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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Vista Land Standard Icon Set: 125 IconsCategory: Clipart and icons downloads Vista Land Standard Icon Set is a professional icon collection for use in commercial project, software application, website, or GUI design. Author: FastIcon | Visits: 1083 |
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How to paint treesCategory: Painting and illustration techniques Trees need not be difficult to paint if you keep a few simple facts in mind
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 1078 |
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Retro Ad ArtCategory: Clipart and icons downloads This is the largest collection of authentic retro advertising artwork from the '40s and '50s on CDRom. Originally established in 1997, RetroAdArt.com continues to be one of the most useful clipart resources among designers worldwide. Author: Tony Bosley | Visits: 1034 |
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HDR Photo effectCategory: Design and imaging tutorials HDR Photography and editing tutorial using Photomatix, Nik, and Adobe Photoshop. Author: okinawa | Visits: 1025 |
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Efrontier Manga Studio EX ProfessionalCategory: Design and Illustration software Manga Studio 3.0 EX Professional allows graphic artists and illustrators to create professional manga art, and easily control the entire creative process from sketching their characters to publishing exciting, high quality graphic novels. The Professional Solution for Manga and Comic Artists! Strongly focused on realism, productivity and inter-operability, Manga Studio EX is perfect for professionals looking for efficiency and flexibility in the design process. EX includes more than 3,000 screen tones and many built-in features, including 3D object import capabilities! Author: Efrontier | Visits: 980 |
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Cartoon cloudsCategory: 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 |
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Freeware Professional IconsCategory: Clipart and icons downloads Hundreds of professionally designed freeware icons for use in software, web site, in themes and projects. Read licensing agreement prior downloading. Author: FastIcon | Visits: 939 |
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Elements and principles of designCategory: Painting and illustration techniques A run down on the building blocks that go to make up a work of art
Author: John Lovett | Visits: 923 |
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Grunge and Distressed Font Designs GalleryCategory: Font foundries and collections A gallery of beautifully designed images using grunge and distressed fonts. Author: The Photoshop Roadmap | Visits: 840 |
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Blambot Font FoundryCategory: Font foundries and collections Blambot Comics Fonts was founded in 1999 by Graphic Designer / Illustrator, Nate Piekos. Since then Blambot has become a staple in the comic creation industry, appearing in books published by Marvel, Dark Horse, Oni, Image and independent comics world-wide. Blambot has licensed font designs to such companies as Microsoft, The Gap and Sierra Software, as well as being the type designer for Harvey Award Winning comic artist, Mike “Madman” Allred. Author: MyFonts | Visits: 836 |