Quick Tip: Create a “Transfarmers” Text Effect Using Layer Styles in Photoshop

In today’s quick tip tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a cinematic “Transfarmers” Text Effect using the layer styles. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Transformers Solid font Dark Metal texture from Texturemate.com Brushed Metal Pattern Step 1 Make… read more

73 Links and Photos That Will Make Your Photography-Loving Head Explode

It’s been a truly wonderful week online in the world of photography, and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy collecting the best set of links to tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  This is a really great list highlighting wonderful work by some of the best… read more

How To Create A Set Of PS Brushes From A Single Texture Photo

Creating Photoshop brushes is rather easy. But, I often find that brush sets lack consistency and are often created form various textures or sources. I like consistency.

I think a great set of brushes isn’t just a matter of throwing a bunch of brushes that kinda look similar together in a… read more

23 Free Textures for your Delight

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Here at WDL, we take great pride in being able to find useful freebies and share them with our readers. It saves you time, and allows you to focus on creating, instead of hunting. Here you will find 23 free textures to add to your resource… read more

Snapseed – The Awesome iOS Image Editor Comes to the Mac

A while ago I introduced Snapseed to the readers of iPhone.Appstorm and Apple honored the photo editing app with the App of Year 2011 award. For good reason: Snapseed took full leverage of the intuitive gestures on mobile devices and made editing a breeze.

Now Snapseed is available for the Mac… read more

20 Free Peeling Paint Textures For Your Designs

Today we have come up with an interesting assortment of Peeling Paint Textures for you that you can download for free. Peeling Paint Textures can also be considered a part of Grunge Textures. Textures are recognized for their flexibility and their outstanding effects to a desired output.

In this collection, we… read more

WDL Premium: Vintage Inspired Infographics

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This week, for our WDL Premium members, we have a PSD file from WeGraphics that contains a collection of shape layers that can be edited and reused as various charts and information graphics. With this file you will be able to create stylish vintage looking infographics,… read more

Showcase of Textures in Print Design

The use of textures can dramatically improve your print design work. You can (if used sensibly) add more depth to your work, whether your work be business cards, advertisements or posters. The results of using texture in your print design projects can be completely different every time, depending on various… read more

Best of the Vector Web – January 2012

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 mixing vector techniques with photography, we learn how to create vintage style lettering that has a grainy retro style, dive deeper into… read more

Free High Quality Leather Textures for your Design

Free High Quality Leather Textures for your Design

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Create a Rusty and Worn Metallic Textured Skull Using 3D Renders

Photoshop is a fantastic tool to help 3D artists save time and improve the look of their renders. In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to combine ZBrush materials and lighting render passes to create a stunning metallic textured skull. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used… read more

45 Latest Photo Manipulation Tutorials for Photoshop

When we talk about image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is the first thing that comes to our minds. The software itself is hard to learn and harder to master though. Thanks to the many tutorials available though, even novices can learn the tricky tecniques used by… read more

Sound Design: Audio Branding: Airela Case

What is audio branding?

“Audio branding describes the process of brand development and brand management by use of acoustic elements within the framework of brand communication. It is part of multi-sensory brand communication and holistic corporate design. Audio branding aims at building solidly a brand sound that represents the identity and… read more

Web Design Inspiration – Texture Must-haves

Web Design Inspiration – Texture Must-haves

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10 Awesome Free Texture Packs by Think Design

10 Awesome Free Texture Packs by Think Design

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Create A Jeans Vector in Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator can be a little tricky to get your hands around, particularly after getting used to the workflow of applications like Photoshop. The differences between layer use and the creation of objects and shapes can be really strange at first hand.

In the following steps you will learn how to… read more

Useful CSS Snippets for Your Coding Arsenal

CSS is a beautiful language but it can also be frustrating at times. Certain CSS solutions don’t work on certain browsers (cough Internet Explorer cough) and much of your time can be spent debugging code.

Thankfully there are lots of great CSS snippets available online that fix common problems and design… read more

Free High Quality Grass Textures Collection

Free High Quality Grass Textures Collection

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Quick Tip: Quickly Create Recycled Paper Textures with Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to quickly create a series of recycled paper textures. You can use these to apply the effect of old paper over illustrations. The goal of this tutorial is to show you some shortcuts for aligning objects on the Artboard by using the Align… read more

Creative Uses of Illustration in Web Design

Using illustration in web design has become quite trendy these days. People love to see beautifully designed illustration based websites because they stand out from the rest. Not only because of the beautiful illustrative art work and carefully crafted web designs but also because of the perfect balance struck between… read more

55 Fresh And Free Texture Packs To Spice Up Your Designs

Textures are very popular and well accepted in the designing community. Beginners who have just started in the graphic design industry may not be familiar with how to use textures. Every skilled designer knows the importance of using the appropriate textures in designs and this is the reason why designers… read more

Create a Grunge & Textured Mixed Collage in Photoshop

Create a Grunge & Textured Mixed Collage in Photoshop

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Flashes in the Dark: Low light Photography

Photographers put a lot of focus and emphasis on the lighting for their pictures. After all, lighting is a powerful instrument in setting the overall tone and feel of the piece. Even when there is very little light to work with. In fact, it is in these situations that the… read more

Shooting at Shadows: The Secrets to Great Silhouettes

This is a guest post by Phil Hill, a travel photographer from the UK based in Australia. You can see more of Phil’s great work at his travel photography blog or follow him on Facebook or Twitter.

I was going through my archive the other day, organizing some latest images for… read more

Top 10 Free Sets of Paper Textures for Your Designs

Top 10 Free Sets of Paper Textures for Your Designs

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3 Minutes with Photographer Sean McCormack

Fashion photography has always had a magical aura to it, as it accentuates the best of design and human form. In addition to the expected attention to lighting and shooting there is a great deal of artistry added to each shot with special care given to photo design and post-production… read more

Tuesday Total Textures 107

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can download to use in your projects. Check out this week’s free textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture… read more

Free Texture Tuesday: Grab Bag 14

Today’s grab bag of textures contains a couple old book covers and three other various textures. Each one will add a different dimension to your designs.

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20 Fun & Lively Character Design Tutorials from Vectortuts+

Mastering the art of character design is something that takes both a lively imagination and a good understanding of drawing techniques. Today we have have bundled together a collection fun and lively character design tutorials from the Vectortuts+ archives. Covering a variety of subjects from sketching to rendering there’s plenty… read more

Create a 100% Vector, Painterly Illustration – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, we will use Adobe Illustrator to create a dynamic painterly textured illustration. This technique can be done using a mouse; however, a tablet will give you an extra level of control. We’ll cover the complete vector painting process from sketch to final illustration. If you… read more

How to make your own icon webfont

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Showcase Of Photoshop High Resolution Wood Textures For Designers

Showcase Of Photoshop High Resolution Wood Textures For Designers

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50 Beautiful Yet Free HTML5 And CSS3 Templates

HTML5 templates are getting very popular these days because all professional HTML5 templates are compatible to all browsers with its functionality and features, and with the release of HTML5 / CSS3 it has become even more popular among designers because of the additional and great features.

At the moment, HTML5 and… read more

Create a Mobile App Icon in Photoshop

This tutorial is part of a three-part series explaining how to design UI elements for mobile applications in Photoshop. In this part, we will explain how to design an icon for your mobile device’s home screen. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of… read more

Easy Wax Seal in Illustrator and Photoshop

A few weeks ago I was having my Maker’s Mark and decided it was time to do the wax effect they have on their brand using Photoshop. After looking for some references I found some references and started creating a wax seal using Illustrator and Photoshop.

So in this tutorial we… read more

Antonio Bay Case Study by Falcon White

It’s always a great thing to see how a designer works, it’s a great way to learn and also to progress with your own skills. Now I wanna share a case study from Ralf Krause aka Falcon White, who did this piece for Desktopography 2011. I hope you will enjoy… read more

Extracting Logos Using Levels In Adobe Fireworks

In all the years that I’ve been using Adobe Fireworks, I have always had to perform one task in every project: remove the background from a logo. Most of the time, it’s because the client doesn’t have the original raw file that their previous designer used to create their company’s… read more

It’s here… Say hello to ZeroBundle!

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Weekly Photo Link Roundup: The Coolest Of This Week

The freezing cold fingers of winter have arrived in the Toads part of the world, but this hasn’t kept him from searching the internet for the best tutorials, photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  He was slightly limited due in part to the storm, but is still very… read more

20 HandPicked Gold Texture Packs

20 HandPicked Gold Texture Packs

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Printed Web: Print Design Inspired Websites

It seems things are changing for website design. The minimalist style adopted by many websites is slowly being evolved into something a little more engaging. One of the main sources of inspiration for this change in the way website content is displayed has been print design, particularly newspapers and magazines…. read more

Super Easy Vintage Look to Photos in Pixelmator

Vintage looking photography is super trendy especially with so many apps for Android and iPhone, apps like Instagram, Hipstmatic and so on. The vintage look is cool and easy to create in Pixelmator especially light leaks. That’s why I decided to give it a try.

In this tutorial I will show… read more

Free Subtle Textured Photoshop Brushes

Free Subtle Textured Photoshop Brushes

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Free Texture Tuesday: 5 Cracked and Peeling Wood Textures

These hi res wooden board textures can act as solid foundations or as a small touch to your work. Each one is 4500×3000.

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30 Awesome Marble Texture Sets

30 Awesome Marble Texture Sets

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Free download: Balio Web UI Kit

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Inspiration from Package Design

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As a package/label lover I really like to pay attention to everything surrounding package design, from textures to colors schemes, from materials to layout. I also believe that web designers can get a lot of inspiration from well designed packages. It’s incredible to see how many… read more

The Photography Junky’s Weekly Link Collection

The Toad has been searching the internet all week for the very best tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone here.  This weeks list contains some really wonderful images as captured and shared by some of the most talented artists and photographers the Toad knows.  We really… read more

Free Liquid Textures

Free Liquid Textures

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5 Ways to Truly Explore a Single Photographic Subject

When you start to get serious about photography, something becomes very apparent to you – that getting different effects while photographing the same subject doesn’t need to be particularly difficult. It is actually quite easy to render totally different effects on a single subject using a few tried and tested… read more

Check Out Who’s Visiting your Website with Gaug.es

Knowing how many people are viewing your site can either be a fun distraction or the difference between making an appropriate amount of money from all your work and going broke. There are plenty of solutions available, some commercial and some free or integrated with another service.

Gaug.es, an analytics tool… read more

50+ New and Free Photoshop Brush Packs

Nearly every designer loves freshly-made, free Photoshop brushes that can be used in your designs as it is one of the most widely used graphics programs on the market. It is what some would call an incontrovertible truth. This is the reason why designers are constantly browsing the web in… read more

Shooting Products and Video Using Home Depot Lighting

Being a part of the UNDFIND ONE team, my job was to create the video and stills that would be used for the Kickstarter project.

We had a very tight budget, and I had recently done a behind the scenes video on creating and lighting a unique scene with just… read more

It Works For “You”: A User-Centric Guideline To Product Pages

Product pages for e-commerce websites are often rife with ambitious intentions: Recreate the brick-and-mortar shopping experience. Provide users with every last drop of product information. Build a brand persona. Establish a seamless checkout process.

As the “strong link in any conversion” (Richmond), product pages have so much potential. We can create… read more

Free Texture Tuesday: 5 Tree Stump Textures

These five hi-res wood textures come from looking down at a tree stump. The line detail in these is really interesting. Each texture is 4500×3000.

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40 Inspiring Animal Vector Art Illustrations

In today’s article, I’m going to show you 40 pieces of inspiring vector art animal illustrations. See how a variety of artists render things from fur to feathers, scales to horns, and more. I’ll also share with you links to tutorials here on Vectortuts+ so you can gain insight into… read more

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55 High Quality And Fresh Pattern Sets

Let us unearth 55 most useful and fresh pattern sets that you can use in your design work making them more attractive and appealing. You can download these pattern sets for free and you can use wherever you like. Browse this collection to the end and you will definitely find… read more

Quick Tip: How to Create a Futuristic Scarlet Eclipse Effect

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a dark eclipse design which could be a perfect base for a poster or a flyer. We will use blends, effects, various transformations and spice up the effect by adding texture to the final design.

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Shape, Color, Content – The Language of Logos

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Before you approve that new logo you’re considering, stop for a moment to consider how people perceive visual information.

The content of your logo is third in the sequence of recognition, behind shape and color, because the brain takes more time to process language.

Letterforms can be very… read more

Create a Detailed Vector Chalkboard Icon

In the following Illustrator tutorial you will learn how to create a detailed vector chalkboard icon. This classic school, blackboard illustration is composed using vector shape building techniques, pixel perfect highlighting, as well as brushes and textures for adding interest to the work.

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Hit Command + N to create a… read more

Why a Web designer Should not Ignore the Importance of HTML5 in Designing

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The answer to the question; why a web designer should not ignore the importance of HTML5 in designing is actually very simple. HTML5 is the language of the future when it comes to web designing. Move over Flash, HTML5 is here. But why is this language being… read more

Captain America Shield in Pixelmator

It is been a while since the last time we published a Pixelmator tutorial and now with Pixelmator 2.0 out there and App of the Year we decided to show more love to this really cool tool. We will be creating weekly Pixelmators tutorial here on Abduzeedo alongside with our… read more

Free Texture Friday – Fallen Leaves

Free Texture Friday – Fallen Leaves

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10 Best Flickr Groups for Texture Inspiration

10 Best Flickr Groups for Texture Inspiration

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Best of the Week #204

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

25 Useful Dirt Texture Collection

25 Useful Dirt Texture Collection

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25 Handy Brick Texture Collection

25 Handy Brick Texture Collection

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High Quality Free Fur Textures | Fur Textures Packs | Fur Brushes

High Quality Free Fur Textures | Fur Textures Packs | Fur Brushes

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45 Useful Photoshop Tutorials From 2011

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In this roundup we have collected 45 outstanding Photoshop tutorials released in 2011. If you like these photoshop tutorials you might also want to check out some of our previous posts below. Enjoy!

35 Amazing Photo Effect Photoshop Tutorials

30 Awesome Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Create a Powerful Human… read more

Freebie Friday: 7 Soft Grunge Brushes

I created these soft grunge brushes from my Frosted Window texture pack over at Valleys In The Vinyl. These brushes will make a valuable addition to your library and will come in handy for adding that extra surfacing and personality that your design’s require. Each brush is 2500×2000.

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Beautiful Houses: Apartment Interior

The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses, you are at the right spot. Check out this week beautiful… read more

Great Top Ten Lists and Other Amazing Photography Links

The Toad is back from a wonderful holiday season with his first list for the new year.  This weeks list contains links to tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs, but also highlights several Top 10 lists as compiled by talented photographers world-wide.  The Toad wishes you a Happy New Year,… read more

25 Lovely Grass Texture Collection

25 Lovely Grass Texture Collection

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60+ High Quality Free GIMP Brush Packs

GIMP is a photo editor that can be employed professionally because it is an extremely capable graphics design or digital photo editing software. Once you learned how to use it, you can harness its accurate potential without difficulty. When you start using it, you will see that it is more… read more

40+ Fresh And Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Tutorials are one of the best ways to learn and practice new tricks using Illustrator’s various tools. Learning through a step-by-step AI tutorial not only assists you in twisting the tools, but will also let you learn how to combine them in order to generate innovative and compound vector artwork,… read more

10 Awesome Single Page Websites

These days it seems like the term “webpage” and “website” are thrown around loosely, often being used interchangeably. I can’t recall how many times I’ve been in a meeting with a client and had them tell me they’d like a webpage, which I interpret as a basic, single-page website that… read more

Create a Colorful, Glass Text Effect in Illustrator

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a colorful, glass text effect in Illustrator. Learn each step to construct this shiny, vector text effect. We’ll use patterns, transform effects, multiple gradient fills, and more to construct this beautiful lettering.

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Create a 700 by 300px, RGB document. Grab… read more

Dashlane: Web Logins and Checkouts at Light Speed

Managing your various accounts, passwords, IDs and other sensitive data is a tricky situation. You want it to be both accessible and secure, two goals that are by nature at odds with each other.

Today we’re going to give you a sneak peek at Dashlane, an app that promises to… read more

WDL Premium: Fire Light UI Kit

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For our WDL Premium members, here’s a UI kit containing dark elements with hot orange highlighted accents from WeGraphics. The file is a fully layered PSD for easy editing.

Be sure to check out WeGraphics for more high-quality design resources, like vectors, brushes, textures, icons, and… read more

Top 50 Graphic Design Photoshop Tutorials from 2011

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What a great year 2011 has been for the Photoshop community. With so many new tutorials being published daily it has never been easier to learn a new creative techniques that will help reduce your learning curve substantially.
In this yearly round-up we have… read more

6 free leather and hide textures

6 free leather and hide textures

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26 Free High-Quality PSDs to Download from 2011

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Every web designer should love freebies. There are so many artists offering their work for free download on the web, and with hundreds of thousands of blogs these links are reaching a new audience like never before. The year 2011 has seen substantial numbers of free… read more

Free Texture Tuesday: 5 Simple Concrete Textures

This week I’m releasing these simple but highly useful and versatile concrete wall textures. These are mostly smooth, with some nice nooks and crannies. If you’re looking to add some subtle surfacing to your work, these would do the trick nicely. Each texture is 4500×3000.

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10 Awesome Websites With Full Screen Background Images

10 Awesome Websites With Full Screen Background Images

When it comes to web design my tastes walk on a very thin line. I like simplicity and visual stimulation, which is a very difficult balance to pull off. However, one of the easiest ways to do so is by featuring a full… read more

Stunning Digital Art Inspired by Video Games

Since their inception, video games have provided great inspiration for offline artists and digital artists alike. Video games generally adhere to a fantasy theme, which is perhaps what makes them so intriguing visually. Often characters are exaggerated human forms, with bulging bodies, enormous power, or great speed and agility. Many… read more

Best of the Vector Web – December 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 cubist style logos, speeding up your work in Illustrator and InDesign, and more. We have loads of tutorials, in addition to… read more

Realistic Letterpress Effect in Photoshop

For the first tutorial of 2012 we wanted to have a really good one and the most important thing a very easy one because our goal for this new year is to provide good tutorials with simple techniques that achieve great outcomes. In this first case we will explore ways… read more

21 Examples of Subtle Textures and Patterns in Web Design

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First of all, we would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! To kick things off for 2012, we’ve gathered some amazing examples of subtle textures and patterns in web design. The web sites in this collection demonstrate that you don’t always have to over… read more

25 Free Asphalt Textures

25 Free Asphalt Textures

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Free Texture Friday – Simple Concrete

Free Texture Friday – Simple Concrete

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Best of the Week #203

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

100+ Awesome Grunge Background Textures

100+ Awesome Grunge Background Textures

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How to Properly Design a Print CSS Stylesheet

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Targeting unique CSS styles is a simple process based around media queries. Web designers have been using these techniques for years to much success. Yet in just a short couple of years recently stylesheets have grown in tremendous popularity. Now more than ever it’s important to… read more

Interview with Justin Currie

Today we are going to meet a young Canadian graphic designer Justin Currie. Despite his youth, he has great artwork and his own recognizable style that he calls Shattered Vector Painting. In this interview Justin shares the technique he uses to create this style. “An artist is always learning, always… read more

Create a Vector, Daily Flip Calendar

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a daily flip calendar. Learn to use vector shape building techniques, multiple Illustrator tools, and a bit of artistic ingenuity to illustrate this daily flip calendar icon. Let’s get started.

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Create a 700 by 300px, RGB document. First, turn on… read more

Free Texture Tuesday: 5 Stained Paper Textures

Hi everyone, I hope all of your holidays were enjoyable. To welcome ya’ll back I have this simple but very versatile set of 5 stained paper textures. These come from a few books I had in storage that were subject to some flooding and water damage, which created these simple… read more

15+ Illustrator Tutorials on Retro Text Effects and Vintage Lettering

If you’re looking to improve your skills in Illustrator, specifically learn to create retro text effects, beautiful vintage lettering, and work with classic type, then we have the collection of Illustrator tutorials you’re looking for. Learn to draw fluid, retro lettering, compose vintage designs with classic fonts, and transform your… read more

44 Photoshop Web Design Layout Tutorials

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In this roundup we have collected 44 outstanding photoshop tutorials. Enjoy these over your holiday!

Design a creative portfolio in Photoshop

How to create a colorful business web layout

Create A Detailed Solid Dark Layout In Photoshop

How to create a One-Page Website Design in Adobe… read more

Quick Tip: How to Create a Seamless Wood Grain Effect in Inkscape

In the following Quick Tip you will learn how to create a seamless wood grain effect. This is a step-by-step tutorial which is perfect for beginners to Inkscape. Let’s begin!

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Start by importing the bitmap with your wood sample into inkscape. Use either File/ Import (Control +… read more