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Although its name clearly implies a close relationship with photography, Adobe Photoshop is widely used as an illustration and design tool. Photoshop has also excelled as a color separation tool for prepress and photochromy jobs. Cartoonists and Illustrators find the possibility of using pressure sensitive tablets with Photoshop a huge asset. Architects use Photoshop to embellish their perspective drawings. Industrial designers and 3d artists can correct and enhance their 3d rendering. Pixel perfect images are created by icon and web designers. This section is a guide to different art and design resources, such as books, software, fonts, clipart and tutorials to help you to build a creative way of thinking and working.

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Blue Goblet Font Family

Blue Goblet Font Family

Category: Font foundries and collections

Blue Goblet is a collaboration between Portland Studios and DooleyType. It was designed by Cory Godbey and digitized by Jeremy Dooley. Blue Goblet is the script developed for the pending illustrated children's book from Portland Studios, The Blue Goblet. Blue Goblet is usable in a wide range of settings, and includes a full complement of opentype features and a more playful alternate.

Author: MyFonts | Visits: 484

Building a house with Photoshop

Building a house with Photoshop

Category: Painting and illustration techniques

To do this conceptual line art illustration that will be used in a newspaper ad for GE Mortgage, Illustrator was used for the outline drawing and Photoshop was used to add the final details.
Image and tutorial by Michael Halbert

Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 403

Cartoon clouds

Cartoon clouds

Category: Painting and illustration techniques

A handful of circles, an effect and a bit of path-finding, and you're on your way to creating light and fluffy stylized clouds.

Author: Ergo Draw | Visits: 950

Chato Band Font Family

Chato Band Font Family

Category: Font foundries and collections

Chato Band is a beautiful script font, originally created as a custom project for a music label. With slight imperfections between characters, it has a unique look, with ink drawn and vector elements, a lot of work and time devoted to each character. Complete character set. It comes in the form of three sub-families: Chato Band Regular (with the original inked look), comes with a Regular and a Bold version. Chato Band Smooth (a smooth, clean version of Chato Band with variations and new designs for some characters), comes with a Regular and a Bold version. Chato Band Space (an hybrid version, with a mix of subtle different kerning and weights), comes with a Regular and a Bold version.

Author: MyFonts | Visits: 1124

Classic Graphic Design Theory

Classic Graphic Design Theory

Category: Design and imaging tutorials

This section is for the person who is completely unfamiliar with design. It gives brief descriptions of the elements of design, such as line, shape, space, texture, value and color, as well as describing the principles of design which are movement, emphasis, balance and unity. These design principles have been used in the creation of fine art as well as commercial art.

Author: Usask | Visits: 623

Cleaning Up In QuarkXPress

Cleaning Up In QuarkXPress

Category: Design and imaging tutorials

Save your page design from images with clunky backgrounds. This tutorial on modifying clipping paths shows you how, whether the paths are generated within XPress or are embedded.
Image and tutorial by Erika Kendra

Author: CreativePro | Visits: 244

Cleopatra for southwestern bell

Cleopatra for southwestern bell

Category: Painting and illustration techniques

Received a call from Gail Boosmworth, the art buyer for DMB&B (St. Louis), to do black and white art for a Southwestern Bell TV commercial promoting 3-way calling. The commercial would feature three portraits, Queen Victoria, Catherine the Great and Cleopatra.
Image and tutorial by Michael Halbert

Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 176

Clipart by GraphicsFactory.com

Clipart by GraphicsFactory.com

Category: Clipart and icons downloads

Unlimited downloads to Over 1 Million copyright-safe Clip Art Images, Animations, Flash Movies, Tiled Backgrounds, Web Graphics, Fonts, Wallpaper and Photos.

Author: clipartinc | Visits: 748

Clouds

Clouds

Category: Painting and illustration techniques

Exercises and advice on making the sky a major part of the subject
Image and tutorial by John Lovett

Author: John Lovett | Visits: 349

Color your sketch

Color your sketch

Category: Painting and illustration techniques

No need to use any color pencil to color your hand-drawing nowadays. You also use Photoshop to finish all of them as well.

Author: KolorfulTutorials | Visits: 105

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