1. Fractals Lite
In this design the lightening effect is well used and a smoke like effect at the end sides which is really cool. Try this out....
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Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
»» How to Create Icons in Illustrator
1. Lock
In the following tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a lock icon with some effects, opacity masks, gradients, and simple shapes in Illustrator. Many of these techniques can be applied easily to other icon designs.
2. Box Icon
This icon tutorial will really help us a lot to know some basics about how to design a icon using the Illustrator. This design is really great especially the scribbling effect of the box.
3. XP Style Icon
You'll learn how to make your own Windows XP-style artwork, which you may end up using for Website graphics, software application icons, or in other projects.
4. Calendar Icon
Make a Handy 3D Vector Calendar Icon
In the following tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a lock icon with some effects, opacity masks, gradients, and simple shapes in Illustrator. Many of these techniques can be applied easily to other icon designs.
2. Box Icon
This icon tutorial will really help us a lot to know some basics about how to design a icon using the Illustrator. This design is really great especially the scribbling effect of the box.
3. XP Style Icon
You'll learn how to make your own Windows XP-style artwork, which you may end up using for Website graphics, software application icons, or in other projects.
4. Calendar Icon
Make a Handy 3D Vector Calendar Icon
Sunday, October 26, 2008
»» Photoshop Text Effects - Part 3
1. Plastic Text Effect
In this Photoshop text effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to use Photoshop's Layer Styles to easily make text look as if it's made out of plastic.
2. Clear Plastic
This is a quite simple tutorial to create a very nice plastic feel to your texts and shapes.
3. Tin or Aluminum Foil
Wrap your text in tin/aluminum foil without using filters.
4. Freezing Cold Text
In this tutorial, i'll show you how to make your text freezing cold. This tutorial will also show you how to use this ice text on any colored background.
In this Photoshop text effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to use Photoshop's Layer Styles to easily make text look as if it's made out of plastic.
2. Clear Plastic
This is a quite simple tutorial to create a very nice plastic feel to your texts and shapes.
3. Tin or Aluminum Foil
Wrap your text in tin/aluminum foil without using filters.
4. Freezing Cold Text
In this tutorial, i'll show you how to make your text freezing cold. This tutorial will also show you how to use this ice text on any colored background.
Friday, October 24, 2008
»» Web Design Tips - Part 4
Are you searching for the best web design tips? Do you have any doubts in designing the best web design? Then fine I hope that these designs will help you all a lot to know some useful information about the web design and the tricks to be followed while doing it. Just check these tricks and enable your techniques of designing the best web layout....
- Creating seamless backgrounds
- Beautiful seamless web page backgrounds
- Pros and cons of removing underlines from links on a web page
- Confusion caused underlined text on a web page
- Good Site Navigation part 1
- Web page titles - The HTML TITLE tag
- Choosing background and foreground colors
- A theme for your site
- Good Site Navigation part 2
- Text and background colors
- Headings and Fonts
- Good Site Navigation part 3
- What is a Site Map?
- Creating a Site Map for your web site
- Why are Site Maps important for a web site?
- Important points for a good site map
- Site maps and other nice ways to help visitors locate information on your site
- Scripts to create Site maps for your web site
Thursday, October 23, 2008
»» Useful Photoshop Tutorials - Part 4
In this post I am going to share some links with you all, which I have found out across the web. These tutorials will really help the beginners a lot to know much about the Photoshop. Just check this out and try it out and do something useful through it....
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
»» Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials - Part 2
1. Logo using Glassy Transparent Text
Adobe Illustrator is great for making Logo's and there are many things that people dont know about Illustrator even though its such a powerful software. This image below was made using Adobe Illustrator CS.
2. Grunge Text Effect
The Grunge/scratchy effect has grown more and more popular for t-shirt designs and I thought I would share one way of how here we recreated this design in Adobe Illustrator CS. Our Goal is to go from this plain looking piece of text to a stylish grunge design.
3. Website Text Effect
Just check it out in full size, it's a pretty cool effect you could use for your site or in some magazine if you have the possibility.
4. Distressed Art Effect
This effect is really nice since it just shows us the effect of damaged piece of wood and so on. So just try it out.....
Adobe Illustrator is great for making Logo's and there are many things that people dont know about Illustrator even though its such a powerful software. This image below was made using Adobe Illustrator CS.
2. Grunge Text Effect
The Grunge/scratchy effect has grown more and more popular for t-shirt designs and I thought I would share one way of how here we recreated this design in Adobe Illustrator CS. Our Goal is to go from this plain looking piece of text to a stylish grunge design.
3. Website Text Effect
Just check it out in full size, it's a pretty cool effect you could use for your site or in some magazine if you have the possibility.
4. Distressed Art Effect
This effect is really nice since it just shows us the effect of damaged piece of wood and so on. So just try it out.....
»» Corel Draw Buttons
1. Glassy Rollover Buttons
In this design I really like the glassy effect of the buttons a lot.
2. Brushed Steel Interface
This button design contains a smooth shiny steel effect and the cool glassy look.
3. Glass Buttons with Refraction
In this design main notable thing is the bubble effect of the button, which just depicts the refraction effect.
4. Simple Button
it is a simple button tutorial which will really help the beginners.
In this design I really like the glassy effect of the buttons a lot.
2. Brushed Steel Interface
This button design contains a smooth shiny steel effect and the cool glassy look.
3. Glass Buttons with Refraction
In this design main notable thing is the bubble effect of the button, which just depicts the refraction effect.
4. Simple Button
it is a simple button tutorial which will really help the beginners.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
»» Grunge Photoshop Brushes
1. Oil Stains
10 high resolution grungy concrete stains inspired by all the cracks, stains, and spots on the sidewalk and in the street.
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10 high resolution grungy concrete stains inspired by all the cracks, stains, and spots on the sidewalk and in the street.
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»» Corel Draw Tutorials - Part 6
It is really a nice experience to work with Corel Draw. But to know much about it, we have to be aware of some useful tricks and tips about using the Corel Draw. I have identified some useful Corel Draw Tutorials across the net. Check this out and make use of this...
- Blossoming Ideas for Cool Distortion Effects
- Creating GEL Text
- How to convert shadows to spot ink colors and set shadow resolution
- How to create chisel effects in CorelDRAW 11: Part 1
- How to create chisel shapes: Part 2
- How to draw mechanical threads
- Learning Corel R.A.V.E. from scratch
- Mastering CorelDRAW's Mesh Fills
- Mastering Tweens in Corel R.A.V.E.
- Node Editing: The Basics
- Practical Perspective techniques CorelDRAW 11
- The Color Wheel: Neon
- Using Powerclips
»» Photoshop Icons - Part 3
1. Pencil
The Pencil is one of the visual metaphors most used to express creativity. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to draw a pencil icon. We'll have a look at gradients, selection tools, and basic transform operations. Let's have some fun with this.
2. Construction Helmet
Construction icons have always been popular on-screen, and although those dot-com "under-construction" pages have mostly vanished from our screens, the trusty ol' yellow helmet icon still has its uses. In this tutorial, we'll be creating our very own icon from a photograph.
3. Calendar
Now i noticed that a lot of people create some really nice icons on their blogs so i decided to actually create a general icon for a Calendar. Below is the outcome of this tutorial:
4. RSS
Ever wondered how to make your own Mac icons? Have you ever created an icon and had trouble making the icons fully transparent?
The Pencil is one of the visual metaphors most used to express creativity. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to draw a pencil icon. We'll have a look at gradients, selection tools, and basic transform operations. Let's have some fun with this.
2. Construction Helmet
Construction icons have always been popular on-screen, and although those dot-com "under-construction" pages have mostly vanished from our screens, the trusty ol' yellow helmet icon still has its uses. In this tutorial, we'll be creating our very own icon from a photograph.
3. Calendar
Now i noticed that a lot of people create some really nice icons on their blogs so i decided to actually create a general icon for a Calendar. Below is the outcome of this tutorial:
4. RSS
Ever wondered how to make your own Mac icons? Have you ever created an icon and had trouble making the icons fully transparent?
»» CSS Tips - Part 2
While browsing through the net I found out all these CSS tips. These tricks will really help the beginners a lot to know more about the usage of CSS while designing these things in Graphics. just check this out and make use of it.
- Rounded Corners
- Rounded Corners without images
- Creating a Netflix style star ratings
- Tableless forms
- Styling Lists with CSS
- 2 Column Layout Technique
- 3 Column Layout with CSS
- 3 Column Fixed width centered layout
- Printing with CSS
- Adding a CSS stylesheet to an RSS feed
- Footer Stick
- CSS Element Hover Effect
- Styling Horizontal Rules
- Clearing Floats
- CSS Popups
Sunday, October 19, 2008
»» Beauty Retouching Photoshop Tutorials
Do you all willing to learn how to do beauty retouching in photos and how to make it more beautiful and attractive? Then fine here in this post I am going to list out some beauty retouching tutorials using Photoshop. Make use of this...
1. Model Beauty
2. Pure Perfection
3. Phoenix Hair Effect
4. Retouching for Beginners
1. Model Beauty
2. Pure Perfection
3. Phoenix Hair Effect
4. Retouching for Beginners
Friday, October 17, 2008
»» Web Design Tips - Part 3
In this post I am going to list some of the web site design tips that I have found out while browsing the web. Just check this post and make use of it...
- 4 stages of web site design
- 5 Basic Rules of web page design and layout
- Designing sites for search engines and directories
- Fonts and typefaces in web site design
- HTML code for graphic images
- Illustration and web site design - design tips
- Image maps and web site design
- Making web sites and web graphic images easy to read
- Navigation schemes in web site design
- Pay-for-performance web site design
»» CSS Tips
In this post we will see about some random collection of CSS Tips and Tricks... These tips will really help the beginners to know much about the usage of CSS in graphic design. All these tips and tricks are very much easy to get followed by all of us. So just check all these links and make use of it.
- A pinned-down menu
- Indented paragraphs
- Alternative style sheets
- A confetti menu
- Getting rid of colored scrollbars (user style sheets)
- Even/odd: coloring every other row
- A tabbed interface
- A chart comparing font styles
- Horizontal and vertical centering
- Boxes with drop shadows
- Text shadows
- Rounded boxes and unsharp shadow
»» Cool Web Designs
In this post we will see about some of the cool web designs. All are really nice and fantastic, especially the background effects are really awesome.
1. Pleasant Experience Layout
This theme is really nice and pleasant to our eyes. The main notable thing from this design is it contains very nice background texture, which gives a pleasant look to it.
2. Blue Moon
To tell some thing interest about this design, it contains nice background picture of a damaged wall. It seems to be really cool design and just depicts the old building.
3. Trust Your Buds
I came across this design while browsing for some game designs. Its is very cool and especially the layout. Check this out and enjoy the game..
4. Shopping Design
It is full fledged shopping site web design, which will really suit the shopping requirements.
1. Pleasant Experience Layout
This theme is really nice and pleasant to our eyes. The main notable thing from this design is it contains very nice background texture, which gives a pleasant look to it.
2. Blue Moon
To tell some thing interest about this design, it contains nice background picture of a damaged wall. It seems to be really cool design and just depicts the old building.
3. Trust Your Buds
I came across this design while browsing for some game designs. Its is very cool and especially the layout. Check this out and enjoy the game..
4. Shopping Design
It is full fledged shopping site web design, which will really suit the shopping requirements.
»» Photoshop Brushes - Part 3
Check out all these cool photoshop brushes. All the combinations are really nice... In all these brushes I like the design a lot, especially the gradient used in the colors. Try this out....
1. Vein Shapes
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1. Vein Shapes
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
»» Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials - Part 1
1. Old School Type
This Old School type text effect is really cool and it just depicts the perfect old style. Check this out....
2. Metallic Text Effect
Create a metallic text effect using Illustrator.
3. Swan Logo
The letter 'S' is changed in to a Swan like structure, which is really nice. 4. Peacock Logo
Sometimes its hard to think of logo ideas. Here I show you how to make an interesting peacock logo.
This Old School type text effect is really cool and it just depicts the perfect old style. Check this out....
2. Metallic Text Effect
Create a metallic text effect using Illustrator.
3. Swan Logo
The letter 'S' is changed in to a Swan like structure, which is really nice. 4. Peacock Logo
Sometimes its hard to think of logo ideas. Here I show you how to make an interesting peacock logo.
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