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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Gray Spike Arrow IconCategory: Design and imaging tutorials In this Photoshop Tutorial I will show you how to create the gray spike icon in my image. Author: Jasmine Starr | Visits: 559 |
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Cuba FontCategory: Font foundries and collections The inspiration for Cuba comes from a sign for the restaurant "La Flor de Cuba" on Bergenline Avenue in Union City, New Jersey. Its blocky, dimensional forms are reminiscent of letterforms seen in signs throughout Latin America from, Colombia, to Mexico, to Spain, to Union City. Its quirky forms are meant to evoke a sense of hand painted signage. Author: MyFonts | Visits: 557 |
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Corel Painter IX: Natural Media Painting & Illustration (Win/Mac)Category: Design and Illustration software Corel Painter IX--the world's most powerful Natural-Media painting and illustration software--features unique digital brushes, art materials and textures that mirror the look and feel of their traditional counterparts. The newest version of Corel Painter takes digital design to unprecedented levels with the revolutionary Artists' Oils Painting System, Snap-to-Path Painting, Quick Clone for photographers, and brushes that perform up to 10 times faster than in previous versions. Corel Painter enables some of the world's most accomplished creative professionals--including commercial designers, artists and photographers--to extend their natural talents and techniques to create original works of breathtaking digital art. Author: Corel | Visits: 536 |
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Actionscript MenuCategory: Design and Illustration software In this tutorial I show how to create an Adobe Flash menu using nothing but Actionscript. Creating menus and other flash elements with only Actionscript makes updating, modifying, and experimenting extremely quick and easy. Author: Flash Framer | Visits: 531 |
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Design How-To: Choose the Right Typeface Every TimeCategory: Design and imaging tutorials Flashy typefaces are fun, but when you design something with large blocks of text, you need a font that doesn't tire your readers. We share our favorites and reveal easy tricks for identifying other suitable choices.
Author: CreativePro | Visits: 516 |
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Eleventh labor of HerculesCategory: Painting and illustration techniques This illustration was done for a direct mail campaign promoting a motivation lecture.
Author: Michael Halbert | Visits: 513 |
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Quick handle retro fontCategory: Font foundries and collections A casual retro script refined and developed from some old handwritten letters. Author: Astigmatic | Visits: 506 |
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Psychology of color: projecting a professional image with colorCategory: Design and imaging tutorials Color selection is a very important element in your web image because colors have an effect on your visitors before they begin to read the content of your web site. Author: Grantastic Designs | Visits: 503 |
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Using white space in web page layout and designCategory: Design and imaging tutorials White space, also known as negative space, is the term describing open space between design elements. Author: Grantastic Designs | Visits: 488 |
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Panamericana fontCategory: Font foundries and collections Panamericana is a family of calligraphic origin consisting of 10 styles: Blanca, Gris, Negra, Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro, Cinco, Seis and Dingbats (Dingbats includes 26 illustrations characters). The blending of each and every one of these styles allows the designer to work with countless grunge characteristics that inject happiness and originality to any word. All of the 10 fonts include the complete character set with lower and upper case letters, numbers, accents, diacritics, punctuation and monetary symbols. The fonts included in this family are available in the Open Type format and they are Mac and PC compatible. Author: MyFonts | Visits: 487 |
