Free sticky tape brushes textures
25/6/2009 | external link
Photoshop Brushes are an easy way to spice up your designs. Grab them, place them and you?re done.
Fudgegraphics has a collection of sticky tape brushes and textures to enhance your latest Photoshop design.
The Brush collection is a single, 25.3MB file, containing 15 brushes averaging over 2,000 pixels in size.
The Texture collection is a 39MB ZIP file containing 15 PNG files of the same images as the brush set.
You can download Sticky Tape absolutely free from Fudgegraphics.
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26 Beautiful Photoshop Tutorials on Designing Posters
25/6/2009 | external link
In this article, you'll find top-notch tutorials for creating posters. Not only will you be learning specific procedures for creating posters, but also Photoshop and general design practices such as photo-composition, illustration, coloring processing, typography effects, working with custom shapes, using Filters in unique ways, and much more.
How to Create an Illustrative Web Design in Photoshop
25/6/2009 | external link
In this web design tutorial, you'll learn how to create a professional web design with an illustrated "vector" header in Photoshop. You'll see many techniques here including how to draw using the Pen Tool and a excellent type treatment using layer styles.
Free sticky tape brushes textures
24/6/2009 | external link
Photoshop Brushes are an easy way to spice up your designs. Grab them, place them and you?re done.
Fudgegraphics has a collection of sticky tape brushes and textures to enhance your latest Photoshop design.
The Brush collection is a single, 25.3MB file, containing 15 brushes averaging over 2,000 pixels in size.
The Texture collection is a 39MB ZIP file containing 15 PNG files of the same images as the brush set.
You can download Sticky Tape absolutely free from Fudgegraphics.
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XChange UK Announce New Strata Enfold 3D CX and Strata Design 3D CX
24/6/2009 | external link
XChange UK are pleased to announce the brand new Strata Enfold 3D CX. Powered by patent-pending technology developed by EskoArtwork, Strata Enfold 3D CX allows users to create professional folded 3D designs within Adobe Illustrator. Users can utilise linked Photoshop graphics applied to 2D Illustrator artwork, define die-cut lines and folding scores, and then see it in 3D within Illustrator.
Warp Speed Weekly #4
24/6/2009 | external link
Fourth in the series of Warp Speed weekly links, todays list is full of extraordinary articles and three great designs .
I am Photoshop
Everything you need for Photoshop: brushes, patterns, action, textures, tutorials and more
Affixa
Make your webmail account accessible from Windows
Panoramic Photoviewer in Javascript
Fantastic viewer for panoramic images. Too bad it uses Prototype instead of jQuery :)
Download Silverlight 3 (Beta1) - Download
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Two simple ways to create text embossing effect
24/6/2009 | external link
Embossing is very popular trend in web design (the actual term for this effect is inset , although many people call it embossing). In the same time it is very simple to create. This short tutorial will show you how to create this effect usng pure CSS and using Artweaver.
CSS version
The easiest way to create the effect is by using CSS text-shadow property. Although there are tutorials that explain how to achieve this, there are a few things that need to be considered. First let s
10 Great Time-Saving Mac Utilities For Graphic Artists
23/6/2009 | external link
Need more time in your design day? Put that Mac you bought to good use and let it do the work for you. This post covers some time-saving productivity/utility software gems for graphic designers, illustrators and any other creatives using Mac OS X, including some great plugins and utilities for Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator.
This Week?s Favourites ? June 20th 2009
22/6/2009 | external link
For this week?s collection of creative design links check out a site dedicated to free textures, examples of awesome light graffiti, a tutorial on creating a watercolor effect, an illustrator graph tutorial and a Photoshop steampunk illustration walkthrough.
Texture Lovers
Texture Lovers is a new design site by Max Stanworth aimed at presenting free textures along with [...]
16 Best Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Web Designs
22/6/2009 | external link
Tutorials for creating web designs are a great way to learn new techniques and get inspired by new design concepts. Since Photoshop is the design tool of choice for many web designers, I thought it would be useful to show you, what I believe, are the best Photoshop tutorials for creating web designs and web [...]
13 Useful Techniques for Enhancing Web Design Photography
22/6/2009 | external link
Photography can either make or break a web design. This starts with the photographer and the camera, but more than likely, photos coming straight from the camera will require some type of adjustments or treatment in order to match the style of it s surrounding design. Here are 13 Photoshop techniques that you should find useful [...]
30 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials to Design Decent Websites
18/6/2009 | external link
When it comes to designing a website Photoshop is an excellent tool for it, No design Software gives you quite so much control as Adobe Photoshop in designing a website. For beginner web designers - design tutorials really help to understand the basic knowledge about web design ,
Designing a website is not an easier process, [...]
Taking Design from Good to Great with Gradients
17/6/2009 | external link
Gradients are one of those things that can take a design from good to great. Sometimes it?s hard to get the values just perfect though!
No problem. We can check out what other people have done in the past. Below I've shown the original piece and then I took it into Photoshop and sampled a spot from the center of the gradient and also from the darkest area of the gradient. Just use those values to create a cool gradient for yourself.
In the second part of this post, I'll show you a little experiment I cr
Clipping Drop Shadows in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
1/6/2009 | external link
On my Mordy.com blog, I made note of my quest to create an iPhone skin entirely in Illustrator. In the process, one of the elements I had to create ? the alert dialog ? presented an interesting ?problem? in that the dialog had an opaque stroke and a transparent fill. OK, so we know that in Illustrator, you can easily apply an opacity setting to fills and strokes independently, but the dialog also has a drop shadow. And if the fill of the object is transparent, you can see the drop shadow through the fill,
Adobe Creative Suite 4
31/5/2009 | external link
Adobe has just announced new verson of its popular software products, Creative Suite 4 product family including Flash CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Photoshop CS4, Fireworks CS4, Illustrator CS4, Acrobat 9 Pro, Premiere Pro CS4, After Effects CS4 and more.
Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection CS4 combines virtually all of Adobe s new design and development applications, technologies and [...]
An Interview with David Pache
1/5/2009 | external link
I was recently contacted by Ziggy Nixon to conduct an interview to be displayed on xymara as a feature. I hope that the content of the interview proves informative and interesting. I would like to thank Ziggy (James) for his great questions. Below you will find the article as published.
We have a confession to make ? when setting up this interview, we initially thought to ourselves: what the heck does a logo designer have to do anyway? Seriously, it looks so simple, anyone could do it, right? All y
February: a month in review
1/5/2009 | external link
Introduction
As part of a new concept for the dacheboard, I will be publishing an article on reviewing my work from the previous month, by way of an information point and in order for me to monitor and assess my workload.
This month in review is February. During this time, I have completed the following 6 new logos, 3 interviews and 2 features.
The Logos:
csan
csan is an independently owned, diagnostic radiology private practice which is due to open in Newcastle, NSW, Australia within the next yea
Learn to design CSS websites with CSS Designer Starter Kit
25/3/2009 | external link
If you re still using table-based layouts for your websites, it s time to learn how to design using CSS. There s a brand new (and very affordable) software tutorial called CSS Designer Starter Kit that teaches you step-by-step how to take your Firework or Photoshop design comp to a full-featured CSS website design in Dreamweaver.
Learn the basics [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Learn to design CSS websites with CSS Designer Starter Kit", url: "http://www.justdreamweaver.com/blog/2008/1
How would photoshop work on this !
17/3/2009 | external link
Hey all!
Check out this amazing technology. I know its not a photoshop tutorial or a freebie..but it definitely is awesome to think how design will change once we start designing on one of these.




