Create the Face of a Singing Pig in Illustrator

Create the Face of a Singing Pig in Illustrator

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Best of the Week #135

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

How to Make a Product Box and Flash Drive Mock-up

In this tutorial you will learn how to make your own mock-up image of a flash drive and product box using the Rectangle Tool, Pen Tool, 3D Extrude & Bevel and various Gradients.

Step 1

Select the Rectangle tool (M) and draw a rectangle with dimensions W: 596px by H: 452px.

Step 2

Create… read more

Amped Up

Photo manipulation – photo retouching, using numerous stock photos, cd4 renders and vectors

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Design An Angry Vector Turtle Character In Illustrator

Design An Angry Vector Turtle Character In Illustrator

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80+ Latest and Inspirational Single Page Website Designs

As you’ve already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and… read more

How to Make a Cheeky Squirrel using Corel DRAW X3

This tutorial will provide you with an overview of the basic tools and ways of creating images in Corel DRAW. Using a hand drawn sketch as the basis of the illustration, you will create objects using some special tools and learn different ways to work with color.

Step 1

Launch CorelDraw. Import… read more

The World Collabs #4 – with Nik Ainley

Abduzeedo takes pride in being one of the worlds leading design blogs. Having interviewed a bulk of the most infamous creative geniuses, we want to use our potential to introduce a new star on the Abduzeedo stage …YOU.

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This is our fifth contest for The World Collabs. Our new cutting… read more

The World Collabs #5 – with Nik Ainley

Abduzeedo takes pride in being one of the worlds leading design blogs. Having interviewed a bulk of the most infamous creative geniuses, we want to use our potential to introduce a new star on the Abduzeedo stage …YOU.

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Spaced Out

A Retro-Futuristic Design that combines vector elements with Photoshop blending techniques. This design was featured on Design Instruct and PSD Tuts.

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Creating Psychedelic Character Art Using Adobe Illustrator – Vector Premium Tutorial

We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you want to learn how to make a psychedelic comic style character and background with Adobe Illustrator, then we have an awesome tutorial for you.

This Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques

Starting with a hand… read more

iCandies Icon Set: 60 Free Icons For Your User Interfaces and Apps

Today we are glad to release iCandies Icon Set, a set with 60 high quality icons in 64×64px, 48×48px and 32×32px, available in .EPS, .AI and .PNG. The set is designed by the talented folks from IconEden on a sole purpose of giving your projects a sleek and geeky style… read more

Daily Inspiration #603

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

Beautiful Illustrations by Simon Fernandes

Simon Fernandes is an art director, designer and illustrator from Sao Paulo, Brazil with a really cool style, his portfolio has illustrations with different styles, from the very clean vectors of the Agua Viva artwork to the sort of retro style of the Copo poster. We were really impressed with… read more

Creative Bookmarks: Best of August 2010

August was another awesome month with great tutorials and articles oozing from everywhere. Here’s Creative Bookmarks August!

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Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsHow To Create The Expendables Winged Skull Poster Art

In this tutorial, by Chris Spooner, you’ll learn how to re-create the sinister and gun-crazy poster for the… read more

How to Create a Dynamic 3D Puzzle Effect in Adobe Illustrator

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a nice looking puzzle effect. Using 3D Extrude, Bevel and Map Art options you will learn how to hand craft the individual pieces of the puzzle and arrange it into a dynamic layout.

Step 1

Create a 1000 by 1100px document. First,… read more

Top Articles On The Web Design Billboard In August’10

A perfect layout, A Good Design and Nice Resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures, typography and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. However, When it comes… read more

Illustrator Template Toolbox for Web, Mobile and App Developers

For today’s post we have an extensive selection of UI templates, all in Illustrator format, and all perfect if you are a web, mobile or app designer who prefers to use Adobe Illustrator rather than the more commonly used Photoshop.

It was mildly surprising how difficult this post was to put… read more

Create A Fun Ink Splatter Vector

Create A Fun Ink Splatter Vector

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Vexel Art Inspiration by ChewedKandi

ChewedKandi is the name of artist/designer Sharon Milne. She lives in the North East of England and has a passion for vector art. Sharon has been interviewed and featured on a variety of websites. She has recently began writing tutorials for VectorTuts+.

Since 2001, she has been creating and appreciating digital… read more

20 Fresh Must See Illustrator Tutorials

20 Fresh Must See Illustrator Tutorials

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40 Tutorials and Techniques for Creating Business Logos

A logo alludes to its company’s identity in its appearance and visual impact; that’s how it starts branding. Seeing how important it is, we designers must not underestimate the potential of this simple graphic, and instead hone our skills as much as possible in creating and polishing logos,… read more

The Complete Overview of Indie Graphics Software for Mac

Everyone knows about the big guns in the graphics field. Adobe is pretty much the unchallenged master of image editing with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks. Adobe’s InDesign shares the digital publishing field, albeit grudgingly, with Quark’s QuarkXPress. Serious graphic designers find themselves stuck between these two large corporations, due in… read more

Best of the Vector Web – August 2010

As you know, each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we found some really great tutorials on vector character design, creating charts in Illustrator, and vector skulls among others. We’ve also expanded this month’s offering…. read more

2000 Free Photoshop Patterns

Today I have put together the largest collection of free Photoshop patterns DesignM.ag has ever offered. Enjoy!

Flowers Patters for Photoshop (6)

Photoshop Patterns

Photoshop Patterns (12)

Victorian – PS Patterns (45)

Vintage Patterns (12)

Arabic Patterns for Photoshop

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Grandmas Flowers (4)

Paisley

Seamless Paper Patterns (6)

Grungy Abstract Squares Photoshop Patterns (4)

Tileable Midnight Blue Grunge Patterns (5)

Flat Grungy… read more

Create an Electrical Outlet Icon in Photoshop

In today’s tutorial, we will be making use of vector masks and layer styles in Photoshop to create a high quality electrical outlet icon. Let’s get started! Before You Begin When creating icons from real-life objects it is best to first take a look at those objects and see how… read more

How to Make a Flesh Ripping Zombie Type Treatment

When Horror Site Freddy in Space recently ran "Romero Week" they asked Nik Holmes to provide a type treatment to tie the articles together. Could you possibly think of a better Vector Artist for the job? Among one of the best illustrators of this genre, Nik will take you… read more

A Collection of Mini Icon Sets

Icons can add a lot of meaning to a website or web app design.

Used appropriately, they can make it faster for your visitors or users to complete the tasks they need to complete. But not every website design has space for normal, full-size icons (often 32×32 to… read more

50 Refreshing CSS Tutorials, Techniques and Resources

In this CSS (2 & 3) round-up article we have focused on highlighting as many varied techniques covering as many aspects of web, mobile and application development as possible. And believe me, it wasn’t easy!
Due to CSS3s current popularity, the volume of new tutorials and fresh ideas has jumped… read more

Best of the Week #134

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

Profile: Getting into Character with Cartoonist George Coghill

From bad jokes to sultry devil girls, Cartoon Character Designer George Coghill knows how to inject some fun into life. He set aside some time to talk with us about everything from the importance of knowing how to run a business to what it’s like to see his characters come… read more

Daily Inspiration #599

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

100+ Free High Quality Icon Sets for Web Designers and Developers

Icons are the basic requirement of any web related projects and good icons are like a treasure for web designers.

The demand for good icons are too much in these days and finding the best icon sets from the pool with tens of thousands of packs is not a easy job… read more

Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources

To mock-up the user interface of a website, software or any other product, you’ll need some basic UI elements. And this is where wireframing kits and UI design kits come in handy. When you want to create a low-fidelity prototype for your projects, you can use these kits to give… read more

How To Trace a Sketch with a Vintage Comic Style

You can find the vintage comic style in newspapers, magazines, and in animation. In this tutorial you will learn several techniques for tracing a sketch, including how to make custom brushes, how to combine shapes and brushes and how to combine multiple brushes. You will also learn how to simulate… read more

200+ Seamless Patterns Perfect for Website Backgrounds

We’re always on the lookout for great freebies to share with our readers, and today we’ve got some seamless patterns. Seamless patterns are a great way to add a lot of detail to a design and fill up a big area, such as a background. Here are over 200 patterns… read more

14 Resources for Free Fonts and Premium Fonts

You can’t deny that typography is important in design. You could have the most beautiful illustrations in the world, but if you use a font like Jokerman, your entire design will look iffy.

Now if you really want to blow your client away with an awesome design, you have to find… read more

Create a Monochrome Portrait in Illustrator – Vector Premium Tutorial

We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you want to learn how to modify a stock image in Adobe Photoshop and how to use various blends and techniques within Adobe Illustrator to create a soft monochrome portrait, then we have an… read more

45 Free Applications For Designers And Developers

By Callum Chapman

Whether you’re just starting out in the graphic or web design industry, or you’ve been in it for years, the chances are there will occasionally be a time where you want to get a feel for a particular type of application (maybe something similar to Cinema 4D or… read more

Wrap a Ribbon Around a Sphere, Using 3D Revolve

In this Quick Tip, you’ll create a Symbol, which you will then map to a 3D globe. The result looks like a ribbon wrapped around a hollow sphere. Let’s get started!

Step 1

Click once with the Rectangle tool (M) and draw a thin rectangle, about 300px x 20px.

Step 2

Switch to… read more

A Showcase of Various Websites with Texture Web Design

The skillful use of texture can add visual interest to the interface of any web design. Whether you make your use of texture apparent to your visitors or not, it may well help you keep your audience interacting with your website, simply because the feel your textures lent… read more

How to Use the Perspective Grid to Create a Modern TV

In this tutorial you will learn how to create your own modern TV on a stand. Using the Perspective Grid in Illustrator CS5 as the basis of your work you will learn how to quickly create a product illustration with perfect perspective.

Step 1

Open a new document with the size you… read more

50 Stunning Examples of Photo Manipulation Art

By Obaid ur Rehman

Now almost everyone knows that Photo Manipulation is art with which you can create digital miracles. Yes, you got me right! If you know how to manipulate your pictures, you can do whatever you want. Photo manipulation is one of the most creative art forms today, but… read more

WDL Premium: Floral Vector Pack

Today we’re releasing a set of floral vectors for our WDL Premium Members. This set from Designious has 10 floral vector flourishes that can be scaled to any size. They are perfect for adding an organic or natural feel to a design.

Be sure to check out Designious for more… read more

Quick Tip: Automatically Create and Print Documents with Changeable Text Fields using CorelDraw X3

While working on a specific designs there is often a need to print out the same design numerous times with different content. Here are some tips to help you cope with this problem.

Step 1

Create a document design (e.g. a business card). It may be an original design or ready-made corporative… read more

Inspiration: 30 Appealing Illustrated Flyers

Flyers are not only advertising they’re often miniature works of art. The best flyers are ones that stand out from the the stacks thrown haphazardly on the counter of your favorite cafe, bar or music store. In this showcase we have collected 30 examples of fully illustrated flyers to catch… read more

Daily Inspiration #595

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 Create a Detailed Vector Sugar Skull Illustration

How To Create a Detailed Vector Sugar Skull Illustration

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Flash Catalyst Tutorial 101 – Creating an interactive video gallery (quickly!) without writing any code

Written by Bear Travis + Tara Feener exclusively for WebDesignDev.com.

Tara and Bear are both members of the Flash Catalyst development team at Adobe, and, along with Matthew Cannizzoro, author the FlashCats blog (flashcats.net)

First things first: we think it’s easiest to learn by example. So to introduce you to using Adobe®… read more

Quick Tip: Create a Conical Gradient with Adobe Illustrator, in Two Minutes!

Unfortunately, Adobe Illustrator doesn’t come with a conical gradient setting, although some vector programs, such as Corel Draw do. Using features and tools found in Adobe Illustrator, you can create an adjustable conical gradient to use in your work, and it only takes two minutes!

Introduction

Adobe Illustrator contains two styles of… read more

How to Create a Three-dimensional Airplane with Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a detailed three-dimensional image of an Airplane based on two two-dimensional plans. The knowledge acquired will help you to simulate a three-dimensional image of many different complex objects.

Step 1

Start Illustrator and choose the "print document" type.

Step 2

Start creating two projections… read more

40 New And Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

The Internet is bursting with knowledge. Whatever you want is available at your fingertips, and learning new techniques is so easy with the load of useful tutorials that guide you step by step. Adobe Illustrator is powerful indeed, but when used right, it can perform feats that humans will marvel… read more

Simple Roy Lichtenstein Style in Illustrator and Photoshop

I have been playing with the Halftone filter in Photoshop for the past few weeks and trying different things we can do with it. I also discover the Width Tool in Illustrator CS 5 and it was a great surprise because now we have much more freedom when playing with… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.52)

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even… read more

Tutorial: Create a Vector Infographic Poster

Tutorial: Create a Vector Infographic Poster

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Best of the Week #133

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

Interview with Ricardo Gimenes

You may already know about the blog, Behind the Websites. In today’s interview we’re going to meet Ricardo Gimenes, illustrator and founder of the site. Ricardo is a São Paulo based Brazilian designer and illustrator who has worked with variety of clients around the world. He says he has… read more

Daily Inspiration #593

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

Quick Tip: The Effect of Brush Strokes in CorelDRAW

In this Vector Quick Tip, you will learn how to create various Brush stroke effects for different purposes, such as creating banners or an artistically drawn landscape.

Step 1 – Create the Draft of the Landscape

Select the Rectangle Tool and draw a rectangle. Then draw the horizon line with the FreeHand… read more

Designious Mega Vector Pack Giveaway: Winners Announced

Last week we ran a Designious giveaway where 10 WDL readers would get to pick a mega vector pack of their choice. Yesterday the winners were randomly selected, and today we are announcing those winners. So… Congratulations to the following ten people.

Angie
Su Hall
Jodi Hendrickson
Mark Bult
DavidC
Chris… read more

Create a Silky Ribbon Text Effect

In the following tutorial you will use the Pen and Gradient tools to create a swirling ribbon text effect. Even though we’re applying the ribbon to text, you can use this this effect to make shapes and scrolls. Let’s get started!

Step 1

Create a 700 by 200px document. Select the Pen… read more

Daily Inspiration #592

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

12 Beginner Tutorials for Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator

This series is supported by Ben & Jerry’s Joe, Ben & Jerry’s new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here.

Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard vector graphics application, is the tool you use when you need flexible, scalable vector graphics such as logos and artwork… read more

Create a Modern Style Icon with a Professional Finish – Vector Premium Tutorial

We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you want to learn how how to create a professional level Hard Drive icon with shading and lighting the techniques, then we have an awesome tutorial for you.

This Tutorial is Filled with Professional Techniques

You… read more

“Buddycons” – Vector Social Media Icons

Today we’re giving away a wonderful set of social media icons designed exclusively for WDD by Orman Clark, a web designer from the UK.

The icon set is called “Buddycons” and includes 126 vector social media icons. Included in the set are PNG versions of all 126 icons in both circular… read more

Envato’s 2010 Birthday Bundle – $20 For $400 Worth of Value

Happy Birthday to us! It’s Envato’s 4th Birthday, and to celebrate, we’re giving away a Birthday Bundle packed with $400 worth of value for only $20.

The bundle includes four Tuts+ Premium tutorials, a $50 MediaTemple hosting voucher, five blog and website themes, five Flash and Unity3D files, six code packages… read more

Head Up in the Clouds: Web Design that Uses Sky Elements

It is always amazing to designer incorporating different element of nature in their designs. This time the inspiration is cloud, sky and blue palette colors. In this post we are featuring some really beautiful website that used sky, cloud images and illustrations in their design.
Some of this website used… read more

A Sneak Peek at Premium for Non-members

Vector Premium launched in late September 2008. Since then we’ve added over 60 Premium tutorials for Premium members and hundreds of Illustrator and InDesign source files. Over 10,000 members have formed our unique Premium community. Learn more about the material and resources available to Premium members to Join Premium today.

Join… read more

50 Remarkable Free Icon Sets Released In 2010

Today we present a refreshing collection of free icon sets. In the past, we posted a huge collection of icon sets and due to the increasing users’ demand, we decided to showcase a yet another collection. Everyone knows that a suitable icon can help users with nice metaphors (if used… read more

Create a Painterly Apple with Illustrator CS5′s new Bristle Brush

The new Bristle Brush in Illustrator CS5 gives you the best of both worlds: The painterly effects of real media and the control and flexibility of a vector drawing. We’ll use another new feature in CS5, the "Draw Inside" drawing mode, which will let us do what every artist likes… read more

Daily Inspiration #590

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

Quick Tip: Make a Seamless Argyle Pattern

The Argyle pattern dates back to 17th-century Scotland. Learn how to make a 21st-century digital version in 10 easy steps!

Step 1

Use the Rectangle tool (M) and draw a square. Hold down the Shift key to constrain it to a perfect square. Rotate the square 45°. Hold the Shift key… read more

Freelance Contracting with International Clients

It used to be that freelancers were limited to the cities we live in for clients. On occasion, some freelancers could land clients and handle projects through mail, but most companies preferred to work with someone based nearby. Technology has improved since then, letting most freelancers take on clients no… read more

40 Free Headline Typefaces

Using strong typography will increase the quality and visual appearance of your work, after all strong typographic skills are one of the many keys to great design! This round-up presents 40 beautiful fonts suitable for typographic illustrations, headlines and sub-headers.

Don’t get me wrong, typography isn’t easy. Having a good font… read more

46 Unique Examples of Abstract Vector Art

46 Unique Examples of Abstract Vector Art

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Daily Inspiration #589

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

Quick Tip: Make Grunge Type with Live Trace and the Pathfinder

Starting with a photo, learn how to create vector texture with Live Trace, then apply it to text for a grunge type effect.

You can find the wood texture used in this tutorial at "More Than 350 Free and Premium Wood Textures" on PSDtuts+

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Design a Coffee Shop Menu Layout from Scratch with Photoshop and InDesign – Part 2

This is the second part of this tutorial series about creating a ready to print booklet menu for an imaginary coffee shop named "Violet Coffee." In this final part of the two part series, you’ll learn to create a ready to print booklet on InDesign, work with master pages, text,… read more

Best of the Week #132

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

Interview with Sanjay Patel

Sanjay Patel is a animator and illustrator from Southern California who was born in the UK. Sanjay works as a supervising animator and storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios, where he has worked on numerous films, including Monsters, Inc, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Ratatouille, The… read more

WDL Premium: Flourishes Vector Pack from Go Media

Here’s a high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members. Flourishes is a beautiful set of flowing linework. These work great in any sort of elegant design that needs some whispy and waving accents. This pack includes 30 vectors in all.

Be sure to check out Go Media’s Arsenal… read more

Can Flash Move Forward?

There has been a long debate about Adobe Vs. Apple, or even Flash Vs. HTML5. Whatever side of the fence you are on—you probably won’t be changing your mind anytime soon. Flash brings a lot of features and creativity for web designers, but then again the promise of HTML5, CSS3… read more

Create a Glowing Neon Sign using the Appearance Palette

This tutorial shows the potential the Appearance Palette in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll be building an elaborate neon sign, utilizing the Appearance Palette to speed up the process and remove the need of drawing complex paths.

To understand what is possible with the Appearance Palette, have a look at the image below…. read more

50+ Beautiful Nature Vector Illustrations

50+ Beautiful Nature Vector Illustrations

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90+ Brilliant Fresh WordPress Site Designs for Design Inspiration

Many of you should know that instantShift is proudly powered by WordPress, as a Blogging and CMS tool. If you are in search of good CMS or a new web tool for your projects, we strongly recommend WordPress to you. WordPress is a great tool, and best thing is free!

Now… read more

Make a Two-Screen Gocco Print using Adobe Illustrator – Vector Premium Tutorial

We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you’ve ever wanted to plan a vector image for Gocco Printing and create a unique hand-crafted piece of artwork, then we have an awesome tutorial for you!

This Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques

In this detailed tutorial… read more

7 Reasons Why I Choose Fireworks Over Photoshop

My name is Russell McGovern and I use Fireworks to design websites. There, I said it. I could be wrong, but it feels like I’m in a small minority; among web designers, the application of choice seems to be Photoshop.

Agencies send me PSD files at work and… read more

How to Create a Colorful Textured Tiki Mask in Illustrator

How to Create a Colorful Textured Tiki Mask in Illustrator

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Simplistic Stylings of Nisims “It’ll come back” campaign

Just because designs are simple or minimal doesn’t mean they aren’t clever. A new campaign created by Marshall Fenn Communications uses these very principles. Marshall Fenn takes on project large and small and their happy to help clients in anyway possible. There based out of Toronto and Las Vegas and… read more

Daily Inspiration #585

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

A Guide On How To Launch A New Design Blog

A Guide On How To Launch A New Design Blog

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Quick Tip: How to Create Mixed Ink Swatches with InDesign

Today’s financial situation has led to more clients asking for better value for money when setting budgets for design and print. A common request for a designer is to cut the number of inks from four down to two. Although this does cut print costs, it also cuts the designer’s… read more

How to Illustrate a Luminous Vector Sunset

In this tutorial you will learn how to create Vector Sunset, using the RGB color model. Using Art and Scatter Brushes, Gaussian Blur, Gradient Mesh and the Transparency palette, you will create a vector image with depth and luminance.

Step 1

Start the program and install the RGB color model (File… read more

Daily Inspiration #584

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

Quick Tip: How to Create Transparent Gradients Using Blends

Introduction

It wasn’t until Illustrator CS4 that you were able to create transparent gradients. However there is a way to create them with any version of CS. By using blends, you can create a variety of radial and linear gradients, just as you can in CS4+.

A Linear Gradient is when one… read more