The Ultimate List of the Top Best Logo Design Resources Posted on 02'08 Dec Posted on December 2, 2008 along with 242 JUST™ Creative Comments Below are the best logo design resources you will find on the web. Period. You can click on the links below to quickly go to that section. You can find graphic design resources here. Logo Design Inspiration & Galleries Below you will find galleries of logo designs for logo design inspiration. Logo Design Articles Below you will find some great logo design articles. Why Logo Design Does Not Cost $5.00 An article explaining why logo design is so critical in our day ‘n’ age and reasons why you should invest in a professional logo designer.The Secret Logo Design Process Of Top Logo DesignersAn article detailing the design process that all top logo designers use when creating a logo. Logo Design Interviews & Discussions Below you will find some great logo discussions & interviews on the subject of logo design. Logo Design Tips Below you will find some great logo design tips to help you become a better logo designer.
Teach Yourself Graphic Design: A Self-Study Course Outline Fortunately, it isn’t required to go to design school in order to be a graphic designer. A good foundation in graphic design history, theory, and practical application will help you hit the ground running. There are plenty of resources available in which you can learn graphic design on your own. If you would like to learn graphic design from the ground up, through self directed study, then this article lists some great resources that will get you started with your design education. 1. There are a few graphic design principles that effect every project you’ll create. Shape, Spacing, and Rhythm I remember first learning these basic design principles , and they seamed so foreign at first. The Principles of Design by Joshua David McClurg-Genevese What is Graphic Design? Color, Texture, and Imagery Understanding the basics of color theory is important and getting a feel for how to work with colors. Principles of Color Design by Wucius Wong Texture in Graphic Design The Basics of Graphic Design
Free Vector Resources Websites Any illustrator or webdesigner needs free resources from time to time. Because we live in the era of speed and time does not always allow us to be able to finish a whole project from the beginning. For this reason these websites are very useful to us and for that I want to thank those webmasters for making our life easier. I hope these websites to cover part of your needs. TutorialBlog: Vector Portal: 123 Free Vectors: FreeVectors: Designious: VectorStock: Vectorss: DragonArtz: VectorValley: QVectors: Vecteezy: Dezignus:
Photoshop | Pixel Curse | Visual inspiration for creative professional 30 Christmas Holiday PSD & AI Flyer Templates The success of any event, being it a show, a sale, a party or a simple get-together, often depends on how well you can promote it. These flyers are diverse and eye-catching examples of promotional materials created for events that take place during the holiday season. 45 CV Resume Templates That Will Get You Hired You could make your resume in Microsoft word. 24 Really Cool Photoshop Actions To Enhance Photography Photoshop actions are the best — they save time and make you more productive during post-processing. 110 Free PSD Web Design Elements Looking for some nice and high-quality web design elements? 80 Helpful Photoshop & Illustrator Icon Design Tutorials In this article we have gathered 80 Best Photoshop & Illustrator Icon Design Tutorials that will teach you the techniques you will need for designing your own icons using mainly Photoshop & Illustrator. 80 Random Best Photoshop Brushes 100 Adobe Photoshop Wallpaper Tutorials
31 Fresh and Useful Photoshop Tutorials Photoshop is the premiere graphic editing program used by designers all over the world. It’s popularity never stops growing and as it grows more people want to try to create something beautful, fun or just weird with this incredible software. Photoshop is second to none and today we have compiled a great collection of awesome, useful and totally fresh Photoshop tutorials. 1. Design a Clean and Corporate Website Layout Design a great-looking, high-quality clean and corporate website layout with the option to download the PSD file 2. Check out this kick-ass photoshop tutorial which teaches you how to make a professional looking app store layout 3. One more stunning and well-prepared layout Photoshop tutorial which teaches you how to design a nice textured portfolio design. 4.Create the Surreal Photo Illustration checkmate This Photoshop tutorial teaches you some techniques, but especially a surreal and abstract photo manipulation. 5. 6. 7.Create a Fallen Rain Soaked Angel Composition 8. 9. 10.
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Photoshop Light Effect Tutorials I’ve selected various Photoshop tutorials that I’m liking at the moment for light effects, some have quite cool techniques on how to achieve the end result that can be applied to a million different designs (try and experiment with them), check them out below. You might also enjoy: Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper Windows Vista Aurora Effect Design a Vibrant Blackberry Inspired Ad NoPattern “Jumper” Effect Mysterious Lighting Effect How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks Creating a Mac-Type Background Luminescent Lines Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect Abstract Dust And Spray Effect Make a dreamy abstract background Digital Bokeh effect Abstract Lines Background Abstract Light Rays Drawing an Abstract Lightbulb How to create 3D abstract circles Comments Do you have any favourite tutorials that you have seen for light effects?
500+ Free Exquisite Vintage Textures and Backgrounds The scariest thing about time is how fast it goes. It’s so fast that most of us doesn’t even know what we’ve missed, and before we know it, they’re all gone in a blink and all that is left are vintage images of the past which will just oftentimes, bring nostalgic feelings of the good ol’days. Sorry, I just can’t help feeling nostalgic this new year prompting me to gather some good ol’stuff like this round-up of 500+ free exquisite vintage textures and backgrounds that you can download and use right away without the hassles of going to antique shops or searching in your granma’s attic. 8 Old Books Textures by Flowersong This old book texture pack contains eight huge hi-res textures, each about 3000px on its longer side, on transparent backgrounds. 5 Vintage Sheet Music Pack by Neonescence A set of five dirty sheet music textures that produces interesting results. 253 Various Vintage Textures and Objects by Playingwithbrushes 63 Free Vintage Textures for Layers by Pink Sherbet Photography
99 High-Quality Free (X)HTML/CSS Templates | Showcases As you already familiar with the fact that your website represents you and your brand. It’s up to you how you set-up your website. Just because WordPress themes tend to get a lot of exposure and attention in the design community these days, It doesn’t mean basic (X)HTML/CSS templates are ugly, cluttered, and boring. Thanks to all designers and developers from all over the world who freely distributed their high-quality templates for everyone on web. This is not the traditional long list with all the available (X)HTML/CSS templates on the internet but its an refined collection of best handpicked free (X)HTML/CSS templates which was created with the online professional in mind as we also know that our website reflects the identity of each of us on the Internet. It doesn’t matter if you are not too aware with web designing and latest technologies, you too can have your professionally looking website in a moments. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. 02. 03. 04.
100 Free High-Quality XHTML/CSS Templates - Smashing Magazine 10 Rock Solid Website Layout Examples Keeping It Simple Page layout is equal parts art and science. Creating something that’s visually attractive and unique takes an artist’s eye. However, there are several very easy to follow guidelines that you can use to create solid layouts that work for any number of cases. Designers often stress out far too much about the layout process. In this article we’re going to take a look at ten very common layouts that you can find on countless sites across the web. If you’re a web designer, bookmark this page and come back the next time you get stuck laying out a page. Three Boxes This is probably the most simple layout on the list. The three boxes layout features one main graphic area followed by two smaller boxes underneath. The silhouetted shapes along the top are areas that can be used for logos, company names, navigation, search bars and any other informational and functional content typically on a website. In the Wild Simple, effective and attractive. 3D Screenshots Advanced Grid Five Boxes
Playing with Displace Filter in Photoshop I have been playing a lot with the Displace filter in Photoshop and I still get impressed with how powerful it is. Even though I have written some tutorials using it, I decided to try to recreate a different effect that I saw in one of the images submitted for the Daily Inspiration. It was a brick wall deformed like it was made of cloth. So in this tutorial, or a quick-tips I will show you how to create a curtain made of bricks or how to deform a brick wall as it was a curtain. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document. Step 2 Let's import another image, now of a girl opening the curtains. Step 3 With the Lasso Tool (L) or the Pen Tool (P) select the empty white. Step 5 Now select the hands/arms of the girl and the curtains. Step 6 Move the brick wall layer so it will be in front of the girl layer. Step 7 Go to Layer>Layer Mask>Hide Selection. Step 8 Duplicate the girl layer and delete the girl using the mask of the bricks wall for reference. Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12 Step 13 Step 14