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40 beautiful and creative typography designs to inspire | 2experts Design - Web Design and Graphic Design Blog
Below you’ll find a collection of 40 beautiful and creative typography designs to inspire you that will allow you to expand your knowledge base of what typography really is. [postadsense]
Creating a Typographic Wallpaper
After writing my previous tutorial here about Creating a Zune in Photoshop, several viewers asked if I’d share how I created the wallpaper graphic. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make something similar, and it’s quite easy! What is Typography? In order to create a typographic wallpaper, it would make sense to know a bit about Typography in the first place. This is by no means an in depth look at typography. Step 1 – Creating the Background The background of our wallpaper is going to help set the mood. Create a new document with the dimensions you desire. Step 2 – Setting Our Text Boundary Since I want my text to be in the shape of a 9 (in relation to 2009 and Tutorial9), the easiest way to achieve the shape is going to be to create a large 9 and then use it to place our other text. Step 3 – Placing the Type Now that we have our boundary area, we are ready to start adding our type. We also need to think of how different we want the type to appear. Step 4 – Coloring the Text
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Illustrative Lettering Creative Session Wrap | Psdtuts+
It's a wrap. This session has covered a mix of illustrative lettering articles on theory and in depth case studies. We've taken a close look at various artist's work and their various processes of constructing illustrative lettering. We've looked at how to derive inspiration from your imagination, the history of type, and how to create letters with an illustrative flair. This session posted across numerous Tuts+ sites: Psdtuts+, Vectortuts+, Cgtuts+, and Phototuts+. Illustrative Lettering CS Content Developing a Passion for Illustrative LetteringIn this article I'd like to present some thoughts and theories that I use for creating illustrative lettering. Your Thoughts on this Illustrative Lettering Session We'd love to here your feedback and suggestions on how to improve Creative Sessions. Coming Soon, Digital Illustration Creative Sessions Our next session will be on digital illustration.
Create Light Leaks & Lomo Effects Using Actions in Photoshop
In this quick tip tutorial, we will explain how to create light leaks and lomo effects for you photos using actions in Photoshop. Let's get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Step 1 Begin by opening your images and navigating to the Window Tab of Photoshop. Step 2 Now that you have the actions panel open, we can begin our first light leak. Step 3 For the first effect we will add Curves. Next add a Gradient from the "fill or adjustment layer". Change the color to "fc2c2c", then change the angle to -100. Now change the layer style to Screen and lower the opacity to 90%. Step 4 Now to wrap the action up, group the two adjustment layers, and name them "Effects". Step 5 You can now run this action on any photo. Conclusion Add this action to your own photos and experiment with different colors to create beautiful light leaks and lomo effects!
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Developing Illustrative Type to Complement Your Style | Vectortuts+
My name is Jonny Wan and I am a freelance illustrator based in the UK. My style is based upon shape experimentation, patterns and textures and I draw inspiration from ancient cultures and civilizations. More recently I have rekindled my love for type and now developing a way of working with type that is congruent with my illustrative style so the two can work in tandem when applied to commissions that requires both. This article aims to just give you a glimpse as to how I have personally approached this development, which is very much still ongoing. 1. As with anything creative it is subject of criticism and personal opinion, the important thing to remember is that there is no right or wrong in how and in what direction you choose to explore your work. When starting to create type that compliments your style, heavy experimentation is the key and one thing I cant stress enough is to not be afraid to jump straight into the deep end. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Create Beams Of Light From Nothing In Photoshop
Here is some great insight on creating beams of light in photoshop. Check it out. Working With Layers The key to getting a beam of light to look realistic is using multiple layers while creating it. Adding Fog The second part to making the beam of light believable is adding fog to the image. Photo by Vincent Tullo
Hidden Gems in Photoshop CS5: Customer Requests (aka – JDI’s) | PHOTOSHOP.COM BLOG
Every version of Photoshop needs to turn heads with exciting, breakthrough technology. Aiming high, however, doesn’t mean forgetting the “small stuff.” The release of Photoshop CS5 incorporated a record number of innovative technologies that came direct from the brilliant minds of the Photoshop engineers and scientists in the Advanced Technology Labs at Adobe. With this in mind, the Photoshop team decided to try something new. In order to select JDI features, Bryan solicited information from many avenues, including blogs, user research, the over 70,000 strong National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), sales, customer support, forums and evangelists (Russell Brown and Julieanne Kost). The Photoshop team always takes customer feedback into account when approaching each new product cycle. Fueled by the encouragement of a very passionate community, the team exceeded their own expectations and delivered dozens of JDI features in the final release.
