How to Make an Animated GIF in Photoshop [Tutorial] If you've spent any time on the internet at all, you've probably come in contact with an animated GIF. It's an image file that allows you to feature animated images that makes it seem like the image is moving. Think of them as a hybrid between a still image and a video. Why are GIFs great additions to your marketing? They're easy to consume, provide a new way to capture your viewers' attention, and can have a serious emotional impact. The best part about GIFs is that they aren't too hard to make. Click here to download our free guide to learn how to design high-quality graphics. In the following tutorial on making animated GIFs, I'm using the Creative Cloud 2015 version of Photoshop, but the steps should be similar in other versions. How to Create an Animated GIF in Photoshop Here's an example of an animated GIF you might make using this tutorial: Alright, let's get started! Step 1: Upload your images to Photoshop. If you already have images created ... Step 2: Open up the Timeline window.
FREE TrueType and OpenType fonts - µfonts 50 brilliant design portfolios to inspire you The internet is full of thousands and thousands of awe-inspiring creative resumes and design portfolios. To stand out in this tough market, it's important to make your online portfolio as impressive as you can. It's not just the examples of work that need to blow away your potential clients (although they do help) it's the way they're presented. So, check out these inspiring examples of online design portfolios, both for individual designers and design agencies – to help you angle your own in just the right way… 01. Daniel Spatzek is freelance graphic designer and art director from Austria, and his site does a brilliant job of showing off both his design and web skills. 02. Arturo Wibawa's site is worth checking out just for the detailed breakdowns of projects he's worked on, complete with wireframes, flowcharts, palettes, fonts and plenty of information about his process. 03. Based in Paris, Femme Fatale is a creative studio focused on culture, luxury, editorial and art. 04. 05. 06.
Photoshop and Illustrator cheat sheets for designers For many creatives, it can often feel like there's never enough hours in the day. With ever-demanding clients and constantly looming deadlines, applying time-saving techniques to your workflow is essential, and these helpful cheat sheets for Photoshop CS6 and Illustrator CS6 can help you do just that. Whether you're following a new Photoshop tutorial, or simply practising how to draw something in Illustrator, these cheat sheets will help creatives at all skill levels – and most of the CS6 shortcuts are applicable to Creative Cloud versions of the software, too. The team at Zerolag created the sheets specifically with graphic designers in mind, providing code below the graphic so it can be shared and help improve the productivity of fellow creatives. They've also made printer-friendly versions available for quick referencing. So what are you waiting for? Like this?
Free Textures from TextureKing 20 Best Color Palette Generators and Galleries for Designers (2019) Everyone loves colors. Colors are among the most important elements of every design and artwork. As designers, we work with colors every day. Color theory is such a serious thing that even Goethe wrote a book on the subject. You can use either galleries or generators to quickly create a fitting color scheme for your design. Color palette galleries are collections created by either human designers or algorithms. Color palette generators allow you to manually design a palette. On the web, you’ll also find color palette apps that provide both functions. 1. COLOURlovers is the biggest online community related to colors, with more than 8 million members. 2. With Adobe’s color wheel, you can create analogous, monochromatic, triadic, complementary, and compound color palettes. 3. ColorDrop is an excellent tool if you quickly need a palette for flat design. 4. Ambiance pulls random color palettes from COLOURlovers and displays them in the form of huge color cards. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
How To Create Wet Plate Collodion Styled Images In Photoshop (My Tutorial) I’m sure this will cause a bit of stir in the photography community, but retouching images is my kind of art creating something original. This is the first of hopefully many retouching and photography tutorials that I will be doing over the next months. This tutorial is about wet plate collodion images which I’ve been trying to find a way to emulate in post production. I really like the look and feel of these kind of images. For me, the basic photograph is the starting point and I try to capture people as they are. Then I go ahead and try to create something more, and for this series I have tried to capture a bit more of that old feel to the images. More info: anttikarppinen.com
10 Remarkable Website Typography Designs Photo: arnoKath Just a few years ago if you used the font Proxima Nova on your website, other designers would marvel at how awesome your “typography” was. It didn’t matter how you actually used the type on your site – just the fact that your site wasn’t using Arial would be enough to make it stand out from the crowd. These days seemingly every new website takes advantage of nice web fonts such as Proxima Nova, Avenir or Open Sans. And that’s no longer enough to make your site remarkable. I’ve seen plenty of sites that use nice fonts but nonetheless still have bad typography. 1) Google for Entrepreneurs There isn’t an easier way to combine typefaces than to go with a superfamily. It’s no surprise that Google chose to use the Roboto family for their Google for Entrepreneurs site as Google originally commissioned the Roboto family for use in their Android operating system. 2) Benoit Challand As its name implies, Libre Baskerville is a free font. 4) b14 5) 3FE Coffee 8) The Great Discontent
Wait, We Still Like Paper!: How to Screen Print on an Inkjet When designer Briana Bolger-Schuth took a break from advertising work, she wanted to make art. She had no art studio, but she did have access to a new Epson inkjet. Working on a project one night, she had a revelation: “I suddenly thought, ‘Hey, I wonder what would happen if I set these up as separations and ran the paper through each time for different colors?'” The results are pretty wonderful. She calls the project Let’s Put the Black on Last, and the setup is really simple. “The idea of getting something different out of the printer other than just what I expect is so exciting to me,” says Bolger-Schuth, “Where is the fun in knowing exactly what’s going to happen when you press the print button?” When Walter Benjamin penned The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, he bemoaned the loss of authenticity and aura in mass-produced printed works. With Let’s Put the Black on Last, I have my answer. Click to Open Overlay Gallery The other joy is that the process is dead simple.
Typography Cheat Sheet: The 6 Big Mistakes to Avoid Typography is one of those strange skills — too mathematical to be pure art, but a touch too intangible to be pure science. Our modern life is awash with text, so all front-end devs really need to have a thorough working knowledge of the “art of arranging type”. So, let’s run through a quick-fire cheat sheet of some of the most common typography mistakes — and ways to avoid them. Mis-judged Text Line Lengths Many designers tend to not pay enough attention to the number of characters in an average line of their text and adversely affect the readability of the text. Happily, this is an easy mistake to avoid, as the optimal length has long been identified. The great Swiss typographer, Emil Ruder did a lot of work on this topic in the 1950′s. In his seminal essay, “Typographie: A Manual of Design”, he concluded that the ‘sweet spot’ for line length was around 50 or 60 characters. Shorter line lengths slows comprehension as the eye spends more time tracking back to the next line. Badly Paired Fonts
untitled Watch the above video tutorial on how to setup your PSD file and in depth layer customization techniques. Jump to 25:00 of the video tutorial for how to create a 3D pop out sketch effect! You may also like: Scroll down for the full list of over 95 photo effect Actions! Sketch Photoshop Action (With 3D pop out sketch effect) Create realistic sketch artwork from your photos in only a few clicks. The action has been tested and working on Photoshop CS3,CS4,CS5,CS6,CC,CC 2015.5+ The action will ONLY WORK IN THE ENGLISH VERSION OF PHOTOSHOP . Need help? If you need assistance with this Action or any other Sevenstyles Action, please visit the help page here. Tested Each action is thoroughly tested across between 50 – 150 different photos to ensure there are no errors. The Best Results For the best results, it is recommended to use high resolution photos in the range of 1500px – 3500px. Organised After each action has finished playing, it creates a well organised layer structure. Time Saving Earn Money