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60+ Fresh Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web January 5, 2010 Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of December. You’ll find everything from a Minimalistic Poster Designed in Photoshop, to creating a Clean 3D Notepad. So what are you waiting for…why not try one out? via 60+ Fresh Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web | designrfix.com.

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A Collection of Free Design Resources Designers can never get enough resources. Fonts, tutorials, source files, plugins, stock images, icons… you name it we love them. Especially when they are free! Thankfully within the design community there are no shortage of designers willing to offer free stuff, it just about finding them. That is where we can help. In today’s news round-up we have collected exactly what you want, some fresh and free design resources. via A Collection of Free Design Resources | Design Reviver.

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Modern Art Movements To Inspire Your Logo Design * By Daniel Eckler It’s always nice to go to a bookstore, grab a book of logo designs, sit down, inhale that new-book smell and absorb the goodness. But knowing where all of these designs, fonts and creative elements have come from is also good. In this article, we look at modern art movements and a series of diverse logos inspired by those movements. You may be surprised by how easily these colors, shapes and strokes can be adapted to logo design. Have a look, see how logo design works and maybe even draw inspiration for your own creativity. via Modern Art Movements To Inspire Your Logo Design - Smashing Magazine.

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Daily Inspiration #404 January 12, 2010 This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. via Daily Inspiration #404 | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials.

Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Luminance Correction By Chad Perkins In After Effects CS4 Essential Training, Chad Perkins teaches fundamental motion graphics design techniques from the ground up. He shows how to gather video, audio, and graphical source materials into layered compositions, make edits and adjustments, then bring it all to life with a powerful array of visual effects and animation techniques. These skills are demonstrated in a series of increasingly intricate projects, from creating a galaxy to building a fantasy battle scene. Chad also demonstrates workflows for keying and compositing, shows how to integrate with other applications, shares useful tips and secrets, and much more. In this clip, host Chad Perkins looks at how to correct luminance, or brightness problems in your footage. He shows you the color corrections panel and discusses the auto levels and other auto effects, but also works in the levels effect, detailing the histogram which shows what is going on in your image, shadow areas, mid tones and highlights of the histogram. via Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Luminance Correction.

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Conceptual Art and Installations by Michael Johansson January 01, 2010 Michael Johansson definitely has a very distinctive style that's apparent in the majority of his works. I discovered him on Booooooom a few days ago, and knew this was something I had to share with you guys. I love the crazy amount of thinking that must go into making these fairly simple pieces. He makes it seem so easy with his clever concepts. Johansson was born in Trollhättan 1975, took his MA at the Art Academy in Malmö 2005, where he still lives and works. In his playful installations and sculptures Michael Johansson puts the qualities from daily life objects in opposition to their field of application. By repetition, displacement of scale, and new function, he questions the receivers interpretations of the unique. via Conceptual Art and Installations by Michael Johansson | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials.