80 Best-Of Adobe Illustrator Tutorials, Brushes, .EPSs and Resources - Noupe Design Blog Jan 18 2009 For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative Adobe Illustrator tutorials and Resources, so you can now rest assured that you will have the necessary tools to get the job done. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of vector packs, brushes, patterns available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artwork and to give it any look you want. So in today’s post, you’ll find an assortment of top-notch tutorials, brushes, patterns, vector packs, tips & tricks and .EPS downloadable files that others have freely contributed to the design community. To make your job a little bit easier, we have categorized this post into 6 section, the links below will get you to your desired section. Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas - Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough Follow this step by step documentation of the whole process of the logo design from conception to completion. - Master Painting in Illustrator
Designing Ultra SceneXCore Apparel in Photoshop and Illustrator - Layers Magazine | Layers Magazine Grunge effects are very popular with today’s apparel designers. This tutorial takes you through creating a t-shirt design using vector graphics. Everything you see in Hot Topic or Pac Sun these days features some combination of skulls, flourishes, splatters, and miscellaneous grunge effects. Why? Don’t ask me, but I’m sure it’s got something to do with the recent rise of popular screamo, metalcore, and hardcore bands into the mainstream. Before You Begin How do you make all those flourishes, splatters, and other design elements? You can do a Google search for “vector packs” or “stock vector art” and you’ll find some resources that will give you just the effects you are looking for. On With the Tutorial! You’ll need these programs: Photoshop Illustrator CS2 Let’s get on with the tutorial! Step 1. Or if this is a personal project, what YOU want. Step 2. You might be tempted to use skulls or other typical dark imagery, but you really should try to come up with something new. Step 3. Step 4.
71+ Free PSD Resources As I promised yesterday, here is new biggest post that I’ve ever written. Whether you’re just trying to learn Photoshop, or you need some quality elements to use in your latest designs, free PSD resources can be a real timesaver. Today, we have a list of 71+ free Photoshop resources for designers. There are some great stock images here, and some layered PSD files that are just perfect for designers to learn how high quality resources are made. Please, if you find these posts useful, take a few seconds to submit it to Digg, Stumble, Delicious, Reddit, Mixx, or any of your other favorite social networks. Try High Quality Business Cards Online Color Printing at PsPrint Plastic DVD Case Cassette PSD DVD Case PSD Saturday PSD iPhone PSD Blackberry Bold PSD Framed Wallpaper Resource Terra Nova Planet Resource Wednesday PSD Old Book PSD Dramatic Room PSD Class E Geo Metallic Planet 15 Illustration Frames PSD Web 2.0 Peeling Sticker PSD Star Sticker PSD Deluxive Creative PSD Pack Peter's deviantART ID PSD Ski PSD
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Online Printing Company & Services - UPrinting.com Filter Effects Developer How to Create a Super Shiny Pencil Icon The Pencil is one of the visual metaphors most used to express creativity. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw a pencil icon. We’ll have a look at gradients, selection tools, and basic transform operations. Let’s have some fun with this. Step 1 Create a New Document 950 pixels wide by 600 pixels heigh, set the Resolution to 300 pixels/inch, and the Background to white. Step 2 Drag and snap guides to all edges and vertical center of the selection. Step 3 Open the gradient picker and select the "Steel Bar" preset from the drop down menu. Step 4 To make our pencil more reflective go to Image > Adjustments > Curves (Command + M), and adjust it as in the below image. Step 5 With the selection still active, create a new layer and fill the selection with the color #d60005, then set the layer Opacity to 60%. Step 6 Right click the "Body" layer and duplicate it. Step 7 Select the Elliptical Marque tool and make a selection from point 1 in the image while holding down the Alt and Shift keys.
Fonts, Typography & Design: Best Fonts for Graphic & Web Designers Welcome to Free Font of the Week, where we showcase our favorite free font finds! This week's choice is Elephant by Samuel Salminen… Welcome to Free Font of the Week, where we showcase our favorite free font finds! Welcome to Free Font of the Week, where we showcase our favorite free font finds! Welcome to Free Font of the Week, where we showcase our favorite free font finds! Welcome to Free Font of the Week, where we showcase our favorite free font finds! Welcome to Free Font of the Week, where we showcase our favorite free font finds! Welcome to Free Font of the Week, where we showcase our favorite free font finds! Welcome to Free Font of the Week, where we showcase our favorite free font finds! Welcome to Free Font of the Week, where we showcase our favorite free font finds! This week's free font celebrates the first Friday the 13th in October since 2006.
The Ultimate Collection Of Free Vector Packs - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Designers love freebies that make life easier and help them create higher-quality work. Free vectors are useful, free vector packs even more so. Fortunately, there are plenty of talented graphic designers who are willing to give away their work (or samples of it) to benefit the rest of us. In this post, we feature 60 of the best and most useful free vector packs. Many of the vectors featured here would be useful for particular styles of design and specific types of websites. Abstract Blobs and Bursts1 A pack of 10 vectors for creating abstract effects. Wavy Vector Ribbons3 A pack of 7 trendy vectors of wavy lines. Trendy Circles5 Another trendy collection, this one containing six variations. Circles7 Different types and combinations of circles are in this pack. Weird Bubbles9 If other circles don’t meet your needs, ten vectors are included in this pack. Modern Arrows11 An easy way to add a trendy style to your designs. Birds in Flight31 A pack of 12 bird vectors from Bittbox. (al)
Draw a hackergotchi (or just people heads) with Inkscape A hackergotchi is a picture of a writer used as an avatar to identify the author of a given RSS feed in blog aggregators. Traditionally them are made in GIMP (see my tutorial about drawing them with GIMP), but today we'll try something a little unusual: draw them in vector graphics using Inkscape. As a bonus, we will learn to draw those heads even if we don't know how to draw, by using a photo as reference, anyone can do this, you don't have to be an Inkscape wizard. You may want to use a tablet, but the mouse is enough - the images in this tutorial are made exclusively with the mouse, I chosed to ignore my tablet today as I want to show what is possible using the simplest tools. So we will start with a photo and will end with a drawing, like this: Prepare your workplace Set the canvas size as you desire, I used here 128x128, as this is an usual size for thumbnails. Draw the strokes Use the Calligraphic Tool (Ctrl+F6). When we want to capture small details and need accuracy, zoom in: Done!
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