of corporations, business, and success. Nothing says “professional” like a well designed logo. Resources These resources are meant to give you the tools you need to design the perfect logo. What Makes A Great Logo – An article that explains four methods to creating a better, more memorable logo. Logo Design Trends – 2008 – It is always interesting to see logos evolve over time. LogoPond – Identity Inspiration – As the title states, LogoPond is a place to get inspired. LogoSauce – Another great resource to browse logos as well as upload and share your own. The Logos Of Web 2.0 – A great resource showcasing lots of big-name logos and how they are fitting in with the Web 2.0 trend. What Makes A Good Logo? Tuts
InDesign Secrets: Tutorials, Tips, Templates, Blog, Podcast, and More 30 Exceptional GIMP Tutorials and Resources - Noupe Design Blog Oct 20 2008 GIMP is a freely distributed GNU Image Manipulation Program. Available for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It’s always fun to experiment different techniques and learn how to work with various aspects of GIMP to spice up boring pictures and make them into works of arts and masterpieces. So, if you’re interested in learning some new skills, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced user, these GIMP tutorials are for you. Below you will find an incredible amount some of the best GIMP tutorials hand picked to enhance or highlight whatever action is going on in the photo. 1. 1. This tutorial illustrates how to implement a nice animated menu using Mootoolsand some lines of CSS and HTML code ready to reuse in your project. 2. This tutorial will teach you a quick and simple way to recolor eyes. 3. This is specially for anime/cartoon style lineart. 4. A fairly easy tutorial to follow to make a sig. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 2.
25 New Illustrator Tutorials That Will Make You A Master Of Vector Art Just because you can usually get a similar effect in Photoshop doesn’t mean the end result will be as good as using Illustrator (depending on the project). If you are like me (and I will bet most of you are) you will go ahead and use PS because you know it much better even though the final project will not be as good or as functional as it could be. Well it’s time to buck up and get this learning curve completely out of the way so you make the right choice next time. Below are some sweet Illustrator tuts that will leave you in vector heaven once your done. Adobe Photoshop is one of the most popular photo editing programs that has ever been created. However, you have to use the right tools for the right jobs. This tutorial teaches you how to make a portrait of William Shakespeare in Illustrator using text. Article Link Advertisement A very interesting tutorial, from Design Instruct, that takes you behind the scenes and shows you the illustration process from start to finish. Article Link
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