Best Of The Web And Design In July 2015
- July 30th, 2015
- News
Continuing our monthly tradition of rounding up the end of the month with all the best design tutorials from all around the web, as well some web design articles related worth reading. Including a great debate article article of Google webfonts vs Type kit. Another great featured article was a really good post on the guide to the interview process for a front end developer. I hope you enjoy this months roundup, and please do leave your thoughts on the post in comments below.
Photoshop
How to Create a Colorful, Summery 3D Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop
Summer is here! So it’s time for a colorful, fresh, and fun text effect tutorial. This tutorial will show you how to create a colorful 3D text effect, and then add in a couple of brushes and stock images to create an interesting, summery text effect.
Create a Beautiful Abstract Portrait in Photoshop
In this tutorial we will combine several stock images to create an artistic, abstract portrait of a woman.
Create a Beautiful Abstract Portrait in Photoshop
Photoshop CC 2015 tutorial showing how to create a fun, Polaroid photo montage from one photo.
Photoshop Watercolor Photo Effect Tutorial
A photoshop watercolor paint tutorial to using a paint image and portrait. here what i did is make a group then drag the paint image to group the hide this group for a while. select portrait layer go to selction then color range apply this color range and get a selection. make sure the group and press mask icon and invert this mask by pressing CTRL+I. make a new empty layer under the group, fill it with white. now you get watercolor painting effect easily.
Illustrator
Making of Robot Earth 3009 Typographic Illustration
During this tutorial, I’ll show you the process for creating one of my illustrated type posters. I love to work type into all of my illustrations for the balance and rhythm it provides to a layout, but I especially love creating images out of type itself… the graphic designer inside me compels me to do it!
Video Tutorial: Letterpress & Rubber Stamp Effects
In today’s video tutorial I’ll show you a bunch of techniques for creating trendy vintage style letterpress print or rubber stamp effects for your logos in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. The texturing from a lack of ink or the excessive ink bleed was once seen as a flaw in the printing process, but now they’re super trendy characteristics that designers love to recreate to distress and age their digital designs.
Design retro isometric artwork
You can modify this tutorial to work on an illustration of your own as long as it conforms with the projection used. Import a 150dpi greyscale scan of your drawing and then follow the steps outlined below.
Typography Illustrations the Easy Way!
Show’s you how to create cool hand lettering style typography illustrations the easy way using the power of Adobe Illustrator. The design is a simple silhouette of the vehicle, with text that is distorted and disfigured to fit within the outline of the car body to create a cool composition.
Web and Design articles
10 Most Common Types of Web Developers
How many developers do you know in your life? If you work with a group of them, you might notice that they have particular quirks or personalities that you can actually group together, which is what I’m going to do with this post.
The Making of 25 Years of Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is synonymous with creativity, which is why it made perfect sense to celebrate its 25thanniversary with a commercial of exceptional artistry. Goodby Silverstein & Partners (GS&P) produced and Rock Paper Scissors edited 25 Years of Photoshop: Dream On, an animated montage of the work of artists from around the world. It aired during the 2015 Academy Awards and has been watched nearly 1.9 million times on YouTube. The commercial won two AICP awards, a D&AD Graphite Pencil, two Cannes Cyber Lions, and continues to receive rave reviews from creative professionals and dreamers worldwide.
A Guide to the Front-End Interview Process
One of my former bosses used to tell me that even if you aren’t actively looking for a job, it can be a good idea to go along to a job interview once in a while to keep yourself sharp.
Typekit vs. Google Fonts: Pros and Cons
One of my former bosses used to tell me that even if you aren’t actively looking for a job, it can be a good idea to go along to a job interview once in a while to keep yourself sharp.
10 CSS Rules Every Web Designer Should Know
Through experience as web designers we memorise all kinds of code syntax, hacks and snippets. With CSS in particular there is a number of rules and declarations that can really help transform your website designs and open up new possibilities when compared to older techniques. This post rounds up 10 declarations and tips that every web designer should have available in their CSS arsenal.
