Monthly Archives: September 2008
- September 25, 2008
- MediaSlap - Premium Photoshop Brushes: Free Samples
Go on over to MediaSlap and check out the Photoshop brushes they have on display. Look nice, don’t they? I thought so too, but they do cost a small fee per purchase, so that isn’t as appealing.
They do however have a small selection of delectable samples that you can download! They sent me the following [...]
- September 16, 2008
- Photoshop/Illustrator Tutorial: Designing a Vexel Banner
In this tutorial I will teach you some of the techniques I use when designing my banners. It requires a basic knowledge of Illustrator and Photoshop, but if you don’t understand anything please feel free to ask me.
I have covered all the basic steps I used when making banners, but there are obviously a lot [...]
- September 13, 2008
- Illustrator Freebie: Vector Splats
Thought I would get around to putting together another set of small freebies, so here it is: six free vector ’splatters’ in the form of an Illustrator file, woohoo!
I’m not completely sure how I would describe these … they certainly aren’t like the usual splatters you would see, I think they’re more like sprays … [...]
- September 10, 2008
- Illustrator Tutorial: Designing a Sleek Pencil Icon
Even though I consider myself a newby with Adobe Illustrator, I’ve been learning it for a few months now, and I find it very intriguing! I was inspired to design this kooky little pencil, that some would say works for icon design. So I thought I would write a tutorial on how to achieve the [...]
- September 6, 2008
- Design Inspiration Collections
Web Design Inspiration - a set on Flickr
Massive Collection of Design Inspiration - Picasa Web Album
Monday Inspiration - Smashing Magazine
Inspiration - Abduzeedo
Inspiration - PSDTUTS
Not a very big list, hey? If anyone has a link to contribute, please feel free to leave a comment and I’ll add it to the list.
- September 2, 2008
- 20 Painted Photoshop Brushes
After making some basic Illustrator brushes I thought I would make some Photoshop brushes. This time using a paint brush as my weapon of choice.
Note: all of the brushes in the set aren’t shown in the above preview.
If you like the look of what you see in the preview, then please feel free to download [...]
- September 1, 2008
- Photoshop Tutorial: Sweet Radio Station Advert Design
My first tutorial in a little while, so please bear with me!
In this tutorial we’ll be using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (versions CS3) to create/design a beautiful radio station advertisement. We’ll just be using Illustrator to design a few simple elements, so if you don’t have it or don’t know how to use it, you [...]
