Daily Inspiration #922

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Learn to Think and Compose Like a Painter

A Guest Post by Nick Fleming

Many years ago I met a well known English artist while I was travelling through Northern India. We happened to be staying at the same hotel, one of those rather agreeable converted palaces. Each day he went out with his watercolours, easel,  portable chair and… read more

Daily Inspiration #921

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

What Popular Movies Can Teach Us About Design

It’s a pretty safe bet to say that the vast majority of people like movies. They’re usually entertaining and sometimes even informative or thought-provoking. But most designers probably don’t pay too much attention to how they might be able to offer inspiration for website or other designs.

But most movies, especially… read more

30 Breathtaking Surreal Photoshop Tutorials

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Photoshop is one of the most popular tool used among graphic artists. Photoshop tutorials are definitely one of the best ways to learn and master this tool. There are lots of high quality and variety tutorials on the web available for free so you can learn… read more

Instaview: A Fun and Flexible Instagram Viewer

Instagram is a great mobile app for sharing pictures with other people. It has grown quite a lot recently, and since it lacks a first-party desktop app, developers have had their hands full designing apps that bring the Instagram experience to the Mac.

We’ve talked about plenty of these apps, but… read more

Paintings, photography by Joanna Kustra

Paintings, photography by Joanna Kustra

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Daily Inspiration #920

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Create Epic Surreal Volcanic Wasteland Matte Painting in Photoshop

Create Epic Surreal Volcanic Wasteland Matte Painting in Photoshop

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Daily Inspiration #919

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Aug 29-Sep 4, 2011

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

Interview With Andreas Rocha

Andreas Rocha is a veteran designer who has mastered the art of matte and digital paintings. His portfolio will take you to incredible fantasy landscapes that you could only dream of. Andreas gives the readers a window into how he creates his beautiful illustrations by explaining the art of matte… read more

Behind the Scenes With Google’s New AdMob Campaign [PICS]

When the Google mobile ads team was looking for the best way to promote the Google Search app for iPhone, the company turned to its in-house AdMob platform for help.

In the software industry, there is a term known as dogfooding — where a company uses its own products to achieve… read more

Elderly Superhero Portraits by Andreas Englund

Creativity keeps going forward as we encounter some sweet, super creative paintings around the web. This time, we’re talking about a superhero that doesn’t want to retire to soon and keeps fighting crime whenever his not watching Jeopardy.

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This is the product of Andreas Englund’s mind. I find awesome when people… read more

The Most Interesting Photography Links of the Week

This week has been action packed in terms of photography resources online, and Toad Hollow Photography has been searching for the very best tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  This week’s list is full of wonderful and unique sites, all well worth the time to view.

Check… read more

Daily Inspiration #917

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Daily Inspiration #915

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Daily Inspiration #914

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Stunning Digital Art by Jonas de Ro

Jonas de Ro is a young digital artist based in Belgium. His works are a mixture from concept art, animation, matte painting, photography and more. The concept behind his art is definitely beautifully detailed and the lighting is just spectacular. You can truly see that his imagination goes way beyond… read more

Super Rad Light Painting by Dennis Calvert

It’s been quite a while since I’ve last seen cool light paintings. After a while, it became too much of the same, and the lack of creativity made this technique fade for some time. That until now.

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Dennis Calvert have just revived it. Well, at least for me. This guy really… read more

Best of the Vector Web – August 2011

Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on creating vintage vector seamless patterns, creating abstract character scenes, luminous text effects, geometric graphics, and more. We have loads of tutorials, in… read more

Daily Inspiration #912

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Best of the Week #186

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Understanding the Concept of ‘Copying’ in Photography

Color photography is not limited to live or solid subjects. You may occasionally be called upon to copy colored illustrations or even paintings.

A Faithful reproduction of an original picture or document is called “Copying” by photographic means. The original can be any printed matter. Drawings, handwritten document or continuous-tone originals… read more

31 Crazy Character Designs

Character designs can come in all sorts of crazy and zany styles, and sometimes they are just caricatures of the people around you.  No matter what style you choose, it can be a lot of fun coming up with  a character to represent your project.  In the follow post, I… read more

The Most Remarkable Photography Links, Articles, Tutorials and Photos of the Week

The internet provides a wonderful opportunity for people to network, and Toad Hollow Photography follows many sources during the week to find the best tutorials, photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.   This weeks list features a series of incredible posts and pictures that we truly hope everyone enjoys!

Check… read more

Daily Inspiration #910

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

How To Become A Web Design Expert

Have you ever wanted to take a client by the collar, shake them around vigorously and demand that they take you seriously because you are the expert? If so, you are not alone. Whether you consider yourself an expert and want recognition or are looking to one day become one,… read more

Create a Light Painting, Bokeh Effect in Illustrator – Vector Premium Tutorial

Today, we have another Vector Premium tutorial, which is available exclusively for Premium members. Learn how to create light painting effects in Illustrator, with high style and professional results. The key to this effect are Vector Brushes and Blend Modes.

This Premium Tutorial is Filled with Professional, Creative Instructions

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Daily Inspiration #909

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Interview with Joshua Smith (aka. Hydro 74)

Today we’re really glad to publish a high anticipated interview with Joshua Smith, well known on the design community as Hydro 74. Since I started on the creative, I always loved Hydro 74 artworks, so this is quite a great accomplishment to me ann the blog. I hope you guys… read more

Digital Painting in Photoshop -EP9: The Pen Tool

Digital Painting in Photoshop -EP9: The Pen Tool

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Daily Inspiration #908

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Most Beautiful And Attractive Oil Paintings For your inspiration

Most Beautiful And Attractive Oil Paintings For your inspiration

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Stellar Illustrations by Edward Kwong

I’m not posting that much illustrations recently in order to break the habits a little bit, but I didn’t stop looking for some nice inspiration for you guys. Happily, I ran into the amazing work of Canadian illustrator, Edward Kwong.

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It’s been some time since I last saw such impressive lines… read more

How to Create a Tutorial – The Vectortuts+ Way

Everything is not as difficult as it seems on first glance. Today, I asked the experts about that. Their answers will help you understand how tutorials are created. Believe me, this job is a lot of fun, and maybe some of you will really like it. The participants of this… read more

Showcase of Italian Web Design Pt.2

Last week we had a showcase of Italian web design from a member of the Italian web design community. This week we have a showcase from a different perspective. This week, we have a showcase and look at Italian web design from a designer outside of that community. Complete with… read more

Captain America Shield in Photoshop

I haven’t had the chance to watch Captain America in the theaters yet, however I’ve seen the poster all over San Francisco. Every time I see it I think to myself that would be awesome to create that shield in Photoshop. This morning I woke up and decided that… read more

How to Create a Traditional Painting-Like Surreal Image using Photoshop

How to Create a Traditional Painting-Like Surreal Image using Photoshop

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Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect in Photoshop

Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect in Photoshop

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80 Astonishing Digital Painting Designs

80 Astonishing Digital Painting Designs

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Daily Inspiration #905

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect

In this tutorial I will show you an easy, and very fast way, to create a light painting in Photoshop. Editor’s note: This tutorial was original published on Psdtuts in April of 2008. Step 1 Create a new document and place the photo, you can download the one I used… read more

Daily Inspiration #904

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Daily Inspiration #903

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Daily Inspiration #902

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Daily Inspiration #901

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Showcase of Italian Web Design Pt.1

It all started in the middle 90s. The Internet in Italy was slowly coming out from its early age when it was somehow still synonymous with cyber-culture. World Wide Web was becoming larger known and young dudes with 14k remote modem connections were spending their nights updating rudimentary personal pages… read more

Stunning Collection of Digital Paintings From Graphic Designers Portfolios

Stunning Collection of Digital Paintings From Graphic Designers Portfolios

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Daily Inspiration #900

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Light Painting Photography

Light Painting Photography

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Best of the Week #184

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Daily Inspiration #899

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Mastering Photoshop Techniques: Layer Styles

Layer Styles are nothing new. They’ve been used and abused again and again. Despite their ubiquity, or perhaps because of it, many designers do not yet realize the full potential of this handy menu. Its beauty lies in our ability to create an effect and then copy, modify, export, hide… read more

30 Photoshop Tutorials for Graphic Designers

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Photoshop is near-ubiquitous with graphics design. Even if you don’t consider yourself a graphic designer, having some Photoshop skills can really come in handy with your poster design/photo/text/etc. work. And tutorials take a lot out of the learning curve, since you can just follow the steps… read more

45 Beautiful Wall Paintings from Graffiti to Realism: Artworks that Wow

A splash of color, a burst of wonder and loads and loads of raw artistic talent. In a few ways, it will be weird to say that all those three things are exactly what you’ll find on some walls. (I stand corrected, maybe it is more befitting to… read more

Daily Inspiration #896

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Dramatic Coloring in Lightroom

A Guest Post by Post Production Pye from SLR Lounge.

Whenever I am lecturing, or speaking with other photographers, I am always trying to teach them just how powerful Lightroom 3 truly is. In fact, approximately 98% of the photos that we deliver to clients in our wedding photography studio, Lin… read more

Daily Inspiration #895

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

35 Awesome Anime Fan Art Illustrations

Anime is not just for kids. Japanese Animation or Anime for short features a wide variety of genres that appeal to different age-groups, including adults. Hundreds of series are currently being shown on televisions all over the world and thousands have been created since the screening of the very first… read more

Create a Medieval Landscape in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a medieval landscape using digital painting and photo manipulation techniques. We will begin by sketching out a rough idea of how we want our image to look. Then, we will then add various stock images and build upon them until we… read more

Create an Angry Birds Parody in Illustrator

Most video games that I’ve played lately have not been as charming as Angry Birds. Why? Because nowadays most games focus too much on realistic graphics and improved AI. They just forget the basics of fun games like Super Mario World. If you have not played this game yet you… read more

Daily Inspiration #894

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Best of the Week #183

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Daily Inspiration #893

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Creative Digital Paintings of Cute and Cuddly Creatures

Creative Digital Paintings of Cute and Cuddly Creatures

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Daily Inspiration #892

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

21 Reimagined Cult Movie Posters

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There’s something about cult films that begs for interpretation. Whether it’s their odd themes or quirky actors, cult movies are great fodder for artists’ imaginations. I think it’s because B movies, horror slapsticks and fantastical tales just get better over time – as we watch these… read more

Daily Inspiration #891

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

iPhone App Is a Mobile Marketplace for Local Arts & Crafts

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Goshi

Quick Pitch: Goshi is an easy to use, hyper-local mobile marketplace with safe transaction hubs.

Genius Idea:… read more

Daily Inspiration #890

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

World War 3

Matte painting – World War 3

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Digital Painting in Photoshop – Episode 5: Layers Palette

Digital Painting in Photoshop – Episode 5: Layers Palette

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Using Adobe Photoshop On Iconic Paintings

Using Adobe Photoshop On Iconic Paintings

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Daily Inspiration #889

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Dark Knight Rises Poster in Photoshop

A couple of weeks ago I saw the new Dark Knight Rises poster and I love it. The concept was beautiful, using negative spaces to show the Batman symbol. As usual I started to think about ways to do that in Photoshop, then last Saturday I started looking for assets… read more

Daily Inspiration #888

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Daily Inspiration #887

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Daily Inspiration #886

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Web design inspiration from modern art history

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Video Inspiration #28 – Love Kills Demons

Video Inspiration is a weekly(ish) post where we either feature a specific artist or show a sort of “best of” list of videos we’ve discovered during the week. Everything here may not be brand new, but we felt it worth sharing with the community. If you have good… read more

Daily Inspiration #885

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Free Texture Tuesday: Messy Paint

This week I’ve got some really cool dried paint textures from a local welding shop. Someone decided to use a giant piece of plex for a painting palette. I found it in in a back corner of a shop and snapped some images. I know it’s Wednesday, been under the… read more

20 Spectacular 3D Street Paintings

20 Spectacular 3D Street Paintings

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Daily Inspiration #883

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Daily Inspiration #882

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Daily Inspiration #881

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Daily Inspiration #880

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Web design inspiration from the history of art

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Daily Inspiration #879

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Steel Wool Photography: Video How To

The guys at Photo Extremist have put together this cool video that shows you how to create stunning fiery images using nothing more than steel wool, an egg whisk and a cable.

Also check out the Trick Photography eBook mentioned in this video that is packed with all kinds of special… read more

Zen

Matte painting I did for advance photoshop issue 74, the brief was to design a surreal landscape. The piece is a mix of Digital Painting and Photo Manipulation. See below to see photo’s of it’s publication.

http://www.theotherstream.com/7662/133853/home/zen

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Daily Inspiration #878

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Daily Inspiration #877

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Daily Inspiration #876

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Jul 11-Jul 17, 2011

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Must-Learn Photo Manipulation Tutorials You’ll Enjoy Checking Out

As requested, here are some of the best photo-manipulation tutorials online. These tutorials are great, not just because the final products are good, but because you can use one or more of the theories you’ll learn from them to create your very own master pieces. It is not… read more

Daily Inspiration #875

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. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Are You in a Photography Rut? 11 Tips to Get Out of It!

Every photographer hits a wall at one point or another. Here are a few tips to keep things fresh and new.

1. Try something new, get out of your comfort zone. You’ve been photographing nature for years? Try some street photography!

2. Meet other photographers and go on photo walks. It doesn’t… read more

Create a Devastating Tidal Wave in Photoshop

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Matte painting is a technique that filmmakers use to create backgrounds for scenes that can’t or don’t exist in real life. In the early days, matte paintings were actually painted onto glass. Today, modern filmmakers use digital applications such as Photoshop to produce the backdrops that they need. We… read more