If you’re like me, every now and then you come across a tutorial that at first glance does two things: it gets your designing juices flowing and makes you excited like but also kind of makes you question if your design skills are good enough to produce such elegant results. For me, mastering a cool ...
Although I have experimented with the grunge brush library in illustrator, I can never get quite the effect I was looking for. That is, until I found this awesome tutorial to make your own grunge brush. To begin, I would say the hardest part of this tutorial, is finding a picture of the texture you ...
You will not believe how such a small effort can create such a cool effect. I found this trick online and haven’t been able to stop playing with it for the past hour now. First, open an illustrator document. I chose a background color so my designs would pop more but a background color isn’t ...
No matter what level of a designer you are, there is always more to learn on the road to perfecting your craft. One area that will be valuable to you when getting ready to print, it using blacks in your design and understanding how to determine what the printed result will look like. Read on ...
So while I was looking for ways to accomplish a specific illustrator task, I stumbled upon a really easy, yet neat tutorial that produces an awesome effect. Take a look! To begin, open an illustrator document and for best results that pop, choose a background color. Next, draw two curving lines that intersect each other ...
Whether you are a trained graphic designer, plan to be, or just like to play around with the Adobe programs for fun, you will most likely appreciate this tip. As a graphic designer, I spend a lot of time in front of my computer with about 15 programs open at once. One of those programs ...
So I recently bought the new CS (again…) which is Adobe Creative Suite 5 (CS5) Design and WOW so far I am in love with it. For the past 4 or 5 months I been forced to use programs like GIMP in order to edit my images and save them for web. What a hassle ...