Vector Polishing Techniques
Someone emailed me and asked how did I do the illustration background on Next2Friends. It inspired me to write this article. He asked "Did I do it in Photoshop or Illustrator?" Why do I need to polish the vector art? Vector artworks are usually very flat, dull, and lack visual effects due to software limitations; thus they look very boring. Technique 1: Lens Flare Effect First technique, let's start with one of my recent work on Next2Friends. I assume you have the vector artwork ready and you want to add a lens flare layer on top. If you want the lens flare to focus on specify area only, you can delete the unwanted area. Sometime just the Lens Flare filter alone is not good enough. Technique 2: Colorful and Dusty Effect This is one of my common styles that can be found in most of my design work. Use the Radial Gradient tool, randomly draw some soft edge glows on a layer and set the layer blending mode to Dissolve. Repeat this step and create different color overlapping layers. See more
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Create a Grungy, Translucent Web Portfolio Design
Not only have watercolor brush strokes become a popular trend in modern web design, but so have advanced layers of transparency (or what I call, translucence). The new Envato design has received a lot of kudos for using this effect, and this tutorial will show you how to create a similar effect, while combining it with other popular web trends. Final Image Preview Take a look at the image we'll be creating. Want access to the full PSD files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join Psd Plus for just $19/month. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Photoshop CS3+Difficulty: IntermediateEstimated Completion Time: 2 hours Step 1 - Set up the Template Let's set up our document. Next, we'll set up our guides. Now we need to allocate some space for the background we'll create. Fill the bottom layer with white (Shift + F5). Step 2 - Create the Gradient Background Right-click the "background" layer, and choose Blending Options. Your document should now look like this: Important
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20 Fresh & Easy To Follow Photoshop Web Interface Tutorials
Posted by Daniel in Photoshop, Tutorials on June 24th, 2010 with 7 Comments With the introduction to our community news, we have been receiving some great resources and articles. But many have been tutorials created by up and coming creative blogs such as trendyTUTS & GraphStock. Also with the overwhelming success of our first web interface showcase we had to do another! In today’s resource showcase we are featuring 20 easy to follow photoshop web interface tutorials, with utilizing your new design skills you may also be featured in the coming weeks! Please note that clicking on the screenshot below will take you to the full tutorial. Create a Grungy, Translucent Web Portfolio Design via PSD Tuts+ Not only have watercolor brush strokes become a popular trend in modern web design, but so have advanced layers of transparency (or what I call, translucence). Create a Promotional iPhone App Site in Photoshop via PSD Tuts+ Simple Portfolio Gallery Layout in Photoshop via DeviseFunction Network Posts
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Create a Wooden Grunge Portfolio Web Layout in Photoshop
In this beginner-level web design tutorial, I’ll show you how to construct a portfolio web layout that has a fixed wooden background with Photoshop. We’ll also use some brushes to accent the design. Preview You can see the final result below. Click on the image to see it in full scale. Resources Set Up the Photoshop Canvas 1 The first thing we want to do is create a new document with the dimensions of 1024px x 912px. Add the Background 2 For our background, we want to add a wooden texture. Create the Header 3 Starting with our header on a new layer, we want to use our Rectangle Marquee Tool (M) to make a rectangle selection, filling it with black (#000000). 4 Using the Polygonal Lasso Tool (L), make a jagged and organic selection at the bottom of the header background to create a ridged edge. 5 Go ahead and lower the Opacity of that layer to 85% to let the wooden background show through a bit. Create the Site Name/Logo 6 For our site name/logo, we can just go with a simple text logo.
How to Build a Site With Keyboard Navigation: PSD to HTML
Today we’ll be looking at how to add keyboard navigation to a website using a few simple lines of JavaScript. First we’ll create a simple site theme in Photoshop and then transform it into a working website that uses keyboard functions to switch pages. Here’s a screenshot of what we’ll be building. Click on the picture to see the live example: Photoshop Work To start things off, open Photoshop and create a new 800px by 600px document at 72dpi. Radial Gradient Next grab the gradient tool and stretch a radial gradient over the background. Type Now grab the type tool and choose a font. Inner Shadow Now place an inner shadow on all the text layers you just created using the settings above. Navigation Key Now create a key to instruct users how to use the keyboard navigation feature. Arrows Grab the custom shape tool (found under the rectangle tool fly out menu) and select an arrow as your shape. Save the Four Versions Now go to “Save for Web & Devices” under the file menu. The HTML Adding the CSS Fin!
Design a graffiti-style screenprint artwork - Classic Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial
Screen-printing gives your designs fantastically rich colour and a quality of image that just isn’t possible with most other techniques – which partly explains why it’s become so hugely popular for designer prints in the past few years. However, creating a screen-printed design isn’t as simple as drawing something and then hitting Print. With screen-printing, your colour palette is limited by the number of inks you can use, which means you need a few tricks up your sleeve if you’re going to create the best images possible. Design studio Waste started making screen-prints with a home-made set-up in their garage, where they produced simple one-colour posters. They quickly found themselves bitten by the screen-printing bug. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to colour up a four-colour design for screen-printing using Photoshop and Illustrator. Even if you’re not going to screen-print your designs, this shows you how to convincingly fake the look.
