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- December 2009
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What I’ve Posted
What I’m Doing
Creating a Website (Part 2: The Design)
In the previous part of this tutorial, we conceptualized our website, which is a travel blog, by deciding on a color scheme and structure and by brainstorming some ideas. Now it’s time for the fun part, designing! Open up Photoshop and let’s start. (more…)
Favorite Design Resources
The web is a great resource for designers. There are TONS of websites out there that offer free stuff like brushes, icons, textures, vector graphics, and other awesome stuff. That being said, I wanted to share with you some of the sites that I go to for design resources. I’m sure you’ll find these places very helpful to your designing. Let me know what you think and if there are any site you think I should add! (more…)
Design 101: Installing Photoshop Brushes
Here’s a quick tutorial on installing brushes for Photoshop. There are a TON of free brushes you can download online which can be very useful when it comes to designing. My favorite place to download brushes is DeviantArt because they have a massive collection. Before we do this tutorial, we obviously need a brush to install. Brushes usually come in packs with multiple brushes in a pack. Head over to DeviantArt or anywhere else that has brushes and download some. Here is the brush pack I’ll use for this tutorial. (more…)
Design 101: Reflection Effect
This is a great technique that gives us a nice reflection effect. It doesn’t have to be applied to text, but for the purpose of this tutorial, we’ll use text. This is another nice and short tutorial also, only seven steps! Here’s the final result of the tutorial:
Design 101: 3D Shadow Effect
In light of my last tutorial on giving text weight, here’s another text effect tutorial. This one will create a nice 3D-looking shadow, and it will probably take less than a few minutes to do. A really simple technique, but it looks nice. Here’s what the final result will look like:
Design 101: Giving Text Weight
This is the first in a series I plan on doing called “Design 101.” It will consist of tutorials aimed at designers who are more at a beginner skill level. Steps will be in great detail, explanations will be given, screenshots will be added, and source graphics will be provided (Note: I will be using Adobe Photoshop mostly, but the walkthroughs can be applicable to any design software. Source downloads are always at the very end of the tutorial). (more…)
