Posts Tagged "Graphics"

40 Amazing Photoshop Brush Directories and Collections October 23, 2009 Graphic Design, Photoshop There are hundreds and thousands of Photoshop brushes available to download for free. Were do you start looking? How do you find that particular brush that you need to complete your latest design project? And most importantly, were are all the the high quality or even hi-res brushes? In this design resource round-up we have compiled a list of the best Photoshop directory resource sites and also compiled a list of the best PS brush collections. If you can’t find the brush that you need here, give up, because it can’t be found (or, I may have missed it). via 40 Amazing Photoshop Brush Directories and Collections : Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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30 Artistic and Creative Photoshop Poster Tutorials November 13, 2009 Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial Although posters as a concept have been used for many centuries, in traditional art years, poster design is a relatively new. It has only been in the last 100 years that poster design has been elevated and recognized as an art-form, and has gained the kind of popularity that no other design category can rival. Below we have rounded-up the our favorite Photoshop Poster Design Tutorials, ranging from, movie posters, adverts and events in a variety of styles. via 30 Artistic and Creative Photoshop Poster Tutorials : Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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Unveiling Photoshop Masks * By Thomas Giannattasio * December 17th, 2009 Design is a fluid and shifting process in which layers are constantly modified and tweaked. As complexity builds, so does the need for preserving data in a flexible way. Learning non-destructive editing techniques helps you produce documents that bend along with your creativity. Photoshop Masks are the cornerstone of this process. Not only do they preserve important pixel data, but they allow for the creation of flexible interface elements as well. In this article, we’ll explore the technical aspects and creative advantages of incorporating masks into your workflow. Photoshop offers five methods of masking: Pixel Masks, Vector Masks, Quick Masks, Clipping Masks and Clipping Paths, all of which define pixel opacities without affecting the original data. Each of them has its own pros and cons, and knowing which method to use is extremely important for creating clean, flexible and properly masked layers. via Unveiling Photoshop Masks - Smashing Magazine.

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The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009 December 18, 2009 Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial On Monday past we published the post 49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009, a collection of the best artistic tutorials for Photoshop from this year. As a follow up to that post, today we have The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009, a collection of diverse and unique effects and type treatments that will add a little extra to your next design. via The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009 : Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design * By Vitaly Friedman * December 14th, 2009 Round-ups of beautiful and useful icons are almost legendary here, on Smashing Magazine. While some readers complain about the annoying “list”-style of some of our articles, we are confident that useful round-ups of relevant resources are very valuable and useful for designers. This is why over months we collect useful links and then present them in posts in the magazine. via 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design - Smashing Magazine.

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49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009 December 14, 2009 What a year it has been for Photoshop… so many new techniques, so many fresh ideas and so many new and creative web sites offering free tutorials. In this post we have collected the best of them, focusing on photo manipulation, design and drawing, poster design, caricature design and finally, illustration within Photoshop. We have purposely omitted icon design, text effects and GUI tutorials, these will be following in the coming weeks, keep an eye out for them. via 49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009 : Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Open Colour Standard: free/open alternative to Pantone Ginger coons writes in about the Open Colour Standard, "an effort to create a new colour standard to help free/open source graphics programs bridge the gap between screen and print." It's like Pantone's spot colour standard [ed: a widely used proprietary system for describing "spot" colors -- that is, colors that need special inks to print. Pantone distributes both the inks and books of color swatches. Designers pick colors out of the book and the printer loads the extra ink into her apparatus at print time], but not necessarily in opposition to it. Just different. via Open Colour Standard: free/open alternative to Pantone Boing Boing.

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50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design * By Paul Andrew * June 7th, 2009 Beautiful and free icon sets always come in handy. Used properly and moderately, icons can be helpful to provide users with memorable metaphors and illustrations that would provide a visual support for otherwise unspectacular text blocks. For instance, in web-applications memorable icons can be very helpful as they can make it easier for users to memorize how to perform some specific task or where to find some specific functions. This large collection of recently released icon sets is supposed to help designers improve their designs on their web-sites and in web-applications. All icon sets are free. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the icons — the license can change from time to time. The icons provided below may turn out to be useful and helpful in corporate designs, portfolios, blogs, magazines and in Web-applications. Please feel free to suggest more icon sets in the comments to this post. via 50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design - Smashing Magazine.

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The Ultimate Collection Of Maya 3D Tutorials * By Vailancio Rodrigues * August 27th, 2009 * Tutorials Ever wonder how animated films like Ice Age are made? Maya is the answer. Maya (or Autodesk Maya, having recently been acquired by Autodesk) is powerful 3D modeling, animation, texturing, rendering and visual effects software. Maya was developed for the film industry and is now being used for design, visual effects, games, film, animation, visualization and simulation. The most significant thing that sets it apart from other 3D packages — and the reason it is used so widely in these major industries — is that it is highly customizable. Big studios can write custom code to suit their productions using the software’s development kit. This makes Maya highly adaptable to any workflow. Below, we feature tutorials that address most Maya-related topics for beginners and advanced users. These tutorials cover almost everything Maya has to offer, from modeling to the final rendering process. via The Ultimate Collection Of Maya 3D Tutorials - Smashing Magazine.

40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design * By Vitaly Friedman * November 8th, 2007 * Design, Fonts * 283 Comments Advertisement The importance of typography in design can’t be overestimated. The accuracy, precision and balance of geometric forms can give letters the elegance and sharpness they deserve. Besides, elegant fonts can help to convey the message in a more convenient way. In fact, while there are many excellent professional fonts (we’ve presented some of them in our article 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design) there are literally thousands of free low-quality fonts which you would never use for professional designs. via 40 Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design - Smashing Magazine.