Tag Archive | "Glow"
Draw a Glowing, Vector Pocket Watch – Front and Back
In this tutorial you will learn how to draw the front and the back side of a pocket watch from scratch. This tutorial is detailed and by the end you will know how to draw all kinds of shapes, like cog-wheels and small screws. You’ll learn to create the scatter brushes used for the designs [...]
Continue reading...Design and Code a Cool iPhone App Website in HTML5
mandag, marts 8, 2010
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HTML5 is definitely the flavor of the month, with everyone in the design community getting excited about its release. In this tutorial we’ll get a taste of what’s to come by building a cool iPhone app website using a HTML5 structure, and visual styling with some CSS3 effects. HTML5 isn’t here just yet, but the Working [...]
Continue reading...How To Design a 3D Glass Icon in Photoshop
onsdag, marts 3, 2010
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Learn How To Design a translucent 3D Frosted Glass Box based on the Safari Icon in Adobe Photoshop. Step 1: Setting Up Make a new document with these settings: Next, select the fill tool (G) and fill it with #626262. Now, we need to make a new adjustment layer. Make a brightness/contrast layer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer [...]
Continue reading...How To Create a Reusable, Dynamic Badge Effect in Illustrator CS4
onsdag, marts 3, 2010
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In this tutorial I will explain how to make a Shamrock Badge for St. Patrick’s Day using the Appearance Palette in combination with some simple effects. The result will be a reusable dynamic badge effect. You are welcome to try this with any shape or colors. Final Image Preview Below is the final Graphic Style we will [...]
Continue reading...Text on Fire
torsdag, februar 25, 2010
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In this tutorial you will learn how to create text on fire, also I will explain all the techniques how to transform the text in right format. First of all you’ll have to start by finding some appropriate picture. I prefer to use this one which you can see below: Ok, now we need to add [...]
Continue reading...Photoshop Quick Tips: Neon with Layer Styles
torsdag, februar 25, 2010
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I have posted about how to create the neon effect in Photoshop a couple of times, however I still get emails from readers asking me how I did the light effect I use on the Abduzeedo logo. So I decided to simplify the process and show you how to create the this effect in very [...]
Continue reading...How To Make an Olympic Gold Medal In Adobe Illustrator CS4
torsdag, februar 25, 2010
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Today we will be making a 2010 Olympic Gold Medal similar in style to those used in the current Vancouver Winter Games. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an interesting warped metal effect using the Gradient Mesh Tool. You’ll also learn some interesting ways to create and use masks while we construct this [...]
Continue reading...Make a Freezing Cold Snow-themed Abstract Piece
torsdag, februar 25, 2010
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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a snow-themed large piece. You’ll learn how to plan the composition of the piece, to add elements into the composition, how to recycle the piece itself to generate more elements for the piece, how to incorporate pentools into a design and finally how to finish off and [...]
Continue reading...Exporting Code-Driven Flash as a QuickTime Movie
tirsdag, februar 16, 2010
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In the days of Macromedia, working between Flash and QuickTime was rough territory for designers and animators. Then in 2007, when Adobe took the helm and released Flash CS3, a lot of compatibility issues were resolved. In this exercise, I am going to show you how a purely code-driven animation can be exported as a QuickTime [...]
Continue reading...Abduzeedo 2010 Light Effects in Photoshop
mandag, februar 15, 2010
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So in this tutorial I will show you how to create that effect. It’s a sort of monitor/halftone effect mixed with glows and other light effects. We will play with Blend Modes and Blurs. The whole process is quite simple and it won’t take more than 20 minutes to achieve the same result. Step 1 Open Photoshop [...]
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mandag, marts 8, 2010
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