Les bases du Design Want to know how to design? Then you should learn the basics of design. The basic elements of design include colour, line, shape, scale, space, texture and value and these are the fundamental pieces that make up any piece of work. If you ever start a design course this will be the very first thing that you are taught, guaranteed. But what if you’re not a student? Note from Jacob Cass: This is a guest article written by Lauren Marie who is a graphic designer in corporate America during the day and a blogger via night. Colour Colour has a huge impact on the mood of the design. Select articles on color: Line Are your lines straight and slim, or thick and squiggly? How lines interact with each other is important, too. Select articles on line: Shape Did you know that shapes can convey a mood just like any other element of design? Select articles on shape: Using Shape: Real World Examples About.com Shapes in Design Scale and Size Select articles on scale/size: Using Scale: Real World Examples Space Value
10 Websites to Help You Master GIMP GIMP – which stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program – is a testament to how open source applications can successfully compete with their proprietary, commercial counterparts. Rich with an amazing set of useful tools and effects filters in a user-friendly GUI, GIMP is an excellent application for image editing and graphics creation. In this article, you’ll find 10 excellent sites that feature design tutorials and information about GIMP. 1. Gimp-tutorials.net is a blog-format site that also features user-submitted tutorials. 2. GimpTalk is a large community site for anything and everything GIMP-related. 3. Gimpology is a place that allows users to submit their own GIMP tutorials or share links to tutorials they’ve found on the web. 4. The official GIMP site has a tutorial section that features detailed tutorials to help users get up and running with GIMP. 5. GIMPguru.org is a site dedicated to sharing information about photo-editing and photo-manipulation in GIMP. 6. gimpusers.com 7. 8.
BrushLovers, une tonne de brushes pour Photoshop Les brushes, c’est un bon moyen d’enrichir une composition et de la rendre beaucoup plus originale. Les sites dédiés à ces ressources ne manquent pas, c’est vrai, mais BrushLovers est un nouveau venu qui cumule les bons points et qui propose à la fois des brushes gratuites et payantes. Si vous êtes un graphiste ou un simple curieux, voilà une bonne adresse à ajouter de toute urgence à vos favoris. J’aime BrushLovers. Chaque brush est présentée dans un encart dans lequel on trouve un grand nombre d’informations, à commencer par son nom, son coût, le nombre de votes ou encore la note. Et si vous savez ce que vous cherchez, alors il vous suffira de cliquer sur le menu « all brushes » pour faire apparaître les différentes catégories proposées par BrushLovers.
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50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets You Should Bookmark If you’ve got an idea (or concept) but find it hard to present on your artwork because the drawings just don’t add up, try Photoshop Brushes. Brushes are designers best friend, particularly web designers who don’t illustrate graphics much. Adobe Photoshop does comes with a basic package of brushes but it has not been updated by folks at Adobe for quite some time. Thanks to the great community of designers out there who constantly distributing and sharing their brushes, you can almost find brushes of any patterns these days. In today’s post, we attempt to present you some of the high quality and good ones, those we thought would be generally useful in many occasion and definitely worth checking out and bookmark. Some useful Photoshop related entries we’ve previously written: Metal Brushes9 metal texture brush set. 2Bit-Twilight BrushesA set of 12 abstract pixel brushes for Photoshop.
How To Learn Photoshop In 24 Hrs Quite a bold statement, Learn Photoshop in 24 hours. Its simple and you can. Stepping into Photoshop at first can be quite daunting, were do you start? Tutorial 1:Combining Two Photos for New Effect – Basic Tutorial running time : 10 minutes. We’ll start with something basic. Tutorial 2:Grass Texture – Basic Tutorial running time : 15 minutes. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a nice-looking grass texture. Tutorial 3:Underwater Effect – Basic In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an underwater scene from scratch, using Gradients, Transform and Filters. Tutorial 4:2d Mirror Effect – Basic In this tutorial you will learn how to Duplicate, Flip Horizontally/Vertically, Feathering and Blending. Tutorial 5:Sony Ericsson Logo – Basic Tutorial running time : 20 minutes. This is your first tricky tut. Tutorial 6:Paint Graffiti on Wall – Basic Tutorial running time : 30 minutes. You will be using custom brushes to recreate the graffiti wall, and working with multiple layers.
Pixel Patterns Repeating patterns are a great resource to add detail and texture to any website or interface design. Download this free pack of 12 pixel based patterns, including diagonal lines, dots and tessellating shapes for use in your future design projects. All the patterns are contained within a Photoshop .pat file. Select the Fill tool then change the drop down box from Foreground to Pattern. Download the Photoshop pattern file
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