Aurora Borealis Typopgraphy Wallpaper Photoshop Tutorial
Share I recently created this wallpaper for Lucidry an online inspirational, business, social media and creative professional website. I thought it would be great to share my process in a tutorial! You can download my version here. Hope you enjoy. Step 1 Create a new document that is the screen resolution of your PC/Laptop Screen [...]
Give Old Photos A Punchy Stylistic Feel – Photoshop Tutorial – with Video
Share I found a number of old photos and after scanning them in – they had a grainy finish and had lost the punch and impact they once had. So I devised this little process to give them their punch back! Hopefully its of use to yourself. You can follow along with the screenshots or [...]
Turn A Boring Photo Into An Emotive Portrait – Photoshop Tutorial – with video
Share This is a fairly ‘intermediate’ tutorial, although most beginners will be able to follow along with the video. It’s a neat little tutorial packed full of lots of little gems and tricks which we use in order to arrive the result; which is a much more stylistic portrait, that’s a lot more emotive and [...]
11 Articles To Stop You Making Designer Mistakes
Share 1) Just Creative Design – Bad Graphic Design Yes, this is a controversial topic, however I hope to raise awareness of some mistakes you may be making in your graphic design pieces that are making you look amateurish, but please keep in mind that none of these are hard and fast rules, this is [...]
4 Tutorials to Improve Your Drawing
Share Below, find some tuts that we have found useful. Click the images. 1)How to Draw eyes 2) How to draw human poses 3) How to draw hair 4) How to Draw Anime
Speed Up Adobe Illustrator Performance
Share Speed Up Adobe Illustrator Performance on Windows http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=320782&sliceId=1 Excerpt: By configuring your system to run efficiently, you increase the amount of memory available to applications and ensure that they run smoothly. Increase the amount of memory available to Illustrator, quit applications you are not using, or disable nonessential startup applications or fonts to improve [...]
Designing for Print and Designing for Web Differences
Share Designing for print, and designing for web are two different kettles of fish, and learning some of the basic considerations between the two can save you many of the traditional rookie mistakes that plagued us, in our teething process. this little article should hopefully stop you from making any huge mistakes early on. Firstly, [...]
Photoshop Actions Tutorial
Share Recently, I went out with my camera, captured around 200 10MP photos with my DSLR. I then wanted to upload each picture to the web. Instead of resizing and individually sharpening each one, I created an Action; Photoshop then automatically converted all 200 images for me, whilst preserving the originals in their source folder. [...]
10 Resources and Tutorials to Understand and Create Corporate Identity
Share 1) How to create a strong corporate identity You need to decide what is the core proposition of the company; what you do and what you sell,he said. If you don’t know what the company stands for it is difficult to create an identity. You can come up with the funkiest identity but if [...]
Using Humour Effectively in Design
We went on a short trip to amsterdam, and stayed in, probably the worst hotel in Europe. (that anchor text is adding to their advertising, trust me!) It wasn’t an exaggeration to suggest that our room resembled a prison in every way, except for the bars. However, the budget hotel embraced it’s flaws instead of trying to cover them up – using humour in their advertisments, they successfuly turned what should have been the worst aspect of any hotel, into its biggest selling points.
10 Tutorials and Resources to Teach You CSS
In my quest to learn how to design using CSS to style my web designs in my development of my web skills, I compiled a list of 10 resources and tutorials that I have found invaluable in learning the basics and some intermediate tips and tricks in CSS. Hope you all find them useful in helping you to learn CSS.
Custom Right Click – Flash Tutorial
Creating a custom right click menu in Flash using AS2
Adding A Rainbow To A Photo in Photoshop Tutorial
Share Hey all. Every now and then you take a beautiful picture of a clear scenic day and nothing could make it better than adding a wonderful rainbow into the shot. Or in your designing etc, you may just want to add a rainbow to the composition. Below, is a tutorial, showing you how to [...]
Photoshop Adjustment Layer and Retouching Tutorial with Video
This tutorial should hopefully have you adjusting and touching up all your photos at an intermediate level in no time. the techniques and principles can ten be applied in doing other things within photoshop.
30-Second Sepia Effect Photoshop Tutorial
To quickly create a simple sepia effect in Photoshop, do the following:
Flash Animated Rollover Video Tutorial
Share As a flash web designer , people often ask about rollovers I use so I created this 5 minute video tutorial showing how to create an animated rollover button in Adobe Flash CS3. This tutorial assumes you have a basic knowledge of flash and understand your way around it. Below is what you will [...]