I came up with the idea for creating a skyline made of text after some creative thinking and seeing this amazing stock photo. After a brief look around the web, I still can’t find a manipulation quite like it. In this tutorial, we will be creating the text ‘MIB’, in the night skyline of a Seattle cityscape.
3D text effects are a growing and awesome design trend. They can add angles, lighting and interest that many 2D text effects can’t bring. Here is an awesome Showcase of 3D Typography that was put together a little while back by Angie Bowen. I’ve also been seen and been inspired by tutorials like 3D Text on Fire and this Fresh Text Effect.
Pressed lettering is showing up more and more these days in web design. Like any other trend, you have to be careful not to over use it. Already you can recognize those people that are doing it well and those that are not. Recently, I read a post at Smashing Magazine that highlighted pressed lettering as one of the Web Design Trends for 2009.
Since I’m not about to go out and spray paint my website on the side of a city wall, I figured I could at least simulate the look in Photoshop. With the help of some awesome brushes from Bittbox and Deviant Art and a cool font I found at Dafont. The effect is rather easy [...]
Read More →While there are plenty of great learning resources available online, it’s often difficult for beginners to know where to get started because everything seems to be scattered. With this post youâ€â€¦
In this tutorial I will show you the steps I have used for making the Butterfly in the spring image.
Learn how to put together a sweet candy inspired design in Illustrator by cutting, splitting and joining vector paths to produce an intricate weave of shapes.
Time for some more learning!!! Photo manipulation is a technique of editing the images so as to produce a kind of illusion or deception.
Large and small offices, which inspire creativity and imagination.
Here are some of the best pricing page designs out there that use these principles.
An article about a captchas place on today’s websites and some more user-friendly alternatives to using one.
It is very common with big typography in web design nowadays. There are also a lot of free fonts you can download and use. I have collected fonts, which I think is very beautiful and fits perfect f…
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