W3Schools Online Web Tutorials 50 Illustrator Tutorials Every Designer Should See | Blog.SpoonGraphics Adobe Illustrator can be a little tricky to get your head around, particularly after getting used to the workflow of applications such as Photoshop. The differences between layer use and the creation of objects and shapes can be really strange at first hand. Luckily there’s a range of help available for free online in the form of tutorials. Here is my collection of hand-picked articles from various sites that every designer should see, whether you’re a beginner or advanced user, there will be something here for you! Vector Tracing a Photo Create the Photoshop CS2 Splash Graphic Illustrating a Summer Field Landscape How to Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon Create a Vector Film Slate Icon A Guide to Illustrator’s Paintbrush Tool and Brush Panel A Guide to Illustrator’s Blend Tool How to Create a Cute Bunny Vector Character Design with Swirls and Flourishes Swirl Mania in Illustrator and Photoshop Designing a Sleek Pencil Icon Illustrator Watercolour Brush Tutorial Creating a Vector Folder Icon
650+ Free Photoshop Patterns Resources 650+ Free Photoshop Patterns May 26, 2010 by Steven Snell 71 Comments 74981 views The use of repeating patterns in Photoshop can help to produce attractive website backgrounds with very little effort, and of course patterns have other uses as well. In this post we’ll feature some of the best free patterns that are available. Seamless Subtle Patterns (15 patterns) Powered by Shutterstock Paisley Photoshop Patterns (8 patterns) Skull Patterns (2 patterns) Floral Photoshop Patterns (4 patterns) Flower Photoshop Patterns (6 patterns) Different Texture (1 pattern) Hand-Drawn Scrolls (1 pattern) Antique Engraved (1 pattern) Stylized Clouds (1 pattern) Grungy Natural Beige Patterns (6 patterns) Grungy Natural Beige Patterns 2 (6 patterns) Floral (1 pattern) Leafy Set (3 patterns) Gypsy Garden (1 pattern) Late Bloomer (3 patterns) Hexagonal Patterns (72 patterns) Damask (1 pattern) Charcoal Damask (1 pattern) Patterns by onethirtytwo (6 patterns) Tileable Classic Nebula Space Patterns (8 patterns) 0 shares
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50 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Video Tutorials | Tutorials Advertisement Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard when it comes to the creation of vector graphics. Though a very robust tool – the learning curve involved in mastering it can be high. Thankfully, there are abundant resources on the web that allows you to “learn by doing”. Video tutorials (in general) enable the learner to witness – step-by-step – how a particular technique works. In this article, we present to you 50 excellent Adobe Illustrator video tutorials. So fire up Illustrator, watch a few of these videos, and hopefully you will have learned a tip or two by the end of your adventures into these Illustrator video tutorials! General Tips and Techniques Patterns and Shapes in Adobe Illustrator This tutorial is based on an advertisement that uses patterns and shapes to create a unique design effect. Importing and Manipulating Images in Illustrator Learn the concepts of importing and manipulating external images in Illustrator. Creating Objects Effects
External Tip – 10 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials You Should See In this category we want to give you an advice to other great sites, where you can get a lot of very useful information, inspirations and materials. Here I collected 10 great Photoshop tutorials, which can help you to expand your skills. Create a Devastating Tidal Wave in Photoshop Create Quick Particle Effect on Photo via Custom Brush Options in Photoshop Create a Surreal Upside Down Mountain Painting in Photoshop Business Man – Awesome Black & White Tutorial Create A Human/Robot Hybrid In Photoshop Create a Vintage Memorabilia Poster Design a Awesome Supernatural Dark Scene with Fiery Effect in Photoshop How to Create Cityscape Concept Art Create a Water Girl Photo Manipulation Mixing with Splatter Brushes in Photoshop Create a Nebula Cosmolady in Photoshop – Tutorial
4 Small Business Web Design Blunders 4 Small Business Web Design Blunders Posted by Nathan Yerian on Tue, Apr 10, 2012 The perfect website. Every company wants one. In this article, I’m not going to tell you what to do. I’m going to tell you what not to do. Blunder #1) Building a website that doesn't engage your target market This blunder is a tragic one. As a result, they end up building a website that is focused around their business instead of around their customer. Ask these questions to assess your site from the different persona’s point of view: - Do I respect this site? In an attention-based economy, it’s vital that your site is a useful resource for your visitors. Blunder #2) Not including calls to action I’ll break it to you gently: the calls to action on your website have nothing to do with someone clicking your "contact us" link. Jakob Nielsen's classic study on how visitors view websites reveals that most visitors are going to scan your pages in a roughly “F-shaped” pattern. Blunder #3) Outdated and stale content
30+ Fresh & Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials & Neat Tips | Noupe Apr 01 2009 Adobe Illustrator is a powerful tool for illustrating various elements one can use for web pages and print design. However, it’s important to know what to do in order to powerfully use its tools and achieve certain effects. So, step-by-step tutorials can provide a lot of help, thats why we spent a lot of time searching for Fresh and New high quality tutorials out there and the result was 30 remarkable illustrator tutorials and tips. Gradient Strokes A quick tutorial about how to create gradient strokes. Visit Tutorial How to Create Vector Clouds with the Gradient Mesh Tool Create impressionistic, infinitely-scalable vector clouds with the Gradient Mesh tool. Visit Tutorial Design amazing mosaic effects This tutorial shows how to create a cool look using Illustrator’s Symbols and Global Colors. Visit Tutorial The Making of Abe The Making of Abe, The Are My Sites Up Mascot. Visit Tutorial Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways Visit Tutorial Bling Bling Text Effect Homepage
10 Powerful jQuery Media Plugins to Charm Your Visitors There is a well-known idiomatic expression saying that ‘content is a king’. We assume that soon it can be transformed to something similar to this one – ‘video content is an emperor’. Web experts and SEO gurus convey that video content soon will overtake the web audience totally not leaving any chance to other types of media information. It is hard to estimate the current situation of the image content – video content antagonism because there is no valid and objective web content analytic tool. Flare Video Flare Video plugin allows to implement HTML5 video with Flash fallbackinto web pages. jPlayer jPlayer is ope-source media library written in JavaScript. Projekktor Yet another awesome jQuery media player that has unified Javascript API, Youtube HTML5 support, Fullscreen mode, Flash fallback etc. Tubular jQuery Plugin Tubular sets up a YouTube video as the background on your web page. FitVidsJS FitVidJS is a lightweight jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds. YouTube Channel Playlist
25 Tutorials for Using Illustrator and Photoshop Together for Outstanding Results Photoshop and Illustrator are two of the most indispensable tools for web and graphic designers. For those of us who are always looking to learn more and improve skills, there are plenty of great tutorials out there for each of these programs. Most designers feel a bit more comfortable in one over the other as a result of more experience or better understanding. In this post we’ll feature 25 of the best tutorials that utilize both Illustrator and Photoshop to create amazing results. Looking for hosting? 12 Annoying Things About Your Website That Drive People Away Posted by Shelly Kramer on June 21, 2012 · 51 Comments How many times have you visited a website and ended up sorely disappointed? Or worse, annoyed as all get out? For me, the answer is an easy one: a lot! So, I put together a list of the 12 things that annoy me the most about websites. Let’s see… 12. Music blares the minute I visit your site. 11. Your “awesome” Flash website takes forever to load and then blasts me with all these neat-o visuals that require me to twiddle my thumbs and waste precious time. 10. Pop-up ads (and that’s what they are) make me want to kill you. 9. [Cue scream here.] 8. Sure, I have a lot of patience and free time. 7. Websites that don’t tell me what you do, why I need what you do, and what it’s gonna cost me are downright ineffective. 6. Contact pages that make us feel like Alice in Wonderland? 5. Black backgrounds and white or grey type are nearly IMPOSSIBLE to read. 4. Fonts that are too small can be remedied by a surfer; I’ll give you that. 3. 2. 1.
Photoshop Honey bubbles text effect, honey texture, Honeycomb, glossy drops, Honey Bee, Honeycomb, Freshness, Yellow, orange bubbles for image In this very easy Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to see how to create warm honey text effect with bubbles texture. We will use simple techniques such as layer style effects and Honeycomb pattern. The psd file and pattern are available for download. You may find them below. Download source files: Create a new Photoshop document 1200*900 px, resolution 72px/inch. Apply light color/transparent Gradient Overlay effect to this layer. Type the text, I've used Anja Eliane font, font size 260 pt. Create a new empty layer above text, fill it with "Honeycomb" pattern. Load selection for Text layer: Menu > Select > Load Selection. Apply following layer effects to created shape.
GradientFinder - Convert your Images into CSS Gradients Honey leaking effect on the delicious pancake. Used images: Thin Pancake(or Blintz, Blin) and honey drops) [link] Plate [link] Download psd file [link] Create a new document in Photoshop, Width around 900px. Insert pancake image, move it to the center of the composition. Apply following layer style effects to the background layer. Type a text with any handwriting style font. Play with Warp transformation to create more natural handwriting and leaking effect. Round letters contours with round Brush Tool. You may add new elements - heart symbol for example. Adjust Brush Tool settings, check box on Shape Dynamics parameter in Brushes Palette, then right click path and choose Stroke Path and Simulate Pressure. Create leaking drops with small round Brush Tool. Create wave effect by using Liquify filter - Forward Warp Tool and Turbulence Tool.